The following definitions are applicable to
this article:
GARBAGE
The residue from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of food products
and produce.
INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANTS
Wastewater or seepage with pollutants that will adversely
affect or disrupt the wastewater treatment processes or effluent quality
or sludge quality if discharged to a wastewater treatment facility.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
The wastewater from industrial process, trade or business,
as distinct from sanitary sewage, including cooling water and the
discharge from sewage pretreatment facilities.
PERSON
Any and all persons, including any individual, firm, company,
municipal or private corporation, association, society, institution,
enterprise, governmental agency or other entity.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer that carries liquid and water-carried wastes from
residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions,
together with minor quantities of groundwater, stormwater and surface
water that are not admitted intentionally.
SEPTAGE
Scum, liquid, sludge or other waste from a septic tank, soil
absorption field, holding tank, vault toilet or privy. This does not
include the waste from a grease trap.
WASTEWATER
The spent water of a community. From the standpoint of source,
it may be a combination of the liquid and water-carried wastes from
residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions
together with any groundwater, surface water, and stormwater that
may be present but not intentionally admitted.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS
An arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater,
industrial wastes, and sludge. Sometimes used as synonymous with waste
treatment.
The owner shall maintain sewer service from
the street main to the house, and including all controls between the
same, without expense to the Village. All sewer services must be maintained
free of defective conditions by and at the expense of the owner or
occupant of the property. When any sewer service is to be relaid and
there are two or more buildings on such service, each building shall
be disconnected from such service, and a new sewer service shall be
installed for each building.
The following rules and regulations for the
government of licensed plumbers, sewer users, and others are hereby
adopted and established:
A. Plumbers. No plumber, pipe fitter, or other person
will be permitted to do any plumbing or pipe-fitting work in connection
with the sewer system without first receiving a license from the State
of Wisconsin. All work performed by plumbers, including service connections
to the sewer main, shall comply with the state plumbing code.
B. Users.
(1) Mandatory hookup. The owner of each parcel of land
adjacent to a sewer main on which there exists a building usable for
human habitation or in a block through which such system is extended
shall connect to such system within 10 days of notice in writing from
the Village. Upon failure to do so, the Village may cause such connection
to be made and bill the property owner for such costs. If such costs
are not paid within 30 days, such notice shall be assessed as a special
tax lien against the property; however, the owner may within 30 days
after the completion of the work file a written option with the Village
stating that he or she cannot pay such amount in one sum and asking
that there be levied not to exceed five equal installments and that
the amount shall be so collected with interest at the rate of 10%
per annum from the completion of the work, the unpaid balance being
a special tax lien, all pursuant to § 281.45, Wis. Stats.
(2) In lieu of the above, the Village at its option may impose a penalty as provided in Chapter
1, §
1-4, General penalty, of this Code for the period that the violation continues, after 10 days' written notice to any owner failing to make a connection to the sewer system.
C. Operation and maintenance costs shall include all
costs associated with the operation and maintenance of the wastewater
collection and treatment facilities.
D. Replacement costs shall include all costs necessary
to accumulate the resources to replace equipment as required to maintain
capacity and performance during the design life of the facility. A
separate segregated replacement fund shall be established and used
only for replacement of equipment.
E. Sewer service charge is a service charge levied on
users of the sewerage system for payment of capital expenses as well
as the operation and maintenance costs, including replacement of said
facilities.
F. Policy. It shall be the policy of the Village to obtain
sufficient revenues to pay the costs of the operation and maintenance
of the sewerage facilities, including a replacement fund (i.e., an
account to be used for future expenditures for obtaining or installing
equipment, accessories or appurtenances which are necessary to maintain
the capacity and performance of the sewerage system during the service
life for which such facilities were designed and constructed), through
a system of sewer service charges as defined in this section. The
system shall assure that each user of the sewerage system pays his
proportionate share of the cost of such facilities.
If any waters, wastes or seepage are discharged or proposed
to be discharged into the public sewerage system which contains substances
or possess the characteristics which, in the judgment of the Village,
may be detrimental to the sewerage system, the Village may:
B. Require pretreatment to an acceptable condition for
discharge to the sewerage system.
C. Require a control over the quantities and rates of
discharge.
D. Require payment to cover the added cost of handling
and treating the waste not covered by existing taxes or sewer charges.
Any user affected by any decision, action or
determination, including a cease and desist order, made by the interpreting
or implementing of provisions of this article may file with the Village
a written request for reconsideration within 10 days of the date of
such decision, action or determination, setting forth in detail the
facts supporting the user's request for reconsideration. The Village
upon receiving the request for reconsideration shall publish the request
in the official newspaper. The Board shall render a decision on the
request for reconsideration to the user in writing within 15 days
of receipt of the request.
The Village, through its duly qualified governing
body, may amend this article in part or in whole whenever it may deem
necessary.
In addition to any other penalty provided by
this article or other law, the Village of Superior shall have the
right of recovery from any responsible persons of any expense incurred
by the Village of Superior for penalties imposed on the Village due
to a violation of this article or other law, correction of conditions
impairing the proper operation of the sewer system and the repair
or replacement of any sewer pipe or other property of the sewer system
damaged in any manner by any negligent or intended act or omission
by such person or by others under their control.
Any person violating the provisions of this article or rules or regulations of the Village of Superior, or who shall connect a service pipe without first having obtained a permit therefor, or who shall violate any provisions of the Wisconsin Statutes, Wisconsin Administrative Code, or any other materials which are incorporated by reference shall, upon conviction thereof, be punishable as provided in Chapter
1, §
1-4, General penalty, of this Code. This, however, shall not bar the Village of Superior from enforcing the connection duties set out in §
315-32B(1) for mandatory hookup.