A.
Authorized. The inspector and other duly authorized employees
of the village bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted
to enter all properties for the purposes of inspection, observation, measurement,
sampling and testing in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
B.
Inquiry into processes. The inspector or his representatives
shall have no authority to inquire into any processes, including metallurgical,
chemical, oil, refining, ceramic, paper or other industries, beyond that point
having a direct bearing on the kind and source of discharge to the sewers
or waterways or facilities for waste treatment.
C.
Observance of safety rules; waiver of liability. While
performing the necessary work on private properties referred to in this section,
the inspector or duly authorized employees of the village shall observe all
safety rules applicable to the premises established by the company, and the
company shall be held harmless for injury or death to the village employees,
and the village shall indemnify the company against loss or damage to its
property by village employees and against liability claims and demands for
personal injury or property damage asserted against the company and growing
out of the gauging and sampling operation, except as such may be caused by
negligence or failure of the company to maintain safe conditions as required
in this chapter.
D.
Properties through which village holds easements. The
inspector and other duly authorized employees of the village bearing proper
credentials and identification shall be permitted to enter all private properties
through which the village holds a duly negotiated easement for the purposes
of, but not limited to, inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, repair
and maintenance of any portion of the sewage works lying within said easement.
All entry and subsequent work, if any, on said easement shall be done in full
accordance with the terms of the duly negotiated easement pertaining to the
private property involved.
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any stormwater,
surface water, groundwater, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, uncontaminated
cooling water or unpolluted industrial process waters to any sanitary sewer.
Stormwater and all other unpolluted drainage shall be discharged to
such sewers as are specifically designated as combined sewers or storm sewers
or to a natural outlet approved by the inspector. Industrial cooling water
or unpolluted process waters may be discharged, on approval of the inspector,
to a storm sewer, combined sewer or natural outlet.
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any of the following
described waters or wastes to any public sewer:
A.
Any gasoline, benzine, naphtha, fuel oil or other flammable
or explosive liquid, solid or gas.
B.
Any waters or wastes containing toxic or poisonous solids,
liquids or gases in sufficient quantity, either singly or by interaction with
other wastes, to injure or interfere with any sewage treatment process, to
constitute a hazard to humans or animals, to create a public nuisance or to
create any hazard in the receiving waters of the sewage treatment plant, including
but not limited to cyanides in excess of two (2) milligrams per liter as CN
in the wastes as discharged to the public sewer.
C.
Any waters or wastes having a pH lower than five point
five (5.5) or having any other corrosive property capable of causing damage
or hazard to structures, equipment and personnel of the sewage works.
D.
Solid or viscous substances in quantities or of such
size capable of causing obstruction to the flow in sewers or other interference
with the proper operation of the sewerage works, such as but not limited to
ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags, feathers,
tar, plastics, wood, unground garbage, whole blood, paunch manure, hair and
fleshings, entrails and paper dishes, cups, milk containers, etc., either
whole or ground by garbage grinders.
A.
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged the
following described substances, materials, waters or wastes if it appears
likely, in the opinion of the inspector, that such wastes can harm either
the sewers, sewage treatment process or equipment, have an adverse effect
on the receiving stream or can otherwise endanger life, limb, public property
or constitute a nuisance. In forming his opinion as to the acceptability of
these wastes, the inspector will give consideration to such factors as the
quantities of subject wastes in relation to flows and velocities in the sewers,
the materials of construction of the sewers, the nature of the sewage treatment
process, the capacity of the sewage treatment plant, the degree of treatability
of wastes in the sewage treatment plant and other pertinent factors.
B.
The substances prohibited are:
(1)
Any liquid or vapor having a temperature higher than
one hundred fifty degrees Fahrenheit (150° F.) or sixty-five degrees centigrade
(65° C.)
(2)
Any water or waste containing fats, wax, grease or oils,
whether emulsified or not, in excess of one hundred (100) milligrams per liter,
containing substances which may solidify or become viscous at temperatures
between thirty-two degrees and one hundred fifty degrees Fahrenheit (32°
and 150° F.) or zero degrees and sixty-five degrees centigrade (0°
and 65° C.).
(3)
Any waters or wastes containing strong acid, iron pickling
wastes or concentrated plating solutions, whether neutralized or not.
(4)
Any garbage that has not been properly shredded. The
installation and operation of any garbage grinder equipped with a motor of
three-fourths (3/4) horsepower [seventy-six hundredths (0.76) horsepower metric]
or greater shall be subject to the review and approval of the inspector.
(5)
Any waters or wastes containing iron, chromium, copper,
zinc and similar objectionable or toxic substances; or wastes exerting an
excessive chlorine requirement to such degree that any such material received
in the composite sewage at the sewage treatment works exceeds the limits established
by the inspector for such materials.
(6)
Any waters or wastes containing phenols or other taste-
or odor-producing substances, in such concentrations exceeding limits which
may be established by the inspector as necessary, after treatment of the composite
sewage, to meet the requirements of the state, federal or other public agencies
of jurisdiction for such discharge to the receiving waters.
(7)
Any radioactive wastes or isotopes of such half-life
or concentration as may exceed limits established by the inspector in compliance
with applicable state or federal regulations.
(8)
Any waters or wastes having a pH in excess of nine point
five (9.5).
(9)
Materials which exert or cause:
(a)
Unusual concentrations of inert suspended solids, such
as but not limited to fuller's earth, lime slurries and lime residues,
or of dissolved solids, such as but not limited to sodium chloride and sodium
sulfate.
(b)
Excessive discoloration, such as but not limited to dye
wastes and vegetable tanning solutions.
(c)
Unusual BOD, chemical oxygen demand or chlorine requirements
in such quantities as to constitute a significant load on the sewage treatment
works.
(d)
Unusual volume of flow or concentration of wastes constituting
slugs, as defined herein.
(10)
Waters or wastes containing substances which are not
amenable to treatment or reduction by the sewage treatment processes employed
or are amenable to treatment only to such degree that the sewage treatment
plant effluent cannot meet the requirements of other agencies having jurisdiction
over discharge to the receiving waters.
A.
If any waters or wastes are discharged or are proposed to be discharged to the public sewers, which waters contain the substances or possess the characteristics enumerated in § 205-27 of this Article and which, in the judgment of the inspector, may have a deleterious effect upon the sewage works, processes, equipment or receiving waters or which otherwise create a hazard to life or constitute a public nuisance, the inspector may:
B.
If the inspector permits the pretreatment or equalization
of waste flow, the design and installation of the plants and equipment shall
be subject to the review and approval of the inspector and subject to the
requirements of all applicable codes and laws.
A.
When required. Grease, oil and sand and other interceptors
shall be provided when, in the opinion of the inspector, they are necessary
for the proper handling of liquid wastes containing grease in excessive amounts
or any flammable wastes, sand or other harmful ingredients; except that such
interceptors shall not be required for private one- or two-family living quarters.
B.
Type, capacity and location. All interceptors shall be
of a type and capacity approved by the inspector and shall be located as to
be readily and easily accessible for cleaning and inspection.
Where preliminary treatment or flow-equalizing facilities are provided
for any waters or wastes, they shall be maintained continuously in satisfactory
and effective operation by the owner at his expense.
A.
Generally. When required by the inspector, the owner
of any property serviced by a building sewer carrying industrial wastes shall
install a suitable control manhole, together with such necessary meters and
other appurtenances in the building sewer to facilitate observation, sampling
and measurement of the wastes.
B.
Location and construction. Such manhole, when required,
shall be accessibly and safely located and shall be constructed in accordance
with plans approved by the inspector.
C.
Installation and maintenance. The manhole shall be installed
by the owner at his expense and shall be maintained by him so as to be safe
and accessible at all times.
A.
Standards. All measurements, tests and analyses of the
characteristics of waters and wastes to which reference is made in this chapter
shall be determined in accordance with the latest edition of Standard Methods
for the Examination of Water and Wastewater published by the American Public
Health Association.
B.
Where determined. Measurements, tests and analyses shall
be determined at the central manhole provided or upon suitable samples taken
at said control manhole. In the event that no special manhole has been required,
the control manhole shall be considered to be the nearest downstream manhole
in the public sewer to the point at which the building sewer is connected.