[Adopted 2-11-1981]
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the meaning of terms used in this article shall be as follows:
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days
at 20° C., expressed in milligrams per liter.
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system
which receives the discharge from soil, waste, and other drainage
pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building
sewer, beginning five feet (1.5 meters) outside the inner face of
the building wall.
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage, and
sale of produce.
The Deputy State Health Officer for Garrett County.
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes,
trade, or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
Any outlet into a watercourse pond, ditch, lake, or other
body of surface water or groundwater.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation,
or group.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
The wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing
of food that have been shredded to such a degree that all particles
will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing
in public sewers, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch (1.27 centimeters)
in any dimension.
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights, and is controlled by public authority.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface,
and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together
with such ground, surface, and storm waters as may be present.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
sewage.
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
"Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
Any discharge of water, sewage, or industrial waste which,
in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow,
exceeds for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes more than
five times the average twenty-four-hour concentration or flows during
normal operation.
A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage,
but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling
water.
The Superintendent or Water and Sewerage of the Town of Oakland,
or his authorized deputy, agent, or representative.
Solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension
in, water, sewage, or other liquids, and which are removable by laboratory
filtering.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
A.
It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit,
or permit to be deposited in any unsanitary manner on public or private
property within the Town of Oakland, or in any area under the jurisdiction
of said Oakland, any human or animal excrement, garbage, or other
objectionable waste.
B.
It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet
within the Town of Oakland or in any area under the jurisdiction of
said Oakland any sewage or other polluted waters, except where suitable
treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions
of this article.
C.
The owners of all houses, buildings or properties
used for human occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purposes,
situated within the Town of Oakland and abutting on any street, alley,
or right-of-way in which there is now located or may in the future
be located a public sanitary or combined sewer of Oakland, is hereby
required at his expense to install suitable toilet facilities therein,
and to connect such facilities directly with the proper public sewer
in accordance with the provisions of this article, within 90 days
after date of official notice to so do, provided that said public
sewer is within 100 feet (30.5 meters) of the property line.
A.
Where a public sanitary sewer is not available under the provisions of § 284-3C, the building sewer shall be connected to a private sewage disposal system complying with the provisions of this article.
B.
Before commencement of construction of a private sewage
disposal system, the owner shall first obtain a written permit signed
by the Health Officer and the Oakland Wastewater Supervisor.
C.
A permit for a private sewage disposal system shall
not become effective until the installation is completed to the satisfaction
of the Health Officer and the Oakland Wastewater Supervisor.
D.
At such time as a public sewer becomes available to
a property served by a private sewage disposal system, a direct connection
shall be made to the public sewer in compliance with this article,
and any septic tanks, cesspools, and similar private sewage disposal
facilities shall be abandoned and filled with suitable material, as
directed by the Superintendent.
E.
The owner shall operate and maintain the private sewage
disposal facilities in a sanitary manner at all times, at no expense
to the Town of Oakland.
F.
No statement contained in this article shall be construed
to interfere with any additional requirements that may be imposed
by the Health Officer or the Town of Oakland.
A.
No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any connections
with or opening into, use, alter, or disturb any public sewer or appurtenance
thereof without first obtaining a written permit from the Superintendent.
B.
There shall be two classes of building sewer permits:
for residential and commercial service, and for service to establishments
producing industrial wastes. In either case, the owner or his agent
shall make application on a special form furnished by the Town of
Oakland. The permit application shall be supplemented by any plans,
specifications, or other information considered pertinent in the judgment
of the Superintendent. The tap fee shall be paid to the Town of Oakland
at the time the application is filed.
C.
All costs and expense incident to the installation
of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner. The owner shall
indemnify the Town of Oakland from any loss or damage that may directly
or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building of
the sewer.
D.
A separate and independent building sewer shall be
provided for every building; except where one building stands at the
rear of another on an interior lot and no private sewer is available
or can be constructed to the rear building through an adjoining alley,
court, yard, or driveway, the building sewer from the front building
may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered as one
building sewer.
E.
Old building sewers may be used in connection with
new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test by
the Superintendent, to meet all requirements of this article.
F.
The size, slope, alignment, materials of construction
of a building sewer, and the methods to be used in excavating, placing
of pipe, jointing, testing, and backfilling the trench shall all conform
to the requirements of the Town of Oakland.[1]
G.
Whenever possible, the building sewer shall be brought
to the building at an elevation below the basement floor. In all buildings
in which any building drain is too low to permit gravity flow to the
public sewer, sanitary sewage carried by such building drain shall
be lifted by an approved means and discharged to the building sewer.
H.
No person shall make connection of roof downspouts,
exterior foundation drains, areaway drains, or other sources of surface
runoff or groundwater to a building sewer or building drain which
in turn is connected directly or indirectly to a public sanitary sewer,
and any such existing connections shall be disconnected at the owner's
expense.
I.
The connection of the building sewer into the public
sewer shall conform to the requirements of the building and plumbing
code or other applicable rules and regulations of the Town of Oakland,
or the procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the ASTM
and the WPCF Manual of Practice No. 9. All such connections shall
be made gastight and watertight. Any deviation from the prescribed
procedures and materials must be approved by the Superintendent before
installation.
J.
The applicant for the building permit shall notify
the Superintendent when the building sewer is ready for inspection
and connection to the public sewer. The connection shall be made under
the supervision of the Superintendent or his representative by the
Town forces.
K.
All excavations for building sewer installation shall
be adequately guarded with barricades and lights so as to protect
the public from hazard. Streets, sidewalks, parkways, and other public
property disturbed in the course of the work shall be restored in
a manner satisfactory to the Town of Oakland.
A.
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged
any stormwater, groundwater, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, uncontaminated
cooling water, or unpolluted industrial process waters to any sanitary
sewer.
B.
Stormwater and all other unpolluted drainage shall
be discharged to such sewers as are specifically designated as storm
sewers, or to a natural outlet approved by the Superintendent. Industrial
cooling water or unpolluted process waters may be discharged, on approval
of the Superintendent, to a storm sewer or natural outlet.
C.
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged
any of the following described waters or wastes to any public sewers:
(1)
Any gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil, or other
flammable or explosive liquid, solid, or gas.
(2)
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, constitute a hazard to humans or animals,
create a public nuisance, or create any hazard in the receiving waters
of the sewage treatment plant, including but not limited to cyanides
in excess of 2 mg/l as CN in the wastes as discharged to the public
sewer.
(3)
Any waters or wastes having a pH lower than 5.5 or
having any other corrosive property capable of causing damage or hazard
to structures, equipment, and personnel of the sewage works.
(4)
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 sewage works such as,
but not limited to, ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal,
glass, rags, clothing, bedding material, feathers, tar, plastics,
wood, unground garbage, whole blood, paunch manure, hair and fleshings,
entrails and paper dishes, cups, milk containers, grease, etc., either
whole or ground by garbage grinders.[1]
D.
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 Superintendent 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 Superintendent
will give consideration to such factors as the quantities of subject
wastes in relation to flows and velocities in the sewers, materials
of construction of the sewers, nature of the sewage treatment process,
capacity of the sewage treatment plant, degree of treatability of
wastes in the sewage treatment plant, and other pertinent factors.
The substances prohibited are:
(1)
Any liquid or vapor having a temperature higher than
150° F. (65° C.).
(2)
Any water or waste containing fats, wax, grease, or
oils, whether emulsified or not, in excess of 100 mg/l or containing
substances which may solidify or become viscous at temperatures between
32° F. and 150° F. (0° C. and 65° C.).
(3)
Any garbage that has not been properly shredded. The
installation and operation of any garbage grinder equipped with a
motor of 3/4 horsepower (0.75 hp metric) or greater shall be subject
to the review and approval of the Superintendent.
(4)
Any waters or wastes containing strong-acid iron-pickling
wastes, or concentrated plating solutions, whether neutralized or
not.
(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 degrees that any such material
received in the composite sewage at the sewage treatment works exceeds
the limits established by the Superintendent 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 Superintendent 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 Superintendent
in compliance with applicable state or federal regulations.
(8)
Any waters or wastes having a pH in excess of 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.
E.
Pretreatment or equalization of waste flows.
(1)
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 Subsection D of this section, and which, in the judgment of the Superintendent, 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 Superintendent may:
(2)
If the Superintendent permits the pretreatment or
equalization of waste flows, the design and installation of the plants
and equipment shall be subject to the review and approval of the Superintendent,
and subject to the requirements of all applicable codes, ordinances,
and laws.
F.
Grease, oil, and sand interceptors shall be provided
when, in the opinion of the Superintendent, 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 living
quarters or dwelling units. All interceptors shall be of a type and
capacity approved by the Superintendent, and shall be located as to
be readily and easily accessible for cleaning and inspection.
G.
Where preliminary treatment of 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.
H.
When required by the Superintendent, 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. Such manhole,
when required, shall be accessibly and safely located, and shall be
constructed in accordance with plans approved by the Superintendent.
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.
I.
All measurements, tests, and analyses of the characteristics
of waters and wastes to which reference is made in this article 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, and shall be determined at the control
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.
Sampling shall be carried out by customarily accepted methods to reflect
the effect of constituents upon the sewage works and to determine
the existence of hazards to life, limb, and property. The particular
analyses involved will determine whether a twenty-four-hour composite
of all outfalls of a premise is appropriate or whether a grab sample
or samples should be taken. Normally, but not always, BOD and suspended
solids analyses are obtained from twenty-four-hour composites of all
outfalls whereas pH's are determined from periodic grab samples.
J.
No statement contained in this article shall be construed
as preventing any special agreement or arrangement between the Town
of Oakland and any industrial concern whereby an industrial waste
of unusual strength or character may be accepted by the Town of Oakland
for treatment, subject to payment therefor, by the industrial concern.
No unauthorized person shall maliciously, willfully,
or negligently break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface, or tamper
with any structure, appurtenance, or equipment which is a part of
the sewage works. Any person violating this provision shall be subject
to immediate arrest under charge of disorderly conduct.
A.
The Superintendent and other duly authorized employees
of the Town of Oakland 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 article. The Superintendent 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.
B.
While performing the necessary work on private properties referred to in Subsection A above, the Superintendent or duly authorized employees of the Town of Oakland 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 Town of Oakland employees, and the Town of Oakland shall indemnify the company against loss or damage to its property by the Town of Oakland 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 § 284-5.
C.
The Superintendent and other duly authorized employees
of the Town of Oakland bearing proper credentials and identification
shall be permitted to enter all private properties through which the
Town of Oakland 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.
A.
Any person found to be violating any provision of this article, except § 284-6, shall be served by the Town of Oakland with written notice stating the nature of the violation and providing a reasonable time limit for the satisfactory correction thereof. The offender shall, within the period of time stated in such notice, permanently cease all violations.
B.
Any person who shall continue any violation beyond the time limit provided for in Subsection A shall be deemed guilty of a municipal infraction subject to the maximum fine established pursuant to Chapter 40, Municipal Infractions. Each day in which any such violation shall continue shall be deemed a separate offense.[1]
C.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this
article shall become liable to the Town of Oakland for any expense,
loss, or damage occasioned the Town of Oakland by reason of such violation.
