A.
In order to assure the proper disposal of sewage and wastewaters, and to establish the proper procedures for the construction, alteration, abandonment, use, repair or connection to the public sewer in the Town of Tolland sanitary sewer system, and to assure the proper operation and maintenance of the public sewers and other sewage works within the Town of Tolland, and to establish specific limits for pollutant discharges which, by their nature or by their interaction with sewage, will be detrimental to the public health, cause damage to the public sewer or the water pollution control facility, pollute the waters of the state or otherwise create a public nuisance, to provide an adequate record of sewers, drains, appurtenances and connections thereto and to provide for a system of fees, charges and assessments, the following regulations are enacted by the Town of Tolland under the authority conferred by Chapter 103 of the General Statutes of the State of Connecticut, Revision of 1958, as amended and supplemented.
B.
These rules are intended to:
(1)
Promote the economic self-sufficiency of municipal
wastewater collection and treatment operations.
(2)
Assure that each recipient of services will pay its
proportionate share of the costs of operation, maintenance and replacement
of the Town of Tolland sanitary sewer and treatment system.
(3)
Inform the public as to the technical and administrative
procedures to be followed in obtaining, maintaining, altering or discontinuing
a connection to the Tolland sanitary sewer system.
(4)
Prevent the introduction of pollutants into the sanitary
sewer system which will interfere with the collection and/or treatment
system.
(5)
Prevent the introduction of pollutants into the treatment
system which will pass through the system, inadequately treated, into
the waters of the state or the atmosphere or otherwise be incompatible
with the system.
(6)
Improve the opportunity to recycle and reclaim wastewaters
and sludges from the system.
(7)
Ensure compliance with the Federal Water Pollution
Control Act.
C.
These rules shall apply to the residents of the Town
of Tolland and to persons outside the Town of Tolland who are users
of the public sewer. Except as otherwise provided herein, the Town
Manager, Director of Public Works or agent as delegated by the WPCA
of Tolland shall otherwise implement and enforce the provisions of
these rules.
A.
ACT OR THE ACT
ASA
ASSESSABLE ACRE
ASTM
AUTHORITY
AUTHORIZED AGENT
AVAILABLE
BENEFIT ASSESSMENT CHARGE
BOD (denoting "biochemical oxygen demand")
BUILDING OR HOUSE DRAIN
BUILDING OR HOUSE SEWER
CATEGORICAL STANDARDS
CHLORINE DEMAND
COD (denoting "chemical oxygen demand")
COMBINED SEWER
COMMUNITY SEWERAGE SYSTEM
COMPATIBLE POLLUTANT
COMPOSITE SAMPLE
CONNECTION CHARGE
CONTACT PERSON
COOLING WATER
DEP
DIRECTOR OF HEALTH
DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS
DOMESTIC OR SANITARY SEWAGE
DRAIN LAYER or LICENSED DRAIN LAYER
DWELLING UNIT
ENRCCI
EQUIVALENT DWELLING UNIT (EDU)
ESTABLISHED RATE
EXCESS LAND
FATS, OILS AND GREASE (FOG)
FLOATABLE OIL OR GREASE
FOG INTERCEPTOR
FOG PRETREATMENT SYSTEM
FOG RECOVERY UNIT
FOOD PREPARATION ESTABLISHMENTS
GARBAGE
GARBAGE PROPERLY SHREDDED
GRAB SAMPLE
GROSS FLOOR AREA
HYDRIC SOILS
INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANT
INDUSTRIAL SEWAGE OR WASTES
METER
NATURAL OUTLET
NONRENDERABLE FATS, OILS AND GREASE
NOTIFICATION OF APPROVED ALTERNATE FOG PRETREATMENT SYSTEM
NPDES
OTHER NONRESIDENTIAL USES
PERSON
(1)
(2)
pH
PRETREATMENT OR TREATMENT
PRIVATE SEWER
PROPERTY OWNER, OWNER OF PROPERTY, OWNER
PUBLIC SEWER
REGIONAL FOG DISPOSAL FACILITY
RENDERABLE FATS, OILS AND GREASE
RENDERABLE FATS, OILS, AND GREASE CONTAINER
SANITARY SEWER
SCUM
SEPTAGE
SEWAGE
SEWAGE COLLECTION SYSTEM
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
SEWAGE WORKS
SEWER BOUNDARY
SEWER SERVICE AREA
SINKING FUND
SLUDGE
SLUG
SOLUBLE OIL
STORM SEWER (sometimes termed "STORM SEWER DRAIN")
STORMWATER
STREET SANITARY SEWER
SUBDIVISION
SUBSOIL DRAINAGE
SUBSURFACE SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
TOWN
TOWN ENGINEER
TOWN PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION
TOXIC SUBSTANCES
TRUNK SANITARY SEWER
USER
USER CHARGE SYSTEM
WATERCOURSE
WATER POLLUTION CONTROL AUTHORITY (WPCA)
WATER POLLUTION CONTROL FACILITY
WATER SUPPLY WELL
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the meanings of terms used in these rules shall be as follows:
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
"Clean Water Act," as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.
The American Standards Association.
The total acreage of a property minus the acreage as delineated
by the Department of Environmental Protection's Hydric Soil map.
The American Society for Testing and Materials.
The Town of Tolland Water Pollution Control Authority.
Member of the Town of Tolland Water Pollution Control Authority
or person authorized by the Town of Tolland Water Pollution Control
Authority.
[Added 3-20-2012]
That the parcel of property lies within the bounds of the
sewer area and that the boundary of the parcel of property on which
the premises is or will be located is within 200 feet, measured along
a street, alley or easement, of the sewer line.
The charge a municipality or water pollution control authority
places against a property in accordance with Section 7-249 of the
Connecticut General Statutes.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days
at 20° C., expressed in mg/l (milligrams per liter) by weight.
In computing BOD, reference shall be made to the latest edition of
Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Waste Water.
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 outside the inner face of the building wall.
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
National Categorical Pretreatment Standards or pretreatment
standards.
The demand of chlorine which must be added to water or waste
to produce a residual chlorine content of at least 0.1 milligram per
liter after a minimum contact time of 10 minutes.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the chemical oxidation
of organic and inorganic matter under standard laboratory procedure
expressed in mg/l (milligrams per liter) by weight. In computing COD,
reference shall be made to the latest edition of Standard Methods
for the Examination of Water and Wastewater.
A sewer intended to receive both sewage and stormwater or
surface water.
A sewerage system serving one or more residences in separate
structures which is not connected to a municipal sewerage system or
which is connected to a municipal sewerage system as a distinct and
separately managed district or segment of such system.
Biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, pH and fecal
coliform bacteria, plus any additional pollutants identified in the
water pollution control facility's NPDES permit, where the water pollution
control facility is designed to treat such pollutants and, in fact,
does treat such pollutants to the degree required by the NPDES permit.
A mixture of aliquot samples obtained at regular intervals
over a time period. The volume of each aliquot is proportional to
the discharge flow rate for the sampling interval. The minimum time
period for composite sampling shall be four hours.
The charge a municipality or water pollution control authority
places against a property in accordance with Section 7-255 of the
Connecticut General Statutes.
The individual responsible for overseeing daily operation
of the food preparation establishment and who is responsible for overseeing
the food preparation establishment's compliance with the FOG pretreatment
program.
[Added 3-20-2012]
The wastewater from air-conditioning, industrial cooling,
condensing and hydraulically powered equipment or similar apparatus.
The State of Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection.
The appointed Director of Health of the Town or his authorized
representative.
The appointed Director of Public Works of the Town.
The solid and liquid wastes from toilet and lavatory fixtures,
kitchens, laundries, bathtubs, shower baths or equivalent plumbing
fixtures as discharged from dwellings, business and industrial buildings.
An individual, partnership or corporation to whom the State
of Connecticut has issued a license to install, alter or repair sewers,
sewer connections, house connections, etc., during the period when
such license is valid, and the proper agents and representatives of
such drain layer.
Two or more rooms designed for or occupied by one family
for living and sleeping purposes.
The Engineering News Record Construction Cost Index.
The estimated average discharge, by volume, of a single-family
residence into the public sewer system. The estimated average discharge
per day of a single-family residence is 192 gallons per day (GPD).
A dollar charge that is set formally from time to time by
the WPCA of the Town of Tolland to compensate for services as outlined
in these sanitary sewer rules.
Consistent with Connecticut General Statutes § 7-249, that portion of a parcel of land which exceeds by more than 100% the size of the smallest lot permitted in the lowest density residential zone allowed under Chapter 170, Zoning.
Animal- and plant-derived substances that may solidify or
become viscous between the temperatures of 32° F. and 150° F.
(0° C. to 65° C.) and that separate from wastewater
by gravity. Any edible substance identified as grease per the most
current EPA method as listed in 40 CFR 136.3.
[Added 3-20-2012]
Oil, fat or grease in a physical state such that it will
separate by gravity from sewage by treatment in an approved pretreatment
facility.
A passive tank installed outside a building and designed
to remove fats, oils and grease from flowing wastewater while allowing
wastewater to flow through it, and as further defined herein.
[Added 3-20-2012]
Properly installed and operated FOG interceptors and FOG
recovery units as approved by the WPCA.
[Added 3-20-2012]
An active indoor mechanical system designed to remove fats,
oil and grease by physical separation from flowing wastewater, as
further defined herein.
[Added 3-20-2012]
Class III and Class IV food service establishments and any
other facility determined by the WPCA to discharge FOG above the set
limits in Section 5(b)(2) of the Connecticut Department of Environmental
Protection's General Permit for the Discharge of Wastewater Associated
With Food Preparation Establishments. These facilities shall include
but not be limited to restaurants, hotel kitchens, hospital kitchens,
school kitchens, bars, factory cafeterias, and clubs. Class III and
Class IV food service establishments shall be as defined under Section
19-13-B42 of the State of Connecticut Public Health Code.
[Added 3-20-2012]
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and
sales of produce.
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 in any dimension.
A sample which is taken from a waste stream on a one-time
basis with no regard to the flow in the waste stream and without consideration
of time.
The floor area of buildings or portions thereof used other
than as residences and calculated on the basis of outside measurements,
such buildings to include but not be limited to all commercial, industrial
or business buildings and buildings used for other nonresidential
uses. Basement areas where used for office, storage, manufacturing
or other productive purposes shall be included in "gross floor area."
Those soils that are sufficiently wet in the upper part to
develop anaerobic conditions during the growing season.
All pollutants other than compatible pollutants as defined
in these regulations.
Water-carried wastes of any industrial process as distinct
from domestic or sanitary sewage. All substances carried in industrial
wastes, whether dissolved in suspension or mechanically carried by
water, shall be considered as industrial wastes.
Any device for measuring the quantity of water used as a
basis for determining charges for sewer use to a user.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface water or groundwater.
Food-grade grease that has become contaminated with sewage,
detergents or other constituents that make it unacceptable for rendering.
[Added 3-20-2012]
Written notification from the WPCA for authorization to install
and/or operate an alternate FOG pretreatment system.
[Added 3-20-2012]
The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System.
Uses such as schools, churches, clubs, offices, museums,
convalescent homes, recreation developments and day-care centers which
are not residential but may be located in residential zones.
Any individual, firm, company, association,
society, corporation or group, trust, estate, governmental entity
or any other legal entity, or their legal representatives, agents
or assigns.
The masculine gender shall include the feminine
and the singular shall include the plural where indicated by the context.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen
ions in mols per liter of solution.
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination
of pollutants or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties
in wastewater to a less harmful state prior to or in lieu of discharging
or otherwise introducing such pollutants into a water pollution control
facility. The reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical,
chemical or biological processes, except as prohibited by Title 40,
Code of Federal Regulations, Section 403.6(d).
A trunk, main or lateral sewer up to and including the Y-branch
or tee provided for connection of building or house sewers or laterals
constructed or to be constructed on property not owned or controlled
by the Town.
The owner in fee of any real estate and also all tenants,
lessees or other in control or possession and use of the property
in question, or any interest therein, and his, her, its or their agents
or representatives as the interest, duties, powers or liabilities
of each may be.
A trunk, main or lateral sewer up to and including the Y-branch
or tee provided for connection thereto, and to which all owners of
abutting properties have equal rights and which is controlled by public
authority. The public sewer does not include the building or house
sewer or the building lateral after it is connected to a building
sewer.
A facility for the collection and disposal of nonrenderable
FOG approved by the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection.
[Added 3-20-2012]
Material that can be recovered and sent to renderers for
recycling into various usable products. Renderable grease is created
from spent products collected at the source, such as frying oils and
grease from restaurants. This material is also called "yellow grease."
[Added 3-20-2012]
A closed, leakproof container for the collection and storage
of food-grade fats, oil and grease.
[Added 3-20-2012]
A conduit or pipe, together with manholes and other structures
or equipment, which carries only sanitary sewage and an acceptable
discharge of industrial water to which stormwater, surface water,
subsoil drainage, cooling water and groundwaters are not intentionally
admitted.
A filmy layer of extraneous matter or impurities that rises
to, or is formed on, the surface of a liquid.
[Added 3-20-2012]
The liquids and solids which are removed from a tank used
to treat domestic sewage.
A combination of the wastewater or water-carried wastes from
residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments.
The structures and equipment required to collect and convey
sewage to the water pollution control facility.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
sewage (includes industrial) and approved quantities of industrial
wastes.
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage or wastewater.
The area or areas designated by the WPCA which is/are intended
to be sewered and the properties within that area(s) to be assessed
for sewer improvements.
The geographical areas in the Town which are presently served
by the municipal sewer system and those areas designated by the WPCA
from time to time as being intended to be served by the municipal
sewer system. All areas lying outside of designated sewer service
areas are intended to be areas where sewer service is to be avoided.
Money designated by the WPCA for future maintenance, repair
and replacement of system components.
Any solid, semisolid, or liquid waste generated from a municipal,
commercial, or industrial wastewater treatment plant, water supply
treatment plant, or air pollution control facility exclusive of the
treated effluent from a wastewater treatment plant.
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.
Oil which is of either mineral or vegetable origin and disperses
in water or sewage at temperatures between 0° and 65° C. For
the purposes of these rules, emulsified oil shall be considered as
"soluble oil."
A sewer which carries stormwater, subsoil drainage and surface
waters and drainage or other clean waters, but excludes sewage and
industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling water.
The runoff or discharge of rain and melted snow or other
water from roofs, surfaces of public or private lands or elsewhere.
Stormwater also shall include subsoil drainage. In general, stormwater
shall include only water which is sufficiently clean and unpolluted
to allow to be discharged without treatment or purification into any
natural open stream or watercourse without offense.
A principal gravity sewer line, into which one or more house
connections or other street sanitary sewers discharge.
Any development of land which proposes two or more smaller
lots from a larger parcel of land.
Water from the soil percolating into subsoil drains and through
foundation walls, basement floors or underground pipes.
Any combination of tanks, chambers, trenches, boxes, pipes,
conduits and other appurtenances for the disposal of sewage when public
sewers are not available.
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension
in water, sewage or other liquids, and which are removable by filtering
as prescribed in Standard Methods for the Examination of Water, Sewage
and Industrial Waste, American Public Health Association.
The Town of Tolland acting through any authorized representative.
The appointed engineer of the Town.
That elected body which administers the zoning laws of the
Town of Tolland.[1]
Substances, whether gaseous, liquid or solid, which when
discharged to the sewer system in sufficient quantities may tend to
interfere with any sewage treatment process, constitute a hazard to
human beings or animals or inhibit aquatic life in the receiving waters
of the effluent from the sewage treatment plant. This includes but
is not limited to any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed
as toxic in regulations promulgated by the Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency under the provisions of Section 307(a) of the Act
or other Acts.
A gravity sewer line into which one or more street sanitary
sewers or other trunk sanitary sewers connect.
Any person who contributes to or causes or permits the contribution
of sewage to the Tolland sewer system.
A system of charges which assures that each recipient of
waste treatment services will pay its proportionate share of the costs
of operation and maintenance, including replacement, of all waste
treatment service as defined in the Act.
A natural or artificial channel in which a flow of water
occurs either continuously or intermittently.
The body appointed pursuant to Connecticut General Statutes
Section 7-246 within the Town of Tolland.
The Town of Vernon sewage treatment plant on Windsorville
Road.
Any combination of pipes, motors, screens, filters, casings,
tanks, pumps, treatment equipment and other appurtenances for the
supply of water to residential, commercial and industrial establishments
and being distinct from publicly owned water supply systems.
