[Adopted as Ch. 1040 of the 1995 Codified Ordinances of Monroe]
As used in this Part 1, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
Any wastes resulting from water used for manufacturing process purposes, such as paper mill wastes, or used for business purposes, such as laundries, cooling water, condenser water, etc. All other wastes shall be considered as sanitary wastes.
SANITARY SEWER
Any sewer or open drain which discharges either directly or indirectly into the sewage treatment plant.
A. 
The rates and regulations for sewage disposal services as provided for in this Part 1 are intended to be equitable to all.
B. 
The treatment plant and interceptors are designed to be adequate to furnish facilities for disposal of all sanitary wastes originating within the City and all industrial wastes originating above Dam Number 1, located east of the Shore Line Railroad.
C. 
The construction of trunk line sewers and laterals is the responsibility of the property owners.
D. 
All sanitary wastes shall be immediately connected with the sewage treatment plant.
E. 
To this date in some districts, not adequately sewered, compliance may work a hardship on the property owners. In such cases, where the sanitary wastes are not causing too serious a health nuisance, the City may be lenient in requesting immediate action.
[Amended 4-15-1968 by Ord. No. 954]
Except for billings and collections, enforcement of this Part 1 shall be the duty of the Building Official under the direction of the City Manager.
A. 
The bills for sewage disposal services shall be prepared by the Water Department and collected at the same time and in the same manner as provided for water bills.
B. 
The Water Department is authorized to enforce the payment of such sewer service billed by shutting off the user's water supply, or an action of assumpsit may be instituted by the City against such user.
[Amended 4-15-1968 by Ord. No. 954]
No surface, roof or footing drains or ground water from any source shall be allowed to enter the sanitary sewer system of the City, and no connection shall be permitted which allows other than liquid waste containing animal and vegetable wastes in suspension or solution, and which may include liquids from laboratories or industrial institutions containing minerals in solution, as sewage, to flow thereinto.
[Amended 4-15-1968 by Ord. No. 954]
A. 
Any existing installation where clear water drainage or subsoil drainage has been connected to the sanitary sewer system of the City will be subject to inspection to determine the flow rate of clear water discharging into the sanitary sewer serving the building.
B. 
When the flow rate of clear water is found to be in excess of eight gallons per one hour of testing time, or 200 gallons per twenty-four-hour period of testing time, then the existing installation will be termed excessive clear water drainage and shall be ordered removed at the property owner's expense, in like manner and using the same procedures as are, or may be, authorized in the case of cutting of grasses and weeds.
A. 
Authorization. The City Council may, in its discretion, upon written request, furnish sewer facilities for property outside the City limits, in accordance with the provisions of this Part 1 and such other rules and regulations as the Council may from time to time establish.
B. 
Adequacy of facilities. No sewer connection may be made with the City sewer system unless the sewer facilities are adequate to properly handle the sewage.
C. 
Connection with storm drainage. No person shall be permitted to connect any roof water or stormwater to the sewer connections made under this section.
D. 
Specifications for taps and joints. All sewer taps must be made according to specifications furnished by the City, and all joints must be bituminous and watertight.
E. 
Discontinuance. The City reserves the right to eliminate and discontinue any service granted under this section and the right to discontinue any sewer connection made in accordance with this section without being in any way liable for damages or for a rebate of any money paid to the City or to any fund.
No connection shall knowingly be made with any public sewer or appurtenance thereof whereby there may be conveyed into the public sewer any hot, suffocating, corrosive, inflammable or explosive liquid, gas, vapor, substance or material of any kind or any ashes, cinders, silt or other heavy suspended material.
All liquid wastes from public garages or automobile wash racks shall be intercepted, before entering a sewer, by an approved catch basin properly tapped as indicated by the City Engineering Department Plan No. A-36.
A. 
Stormwater shall not be connected with any sanitary sewer.
B. 
Existing stormwater connections with sanitary sewers shall be eliminated if they are causing a flooding nuisance.
Sanitary or industrial wastes shall not be discharged into any storm sewer.
A. 
The construction and use of septic tanks shall be prohibited except under conditions where the construction of a main sewer would be financially impossible for the district involved.
B. 
The construction of outside toilets (privies) is hereby prohibited.
A. 
The discharging of sanitary wastes into open drains shall be prohibited.
B. 
The City shall have authority to declare such connections a health nuisance and cause adequate sewers to be constructed and the cost therefor to be assessed against the district benefited.
[Amended 2-19-1974 by Ord. No. 74-003]
A. 
All water consumers living within the corporate limits of the City shall pay a sewage disposal charge based on water consumption in accordance with the rates established for this service, except as follows:
(1) 
Water users who sell or use water outside the corporate limits of the City, such as railroads, who shall not be subject to sewage disposal charges for water used in this manner; and
(2) 
Water users who, because of extreme conditions that prevent the construction of a main sewer, do not have sewage facilities.
B. 
For current existing structures and future construction, applications for the exemption provided for in Subsection A(2) hereof must be made to the Department of Building, Zoning and Environmental Compliance and must contain a verification by the Engineering Department that main sewers cannot be constructed because of existing extreme conditions in the district involved.
C. 
Other than the exceptions provided for in Subsection A(1) and (2) hereof, the discharge of sanitary wastes into a septic tank or into drains or sewers having no direct or indirect connection to the sewage treatment plant shall not release a water consumer from the sewage disposal charges.
A flat rate will be charged for sewage disposal service for connection with a City sewer for residences not serviced with a metered water supply.
[Amended 1-13-1969 by Ord. No. 977]
A sewage disposal charge will be made against all residences, businesses or industries located inside or outside the City limits and discharging sanitary or industrial wastes into or through the City sewer system, such charges and rates being defined in this chapter.
A. 
Sewer rates shall be set by ordinance and shall be kept on file in the Clerk/Treasurer's office.
B. 
The City may negotiate a contract with special customers either inside or outside the City at special rates. All properties shall pay a minimum quarterly sewage charge regardless of whether the water service is turned off.
There shall not be any discounts.
Sewage disposal charges shall be computed and collected for a three-month period.