It shall be unlawful for any person to place,
deposit, or permit to be deposited, in any unsanitary manner or in
any manner not compliant with this chapter, on public or private property,
within the Town or in any area under the jurisdiction of the said
municipality, any human or animal excrement, garbage, or objectionable
waste. Also, no person shall discharge domestic, normal or sanitary
sewage onto the surface of the ground or discharge it in a way that
permits it to come to the surface of the ground.
No person shall connect a private sewage system
so that sewage flows into a storm sewer or into a drain intended exclusively
for stormwater or so that stormwater flows into a sanitary sewer.
No person shall discharge sewage into a well.
It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural
outlet, within the Town or in any area under the jurisdiction of the
Town, any wastewater or other polluted waters, except where suitable
treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions
of this chapter.
No property owner, builder, or developer shall
be issued a building permit for a new dwelling or structure requiring
sanitary facilities unless a suitable and approved method of wastewater
disposal, conforming to this chapter, is available. All housing construction
or building development which takes place after this chapter is enacted
shall provide for an approved system of sanitary sewers.
Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be
unlawful to construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, cesspool,
or other facility intended or used for disposal of wastewater unless
such facility was in existence and functioning properly when this
chapter was enacted. Any such preexisting, properly functioning facilities
may be continued, maintained and repaired with the approval of the
Building Inspector or the Town Engineer.
The owner(s) of all houses, buildings, or properties
used for human occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purposes,
new and existing, situated within the Town 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 sewer, is hereby required, at the owner's
expense, install suitable sanitary facilities therein, drain subsurface
and surface water on the premises, and connect such facilities directly
with the proper public sewer in accordance with the provisions of
this chapter and under the supervision of the System Operator, provided
that said public sewer is within 100 feet of the property line and
is operational. Such a connection shall be in accordance with the
provisions of this chapter. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a single-family
residence will not be required to connect to such sewer district facilities
and to the public sewer if the single-family residence is served by
a properly operating private septic disposal system. The owner of
such single-family residence may connect to the public sewer if the
property owner so chooses.
The use of the Town public sewers shall be strictly
limited and restricted to receiving and accepting the discharge of
sewage and other wastes generated on or discharged from real property
within the bounds of the service area of the POTW.
If the Town Board determines that one or more
segments of the POTW are exceeding its hydraulic capacity at any time
or any specific purpose of this chapter is being violated, then the
Town Board shall have the authority to adopt a moratorium limiting
or entirely denying new connections to the POTW until the conditions
leading to the moratorium are corrected. Such correction may be by
construction of new facilities, enlarging existing facilities, correction
of inflow and infiltration, or the cleaning and repairing of existing
facilities, to the satisfaction of the Town Board.
All requirements, directives, and orders calling
for mandatory use of the sewers, within the service area of the POTW,
for the proper discharge of sewage and other wastes, including industrial
wastes, shall be established and given by the Town Board, NYSDEC,
USEPA, and/or other such state or federal agencies which have enforcement
powers in this subject area.