This Article shall be known as the "Sewer Use Ordinance."
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise or as otherwise
specified in this Article, the meanings of terms used in this Article
shall be as follows:
BOD (DENOTING BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND)
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20°
C. expressed in milligrams per liter.
BUILDING DRAIN
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.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
GARBAGE
Solid waste from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and
sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing process,
trade or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface water or groundwater.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
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.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights and is controlled by public authority.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm-, surface
and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together
with such ground-, surface and stormwaters as may be present.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SEWERAGE WORKS
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage.
SLUG
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 flow during normal operation.
SUPERINTENDENT
The official appointed by the Village Board of Trustees to
supervise the management of sewage collection and treatment facilities
in the Village or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
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.
THE VILLAGE
The municipality, any sewer districts or extensions thereunder,
and any and all employees or agents designated to enforce the provisions
of this Article.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
WATER POLLUTION CONTROL PLANT
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
sewage; also referred to as a "sewage treatment plant."
The purpose of this Article is to protect the sewage collection
and treatment facilities of the Village by controlling the quantity,
quality and manner of discharge of sewage in the sanitary system of
property therein to whom the system is available.
The owner of any residence, building or property used for human
occupancy, employment, recreation, commerce, manufacturing or other
purpose situated in the Village and abutting on any street, alley,
easement or right-of-way in which there is a public sewer line, or
to which there is otherwise available or accessible a public sewer
line, is hereby required at his expense to connect such residence,
building or property directly with the public sewer within 30 days
after official notice to do so.
It shall be unlawful for any person to construct or maintain
any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool or other facility intended
for use for the disposal of sewage within the Village.
(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 Village or in any area under the jurisdiction of the Village
any human or animal excrement, garbage or other objectionable waste.
(b) Nothing in this section shall be construed as prohibiting normal
manure-spreading operations in agricultural or gardening areas, nor
the operation of a sanitary landfill operation where such operation
is performed with the approval of the Village Board of Trustees.
It shall be unlawful for any person to discharge to any natural
outlet within the Village or in any area under the jurisdiction of
the Village any sewage or other polluted waters, except where suitable
treatment has been provided in accordance with the provisions of this
Article.
It shall be unlawful for any unauthorized person to uncover,
make any connections with or opening into, use, alter or disturb any
public sewer or appurtenance thereof in the Village without first
obtaining a written permit from the Superintendent or other appropriate
delegated authority.
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 for the sewer permit. The permit application shall be
supplemented by any plans, specifications or other information considered
pertinent in the judgment of the Superintendent. A permit and inspection
fee for a residential or commercial building sewer permit and for
an industrial building sewer permit shall be paid to the Village Clerk
at the time the application is filed.
All costs and expense incident to the installation and connection
of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner. The owner shall
indemnify the Village from any loss or damage that may directly or
indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer.
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 sewer is available or can be constructed
to the rear of the 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.
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.
The size, slope, alignment and materials of construction of
a building sewer and the methods to be used in excavating, placing
of the pipe, jointing, testing and backfilling the trench shall all
conform to the requirements of the Building and Plumbing Code or other
applicable rules and regulations of the Village. In the absence of
code provisions or in amplification thereof, the materials and procedures
set forth in appropriate specifications of the ASTM and WPCF Manual
of Practice No. 9 shall apply.
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.
It shall be unlawful for any person to make connection of roof
downspouts, exterior or interior 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.
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 Village 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.
The applicant for the building sewer permits required by this
Article shall notify the Superintendent or other delegated authority
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.
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 Village.
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to 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.
(b) Stormwater and all other unpolluted drainage shall be discharged
to such sewers as are specifically designated as combined sewers and
storm sewers or to a natural outlet approved by the Superintendent.
Industrial cooling water or unpolluted process water may be discharged,
on approval of the Superintendent, to a storm sewer or natural outlet.
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to 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 to excess of two milligrams
per liter 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 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, fleshings, entrails, paper dishes, cups, milk containers,
etc., either whole or ground by garbage grinders.
(b) It shall be unlawful for any person to 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 or 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 waters or wastes containing fats, wax, grease or oils, whether
emulsified or not, in excess of 100 milligrams per liter or containing
substances which may solidify or become viscous at temperatures between
32° and 150° F. (0° and 65° C.).
(3)
Any garbage that has not been properly shredded. The installation
and operation of any garbage grinder equipment with a motor of 3/4
horsepower 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, 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 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 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 nine point five.
(9)
Materials which exert or cause:
a.
Unusual concentrations of inert suspended solids (such as, but
not limited to, Fullers earth, lime slurries and lime residues) or
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 in this Article.
(10)
Waters or wastes containing substances which are not amenable
to treatment or reduction by the sewage treatment process 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.
(c) 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 this section, and which, in the
judgment of the Village, 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)
Require pretreatment to an acceptable condition for discharge
to the public sewers;
(3)
Require control over the quantities and rates of discharge;
and/or
(4)
Require payment to cover the added cost of handling and treating the wastes not covered by existing taxes or sewer charges under the provisions of §
23-50.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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 such control manhole.
In the event that no special manhole had 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 sewerage works and to determine
the existence of hazards to life, limb and property. The particular
analysis involved will determine whether a twenty-four-hour composite
of all outfalls of a premises is appropriate or whether a grab sample
or samples should be taken. Normally, but not always, BOD and suspended
solids analysis are obtained from twenty-four-hour composites of all
outfalls whereas pH's are determined from periodic grab samples.
No statement contained in this Article shall be construed as
preventing any special agreement or arrangement between the Village
and any industrial concern whereby an industrial waste of unusual
strength or character may be accepted by the Village for treatment,
subject to payment therefor by the industrial concern.
It shall be unlawful for any unauthorized person to maliciously,
willfully or negligently break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface or
tamper with any structure, appurtenance or equipment which is a part
of the sewerage 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 Village,
bearing proper credentials and identification, shall be permitted
to enter all properties for the purpose 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, 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), the Superintendent or duly authorized employees of the Village shall observe all safety rules applicable to the premises established by the company.
(c) The Superintendent 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 purpose of, but not limited to, inspection,
observation, measurement, sampling, repair and maintenance of any
portion of the sewerage works lying within such easement. All entry
and subsequent work, if any, on such 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 §
23-51 shall be served by the Village 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 violating any provision of this Article shall be responsible
in money damages for any injury to the sewer system or any expense,
loss or damage caused the Village by such violation. This money may
be collected by civil action and obedience to the Article may also
be enforced by injunction.