A.
Waste disposal
unlawful. 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 Seneca Falls or in any area under the
jurisdiction of said municipality, any human or animal excrement,
garbage or objectionable waste. In addition, no person shall discharge
domestic sewage onto the surface of the ground or discharge it in
a way that permits it to come to the surface of the ground.
B.
Connecting
private sewage system to storm sewer unlawful. No person shall connect
a private sewage system so that sewage flows into a storm sewer or
into a drain intended exclusively for stormwater.
C.
Discharge
of sewage into well prohibited. No person shall discharge sewage into
a well.
D.
Wastewater
discharge unlawful. It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural
outlet, within the Town of Seneca Falls or in any area under the jurisdiction
of the municipality, any wastewater or other polluted waters, except
where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent
provisions of this Part 2.
No property owner, builder or developer shall
be issued a zoning permit for a new dwelling or structure requiring
sanitary facilities unless a suitable and approved method of wastewater
disposal, conforming to this Part 2, is available. All housing construction
or building development which takes place after this Part 2 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,
septic tank or other facility intended or used for disposal of wastewater.
The owner(s) of all houses, buildings or properties
used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes
situated within the Town of Seneca Falls, 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, to install suitable sanitary facilities therein and to connect
such facilities directly with the proper public sewer, in accordance
with the provisions of this Part 2, within 90 days after official
notice to do so, provided that said public sewer is within 100 feet
(30.5 meters) of the property line.
The use of the Town of Seneca Falls public sewers shall be strictly limited and restricted, except as provided in § 230-11, to receive and accept the discharge of sewage and other wastes, including industrial wastes generated on or discharged from real property within the bounds of the service area of the POTW.
The Town of Seneca Falls, on the recommendation
of the Superintendent, shall have the authority to enter into agreements
to accept sewage and other wastes, including industrial wastes, generated
by or discharged from persons outside the service area of the POTW.
A.
If the person is a municipality, that municipality
shall have enacted a sewer use law as restrictive on the discharge
of sewage and other wastes as the restrictions contained in this Part
2.
B.
If the person is not a municipality, the acceptance
shall be made only with the expressed written consent of the Superintendent
(the issuance of a permit) setting forth the terms and conditions
of such acceptance.
At the recommendation of the Superintendent,
who determines that one or more segments of the POTW is exceeding
its hydraulic capacity at any time or any specific purpose of this
Part 2 is being violated, the Town of Seneca Falls shall have the
authority to limit or deny new connections to the POTW until the conditions
leading to the moratorium are corrected. Such correction may be by:
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 of Seneca Falls,
NYSDEC, USEPA and/or other such state or federal agencies which have
enforcement powers.
