This Part 3 shall regulate Town of Lenox Sewer District Numbers
4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and any extensions to said districts and any future
district(s) or extensions thereof which shall use the Canastota Main
Street Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP).
It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit or permit
to be deposited in an insanitary manner upon public or private property
within the Town or in any area under the jurisdiction of said Town
any human or animal excrement, garbage or other objectionable waste.
This section shall not apply to lands used for farm purposes and to
areas designated for municipal refuse disposal.
It shall be unlawful to discharge into any watercourse, either
directly or through any storm sewer within the Town or in any area
under the jurisdiction of the Town, any sewage, industrial wastes
or other polluted waters. Use of separate storm sewers and sanitary
sewers is mandatory for all future construction in the Town. No combined
sewers will be allowed to be constructed in the future.
Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful without
a permit to construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank,
cesspool or other facility intended or used for the disposal of sewage.
The owner of any house, building or property used for human
occupancy, employment, recreation or other purpose, 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 sanitary
sewer of the Town, is hereby required at his expense to install suitable
toilet facilities therein and to connect such facilities directly
with the proper public sewer in accordance with the provisions of
this Part 3 within 90 days after the date of official notice to do
so, provided that said public sewer is located within 100 feet of
the public street right-of-way.
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.