[R.O. 2008 §220.110; Ord. No. 132, 7-11-1950]
It shall be unlawful hereafter for the owner, lessee or agent
of any building or premises within the City of Olivette to permit
discharge therefrom of sewage or contaminated waste water into any
creek, watercourse, gully or ditch, excepting only drains discharging
roof water or surface water.
[R.O. 2008 §220.120; Ord. No. 132, 7-11-1950]
It shall be the duty of the owner, lessee or agent of any building
or premises from which sewage or contaminated waste liquids are discharged
to connect the same with the public sewers within the City of Olivette;
such connection to be made within a reasonable time after such public
sewers have been constructed and made available for service. Such
connection shall be made in the manner and under the regulations herein
provided; provided however, that if in any part of the City of Olivette
no public sewers exist within a reasonable distance to which such
sewage or contaminated wastes may be connected, the owner, lessee
or agent of such premises may apply to the City Manager for permission
to construct within his/her premises equipment or installation for
the treatment of such sewage or wastes and upon finding by the City
Manager that the proposed installation, if properly operated, would
render such sewage or wastes innocuous and incapable of causing a
nuisance, the City Manager may issue a permit for such construction.
[R.O. 2008 §220.130; Ord. No. 132, 7-11-1950]
A.
No
permits shall be issued for the connection of any sewer to the public
sewers within the City of Olivette until it shall be determined by
the City Manager or his/her agent that said sewer to be connected
would convey only sewage or contaminated liquids and that it will
not receive or convey to the public sewers any roof water or surface
water, provided that if, at the time of the passage of this Article,
there exists within the City of Olivette any platted subdivision for
which sewers have, at that time, been installed and to which subdivision
sewers both sanitary sewage, roof water and surface water are connected,
such subdivision sewers may be permitted to become connected to the
public sanitary sewers through the installation of an intercepting
connection by and with the consent of the Metropolitan Sewer District.
B.
Said
intercepting connection shall be of such size as shall be determined
by the City Manager, subject to approval of the Metropolitan Sewer
District, but shall be no larger than necessary to permit an introduction
of the ordinary flow of sewage into the public sewers during dry weather
conditions. Nor shall it permit the introduction into said public
sewers of any storm or surface water flow in excess of that which
may pass through the intercepting connection designed for sewage as
authorized by said City Manager.
C.
It
is further provided that in all such subdivisions having subdivision
sewers of the combined type, no building hereafter constructed shall
be equipped with downspouts or drains that will permit the entrance
of downspout or surface water into such subdivision sewers.
[R.O. 2008 §220.140; Ord. No. 132, 7-11-1950; Ord. No.
223, 3-9-1954]
A.
Sewers
or drains which convey only surface water or roof water shall not
be considered as sewers within the meaning of this Article and are
expressly excepted from the provisions thereof. It shall be the duty
of the City Manager, upon receiving information that sewage is being
discharged into any watercourse, creek, gully or ditch or that any
sewer or drain has become connected to the public sewers within the
City, which sewer or drain receives or conveys roof or stormwater
in violation of these regulations, to notify the owner or person in
control of the property to cause sewage to be connected to the public
sewers or to disconnect the source of roof or surface water from any
sanitary sewer connection. Said notice shall state a reasonable time
within which the condition referred to shall be remedied.
B.
Trunk
sewers or drains which convey only sewage discharged into a sanitary
sewer system shall not be recognized for ownership by the City of
Olivette, other than ownership by the Metropolitan Sewer District.
All said trunk lines or drains regardless of by whom constructed shall
be for the use of all persons abutting said line or whose property
is available thereto by the rules and regulations as promulgated by
the Metropolitan Sewer District. No building permits for the construction
of residences, dwellings, businesses or industrial establishments
shall be issued unless and until a permit for sewer connections is
authorized by the Metropolitan Sewer District.
[R.O. 2008 §220.150; Ord. No. 132, 7-11-1950]
Any person, lessee or agent of any such property who shall,
after receiving such notice from the City Manager, permit the condition
to continue in violation of these regulations shall be deemed guilty
of misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of
not less than five dollars ($5.00) nor more than one hundred dollars
($100.00).
