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Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of terms used in this Chapter shall be as follows:
Any individual, firm, partnership, corporation or other agency
owning land within the City applying for a sewer service.
The Board of Aldermen of the City of Concordia, Missouri.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5)
days at twenty degrees Centigrade (20°C), expressed in milligrams
per liter (mg/l).
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 (5) feet (1.5 meters) outside the inner face
of the building wall.
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and
sale of produce.
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes,
trade or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other
body of surface or ground water.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
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 one-half (½) inch
(1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights and is controlled by public authority.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface
and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, together
with such ground, surface and storm waters as may be present.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
sewage.
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
Is mandatory; MAY — Is permissive.
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 fifteen (15) minutes more than
five (5) times the average twenty-four (24) hour concentration or
flows during normal operation.
A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage
but excludes sewage and industrial wastes other than unpolluted cooling
water.
The Water/Sewer Plant Superintendent and/or authorized representative
of the City of Concordia or his/her authorized deputy, agent or representative.
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.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs either continuously
or intermittently.
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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 City of Concordia, or in any area under the jurisdiction
of said City, any human or animal excrement, garbage, or other objectionable
waste.
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It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet or watercourse
within the City of Concordia, or in any area under the jurisdiction
of said City, any sewage or other polluted waters, except where suitable
treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions
of this Chapter.
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Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful to construct
or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool, or other
facility intended or used for the disposal of sewage.
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The owner of all houses, buildings or properties used for human
employment, recreation, or other purposes situated within the City
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 City is hereby required at his/her expense to install suitable
toilet facilities therein and to connect such facilities directly
with the public sanitary sewer in accordance with the provisions of
this Chapter, within ninety (90) days after date of official notice
to do so, provided that said public sanitary sewer is within one hundred
(100) feet of the structure being served provided such connection
can be accomplished by gravity flow.
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Application for sewerage services shall be made to the Clerk or other persons designated by the Board of Aldermen by the owner or occupant of the property to be served. Upon the approval of such application, the applicant shall have the right to connect with the City sewerage, all costs of such connection to be borne by the applicant. The connection charges established in Chapter 150, Table A of Title I (Sewer Connection Fee) of this Code shall be paid to the City Clerk at the time application is made for sewer service, and no connections to the sewer system of the City shall be made until the charge shall be paid in full.
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A.
The
Board of Aldermen of this City is hereby authorized to enter into
agreements with private persons, firms, corporations or partnerships
for the construction of private sewer lines to the lines owned by
the City and for the City to reimburse the person, firm or corporation
who built same under the following terms and conditions, to wit:
1.
Any person, firm or corporation desiring to construct, erect or build
a sewer line to serve any property not now being served by the main
sewer lines of the City of Concordia, Missouri, shall submit to the
City of Concordia at the time of submission of plans and specifications
for the erection of a building, the determined plans and specifications
for the construction of a private sewer line to be constructed and
built in the streets, alleys or rights-of-way of said City; and upon
paying a deposit as may be directed by the City Clerk in order to
reimburse the City for any necessary expenses to have said plans approved
by the City Engineer.
2.
Upon submission of said plans and approval of same by the City Engineer,
the City then shall grant to the person, firm or corporation submitting
said plans through the City Clerk a permit to erect and build the
sewer line and connect same to the main sewer system of the City of
Concordia, Missouri.
3.
The permit shall include a provision that the total cost and payment
for the sewer line shall be at the expense of the person, firm or
corporation requesting said permit and shall provide for an inspection
and approval of the City prior to the time the line is used and finally
connected to the sewer system of the City; by this it is meant that
any person, firm or corporation who constructs same during all phases
of construction must obtain the approval of either the City Engineer
or the Superintendent.
4.
The Board of Aldermen is further authorized to have the City employees
construct said line for such person, firm or corporation provided
that the City shall be reimbursed for the total cost of same, including
material, labor and any and all other necessary expenses.
5.
The City reserves the right to purchase said line at any time not
to exceed the cost of same less any amounts received by the owner
or owners thereof that they may have charged any other person for
the right and privilege of connecting on said line, regardless of
whether said other person, firm or corporation has in fact connected
on the private line. The City reserves the right to require from the
owner of said line at the time of the purchase price an affidavit
by the owner stating the amounts, if any, received from any other
person who has connected on said line.
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A.
Any applicant, person, firm or corporation desiring the City to furnish sewer service shall pay for the services provided by the City based on their use of the treatment works as determined by water meter(s) acceptable to the City, as determined by Chapter 715, User Charge System with reference to Appendix A of this Chapter, which is on file in the City offices.
B.
The applicant shall pay the cost of all lines required to connect with the main belonging to the City and shall do such connection pursuant to Article VI. Discharge Limits.
C.
The
applicant shall grant the City the right to enter upon such premises
at any and all reasonable times.
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No unauthorized person shall 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. Offense
of this Section shall be prosecuted under provisions of Section 210.290
of this Code.
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The Superintendent and other duly authorized employees of the
City bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted
to enter all properties for the purposes of inspection, observation,
measurement, sampling and testing in accordance with the provisions
of this Article. The Inspector or his representatives shall have no
authority to inquire into any processes including metallurgical, chemical,
oil, refining, ceramic, 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.
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While performing the necessary work on private properties described above, the Superintendent or duly authorized employees of the City shall observe all safety rules applicable to the premises established by the company and the company shall be held harmless for injury or death to the City employees and the City shall indemnify the company against loss or damage to its property by City employees and against liability claims and demands for personal injury or property damage asserted against the company and growing out of the gauging and sampling operation, except as such may be caused by negligence or failure of the company to maintain safe conditions as required in Section 710.730 of this Chapter.
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The Superintendent and other duly authorized employees of the
City bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted
to enter all private properties through which the City holds a duly
negotiated easement for the purposes of, but not limited to, inspection,
observation, measurement, sampling, repair and maintenance of any
portion of the sewage works lying within said easement. All entry
and subsequent work, if any, on said easement shall be done in full
accordance with the terms of the duly negotiated easement pertaining
to the private property involved.
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Any person found to be violating any provision of this Chapter, except tampering, as defined earlier in Section 710.090, shall be served by the City 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.
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Any person who shall continue any violation beyond the time limit provided for in the "Notice of Violation" in Section 710.130 above shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be fined in the amount not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each violation. Each twenty-four (24) hour period in which any such violation shall continue shall be deemed a separate offense. Any person violating any of the provisions of this Chapter shall become liable to the City for any expense, loss or damage occasioned the City by reason of such violation.
