[Ord. No. 233 Art. V §1, 1-24-1972]
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any stormwater,
surface water, ground water, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, uncontaminated
cooling water or unpolluted industrial process waters to any sanitary
sewer.
[Ord. No. 1320-2016 § 1, 12-19-2016]
A.
Restrictions And Definitions.
1.
No water from any roof, surface, ground, sump pump, footing
tile, or from any other natural precipitation source shall be discharged
into the City sanitary sewer system.
2.
Any dwelling, building or other structure which, because of
the infiltration of water into basements, crawl spaces and the like,
requires a sump pump system to discharge water, shall have a permanently-installed
discharge line which shall not at any time connect to or discharge
such stormwater into the City sanitary sewer system.
3.
A permanent installation shall be one (1) which provides for
a year-round discharge connection to the City subdrain/storm sewer
system.
4.
If there is no City subdrain/storm sewer system available to
the property, the surface discharge point shall be located no closer
than ten (10) feet from any property line, or as otherwise approved
by the director of community development or his or her designee. Such
discharge line shall consist of a rigid discharge line inside the
structure, without valving or quick connections for altering the path
of discharge and, if connected to the City subdrain/storm sewer system,
shall include a check valve.
B.
Sump, Pump, And Rigid Pipe; Method Of Installation.
1.
Any such discharge line shall consist of a pipe that shall be
installed through the outside foundation wall of the dwelling, building
or other structure, with rigid pipe (plastic, copper or galvanized)
one and one-half inches (1 1/2") (40 mm.) inside diameter minimum,
without valves or quick connections that would alter the path of discharge.
The discharge shall be directed away from the foundation wall of the
structure.
2.
No discharge shall be directed so as to impact neighboring properties
or any City street, sidewalk or right-of-way.
3.
Where a sump pit exists in any such dwelling, building or other
structure, it shall have a pump installed with rigid piping as specified
in this Section.
C.
Disconnections Ordered. Any owner of any dwelling, building, or other
structure in the City which has a roof, surface, ground, sump pump,
footing tile or other natural precipitation source that is now connected
to and/or discharging into the City sanitary sewer system, shall immediately
disconnect and/or remove the same. Any disconnects or openings in
the City sanitary sewer system shall be closed or repaired in a manner
approved by the Director of Community Development or his or her designee.
D.
Inspections.
1.
Every owner of any dwelling, building or other structure shall
allow the City Director of Community Development or his or her designee,
to gain admittance to the owner's property in order to inspect
such dwelling, building or other structure, to confirm that there
is no sump pump or other prohibited discharge from said property into
the City sanitary sewer system.
2.
The owner of any such property may meet the requirements of
this Section by contracting with a licensed plumber who is authorized
to do business in the City to perform such inspection. Such plumber
shall inspect the owner's property and the sump pump system,
and shall complete, sign and return an inspection form to the City,
documenting the results of the inspection. The inspection form shall
be furnished to the owner or the licensed plumber upon request. All
costs associated with an inspection by a licensed plumber retained
by the property owner under this Section shall be the responsibility
of the property owner.
E.
Time Limit For Owner To Allow Inspection By The City Or By A Licensed Plumber. The owner of any dwelling, building or other structure shall have a period of thirty (30) days from the date the City sends a written notice to the owner requesting admittance to the owner's property for an inspection, to either allow a City inspection of the property, or to contract with a licensed plumber to perform the inspection, and notify the City of the results thereof, as provided in Subsection (D), above. Such inspection, whether performed by the City inspector, or by the licensed plumber hired by the property owner, shall be completed within said thirty-day period.
F.
Time Limit For Disconnection Of Discharge Into City Sanitary Sewer
System.
1.
Upon completion of a City inspection of a property, or upon
the City's receipt of an inspection form from the licensed plumber
hired by the owner of the property, the City shall determine whether
any such property is improperly discharging stormwater into the City
sanitary sewer system, and shall send a notice to the property owner
regarding the results of said inspection.
2.
If the property is found to be discharging stormwater into the
City sanitary sewer system, then the owner shall have a period of
one hundred eighty (180) days from the date the City sends such written
notice to the owner, to obtain a plumbing permit, and to disconnect
the owner's sump pump or other prohibited discharge into the
City sanitary sewer system, and to request an inspection, certifying
that all work necessary to disconnect the owner's sump pump or
other prohibited discharge from said property into the City sanitary
sewer system has been completed.
3.
Owners of residential single-family dwellings shall be eligible
for up to five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) in reimbursable costs
relative to disconnection of prohibited discharge points, as a part
of the City's Inflow and Infiltration Reduction Program, subject
to funding availability, and procedural rules as may be established
by the Board of Aldermen to operate said program. In the event funds
are not available for reimbursement to a residential single-family
dwelling owner, that property shall be exempt from the time limit
provisions of this Section, until such time as funds are budgeted
by the City for said purpose.
4.
All work shall be inspected and approved by the City.
G.
Sanitary Sewer Surcharge.
1.
Except for the exemption stated in Subsection (F)(3), any owner who fails to timely comply with the requirements of either Subsection (E) or Subsection (F), shall thereupon be subject to and shall pay a monthly surcharge on the property owner's City sewer bill in the amount of one hundred dollars ($100.00) per month. Multi-family structures shall be charged fifty dollars ($50.00) per unit per month, and commercial structures shall be charged two hundred dollars ($200.00) per month.
2.
Said surcharge shall commence on the first day of the month following the expiration of the thirty-day period set for forth in Subsection (E) or the one-hundred-eighty-day period set forth in Subsection (F) as applicable, when either the property owner has failed to timely allow a City inspection or has failed to timely correct any illegal connections to the City sanitary sewer system, or has failed to contract with a licensed plumber to inspect the property and correct any illegal connections to the City sanitary sewer system. Such surcharge shall continue to be imposed on the owner's City sanitary sewer bill for as long as the property owner continues to own the property without complying with the requirements of this Section.
3.
This monthly surcharge is intended to offset the added cost
to the City associated with having the City waste water collection,
conveyance and treatment system process clear or clean water unnecessarily,
when the status of the property owner's connection or non-connection
to the City sanitary sewer system cannot be ascertained, or when the
owner has failed to timely disconnect any discharge of stormwater
to the City sanitary sewer system.
H.
Penalties And Enforcement. Any person who violates any provision
of this Section shall be subject to the penalties set forth in this
Section.
1.
If any person is found to be in violation of any of the provisions of 715.252, the City shall send written notice stating the nature of the violation, and providing the person with at least thirty (30) days to correct the violation. Any person who has received a said written notice from the City and who continues to be in violation of this Section shall be deemed to have committed a municipal infraction, and shall be subject to a civil penalty as provided in Section 100.200 of this Code. Each day that a municipal infraction occurs or is permitted to continue constitutes a separate offense.
2.
Seeking a civil penalty as authorized in this Section does not
preclude the City from also seeking alternative relief from the court
in the same action. Such alternative relief may include but is not
limited to abatement or injunctive relief.
3.
Any person who violates any of the provisions of this Section
shall be liable to the City for any expense, loss or damage incurred
by the City resulting from such violation. The City hereby also retains
any and all available civil remedies, including but not limited to
injunction or abatement actions to remedy any violation of this Section.
[Ord. No. 233 Art. V §2, 1-24-1972]
Stormwater and all other unpolluted drainage shall be discharged
to such sewer as are specifically designated as combined sewers or
storm sewers or to a natural outlet approved by the Superintendent.
Industrial cooling water or unpolluted process waters may be discharged
on approval of the Superintendent to a storm sewer, combined sewer
or natural outlet.
[Ord. No. 233 Art. V §§3
— 5, 1-24-1972]
A.
No
person shall 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
plans including, but not limited to, cyanides in excess of two (2)
mg/l as CN in the wastes as discharged to the public sewer.
3.
Any waters or wastes having a pH lower than five and five-tenths
(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 sewage 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 and fleshings, entrails and paper dishes, cups, milk
containers, etc., either whole or ground by garbage grinders.
B.
No
person shall 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, public
property or constitute a nuisance. In forming his/her 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 one hundred
fifty degrees Fahrenheit (150° F) (sixty-five degrees Celsius
(65° C).
2.
Any water or waste containing fats, wax, grease or oils, whether
emulsified or not, in excess of one hundred (100) mg/l or containing
substances which may solidify or become viscous at temperatures between
thirty-two degrees Fahrenheit (32° F) and one hundred fifty degrees
Fahrenheit (150° F) (zero (0) and sixty-five degrees Celsius 65°
C).
3.
Any garbage that has not been properly shredded. The installation
and operation of any garbage grinder equipped with a motor of three-fourths
(¾) horsepower (seventy-six hundredths (0.76) hp metric) 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, chromium, copper, zinc and
similar objectionable or toxic substances, or wastes exerting an excessive
chlorine requirement to such a degree that 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 or 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 and five-tenths
(9.5).
9.
Materials which exert or cause:
a.
Unusual concentrations of inert suspended solids (such as, but not
limited to, Fuller's earth, lime slurries and lime residues) or of
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 herein.
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 posses the characteristics enumerated in Subsection (B) of this Article and which in the judgment of the Superintendent 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:
D.
If
the Superintendent permits the pretreatment or equalization of waste
flows, the design and installation of the plans 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.
[Ord. No. 233 Art. V §6, 1-24-1972]
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.
[Ord. No. 1138-2010 §1, 5-3-2010]
Grease, oil and sand interceptors, also known as grease traps,
shall be continuously maintained in satisfactory and effective operation
by the property owner and/or business owner, and inspected and cleaned
on an annual basis at the owner's expense. A copy of said annual inspection
and/or cleaning report shall be submitted to the Water/Wastewater
Superintendent within ten (10) days of completion of the inspection
and/or cleaning.
[Ord. No. 233 Art. V §7, 1-24-1972]
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/her expense.
[Ord. No. 233 Art. V §8, 1-24-1972]
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/her expense and shall be maintained
by him/her so as to be safe and accessible at all times.
[Ord. No. 233 Art. V §9, 1-24-1972]
All measurements, tests and analyses of the characteristics
of waters and wastes to which reference is made in this Article shall
be determined by 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 said control manhole. In
the event that no special manhole has 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 sewage works and to determine the
existence of hazards to life, limb and property. (The particular analyses
involved will determine whether a twenty-four (24) hour composite
of all outfalls of a premise is appropriate or whether a grab sample
or samples should be taken. Normally, but not always, BOD and suspended
solids analyses are obtained from twenty-four (24) hour composites
of all outfalls whereas pHs are determined from periodic grab samples.)
[Ord. No. 233 Art. V §10, 1-24-1972]
No statement contained in this Article shall be construed as
preventing any special agreement or arrangement between the City and
any industrial concern whereby an industrial waste of unusual strength
or character may be accepted by the City for treatment, subject to
payment, therefore, by the industrial concern.
