[Code 1991, § 18-76]
The Director of Public Works is authorized and directed to promulgate regulations governing the means and methods of disposing sewage into the City's sanitary and sewer system. Such regulations shall be duly published by the Director of Public Works in the water and wastewater rules and regulations.
[Code 1991, § 18-78]
It shall be unlawful for any person to injure, break, or remove any portion of a manhole, or any part of the public sewer system. Any person violating this section shall be responsible for the cost of repairing the damage done, in addition to any fine that may be imposed.
[Code 1991, § 18-79]
It shall be unlawful for any unauthorized person to remove the cover of any manhole or other opening into a sewer or drain.
[Code 1991, § 18-80]
It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit any of the following waste materials into any City sewer:
A. 
Liquid or vapor having a temperature higher than 150° F.
B. 
Water or waste which contains more than 100 parts per million by weight of fat, oil, or grease, exclusive of soap.
C. 
Gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil, or other flammable or explosive liquid, solid, or gas.
D. 
Garbage, debris, or material that has particles greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
E. 
Ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags, feathers, tar, plastics, wood, or other substance of physical, chemical or biological characteristics capable of causing obstruction to the flow in sewers or other interference with the proper operation of or injury to the sewage works.
F. 
Roof or surface drainage.
G. 
Subsoil drainage.
H. 
Waste from any industrial, septic, or other waste haulers at any location in the sewer collection system or treatment facility.
[Code 1991, § 18-81]
A. 
All sewage shall be drained off and disposed of through the proper receptacles into the sanitary sewer. Sewage, for the purpose of this section, shall be held to include water, human excrement, and liquid refuse that should be properly disposed of through the sanitary sewers of the City, but shall not include rainwater drainage or soil drainage.
B. 
Any person discharging sewage or wastewater having characteristics differing from domestic sewage shall pretreat such sewage or wastewater prior to its entry into the City's sewer system, as required by the water and wastewater rules and regulations.
[Code 1991, § 18-82]
A. 
The City Council shall, from time to time, establish sanitary sewer service initiation fees by resolution or ordinance. Such initiation fees shall be duly published by the Director of Public Works in the water and wastewater rates and charges.
B. 
Requests for new or altered sanitary sewer service shall only be accepted and processed by the department of building and development services when filed in conjunction with building permit applications.
C. 
Any person applying for a building permit to construct, enlarge, alter, renovate or remodel any structure shall make application for new or altered sanitary sewer service to the Director of Building and Development Services.
D. 
Based upon the information supplied by the applicant and the initiation fees set forth in the water and wastewater rates and charges, the Director of Building and Development Services shall determine what sanitary sewer initiation fees are due for the premises. Such fees shall be paid by the applicant to the City Treasurer upon application for a building permit.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Per the City's request, references to "Department of Code Compliance" have been replaced with "Department of Building and Development Services."
[Code 1991, § 18-83]
A. 
The City Council shall, from time to time, establish sewer rates and charges by resolution or ordinance. Such rates and charges shall apply to all persons who discharge sewage or industrial waste into the sanitary sewer system of the City. The rates and charges shall be duly published by the Director of Public Works in the water and wastewater rates and charges.
B. 
The City Manager or his designee shall periodically issue bills to all persons receiving sewer service. Such bills shall be issued in accordance with the rates and charges established by the City Council and published in the water and wastewater rates and charges.
[Code 1991, § 18-84; Ord. No. 08-17, 6-10-2008]
A. 
No septic tank shall be constructed or maintained within the City limits except with a permit granted by the City Manager, upon the recommendation of the Health Officer. Such septic tank shall be installed and maintained in conformity with specifications laid down by the Health Officer according to the rules and regulations of the state board of health. All septic tanks and other on-site sewage treatment systems not requiring a Virginia Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (VPDES) permit shall have pump-out accomplished at least once every five years, in accordance with a schedule and regulations to be established by the Director of Building and Development Services.
B. 
For new construction within a Chesapeake Bay Preservation Area, the applicant shall provide a reserve sewage disposal site with a capacity at least equal to that of the primary sewage disposal site. This reserve sewage disposal site requirement shall not apply to any lot or parcel recorded prior to October 1, 1989, if the lot or parcel is not sufficient in capacity to accommodate a reserve sewage disposal site, as determined by the local Health Department. Building shall be prohibited on the area of all sewage disposal sites until the structure is served by public sewer or an on-site sewage treatment system which operates under a VPDES permit.
C. 
As an alternative to the 100% reserve sewage disposal site, owners of such systems may use the option of installing an alternating drainfield system provided the following conditions are met:
(1) 
Each of the two alternating drainfields in the system shall have, at a minimum, an area not less than 50% of the area that would otherwise be required if a single primary drainfield were constructed.
(2) 
An area equaling 50% of the area that would otherwise be required for the primary drainfield site must be reserved for subsurface absorption systems that utilize a flow diversion device, in order to provide for future replacement or repair to meet the requirements for a sewage disposal system. Expansion of the primary system will require an expansion of this reserve area.
(3) 
The two alternating drainfields shall be connected by a diversion valve, approved by the local Health Department, located in the pipe between the septic (aerobic) tank and the distribution boxes. The diversion valve shall be used to alternate the direction of effluent flow to one drainfield or the other at a time. However, diversion valves shall not be used for the following types of treatment systems:
(a) 
Sand mounds;
(b) 
Low-pressure distribution systems;
(c) 
Repair situations when installation of a valve is not feasible; and
(d) 
Any other approved system for which the use of a valve would adversely affect the design of the system, as determined by the local Health Department.
(4) 
The diversion valve shall be a three-port, two-way valve of approved materials (i.e., resistant to sewage and leakproof and designed so that the effluent from the tank can be directed to flow into either one of the two distribution boxes).
(5) 
There shall be a conduit from the top of the valve to the ground surface with an appropriate cover to be level with or above the ground surface.
(6) 
The valve shall not be located in driveways, recreational courts, parking lots, or beneath sheds or other structures.
(7) 
In lieu of the aforementioned diversion valve, any device that can be designed and constructed to conveniently direct the flow of effluent from the tank into either one of the two distribution boxes may be approved if plans are submitted to the local Health Department and found to be satisfactory.
(8) 
The owner(s) shall alternate the drainfields every 12 months to permit the yearly resting of half of the absorption system.
(9) 
The department of building and development services shall notify the owner(s) annually of the requirement to switch the valve to the opposite drainfield.