[Code 1974 §585.010; CC 1984 §29-21; Ord. No. 3-23F §1, 10-19-1992; Ord. No. 3-35 §§1, 2, 4-17-1993]
As used in this Article, the following words and phrases shall
have the meanings respectively ascribed to them:
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5)
days at twenty degrees Celsius (20°C), expressed in milligrams
per liter.
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 total suspended matter that floats on the surface of,
or is suspended in, water, wastewater, or other liquid, and that is
removable by laboratory filtering.
[Ord. No. 3-66 §1, 5-9-2013]
[Code 1974 §215.010(E)(I); CC 1984 §29-22]
No person shall suffer any filth or unclean or stagnant water
or any foul or nauseous liquid or foul or nauseous substance of any
kind whatever to escape from his/her premises through any drainpipe
or spout, into or upon any adjacent ground or into any street, alley,
thoroughfare, gutter, pavement, sidewalk or other public place to
the injury, annoyance, inconvenience or danger to the health or safety
of the public.
[1]
Editor's Note — Ord. no. 15-1 G §1, adopted June
20, 2005, repealed sections 710.030 "use of public sewers required"
and 710.040 "private wastewater disposal" in their entirety. Former
sections 710.030 — 710.040 derived from Code 1974 §§585.020
— 585.030; CC 1984 §§29-23 — 29-24. At the editor's
discretion, these sections have been reserved for the city's future
use.
[Code 1974 §585.040; CC 1984 §29-25; Ord. No. 3-35 §§1, 2, 4-17-1993; Ord. No. 15-1G §1, 6-20-2005; Ord. No. 15-10K §1, 6-23-2009]
A.
Permit. No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any connections
with or opening into, use, alter or disturb any public sewer or appurtenance
thereof without first obtaining a written permit from the Building
Inspector.
B.
Classification Of Permits. There shall be two (2) classes
of building sewer permits:
1.
For residential and commercial service; and
2.
For service to establishments producing industrial wastes, refer to Article III, Discharge Restrictions and General Pretreatment Regulations for additional requirements for industrial wastewater.
[Ord. No. 3-66 §2, 5-9-2013]
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In either case, the owner or his/her agent shall make application
on a special form furnished by the City. The permit application shall
be supplemented by any plans, specifications or other information
considered pertinent in the judgment of the Building Inspector. A
permit and inspection fee of fifty dollars ($50.00) for a residential
or commercial building sewer permit and fifty dollars ($50.00) for
an industrial building sewer permit shall be paid to the City at the
time the application is filed.
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C.
through
K. (Reserved)
L.
Installation Of Extendable Backflow Valve. All
new or replacement building sewer installations shall include an extendable
backflow valve when any of the following exist:
1.
When the building sewer installation is in conjunction with a residential
or commercial structure with a below grade floor level basement or
similar space.
2.
When in the opinion of the Water and Sewer Superintendent such installation
is necessary to prevent inflow of sanitary sewer into a building.
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The extendable backflow valve will be provided by the Water
and Sewer Department. The cost of the extendable backflow valve shall
be paid to the City and shall be included in the utility estimate
fee for the project.
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The extendable backflow valve shall be installed in accordance
with the manufacturer's installation instructions, the adopted plumbing
code, and the Water and Sewer Department standards.
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Maintenance of the extendable backflow valve assembly shall
be the responsibility of the property owner.
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[CC 1984 §29-26; Ord. No. 3-35 §§1, 2, 4-17-1993]
A.
No
sewer service of the City shall hereafter be extended or made available
to any area outside the City limits not now using any such service
until the area is duly annexed by the City and thereby comes within
the City limits or agrees to future annexation.
B.
Notwithstanding Subsection (A) of this Section, any political subdivision or school district organized and existing under the laws of the United States or the State, and being adjacent to the corporate limits of the City as the same now exist or may hereafter exist, may connect its sanitary sewers to the sewerage system of the City upon application to and approval by the City Council, upon the following terms and conditions:
1.
Any such political subdivision or school district shall present with
its application the detailed plans and specifications of the sewerage
system proposed to be constructed upon its premises and from its premises
to a point connecting with the existing sewerage system of the City
as may be designated by the City Engineer, and the political subdivision
or school district shall agree that it shall pay all costs and expenses
in connection with the acquisition of easements, if necessary, and
the construction of the proposed sewerage system upon its premises
and from its premises to the point of connection with the existing
sewerage system of the City.
2.
Before any such political subdivision or school district shall connect
its sanitary sewer to the existing sewerage system of the City, the
plumbing and any building or improvement to be connected shall be
inspected and approved by the Building Inspector.
3.
Any such political subdivision or school district upon approval by
the City Council as hereinabove provided shall be responsible for
the construction and maintenance of any such additional sewerage system
and the payment therefor. However, the entire additional sewerage
system shall be constructed and maintained according to the plans
and specifications so approved and by requirements as may be from
time to time set forth by the City Engineer.
4.
Any such political subdivision or school district shall pay to the
City of Farmington one hundred dollars ($100.00) annually in advance
on or before September first (1st) of each year for any such sewerage
service.
5.
If any such political subdivision or school district shall fail to
comply with the terms and conditions as set forth herein or with the
rules and regulations of the City with respect to the use, operation
and maintenance of the sewerage system, or if any such political subdivision
or school district shall fail to pay the annual service charge as
provided for herein, the City Engineer is hereby directed to disconnect
the sewerage system of the political subdivision or school district
from the sewerage system of the City.
C.
Notwithstanding Subsection (A) of this Section, any residential addition, or combination of contiguous residential additions, having a total area of not less than twenty (20) acres, the plat thereof having been duly recorded in the office of the County Recorder of Deeds and being adjacent to the corporate limits of the City as the same now exists or may hereafter exist, may connect its sanitary sewers to the sewerage system of the City upon application to and approval by the City Council, upon the following terms and conditions:
1.
Any such residential addition shall present with its application
the detailed plans and specifications of the sewerage system existing
or proposed to be constructed upon its premises and from its premises
to one (1) or more points connecting with the existing sewerage system
of the City as may be designated by the City Engineer, and the owners
of any such residential addition, including all of the lots or tracts
therein, shall agree that they shall pay all costs and expenses in
connection with the acquisition of easements, if necessary, and the
construction of the proposed sewerage system upon its premises and
from its premises to the point of connection with the existing sewerage
system of the City.
2.
Before any such residential addition shall connect its sanitary sewers
to the existing sewerage system of the City, the plumbing in any building
or improvement to be connected shall be inspected and approved by
the Building Inspector.
3.
Any such residential addition upon approval by the City Council as
hereinabove provided shall be responsible for the construction and
maintenance of the additional sewerage system and the payments therefor,
however, the entire additional sewerage system shall be constructed
and maintained according to the plans and specifications so approved
and by requirements as may be from time to time set forth by the City
Engineer.
4.
If the owners of any such residential addition, or the owners of
any lot or tract therein, shall fail to comply with the terms and
conditions of the aforesaid approved additional sewerage system as
set forth herein or with the rules and regulations of the City with
respect to the use, operation and maintenance of any such sewerage
system, the City Engineer is hereby directed to disconnect the sewerage
system of any such owners of any such residential addition or any
lot or tract therein.
D.
Notwithstanding Subsection (A) of this Section, any industry or business employing twenty-five (25) or more persons, and being adjacent to the corporate limits of the City as the same now exist or may hereafter exist, may connect its sanitary sewers to the sewerage system of the City upon application to and approval by the City Council, upon the following terms and conditions:
1.
Any such industry or business shall present with its application
the detailed plans and specifications of the sewerage system proposed
to be constructed upon its premises and from its premises to a point
connecting with the existing sewerage system of the City as may be
designated by the City Engineer, and the industry or business shall
agree that it shall pay all costs and expenses in connection with
the acquisition of easements, if necessary, and the construction of
the proposed sewerage system upon its premises and from its premises
to the point of connection with the existing sewerage system of the
City.
2.
Before any such industry or business shall connect its sanitary sewer
to the existing sewerage system of the City, the plumbing and any
building or improvement to be connected shall be inspected and approved
by the Building Inspector.
3.
Any such industry or business upon approval by the City Council as
hereinabove provided shall be responsible for the construction and
maintenance of the additional sewerage system and the payment therefor,
however, the entire additional sewerage system shall be constructed
and maintained according to the plans and specifications so approved
and by requirements as may be from time to time set forth by the City
Engineer.
4.
Any such industry or business shall pay to the City of Farmington
a sewerage service charge of the rate then in effect for non-resident,
industrial or business uses.
5.
If any such industry or business shall fail to comply with the terms
and conditions as set forth herein or with the rules and regulations
of the City with respect to the use, operation and maintenance of
any sewerage system, or if any such industry or business shall fail
to pay the annual service charge as provided for herein, the City
Engineer is hereby directed to disconnect the sewerage system of the
industry or business.
[1]
Editor's Note — Reference to city collector has been
changed to "City of Farmington" at the direction of the city in Supp.
#3, 4-2011.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former Section 710.070, Discharge Restrictions
in Use of Public Sewer, which derived from Code 1974 §585.050;
CC 1984 §29-27; Ord. No. 3-23F §2, 10-19-1992, was repealed
5-9-2013 by §3 of Ord. No. 3-66.
[Ord. No. 3-23F §3, 10-19-1992]
A.
Wastewater discharged to the sewage system from commercial or industrial users shall be subject to an extra strength charge when the BOD or suspended solids concentration exceeds three hundred (300) milligrams per liter (mg/l) by weight and oil and grease concentration exceeds one hundred (100) milligrams per liter (mg/l) by weight. All analyses shall be performed on composite samples collected at no less than hourly intervals over a twenty-four (24) hour period. Extra strength charges shall be calculated based on one hundred percent (100%) of metered water use, except as otherwise provided in Section 705.040, in accordance with the following formula:
[Ord. No. 3-89, 7-13-2023]
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[S = Vs x 0.00624 x ($0.10 (BOD -300 + $0.08 (SS-300) + $0.16
(O&G - 100)]
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Where:
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Surcharge in dollars monthly.
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Vs
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Sewage volume in one hundred (100) cubic feet per month.
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.00624
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Conversion factor for one hundred (100) cubic feet to million
pounds.
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$0.40
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Unit charge for BOD in dollars per pound.
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BOD
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BOD strength index in mg/l by weight.
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300
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Allowed BOD and suspended solids strengths in mg/l by weight.
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$0.64
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Unit charge for oil and grease in dollars per pound.
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O & G
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Oil and grease strength index in mg/l by weight.
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Unit charge for suspended solids in dollars per pound.
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Suspended solids strength index in mg/l by weight.
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This extra strength charge is in addition to those charges imposed by Section 710.110 of this Chapter.
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The City may use COD data correlated to BOD data for the purposes
of determining the BOD surcharge. Surcharges shall be based on monthly
average data; in the absence of analytical results for a month then
the most recent analytical result will be carried through until new
data is collected. Data shall be representative of the discharge and
may be from either the non-domestic discharger or collected by City
personnel; the collection and analysis shall follow 40 CFR 136 Procedures.
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B.
Monitoring Charge. When regulations as set forth by Federal,
State and City require monitoring of the waste from a commercial or
industrial user whether for strength calculations or for national
pollutant discharge elimination system compliance, that user shall
pay a monitoring charge. The monitoring charge shall consist of all
costs for personnel, material and equipment used to collect and analyze
samples from the user's sewage. The exact charge shall be based on
actual costs and shall be determined by the City.
C.
Toxic Pollutant Charge. Any user which discharges any toxic
pollutants which cause an increase in the cost of managing effluent
or sludge from the City's treatment system shall pay for such increased
costs.
[Ord. No. 3-23F §4, 10-19-1992]
A.
The amount of sewage discharged to the sewage system of the City shall be determined by the quantity of water metered to the user. In the case of a single user whose water usage is measured by several meters, the total water usage for all the meters shall be the basis on which sewer service charges are computed and not on the basis of each separate meter reading. Each person from whose property or premises sewage in any quantity is discharged into the sewage system of the City but whose water usage is not metered, is hereby required to meter, at its source, at their own expense, the quantity of water used, with an appropriate meter to be approved by the City, and to pay a monthly sewer charge based upon the amount of water thus metered, to be computed in like manner as provided in Section 710.073.
B.
If
a commercial or industrial user desires to establish eligibility for
a sewage service volume base of less than one hundred percent (100%)
of monthly water usage he/she may at his/her sole expense:
1.
Install a sewage meter acceptable to the City to measure the volume of liquid actually discharged into the sewage system from his/her premises. Such meter shall be maintained and calibrated by the user and the readings from the meter shall be taken at least once monthly and shall be provided to the City on a monthly basis. In the event a sewage meter is installed, the rate schedule as set forth in Section 710.073 shall be applied to:
2.
In lieu of a sewage meter the user may install auxiliary water meter(s)
to measure that portion of water used which is diverted from entering
the sewage system. In the event an auxiliary water meter is installed
the volume of water metered by such meter(s) shall be deducted from
the total volume of water usage before the sewer service rate schedule
is applied.
C.
No
refunds, allowances or reductions from the one hundred percent (100%)
water use base will be granted commercial or industrial users for
any time period prior to approval of a sewage metering or diverted
water metering system.
[Ord. No. 3-23F §5, 10-19-1992]
A.
The
City will perform analyses at intervals no greater than twelve (12)
months to determine the strength of sewage discharged by commercial
and industrial users.
B.
If
any industrial or commercial user chooses not to accept the analytical
determination made by the City they may at their sole expense employ
an independent laboratory, acceptable to the City, to conduct sampling
and analysis of their sewage. The time period and location for the
collection of the samples shall be designated by the City. The City
and the independent laboratory shall both preside over the collection
of the samples and shall equally divide the final composite so that
duplicate analysis may be made.
C.
If
results of the analyses of the sewage sample made by both the City
and the independent laboratory are not comparable, the City may appoint
a second (2nd) independent laboratory to analyze the sewage. The sampling
procedures used will be the same as those outlined above. The results
of these analyses together with the previous results shall be used
to determine the actual extra strength charges. The fee for the second
(2nd) independent laboratory analysis shall be shared equally between
the City and the user.
D.
If
any industrial or commercial user improves the quality of their discharged
sewage, the City will reevaluate the strength of the sewage if requested
to do so by the user. The user will pay an additional monitoring charge
for the necessary sampling and analysis.
E.
The
City shall have the right to enter into all premises served by the
sewage system of the City, for the purpose of inspecting, reading
or otherwise examining all meters and appurtenances involved in the
recording of water received on the premises or sewage discharged therefrom,
or to collect samples for analysis of sewage discharged therefrom.
If the City is denied entry to any such premises it may disconnect
sewer services for such premises from the City's sewage system.
[Code 1974 §585.060; CC 1984 §29-28; Ord. No. 3-35 §§1, 2, 4-17-1993]
No unauthorized person shall maliciously, willfully or negligently
break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface or tamper with any structure,
appurtenance or equipment which is part of the wastewater facilities.
Any person violating this provision shall be guilty of an ordinance
violation for destruction of public property and shall be subject
to a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) and not more
than five hundred dollars ($500.00) together with restitution in an
amount sufficient to pay for the damage.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former Section 710.090, Powers and Authority
of Inspectors, which derived from Code 1974 §585.070; CC 1984
§29-29, was repealed 5-9-2013 by §4 of Ord. No. 3-66.
[Code 1974 §585.080; CC 1984 §29-30]
A.
Any person found to be violating any provision of this Article except Section 710.080 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 any such notice, permanently cease all violations.
B.
Any person who shall continue any violation beyond the time limit provided for in Subsection (A), shall be guilty of an ordinance violation. Each twenty-four (24) hour period in which any such violation shall continue shall be deemed a separate ordinance violation.
C.
In
cases of repeated violations the Building Inspector may revoke the
offender's permit for the discharge of waste into the sewerage system
and effect the discontinuation of the sewerage service.
D.
Any
person violating any of the provisions of this Article shall become
liable to the City for any expense, loss or damage occasioned the
City by reason of such violation.
