The Mayor and City Council may lay, make and maintain all such
main drains or common sewers as they adjudge to be necessary for the
public convenience or the public health through any of the streets
or ways of the City, and through the lands of any person, and may
repair the same whenever it is necessary. Main drains and common sewers
so laid shall be the property of the City, and all drains and common
sewers in a street or highway shall be substantially made or repaired
with brick, stone or with such other materials and in such manner
as the Mayor and City Council may direct.
The City Council shall grant sewer connection licenses as required
by this chapter as recommended by the Director of Engineering, Commissioner
of Public Services, Public Works and also approved by the Mayor. All
work performed by the contractors will be inspected and approved or
disapproved by representatives of the Department of Public Services.
The Director of Engineering, Commissioner of Public Services,
Public Works shall, whenever any main drain or common sewer is ordered
to be built, ascertain its depth, dimensions and mode of construction,
distance from street lines and general direction, and insert the same
on plans of sewerage on file in his office. He shall from time to
time ascertain and insert on the plans the particular location of
all private drains entering into such main drain or sewer.
All main drains and sewers owned or constructed by the City,
and all property connected therewith, shall be under the care of the
Director of Engineering, Commissioner of Public Services, Public Works,
and all appropriations for sewer connections shall be expended under
the direction of such Commissioner.
No gasoline or other explosive or inflammable substance shall
be caused or allowed to enter directly or indirectly any common sewer
or other public drain.
No brine or other injurious substance shall be caused or allowed
to be emptied directly or indirectly into any public catch basin.
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings
of terms used in this article shall be as follows:
BOD (denoting BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND)
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days
at 20° C., expressed in milligrams per liter.
BUILDING DRAIN
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, which begins five feet (1.5 meters) outside the inner face
of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
DIRECTOR
The Director of Engineering, Commissioner of Public Services,
Public Works of the City, or his authorized deputy, agent, or representative.
DISTRICT
The South Essex Sewerage District.
DISTRICT SEWER
Sewer lines, appurtenances, and other works owned and operated
by the South Essex Sewerage District.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage, and
sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes,
trades, or businesses, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other
body of surface water or groundwater.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
PLUMBING INSPECTOR
The Plumbing Inspector of the Department of Municipal Inspections
of the City.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
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 1/2 inch (1.27 centimeters)
in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights, and which is controlled by public authority, or a sewer laid
in any land or way, public or private, open or proposed to be opened
for public travel.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and to which stormwater, surface
water and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, together
with such groundwater, surface water, and stormwaters as may be present.
SEWAGE WORKS
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating, and disposing
of sewage.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SLUG
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 15 minutes, more than five
times the average twenty-four-hour concentration or flows during normal
operation.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
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.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
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 sewage works.