[Ord. No. 1356 § 1, 3-30-1987; Ord. No. 1625 § 1, 6-17-1991]
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of the terms used in this Division shall be as follows:
Biochemical Oxygen Demand, or the quantity of oxygen utilized
in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory
procedure in five (5) days at twenty degrees (20°) centigrade,
expressed in milligrams per liter.
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 three (3) feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
The extension from the building drain to the public sewerage
system or other place of disposal.
That portion of the total charges for sewage service which
are levied for local capital costs, local investment in plant facilities
and other local costs excluding operation, maintenance and replacement
costs.
The City of Centralia, Missouri.
Any sewer receiving both stormwater and sewage.
The liquid or water-carried wastes from commercial establishments
or those concerns engaged in buying, selling or exchanging of goods
or services.
The City Administrator of the City of Centralia, Missouri
or his authorized deputy, agent or representative, as appointed by
the Board of Aldermen of the City of Centralia, Missouri.
The waste from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of
food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
Includes every means of disposing of industrial, commercial,
household, domestic or other water-carried waste or sewage, other
than a public sanitary sewerage system.
The liquid or water-carried wastes from industrial processes
as distinct from sanitary sewage.
The extension of the building drain to the public sewerage
system or other place of disposal, also called "building sewer".
Milligrams per liter.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface or groundwater.
Wastewater that has a BOD concentration of not more than
250 mg/l and a suspended solids concentration of not more than 300
mg/l.
All expenditures during the useful life of the treatment
works for materials, labor, utilities, and other items which are necessary
for managing and maintaining the sewage works to achieve the capacity
and performance for which such works were designed and constructed.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen ion concentration
in grams per liter of solution.
Garbage that has been shredded to such a degree that all
particles shall be carried freely under the flow conditions normally
prevailing in the public sanitary sewer, with no particle larger than
one-half (1/2) inch in any dimension.
A sewer line and/or treatment unit that is controlled by
the City.
Expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories,
or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the
treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which
such works were designed and constructed. The term "operating and
maintenance" includes replacement.
Any contributor to the City's treatment works whose lot,
parcel of real estate, or building is used for domestic dwelling purposes
only.
The liquid or water-carried waste discharged from the sanitary
conveniences of dwellings, including apartment houses and hotels,
office buildings, factories or institutions.
A sewer line to which stormwaters are not intentionally admitted.
Any liquid or water-carried waste from residences, business
buildings, institutions, laboratories, and industrial and commercial
establishments, together with such stormwater as may be present.
The total monthly charge for sewage service based upon the
amount and strength of sewage determined to be discharged into the
sewage system of the City.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
The complete sewerage system of the City and shall be construed
to include all treatment plants, works, pumps, valves, mains and lateral
sewers, instrumentalities and properties, now or hereafter existing,
used or useful, in connection with the collecting, pumping, disposal
and treatment of wastewater, as now or hereafter added to, expanded
or improved.
The word "shall" is mandatory; the word "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 flow during normal operation.
The examination and analytical procedures set forth in the
most recent edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water
and Wastewater", published jointly by the American Public Health Association,
the American Waterworks Association and the Water Pollution Control
Federation.
Any drain or sewer, either natural or artificial, which is
intended expressly for the conveyance of stormwater and uncontaminated
industrial wastes.
That part of precipitation which reaches the sewers as runoff
from the natural land surface, building roofs, or pavement, or as
groundwater infiltration.
The assessment in addition to the service charge which is
levied on those persons whose wastes are greater in strength than
the concentration values established as representative of normal sewage.
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 in accordance with standard laboratory procedure.
Any pollutants, gaseous, liquid or solid, which when discharged
into the sewage system may tend to interfere with any waste treatment
process or to constitute a hazard to human beings or animals, or to
inhibit aquatic life or to create a hazard to recreation in the receiving
water of the effluent from the sewage treatment plant.
Any devices and systems for the transporting, storage, treatment,
recycling, and reclamation of municipal sewage, domestic sewage, or
liquid industrial waste. These include intercepting sewers, outfall
sewers, sewage collection systems, individual systems, pumping, power,
and other equipment and their appurtenances; extension improvement,
remodeling, additions and alterations thereof; elements essential
to provide a reliable recycle supply, such as standby treatment units
and clear well facilities; and any works, including site acquisition
of the land that will be an integral part of the treatment process
or is used for ultimate disposal of residues resulting from such treatment
(including land for composting sludge, temporary storage of such compost,
and land used for the storage of treated wastewater in land treatment
systems before land application); or any other method or system for
preventing, abating, reducing, storing, treating, separating, or disposing
of municipal waste or industrial waste, including waste in combined
stormwater and sanitary sewer mains.
Wastewater which has not come into contact with any substance
used in or incidental to industrial processing operations and to which
no chemical or other substance has been added.
The estimated period during which a treatment works will
be operated.
That portion of the total charges for sewage service which
are levied in a proportional and adequate manner for the cost of operation,
maintenance and replacement of the sewage system and is also called
"sewage service charge".
Shall mean and include commercial wastes, industrial wastes,
sanitary sewage and uncontaminated industrial wastes.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
wastewater.
An open, natural channel in which a flow of water occurs
either continuously or intermittently.
A water volume measuring and recording device, furnished
and/or installed by the City or furnish and/or installed by a user
and approved by the City.
[Ord. No. 1356 § 1, 3-30-1987]
The standards and regulations established in this Division are
deemed to be consistent with the preservation of the public health
and safety and to fulfill the obligation of the City with respect
to State and Federal law and all rules and regulations adopted pursuant
thereto. The discharge into any sewer in the City of any substance
which exceeds the limitation set forth in this Article or in any manner
fails to conform to this Article is hereby declared to be a public
nuisance and a violation of this Code. Any waste discharge to an open
watercourse by a commercial, industrial or other entity that is regulated
by or under order of an agency of the State of Missouri will be exempt
from the provision of this Article, if such regulations or orders
are being met.
[Ord. No. 1356 § 1, 3-30-1987]
A.Â
The owner of any house, building or property, used for human occupancy,
business, 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
sewerage system of the City is hereby required at his expense to install
suitable toilet facilities therein, and to connect such facilities
directly with the proper public sewerage system in accordance with
the provisions of this Article, within ninety (90) days after date
of official notice to do so, provided that such public sewerage system
is within one hundred (100) feet of the property line. When a public
sewerage system becomes available, the building sewer shall be connected
to such system within sixty (60) days.
B.Â
At such time as a public sewerage system becomes available to a property
served by a private sewage disposal system, a direct connection shall
be made to the public sewer in compliance with this Division, and
any septic tanks, cesspools and similar private sewage disposal facilities
determined not reusable by the City shall be pumped out and filled
with granular and/or clay soil material to the satisfaction of the
City Administrator.
C.Â
The connection of the building sewer into the public sewerage system
shall conform to the building and plumbing regulation of the City
or the procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the American
Society for Testing and Materials and Water Pollution Control Federation
Manual of Practice No. 9. All connections shall be made gas tight
and water tight. Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and
materials must be approved by the City Administrator before installation.
D.Â
Where a public sanitary sewer is not available under the provisions
of this Section, the building sewer shall be connected to a private
sewage disposal system complying with the provisions of this Division.
E.Â
The City shall have the right to refuse any person the right to connect
to the sewage disposal system if, in the judgement of the Board of
Aldermen, it is for the best interest of the City to do so. In that
situation the person shall have the right to construct his own private
system in compliance with applicable Federal, State and local laws.
[Ord. No. 1356 § 1, 3-30-1987]
Water or sewer pipes leaving buildings shall be three (3) feet
under the surface of the ground, where possible. Every connection
with the City sewer system shall be made at the "Y", if any, located
in the City sewer, and which is provided for that property; except,
the cases where the designated "Y", is not located within three (3)
feet of the designated point furnished by the City.
[Ord. No. 1356 § 1, 3-30-1987]
A.Â
No person shall keep or maintain or allow to be kept or maintained
any private privy, septic tank or lagoon on any premises under his
control in the City where sanitary sewerage service is furnished to
the premises.
B.Â
Any person who violates any provision of this Section shall, upon
conviction, be punished by a fine of not more than two hundred dollars
($200.00) and the costs of prosecution or by imprisonment for a term
not to exceed thirty (30) days, or both.
[Ord. No. 1356 § 1, 3-30-1987]
No owner of any property abutting, adjacent to or along the
line of a sanitary sewerage system shall connect, directly or indirectly,
any pipes from roofs, eavetroughs, interior or exterior footings or
other places to permit surface or groundwater drainage into such system,
and all such pipes shall be connected to a storm sewer or released
to the surface.
[Ord. No. 1356 § 1, 3-30-1987]
A.Â
Except as otherwise specifically provided, no person shall discharge
or cause to be discharged any of the following described matter, material
or wastes into a sanitary sewerage system:
1.Â
Any liquid or vapor having a temperature higher than one hundred
forty degrees (140°) Fahrenheit (sixty degrees, 60°, centigrade).
2.Â
Any waters or wastes which may contain more than fifty (50) mg/1
of animal or vegetable fat, oil or grease.
3.Â
Any gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil or other inflammable or
explosive liquid, solid or gas.
4.Â
Any grease, oil or other substance that will become solid or viscous
at temperatures between thirty-two degrees (32°) Fahrenheit.
5.Â
Any garbage that has not been properly shredded.
6.Â
Any mineral oil or grease, ashes, cinders, sand, mud, plastics, wood,
whole blood, paunch manure, hair, fleshings, entrails, straw, shavings,
metal, glass, rags, paper, feathers, asphalt, tar, manure or any other
solid or viscous substance capable of causing obstruction to the flow
in sewers or other interference with the proper operation of the sewerage
system.
7.Â
Any waters or wastes having a pH lower than five (5) or higher than
nine and one-half (9.5) or having any other corrosive properties capable
of causing damage or hazard to structures, equipment and personnel
of the treatment works.
8.Â
Any waste flow or batch discharge in excess of:
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Lead
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1.0 mg/1
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Copper
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0.4 mg/1 as Cu.
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Chromium
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0.5 mg/1 as total Cr.
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Cyanide
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0.1 mg/1 as CN
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Zinc
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5 mg/1 as Zn.
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Cadmium
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0.09 mg/1 as Cd.
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Aluminum
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2 mg/1 as Al.
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Phenol
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0.02 mg/1.
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Nuclear
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As per State and National regulations
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Others such as lead, arsenic, chlorine, chlorides, nickel, or
iron may be controlled by order of the Board.
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9.Â
Any discharge of phosphorous, ammonia, nitrates, sugars or other
nutrients or wastewaters containing them shall be limited to the extent
necessary to prevent adverse effect on treatment processes on the
stimulation of growths of algae, weeds and slimes which are or may
become injurious to water supply, recreational use of water, fish,
wildlife and other aquatic life.
10.Â
Any paints, oils, lacquers, thinners or solvents including any waste
containing a toxic or deleterious substance in sufficient quantity
to impair the sewage treatment process or constitute a hazard to employees
working in the sewerage system and treatment plant.
11.Â
Any noxious or malodorous gas or substance capable of creating a
public nuisance.
12.Â
Any water or wastes containing suspended solids of such character
and quantity that unusual attention or expense is required to handle
such material at a wastewater treatment unit, the final plant, or
by the sewer line maintenance personnel.
13.Â
Any excessive discoloration, such as, but not limited to, dye wastes
or any vegetable tanning solutions, or any unusual chemical oxygen
demand, chlorides, sulfates or chlorine requirements in such quantities
as to constitute a significant load on the sewage treatment works.
14.Â
Any radioactive wastes or isotopes of such half-life or concentration
as may exceed limits established by applicable State or Federal regulations.
15.Â
Wastes from any unapproved individual sewage disposal system.
16.Â
Any sludge, precipitate or congealed substance resulting from an
industrial or commercial process, or resulting from the pretreatment
of the person's wastewater or air pollutants.
[Ord. No. 1356 § 1, 3-30-1987]
It shall be a misdemeanor to do or cause to be done any of the acts listed in Section 26-77 or any of the following acts.
1.Â
To uncover the public, district, lateral or private sewers for any
purpose or to make any connection therewith, or to uncover the public
connection branches thereof, unless and until a permit has been issued
therefor.
2.Â
To install or permit to be installed any ball trap or any other trap
depending for its seal on a movable part.
[Ord. No. 1356 § 1, 3-30-1987]
A.Â
Grease, oil, and sand interceptors shall be provided for the handling
of liquid wastes containing grease or oil in excessive amounts, any
flammable wastes, sand and other harmful ingredients. All interceptors
shall be of a type and capacity approved by the City Administrator,
and shall be located so as to be readily and easily accessible for
cleaning and inspection. Grease and oil interceptors shall be constructed
of impervious materials capable of withstanding abrupt and extreme
changes in temperatures. They shall be of substantial construction,
watertight and equipped with easily removable covers which, when bolted
in place, shall be gas tight and watertight.
B.Â
Where installed, all grease, oil and sand interceptors shall be maintained
by the owner, at his expense, and in continuously efficient operation
at all times and shall be subject to inspection by the City.
[Ord. No. 1356 § 1, 3-30-1987]
A.Â
The admission into the public sanitary sewerage system of any waters
or wastes:
1.Â
Having a five (5) day biochemical oxygen demand greater than three
hundred (300) mg/1;
2.Â
Containing more than three hundred (300) mg/1 of suspended solids;
3.Â
Containing more than ten (10) mg/1 of iron as Fe;
4.Â
Containing a total phosphate content in excess of fifteen (15) mg/1
as phosphorous;
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Shall be subject to the review and approval of the Board of
Aldermen.
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[Ord. No. 1356 § 1, 3-30-1987]
It shall be unlawful for any person to pollute ground wastewater
sources by discharging sewage, human excreta or other body wastes
into any well, cistern, spring, sink hole, cave, mine shaft, tunnel,
pit, quarry or other excavation, or into any fissure or crevice leading
to underground water bearing strata.
[Ord. No. 1356 § 1, 3-30-1987]
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 Municipal sewerage
system.
[Ord. No. 1356 § 1, 3-30-1987]
The City Administrator and duly authorized employees of the
City bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted
to enter upon all properties for the purpose of inspection, observation,
measurement, sampling and testing in accordance with the provisions
of this Division. Any person who applies for or receives sewer services
from the City shall be deemed to have consented to inspections pursuant
to this Section, including entrance upon that person's property at
reasonable time to make such inspections. The City Administrator also
may require any person who applies for or receives sewer service to
file a written statement setting forth the nature of the enterprise,
the source and amount of water use, the amount of water to be discharged
with its present or expected bacterial, physical, chemical, radioactive
or other pertinent characteristics of the waste. The City Administrator
may also require any person receiving sewer service to sample, test
and file reports of the same on schedule and according to methods
approved by them. Inspector's right of inquiry shall be limited to
process which may have an effect on the sewer system.
[Ord. No. 2489 § 1, 10-15-07]
When a sewer service becomes blocked or damaged so as to allow
or cause untreated sewage to be discharged above the surface of the
ground or under a building or to otherwise not be conveyed to an approved
sewage disposal system or when an individual sewage disposal system
shall cease to properly function so as allow or cause untreated sewage
to be discharged above the surface of the ground or under a building
or to any place other than a properly functioning sewage disposal
system, the City Administrator or his designated representative shall
be authorized to direct the removal of the water meter or otherwise
disconnect the water service providing water to any residential, commercial
or industrial structure or facility served by the blocked or damaged
sewer service or the non-functioning individual sewage disposal system.
Such removal of water service may continue until the sewer service
is properly repaired or restored, inspected and approved by the City.
[Ord. No. 1356 § 1, 3-30-1987]
Any person violating any provision of this Division for which
no specific penalty is provided, shall, upon conviction, be punished
by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00), nor more
than one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each day of violation and the
costs of prosecution.
[Ord. No. 1356 § 1, 3-30-1987]
In addition to the penalties provided in this Division, the
Board of Aldermen is hereby authorized to bring any appropriate action
in the name of the City either at law or in equity, as may be necessary
or desirable, to restrain or enjoin any public nuisance and to enforce
any provision of this Article, and in general, to carry out the intent
and purpose of this Division. The Board is also hereby authorized
to recover from any person violating the provisions of this Division
all damages to the sewerage system resulting from such violation,
together with all costs incurred by the City in the treatment, cleaning
or repair of the sewerage system caused by such violation, which damages
and costs, when determined, may be assessed against the property of
the person so violating the provisions of this Article.
