[Ord. No. 12-5 §710.010, 6-11-2012]
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of terms used in this Chapter shall be as follows:
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5)
days at twenty degrees Centigrade (20° C.), expressed in parts
per million by weight.
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system
which receives the discharge from soil, waste or other drainage pipes
inside the walls of a building and conveys it to the building sewer,
beginning five (5) feet (1.5 meters) outside the inner face of the
building wall.
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
The City of Hallsville, Boone County, Missouri, or its authorized
representative.
The water discharged from any system of condensation, air-conditioning,
cooling, refrigeration or other, but shall be free from odor and oil.
It shall contain no polluting substances which would produce BOD or
suspended solids in excess of ten (10) parts per million by weight.
Those in solution and those which can be determined by laboratory
analysis.
Waterborne wastes normally discharging from the sanitary
conveniences of dwellings (including apartment houses and hotels,
office buildings, factories and institutions) free from storm surface
water and industrial wastes.
Any artificially constructed open channel, ditch, swale or
flume, whether lined or unlined, for the conveyance of stormwater
and groundwater.
Every refuse accumulation of solid animal, fruit or vegetable
matter that attends to the preparation, use, cooking, dealing in or
storing of food and from handling, storage and sale of produce.
Any treatment plant device or facility used or intended to
be used for the specific treatment of industrial wastes in which other
wastes may or may not be present.
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes,
trade or business, whose strength exceeds that as defined in "normal
sewage."
The person or persons duly authorized by the City to inspect
and approve the installation of building sewers and their connection
to the public sewer system.
Any outlet for drainage of stormwater into a watercourse,
stream, creek, river, pond, lake or other body of surface or groundwater.
Waters or wastes having a five-day biochemical oxygen demand
not greater than three hundred (300) parts per million by weight and
a concentration of suspended solids not in excess of three hundred
fifty (350) parts per million by weight.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of
foods that have been shredded to such a degree that all particles
will be carried freely under the low conditions normally prevailing
in public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half (1/2) inch
(1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.
A sewer owned and maintained by the City of Hallsville, Missouri.
Sewage discharging from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings
(including apartment houses, hotels and motels, office buildings,
factories or institutions) and free from storm and surface water and
industrial wastes.
A sewer designed and intended to receive and convey only
sewage and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally
admitted.
A device or facility for treating or disposing of sewage
and industrial wastes from a school, public building, institution,
church, hotel, motel or other building or structure not classified
as private.
The water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings
and institutional and industrial establishments, singularly or in
any combination, together with such ground, surface and storm waters
as cannot be avoided.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
sewage.
Any public, semi-private or private pipe or conduit for carrying
sewage.
Shall mean and include any or all of the following:
Sewerage systems and sewerage treatment plants, with all appurtenances
necessary, useful, and convenient for the collection, treatment, purification
and disposal in a sanitary manner of the liquid and solid waste, sewage,
and domestic and industrial waste of any such municipality; and
Shall include combined stormwater and sanitary systems.
The term shall also mean and include the construction of such
stormwater sewers as, in the judgment of the governing body of any
such City, town or village or sewer district, may be necessary or
desirable in order to relieve sewers carrying sanitary and stormwater
loads of undue loads or in order to permit the efficient operation
of any such sanitary sewers for the collection, treatment and disposal
of sewage and domestic or industrial waste including combined storms
and sanitary sewerage system.
Is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which
in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of low exceeds
for any period of duration longer than fifteen (15) minutes more than
five (5) times the average twenty-four-hour concentration of lows
during normal operations.
A sewer designed and intended to receive and convey only
storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial
wastes, other than unpolluted cooling water.
As used herein, shall mean the Superintendent of the Sewerage
Works of the City of Hallsville, Missouri, or his/her authorized deputy,
agent or representative.
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.
Any water or waste containing none of the following: free
or emulsified grease or oil; acid or alkali; phenols or other substances
imparting taste and odor in receiving water; toxic poisonous substances
in suspension, colloidal state or solution; and noxious or odorous
gases. It shall contain not more than ten (10) parts per million each
of suspended solids and BOD. The color shall not exceed fifty (50)
parts per million.
A natural surface drainage channel for stormwater and groundwater
in which a low of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
All rivers, streams, lakes and other bodies of surface or
subsurface water which are not entirely confined and retained completely
upon the property of a single individual, partnership or corporation.
[Ord. No. 12-5 §710.020, 6-11-2012]
A.
It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit or permit to
be deposited in an unsanitary manner upon public or private property
within the City, or in any area under the jurisdiction of the City,
any human or animal excrement, garbage or other objectionable waste.
B.
It shall be unlawful to discharge or deposit into any natural outlet
within the City of Hallsville, Missouri, or in any area under the
jurisdiction of said City, any sewage, industrial wastes, garbage,
polluted water or any other substance which constitutes a nuisance
or hazard to the public health or welfare, except where suitable treatment
has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions of this
Article.
C.
Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful to construct,
install or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool
or other facility intended or used for the disposal of sewage.
D.
The owner of all houses, buildings or properties used for human occupancy,
employment or recreation, or other purposes situated within the City
and abutting any street, alley or right-of-way in which there is now
located or may in the future be located a public sanitary sewer of
the City, is hereby required at his/her expense to install suitable
toilet facilities therein and to connect such facilities directly
with the proper public sewer in accordance with the provisions of
this Article within ninety (90) days after the date of official notice
to do so, provided that said public sewer is within one hundred (100)
feet of the property line.
[Ord. No. 12-5 §710.030, 6-11-2012]
A.
Where a public sanitary sewer is not available under the provisions of Section 710.020(D), the building sewer shall be connected to an approved private or semi-public sewer or sewer disposal system or sewage disposal facility complying with the provisions of this Article.
B.
Before starting construction of a private or semi-private sewage
disposal system or treatment facility, the owner shall first obtain
a written permit signed by the Superintendent. The application for
such a permit shall be made on a form furnished by the City, which
the applicant shall supplement by any plans, specifications and other
information, including the results of soil absorption tests performed
for subsoil disposal systems, as required by the Superintendent. A
permit and inspection fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) shall be
paid to the City at the time the application is filed for a private
sewage disposal and one hundred dollars ($100.00) for a semi-public
disposal.
C.
A permit for a private or semi-public disposal system shall not become
effective until the installation is complete to the satisfaction of
the Superintendent. He/she shall be allowed to inspect the work at
any stage of construction and, in any event, the applicant for the
permit shall notify the Superintendent when the work is ready for
a final inspection and before any underground portions are covered.
D.
The type, capacities, location of a private, semi-public or industrial
sewage disposal system or treatment facility shall comply with all
regulations of the Water Pollution Board of the State of Missouri
and the City of Hallsville, Missouri.
E.
At such time as a sanitary sewer becomes available to a property served by a private or semi-public sewage disposal system or treatment facility as provided in Subsection (D) hereof, a direct connection shall be made to the public sewer in compliance with this Article, and any septic tank, cesspool or similar private or semi-public sewage disposal or treatment facilities shall be abandoned and filled with a suitable material.
F.
The owner shall operate and maintain any private, semi-public or
industrial sewage disposal or treatment facilities in a satisfactory
manner at all times, at no expense to the City. Such facilities shall
be subject to inspection by the Superintendent at all times.
[Ord. No. 320 §1, 1-11-2016]
Upon installation, replacement or repair of any private sanitary
sewer service line in the City of Hallsville, Missouri, there shall
be installed as a part of such service line a flow-seal-type backflow
prevention device of approved material and design. Standards and specifications
for said backflow prevention devices shall be established by the City's
Superintendent of Public Works. These standards and specifications
shall be maintained in the office of the Hallsville City Clerk and
shall be available to the public in written form during regular business
hours.
[Ord. No. 12-5 §710.040, 6-11-2012; Ord. No. 12-5A §6, 4-8-2013]
A.
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 Superintendent.
Before a permit may be issued for excavating for plumbing in any public
street, alley or right-of-way, the person applying for such permit
shall have executed unto the City and deposited with the City Clerk
a corporate surety or other type of bond satisfactory to the City
stipulating that he/she will perform faithfully all work with due
care and skill and in accordance with the laws, rules and regulations
established under the authority of any ordinances of the City pertaining
to plumbing and/or street repair. This bond will state that the person
will indemnify and save harmless the City and the owner of the premises
against all damages, costs, expenses, outlays and claims of every
nature and kind arising out of unskillfulness or negligence on his/her
part in connection with plumbing or excavating for plumbing as prescribed
in this Article. Such bond shall remain in force and must be executed
for a period of one (1) year, except that on such expiration, it shall
remain in force as to all penalties, claims and demands that may have
accrued there under prior to such expiration.
B.
Classes Of Building Sewer Permits.
2.
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 Superintendent. A permit
and inspection fee as set forth in the Fee Schedule for a residential
or commercial or industrial building sewer permit shall be paid to
the City at the time the application is filed.
C.
All costs and expense incident to the installation and connection
of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner. The owner or the
person installing the building sewer shall indemnify the City from
any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by
the installation of the building sewer.
D.
A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided for every
building, except where one (1) building stands at the rear of another
or an interior lot and no private sewer is available or can be constructed
to the rear building through an adjoining alley, court, yard or driveway,
the building sewer from the front building may be extended to the
rear building and the whole considered as one (1) building sewer.
E.
Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings
only when they are found, on examination and test by the Superintendent,
to meet full requirements of this Article.
F.
The building sewer shall be constructed of materials and pipe and
fittings all conforming to the regulations adopted by the Public Works
Department and on file with the City Clerk at the time of construction
of the sewer.
G.
All joints and connections shall be made gastight and watertight.
Joints and jointing shall conform to the regulations adopted by the
Public Works Department and in effect and placed with the City Clerk
in writing at the time of construction of any such sewer.
H.
The size and slope of the building sewer shall be subject to the
approval of the Superintendent, but in no event shall the diameter
of the pipe be less than four (4) inches nor the slope less than one-eighth
(1/8) inch per foot. A slope of one-quarter (1/4) inch per foot shall
be used whenever practical.
I.
Whenever possible, the building sewer shall be brought to the building
at an elevation below the basement floor. The depth shall be sufficient
to afford protection from frost. All excavations shall be by open
trench methods unless otherwise authorized by the Superintendent.
Rough machine excavation for the pipe trench shall not be carried
lower than three (3) inches above the grade of the invert of the pipe
and the remainder of the excavation accomplished by hand to shape
the bottom of the trench to give full support to the lower third of
each pipe. Bell holes shall be dug to provide ample space for making
the joint and to relieve the bell of any stresses. All pipe shall
be laid true to line and grade with bell ends upstream and with all
joints fully completed. No backfill shall be placed over the completed
house service line until it has been approved by the Superintendent.
Backfill shall be carefully deposited completely under the pipe haunches
and around and over the pipe in layers not to exceed six (6) inches
in loose depth and carefully tamped until enough fill has been placed
to provide a cover of not less than one (1) foot over the top of the
pipe. Care shall be taken in this placement and compaction to cause
no vertical or lateral displacement of the pipe; the remainder of
the depth of the trench may be backfilled as approved by the Superintendent.
J.
The connection of the building sewer into the public sewer shall
be made at the wye branch designated for that property, if such branch
is available at a suitable location. Any connection not made at the
designated wye branch in the public sewer shall be made only as directed
by the Superintendent.
K.
The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the Superintendent
when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to
the public sewer. The connection shall be made only under the direction
of the Superintendent.
L.
All excavations for building sewer installation shall be adequately
guarded with barricades, lights, etc. so as to protect the public
from hazard. Streets, sidewalks, parkways and other public properties
disturbed in the course of the work shall be restored in a manner
satisfactory to the Superintendent.
M.
No person shall make connection of roof downspouts, exterior foundation
drains, areaway drains, yard drains, yard fountains, ponds, lawn sprays
or other sources of surface runoff or groundwater to a building sewer
or building drain which in turn is connected directly or indirectly
to a public sanitary sewer.
N.
No person shall make any connection to the sewer system of the City
of Hallsville, Missouri, whatsoever which results in sewage from outside
the City limits being put into the sewer without the prior written
approval of the Chairman of the Planning Commission, and the Board
of Aldermen of the City of Hallsville, Missouri, and no other officer
or employee of the City shall be authorized to grant or approve said
connection without such written approval and any such approval granted
without the two (2) written approvals herein required is null and
void.
O.
Put In Tap Fees. All persons requesting a sewer
lateral shall, prior to any work being performed thereon, pay a fee
to the City as posted at City Hall in the "Fee Schedule" from time
to time. After payment of the above-stated fee, the person desiring
the sewer lateral shall cause the sewer main to be exposed at the
location of the desired tap and a ditch therefrom to the location
of the proposed sewer lateral upon the property of the applicant to
be made, all of which excavation shall be braced and shored to ensure
the safety of all persons working within such excavation to the satisfaction
of the City. The City will supply one (1) tapping saddle and one (1)
tap. Any materials required in addition to the foregoing shall be
supplied by the City, but paid for by the applicant. Only City representatives
are authorized to install the sewer main taps. The foregoing fee for
a sewer tap does not include any excavation or dirt work. The applicant
will comply with all requests of the City that may be necessary to
safely and promptly complete the sewer line project.
P.
Removal Of Buildings. When building is removed,
demolished, etc., it shall be the responsibility of the owner to expose
the sewer line. The Superintendent of Public Works will then inspect
for approval method of sealing line.
[Ord. No. 12-5 §710.050, 6-11-2012]
A.
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any stormwater,
surface water, groundwater, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, uncontaminated
cooling water or unpolluted industrial process waters into any sanitary
sewer. Any connection, drain or arrangement which will permit any
such waters to enter any sanitary sewer shall be deemed to be a violation
of this Section and this Chapter.
B.
It shall be unlawful for any person constructing a sewer or house
or building connection or an industrial connection to a sanitary sewer
to leave such connection open, unsealed or incomplete in such a manner
that will permit storm or surface water to enter into any sanitary
sewer within the City. All such openings shall be tightly sealed at
all points whenever work is not in progress on such sewer or connection.
C.
Stormwater and all other unpolluted drainage shall be discharged
into such sewers as are specifically designated as storm sewers or
to a drainage channel or natural outlet approved by the Superintendent.
Industrial cooling water or unpolluted process water may be discharged,
on approval of the Superintendent, to a storm sewer, drainage channel
or natural outlet.
D.
No person shall deposit or throw into any sewer, sewer inlet or private
drain connecting to a public sewer any ashes, cinders, sand, mud,
straw, hay, shavings, tinners' scraps, waste, produce or material
of manufacture, rags or garbage which has not been properly shredded
or any substance which may cause an obstruction or cause a nuisance.
No dam or other obstruction shall be placed in any sewers unless permission
to do so is expressly granted by the Superintendent.
E.
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any of the following
described waters or wastes to any public sewer:
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
plant including, but not limited to, cyanides in excess of two (2)
milligrams per liter as CN in the wastes discharged to the public
sewer.
3.
Any waters or waste having a pH lower than five point five (5.5)
or having any other corrosive property capable of causing damage or
hazard to structure, equipment and personnel of the sewerage works.
4.
Solids 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, lime slurry, lime residues,
chemical residues, paint residues and paper dishes, cups, milk containers,
etc., either whole or ground by garbage grinders.
F.
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged to the public
sewers the following described substances, materials, waters or wastes,
if in the opinion of the Superintendent, such wastes can harm the
sewer, sewage treatment process or equipment, have 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
lows and velocities in the sewers, materials of construction of the
sewers, nature of the sewage treatment process, capacity of the sewers,
nature of the sewage treatment process, capacity of the sewage treatment
plant and other pertinent factors. Prohibited substances are:
1.
Any liquid or vapor having a temperature higher than one hundred
fifty degrees Fahrenheit (150° F.) (65° C.).
2.
Any water or waste containing fats, wax, grease or oils, whether
emulsified or not, in excess of one hundred (100) milligrams per liter
or containing substances which may solidify or become discernibly
viscous at temperatures between thirty-two degrees Fahrenheit (32°
F.) and one hundred fifty degrees Fahrenheit (150° F.) (0°
and 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-quarter
(3/4) horsepower (0.76 hp metric) or greater shall be subject to the
review and approval of the Superintendent.
4.
Any waters or wastes containing acid iron pickling wastes or
concentrated plating solutions, whether neutralized or not.
5.
Any noxious or malodorous substance which can form a gas, which
either singly or by interaction with other wastes is capable of causing
objectionable odors; or hazard to life or form solids in concentrations
exceeding limits established herein; or creates any other condition
deleterious to structures, treatment processes or equipment; or requires
unusual provisions, attention or expense to handle such materials.
6.
Any water or waste containing fats, wax, grease or oil, from
animal or vegetable sources, whether emulsified or not, in excess
of one hundred (100) mg/l or containing substances which may solidify
or become discernibly viscous at temperatures between thirty-two degrees
Fahrenheit (32° F.) and one hundred fifty degrees Fahrenheit (150°
F.). Any water or waste containing fats, wax, grease or oil, of mineral
origin or from petroleum sources, whether emulsified or not, in excess
of twenty (20) mg/l or containing substances which may solidify or
become discernibly viscous at temperatures between thirty-two degrees
Fahrenheit (32° F.) and one hundred fifty degrees Fahrenheit (150°
F.).
7.
Unusual biochemical oxygen demand in excess of three hundred
(300) parts per million and chemical oxygen demand in excess of four
hundred fifty (450) parts per million that will constitute a significant
load on the sewage treatment works.
8.
Any waters or wastes having a pH in excess of ten point five
(10.5).
9.
Waters or wastes containing substances which are not amenable
to treatment or reduction by the sewage treatment processes employed
or are amenable to treatment only to such degree that the sewage treatment
plant effluent cannot meet the requirements of the State, Federal
or other agencies having jurisdiction over discharge to receiving
waters.
G.
Except in quantities or concentrations or with provisions as stipulated
herein, it shall be unlawful for any person to discharge or cause
to be discharged waters or wastes to the public sewers containing:
1.
Free or emulsified oil and grease exceeding on analysis an average
of one hundred (100) parts per million (eight hundred thirty-three
[833] pounds per million gallons) of either or both or combinations
thereof, if in the opinion of the Superintendent it appears probable
that such wastes can deposit grease or oil in the sewer lines in such
a manner as to produce clogging or can have deleterious effects on
the treatment process due to the excessive quantities.
2.
Salts of heavy metals in solution or suspension in concentrations
exceeding the following, or similar objectionable or toxic substances
or wastes exerting excessive chlorine requirement to such a degree
that any such material received in the composite sewage at the sewage
treatment works exceeds the limits established by the Superintendent
for such materials:
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Chromium (Hexavalent)
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5 parts per million
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Chromium (Trivalent)
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10 parts per million
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Copper as Cu
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3 parts per million
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Iron
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15 parts per million
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Zinc as Zn
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3 parts per million
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Nickel as Ni
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3 parts per million
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Cadmium as Cd
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3 parts per million
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Lead
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0.1 parts per million
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3.
Cyanides or cyanogen compounds capable of liberating hydrocyanic
gas on acidification in excess of two (2) parts per million by weight
as CN in the wastes from any outlet into the public sewers.
4.
Materials which would exert or cause:
a.
Unusual concentration of inert suspended solid (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 biochemical oxygen demand, chemical oxygen demand or
chlorine demand in excess of thirty (30) parts per million that will
constitute a significant load on the sewage treatment works.
d.
High hydrogen sulfide content.
H.
Pretreatment Required.
1.
Unusual volume of low or concentration of wastes constituting
"slugs," as deemed herein, shall be pretreated to a concentration
acceptable to the City if such wastes can:
3.
If the Superintendent permits the pretreatment or equalization
of waste flows, the design and installation of the plants and equipment
shall be subject to the review and approval of the Superintendent
subject to the requirements of all applicable codes, ordinances and
laws.
[Ord. No. 12-5 §710.060, 6-11-2012]
A.
Persons discharging or causing to be discharged industrial wastes
which exhibit any of the prohibited wastes set out hereinbefore shall
pretreat or otherwise dispose of such industrial waste to make the
remaining waste acceptable to the Superintendent.
B.
No gasoline filling station, garage, refining plant, chemical plant,
packing house, slaughterhouse, lard-rendering establishment, dairy,
or any other establishment from which any substance would be discharged
into the sewers that would tend to obstruct or damage the sewers or
cause a nuisance or endanger the public health or safety or endanger
persons who might be in such sewers shall be connected with any public
sewer, except through grease, oil or sand interceptions. All interceptors
shall be of a type and capacity approved by the Superintendent, shall
be located as to be readily accessible for cleaning and inspection
and shall be maintained and operated in a manner acceptable to the
Superintendent.
C.
Persons discharging or causing to be discharged industrial wastes which exhibit none of the characteristics of wastes prohibited in Section 710.050 above and which in the opinion of the Superintendent constitutes excessive contribution of flow quantity to the treatment facilities shall be required to pretreat the industrial wastes and discharge an effluent of acceptable quality to other than the public sanitary sewer system if such separate sewer is available.
[Ord. No. 12-5 §710.070, 6-11-2012]
A.
In order to control the admission of industrial wastes into the public
sewer, any person, firm or corporation desiring to deposit or discharge
an industrial waste mixture into the sewer or sewerage works of the
City, or any sewer connected therewith, or who is now so doing, shall
make application to the Superintendent within one hundred twenty (120)
days from the date of passage of this Article for a permit therefor,
upon application forms to be obtained from the Superintendent.
B.
The owner of any property served by a building sewer carrying industrial
wastes shall provide and maintain in a suitable accessible location
on his/her premises, or such premises occupied by him/her, an inspection
chamber or manhole into which all wastes from drain, pipe channel
or connection which communicates with any sewer or sewerage works
of the City shall discharge unless specifically exempt in writing
by the Superintendent. Such manhole or inspection chamber shall be
of such design and construction which will facilitate observation,
sampling and measurement of the wastes and will prevent infiltration
by ground and surface waters. Such manholes shall be accessibly and
safely located, shall be constructed by the owner at his/her expense
in accordance with plans approved by the Superintendent and shall
be maintained by the owner at his/her expense.
C.
All measurements, tests and analyses of the characteristics of water
and wastes to which reference is made in this Article shall be determined
in 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 by the Superintendent,
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.
D.
Sampling of the effluent or waste discharges may be accomplished
manually or by use of mechanical equipment to obtain a composite sample
which would be representative of the total effluent. Samples shall
be taken at intervals determined by the Superintendent as necessary
to maintain a control over the discharge from the establishment. The
City shall have the right to enter and set up on company property
such devices or equipment necessary to conduct a gauging and sampling
operation and to begin such operation upon presentation of proper
identification on arrival without advance notice to the company.
[Ord. No. 12-5 §710.080, 6-11-2012]
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 sewerage works. Any
person violating this provision shall be subject to immediate arrest
under charge of disorderly conduct.
[Ord. No. 12-5 §710.090, 6-11-2012]
A.
The Superintendent and other duly authorized employees or representatives
of the City bearing proper credentials and identification shall be
permitted to enter all properties for the purpose of inspection, observation,
measurement, sampling and testing in accordance with the provisions
of this Chapter. The Superintendent or his/her representatives shall
have no authority to inquire into any processes including metallurgical,
chemical, oil, refining, ceramic, paper or other industries beyond
that point having a direct bearing on the kind and source of discharge
to the sewers or waterways or facilities for waste treatment.
B.
While performing the necessary work on private properties referred to above, the Superintendent or duly authorized employees or representatives of the City shall observe all safety rules applicable to the premises established by the company, and the company shall be held harmless for injury or death to the City employees or representatives and the City shall indemnify the company against loss or damage to its property by City employees or representatives and against liability claims and demands for personal injury or property damage asserted against the company and growing out of the gauging and sampling operation, except as such may be caused by negligence or failure of the company to maintain safe conditions as required in Section 710.070(B) above.
C.
The Superintendent or duly authorized employees or representatives
of the City bearing proper credentials and identification shall be
permitted to enter all private properties through which the City holds
duly negotiated easement for the purpose of, but not limited to, inspection,
observation, measurement, sampling, repair and maintenance of any
portion of the sewerage works lying within said easement. All entry
and subsequent work, if any, on said easement shall be done in full
accordance with the terms of the duly negotiated easement pertaining
to the private property involved.
[Ord. No. 12-5 §710.100, 6-11-2012]
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 such notice, permanently cease all violation.
B.
Any person who shall continue any violation beyond the time limit
provided for shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof
shall be summarily disconnected from the sanitary sewer, such disconnection
and reconnection to be at the total expense to the customer, or shall
be fined in the amount not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500.00)
per day for each violation, or both. Each day in which any such violation
shall continue shall be deemed a separate offense. Where acids or
chemicals damaging to sewer lines, structures or treatment processes
are released to the sewer causing rapid deterioration of these structures
or interfering with proper treatment of sewage, the Superintendent
is authorized to immediately terminate service by such measures as
are necessary to protect the facilities.
