The management, operation, and control of the sewer system for the Village is vested in the Village Board of said Village. All records, minutes and all written proceedings thereof shall be kept by the Village Clerk-Treasurer, and the financial records shall be kept by the Village Clerk-Treasurer.
The Village shall have the power to construct sewer lines for public use and shall have the power to lay sewer pipes in and through the alleys, streets, and public grounds of the Village and generally to do all such work as may be found necessary or convenient in the management of the sewer system. The Village shall have power by itself, its officers, agents, and servants to enter upon any land for the purpose of making examination or to supervise in the performance of its duties under this chapter, without liability therefor, and the Village shall have power to purchase and acquire for the Sewer Utility all real and personal property which may be necessary for construction of the sewer system or for any repair, remodeling, or additions thereto.
The rules, regulations, and sewer rates of the Village hereinafter set forth shall be considered a part of the contract with every person, company or corporation who or which is connected with the sewer system of the Village, and every such person, company, or corporation by connecting with the sewer system shall be considered as expressing his or its assent to be bound thereby. Whenever any of said rules and regulations, or such others as said Village may hereafter adopt, are violated the water service shall be shut off at the curb box or place of such violation (even though two or more parties are receiving service through the same connection) and shall not be reestablished except by order of the Village and on payment of all arrears, the expenses and established charges of shutting off and putting on, and such other terms as the Village may determine, and a satisfactory understanding with the party that no further cause for complaint shall arise. In case of such violation said Village, furthermore, may declare any payment made for the service by the party or parties committing such violation to be forfeited, and the same shall thereupon be forfeited. The right is reserved to the Village to change said rules, regulations, and sewer rates from time to time as it may deem advisable and to make special rates and contracts in all proper cases.
Said utility shall be operated by the Village as a public utility in accordance with the laws of the State of Wisconsin and the ordinances and resolutions of the Village, and the rates and charges herein set forth shall be applicable to all services furnished and made available by said utility to the Village and its inhabitants, and all other persons, firms, and corporations, both public and private, until modified by ordinance amendatory hereof or supplemental hereto; provided, however, that such rates and charges as amended shall always be fixed, maintained and collected in such amounts as shall produce gross revenues adequate to pay as incurred all costs of the operation and maintenance of said utility, and to accumulate an adequate reserve for the depreciation thereof, and to pay when due the principal of and the interest on all bonds of the Village which are payable from the revenues of said utility.
The funds received from the operation of said public utility, in accordance with the rates and charges authorized by this chapter, shall be deposited at regular intervals in a depository to be designated by the Village and shall be set aside into a special and separate fund heretofore provided for by the Village for the reasonable and proper operation and maintenance of said utility, for a proper and adequate replacement fund, and for the payment of interest and principal of bonds issued and outstanding, or which may be hereafter issued to provide funds to construct, improve, or extend such public utility.
No person(s) shall discharge or cause to be discharged any unpolluted waters as stormwater, groundwater, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, or cooling water to any sanitary sewer, except that stormwater runoff from limited areas, which stormwater may be polluted at times, may be discharged to the sanitary sewer by permission of the approving authority.
A. 
The owners of all houses, buildings, or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purposes situated within the Village and abutting on any street, alley or right-of-way in which there is now located or may be in the future be located a public sanitary sewer of the Village are hereby required at the owner's expense to install suitable toilet facilities therein and connect such facilities directly to the proper public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this chapter within 90 days after the date of official notice from the approving authority to do so.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II)]
B. 
It shall be unlawful for any person to dispose of, place, deposit or permit to be deposited in any unsanitary manner on public or private property within the Village, or in any area under the jurisdiction of said Village, any human or animal excrement, garbage, or other objectionable waste.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II)]
C. 
It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet within the Village, or in any area under the jurisdiction of said Village, any sewage or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions of this chapter.
Stormwater and all other unpolluted drainage shall be discharged to such sewers as are specifically designated as storm sewers or to a natural outlet approved by the approving authority and other regulatory agencies. Unpolluted industrial cooling water or process waters may be discharged, on approval of the approving authority, to a storm sewer or natural outlet.
[Added 5-6-2008[1]]
A. 
No person, firm or corporation shall discharge any substance into the sanitary sewer system of the Village under circumstances where the appropriate officers and/or employees of the Village do not have actual or constructive knowledge of said discharge. Constructive knowledge shall be presumed in residential situations for the non-groundwater discharges of the usual and ordinary residential liquid waste not otherwise prohibited.
B. 
No person, firm or corporation shall, either negligently or intentionally, either by omission, commission or by failure to correct, repair or bring into compliance any water or other discharge mechanism or apparatus, permit a condition to continue where any water or otherwise legally discharged substance shall be put into the sanitary sewer system of the Village where appropriate sewer service charges are not levied. Appropriate sewer service charges are deemed levied where the principal component of the substance is water that was metered prior to its use or, for residential users not receiving water metered by the Village, where said user pays proper periodic sewer service charges provided for by Village ordinance.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II)]
C. 
No person, firm or corporation shall fail to bring to the attention of appropriate Village employees or officials any situation or condition of which he or it has actual knowledge where unmetered discharge or effluent is entering the sanitary sewer system of the Village.
D. 
Discharge from residential dehumidification equipment is excluded from this section.
E. 
Village employees or officials referred to herein shall include all Village employees principally charged with the maintenance and/or operation of the Village sewer and/or water system and the Village Clerk-Treasurer.
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Editor's Note: This section appeared as Sec. 9.13 of the former Municipal Code.
A. 
Except as hereinafter provided, no person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any of the following described waters or wastes to any public sewer:
(1) 
Any gasoline, kerosene, benzene, naphtha, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylene, 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 waste treatment process or which constitute a hazard to humans or animals, create a public nuisance, or create any hazard in or have an adverse effect on the receiving waters of the wastewater treatment works.
(3) 
Any waters or wastes having a pH lower than 5.5 or higher than 10.0 or having any other corrosive property capable of causing damage or hazard to structures, equipment, and personnel of the wastewater collection or treatment facilities.
(4) 
Any solid 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 wastewater facilities, 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, paper dishes, cups, milk containers, sanitary napkins, and disposable diapers, either whole or ground by garbage grinders.
B. 
No person, without approval of the Village, shall discharge any waste or other substance directly into a manhole, catch basin, or inlet. All discharges, including trucked or hauled pollutants, to the sewer shall be through an approved sewer connection.
C. 
The sewer user shall notify the Village prior to the removal of solids or roots from services. The notice shall indicate a cleaning schedule so the Village is alerted to possible solids and roots entering the sewer system.
The following described substances, materials, waters, or waste shall be limited in discharges to municipal systems to concentrations or quantities which will not harm either the sewers, wastewater treatment process or equipment, will not have an adverse effect on the receiving stream, or will not otherwise endanger lives, limb, or public property or constitute a nuisance. The approving authority may set limitations lower than the limitations established in the regulations below if in its opinion such more severe limitations are necessary to meet the above objectives. In forming its opinion as to the acceptability, the approving authority will give consideration to such factors as the quantity of subject waste in relation to flows and velocities in the sewers, materials of construction of the sewers, the wastewater treatment process employed, capacity of the wastewater treatment plant, degree of treatability of the waste in the wastewater treatment plant, and other pertinent factors. The limitations or restrictions on materials or characteristics of waste or wastewaters discharged to the sanitary sewer which shall not be violated without approval of the approving authority are as follows:
A. 
Any liquid or vapor having a temperature higher than 150° F. (65° C.).
B. 
Any water or waste containing fats, wax, grease, petroleum oil, nonbiodegradable cutting oil, or products of mineral oil origin, whether emulsified or not, in excess of 100 milligrams per liter (mg/l) or containing substances which may solidify or become viscous at temperatures between 32° F. and 140° F. (0° C. and 60° C.).
C. 
Any garbage that has not been properly shredded. Garbage grinders may be connected to sanitary sewers from homes, hotels, institutions, restaurants, hospitals, catering establishments, or similar places where garbage originates from the preparation of food in kitchens for the purpose of consumption on the premises or when served by caterers.
D. 
Any waters or wastes containing arsenic, barium, cadmium, chromium, copper, cyanide, lead, iron, mercury, nickel, selenium, silver, zinc, and similar objectionable or toxic substances to such degree that any such material received in the composite wastewater at the wastewater treatment plant exceeds the limits established by the City of Two Rivers for such materials.
E. 
Any waters or wastes containing taste- or odor-producing substances exceeding limits which may be established by the approving authority and City of Two Rivers or limits established by any federal or state statutes, rules, or regulations.
F. 
Any radioactive wastes or isotopes of such half-life or concentration as may exceed limits established by the approving authority and City of Two Rivers in compliance with applicable state or federal regulations.
G. 
Water or wastes containing substances which are not amenable to treatment or reduction by the wastewater treatment processes employed or are amenable to treatment only to such degree that the wastewater treatment plant effluent cannot meet the requirements of other agencies having jurisdiction over discharge to the receiving waters.
H. 
Any water or wastes which, by interaction with other water or wastes in the public sewer system, release obnoxious gases, form suspended solids which interfere with the collection system, or create a condition deleterious to structures and treatment processes.
I. 
Quantities of flow, concentrations, or both which constitute a slug as defined herein.
J. 
Materials which exert, cause or contain:
(1) 
Unusual BOD, chemical oxygen demand, phosphorus, nitrogen, or chlorine requirements in such quantities as to constitute a significant load on the wastewater treatment plant.
(2) 
Unusual volume of flow or concentration of wastes constituting slugs as defined herein.
(3) 
Unusual concentrations of inert suspended solids (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).
(4) 
Excessive discoloration (such as, but not limited to, dye wastes and vegetable tanning solutions).
K. 
Incompatible pollutants in excess of the allowed limits as determined by local, state, and federal laws and regulations in reference to pretreatment standards developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), and as contained in 40 CFR 403, as amended from time to time.
No statement contained in this article shall be construed as prohibiting any special agreement between the Village and any person whereby an industrial waste of unusual strength or character may be admitted to the sewage disposal works, either before or after pretreatment, provided that there is no impairment of the functioning of the sewage disposal works by reason of the admission of such wastes and no extra costs are incurred by the Village without recompense by the person, provided that all rates and provisions set forth in this chapter are recognized and adhered to.
New connections to the sewage system shall not be permitted if there is insufficient capacity in the wastewater management facilities to adequately transport the additional wastewater anticipated to be received from such connections.
The area served by the sanitary sewer system shall coincide with the area within the Mishicot Village limits. Sanitary sewer extensions beyond said limits are prohibited.