Except as provided for under applicable state and federal law
and regulations, it shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit
or permit to be deposited, in any unsanitary manner, on public or
private property, within the Town of Verona or in any area under the
jurisdiction of said municipality, any human or animal excrement,
garbage or objectionable waste. Also, no person shall discharge domestic
sewage onto the surface of the ground or discharge it in a way that
permits it to come to the surface of the ground.
No person shall connect a private sewage system so that sewage
flows into a storm sewer or into a drain intended exclusively for
stormwater. No connection shall be made to an intercepting sewer system
in a location as to cause flow to the receiving stream rather than
the sewage treatment plant.
No person shall discharge sewage into a well.
It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet within
incorporated Town boundaries or in any area under the jurisdiction
of said municipality any wastewater or other polluted waters, except
where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent
provisions of this Part 1.
No property owner, builder or developer shall be issued a building
permit for a new dwelling or structure requiring sanitary facilities
unless a suitable and approved method of wastewater disposal, conforming
to this Part 1, is available.
Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful to construct
or maintain any privy, privy vault, cesspool, septic tank or other
facility intended or used for disposal of wastewater.
The owner(s) of all houses, buildings or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes, situated within a sewer district of the Town of Verona, except those in the Route No. 365 Sewer District and the Sconondoa Area Sewer District which have existing properly functioning on-site wastewater disposal systems as of the effective date of this Part 1, and abutting on any street, alley or right-of-way in which there is located a public sewer, is hereby required, at the owner's expense, to install suitable sanitary facilities therein, and to connect such facilities directly with the proper public sewer, in accordance with the provisions of this Part 1, within 90 days after official notice to do so, provided that said public sewer is within 100 feet (30.5 meters) of the property line. Within the Route No. 365 and Sconondoa Area Sewer Districts, connection to the public sewer shall be required at such time as existing on-site systems fail or require replacement for whatever reason, when properties meet the other requirement of this section.
The use of the Town of Verona public sewers shall be strictly limited and restricted, except as provided in § 196-14, to receive and accept the discharge of sewage and other wastes, including industrial wastes generated on or discharged from real property within the bounds of the service area of the Town POTW.
A.Â
The Town of Verona Town Board, on the recommendation of the Superintendent,
shall have the authority to enter into agreements to accept sewage
and other wastes, including industrial wastes, generated by or discharged
from persons outside the service area of the POTW.
B.Â
If the person is a municipality, that municipality shall have enacted
a Sewer Use Law as restrictive on the discharge of sewage and other
wastes as the restrictions contained in this Part 1.
C.Â
If the person is not a municipality the acceptance shall be made
only with the expressed written consent of the Superintendent (the
issuance of a permit) setting forth the terms and conditions of such
an acceptance.
At the recommendation of the Superintendent who determines that
one or more segments of the POTW is exceeding its hydraulic capacity
at any time; any specific purpose of this Part 1 is being violated;
provisions of an intercommunity agreement are being violated; or a
moratorium is necessary to prevent exceedance of any of the limits
specified in an intercommunity agreement, the Town Board shall have
the authority to limit or deny new connections to the POTW until the
conditions leading to the moratorium are corrected. Such correction
may be by:
All requirements, directives and orders calling for mandatory
use of the sewers, within the service area of the POTW, for the proper
discharge of sewage and other wastes, including industrial wastes,
shall be established and given by the Town of Verona Town Board, New
York State Department of Health, Oneida County Department of Health,
NYSDEC, USEPA and/or other such state or federal agencies, which have
enforcement powers.
