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In order to ensure proper removal and disposal of sewage wastes
and sewage waters within the Town, to ensure the proper operation
and maintenance of public sewers, sewage treatment plants and other
sewage works within the Town, and to provide for the keeping of adequate
records of sewers and appurtenances and connections thereto, the following
chapter regulating the construction, use, repair, alteration, and
discontinuance or abandonment of sewers and appurtenances and connection
thereto, including pipes discharging directly or indirectly into such
sewers, and the substances to be discharged directly or indirectly
into and through the sewers and appurtenances of the public sewer
system of the Town as provided in § 7-245 et seq. of the
General Statutes, is hereby enacted.
As used in this chapter the following words and phrases have
the meanings ascribed to them in this section:
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 parts per million by weight.
BUILDING DRAIN
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system
that receives only sanitary waste discharged from pipes inside the
walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning
five feet 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.
CHLORINE DEMAND
The amount of chlorine which must be added to waters or wastes
to produce a residual chlorine content in such waters or wastes.
COOLING WATER
Includes clean wastewater from air-conditioning, industrial
cooling, condensing and similar apparatus and from hydraulically powered
equipment. In general, cooling water will include only water which
is sufficiently clean and unpolluted to admit of being discharged,
without treatment or purification, into any natural open stream or
watercourse without offense.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food, and from the handling, storage, and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The liquid wastes from industrial processes as distinct from
sanitary sewage.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet in 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.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
The wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing
of food which have been shredded to such 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 in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights, and which is controlled by public authority.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and to which stormwater, surface
water, and groundwater are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments.
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 flow.
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN
A sewer which carries stormwater and surface water and drainage,
but excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes.
SUBSOIL DRAINAGE
Includes water from the soil percolating into subsoil drains
and through foundation walls, basement floors or from underground
pipes or from similar sources.
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.
It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit, or permit
to be deposited upon public or private property within the Town or
in any area under the jurisdiction of the Town any human excrement,
garbage or other objectionable waste.
It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet within
the Town or in any area under the jurisdiction of the Town any sanitary
sewage, industrial wastes, or other polluted waters, except where
suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent
provisions of this chapter.
The owner of all newly constructed houses, buildings or properties
used for human occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purpose,
situated within the Town and abutting on any street, alley or right-of-way
in which there is now located a public sanitary sewer of the Town
is hereby required at his 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 chapter before occupancy.
Those existing homes abutting a sanitary sewer where basement
facilities cannot be served may be served by an existing septic tank
system for that basement area only subject to approval of the Water
Pollution Control Authority.
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All homes, businesses, buildings, institutions and industrial
establishments not abutting on a street in which there is a sanitary
sewer shall have a suitable private sewage disposal system, the installation
and operation of which shall be subject to the inspection and approval
of the Building Official in accordance with the applicable provisions
of the ordinances and building code of the Town and the state.
Except as herein provided it shall be unlawful to construct
or maintain any septic tank and/or other facilities intended or used
for the disposal of sewage.
Whenever a developer subdivides a tract of land into building
lots or industrial or commercial sites, he/she shall provide and install
suitable facilities or a sewage disposal system in accordance with
the regulations of the Planning and Zoning Commission and the standards
and specifications of the Water Pollution Control Authority.
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Any person who willfully breaks, damages, destroys, or injures
any structure, appurtenance, or equipment which is a part of the municipal
sewage works shall be subject to the penalties imposed under § 53a-115
et seq. of the General Statutes.
The Water Pollution Control Authority and the Superintendent
of Sewers and other duly authorized employees of the Town 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 chapter.
Within 60 days after a sewer in a public street becomes operational,
the Water Pollution Control Authority shall notify abutting property
owners that they must connect with the sewer within 12 months after
such notification. Failure to obtain a permit to make such connection
shall be prima facie evidence that no connection has been made.