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 Hague or in any area under the jurisdiction of
the 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 person shall discharge sewage into a well.
It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet, within
Town of Hague, or in any area under the jurisdiction of the said municipality,
any wastewater or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment
has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions of this
chapter.
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 within the Sewer District.
The owner(s) of all houses, buildings, or properties used for
human occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purposes, situated
within a Town of Hague Sewer District and any extension thereof, 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 chapter, 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.
The use of the Town of Hague public sewers shall be strictly limited and restricted, except as provided in §
133-12, to receive and accept the discharge of sewage and other wastes from real property within the bounds of the service area of the sewage system.
At the recommendation of the Wastewater Treatment Plant Operator,
who determines that one or more segments of the sewage system is exceeding
its hydraulic capacity at any time; any specific purpose of this chapter
is being violated; SPDES permit conditions are violated, the Town
of Hague Board shall have the authority to limit or deny new connections
to the sewage system until the conditions leading to the moratorium
are corrected. Such correction may be by construction of new facilities;
enlarging existing facilities; correction of inflow and infiltration;
cleaning and repairing of existing facilities.
All requirements, directives, and orders calling for mandatory
use of the sewers within the service area of the sewage system for
the proper discharge of sewage and other wastes, including industrial
wastes, shall be established and given by the Town of Hague Board,
NYSDEC, USEPA, and/or other such state or federal agencies, which
have enforcement powers.