[CC 1986 § 113.010]
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 milligrams
per liter.
The part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system
which receives the discharge from soil, waste, and other drainage
pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building
sewer, beginning five (5) feet [one and five-tenths (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.
A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
Solid waste from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage, and
sale of produce.
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes,
trade, or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface waters or groundwaters.
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 flow conditions normally prevailing
in public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half (1/2) inch
[one and twenty-seven hundredths (1.27) centimeters] in any dimension.
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights, and is controlled by public authority.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which stormwater, surface
water, and groundwater are not intentionally admitted.
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, together
with such groundwaters, surface waters, and stormwaters as may be
present.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
sewage.
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage.
[Ord. No. 407, 12-2-1992]
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
Is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
Any discharge of water, sewage, or industrial waste which
in concentration of any given constituent or if quantity of flow exceeds
for any period or duration longer than fifteen (15) minutes more than
five (5) times the average twenty-four-hour concentration or flows
during normal operation.
A sewer which carries stormwater and surface water and drainage,
but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling
water.
The Superintendent of Sewage Works and/or of Water Pollution
Control of the City of Edgerton, 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.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
[CC 1986 § 113.015]
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 City of Edgerton, or in any area under the jurisdiction
of the City, any human or animal excrement, garbage, or other objectionable
waste.
[CC 1986 § 113.020]
It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet within
the City of Edgerton, or in any area under the jurisdiction of the
City, any sewage or other polluted wastes, except where suitable treatment
has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions of this
Chapter.
[CC 1986 § 113.025]
A.
Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful to construct
or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool, or other
facility intended or used for the disposal of sewage.
B.
The owner of all houses, buildings, or properties used for human
occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purposes, situated within
the City and abutting on any street, alley, or right-of-way in which
there is now located or may in the future be located a public sanitary
or combined 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 Chapter within ninety (90) days after date
of official notice to do so, provided that said public sewer is within
one hundred (100) feet of the property line.
[CC 1986 § 113.030]
Where a public sanitary or combined sewer is not available under the provisions of Section 710.040, the building sewer shall be connected to a private sewage disposal system complying with the provisions of this Chapter.
[CC 1986 § 113.035]
Before commencement of construction of a private sewage disposal
system, the owner shall first obtain a written permit signed by the
Superintendent. The application for such permit shall be made on a
form furnished by the City, which the applicant shall supplement by
any plans, specifications, and other information as are deemed necessary
by the Superintendent. A permit and inspection fee of fifteen dollars
($15.00) shall be paid to the City at the time the application is
filed.
[CC 1986 § 113.040]
A permit for a private sewage disposal system shall not become
effective until the installation is completed 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 final inspection, and before any underground portions are covered.
The inspection shall be made within forty-eight (48) hours of the
receipt of notice by the Superintendent.
[CC 1986 § 113.045]
The type, capacities, location and layout of a private sewage
disposal system shall comply with all recommendations of the Missouri
Department of Natural Resources. No permit shall be issued for any
private sewage disposal system employing subsurface soil absorption
facilities where the area of the lot is less than fifteen thousand
(15,000) square feet. No septic tank or cesspool shall be permitted
to discharge to any natural outlet.
[CC 1986 § 113.050]
At such time as a public sewer becomes available to a property served by a private sewage disposal system, as provided in Section 710.050, a direct connection shall be made to the public sewer in compliance with this Chapter, and any septic tanks, cesspools, and similar private sewage disposal facilities shall be abandoned and filled with suitable material.
[CC 1986 § 113.055]
The owner shall operate and maintain the private sewage disposal
facilities in a sanitary manner at all times, at no expense to the
City.
[CC 1986 § 113.060]
No statement contained in this Chapter shall be construed to
interfere with any additional requirements that may be imposed by
the Health Officer.
[CC 1986 § 113.065; Ord. No. 407, 12-2-1992; Ord. No.
410, 1-6-1993]
When a public sewer becomes available, the building sewer shall
be connected to said sewer system within ninety (90) days. It is recommended,
but not required, that the private sewage disposal system be cleaned
of sludge and filled with clean bank run gravel or dirt.
[CC 1986 § 113.070]
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.
[CC 1986 § 113.075; Ord. No. 18-031, 3-2-2022]
B.
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 of two hundred dollars ($200.00) for a residential
building sewer permit and two hundred dollars ($200.00) for an industrial
or commercial building sewer permit shall be paid to the City at the
time the application is filed.
[CC 1986 § 113.080]
All costs and expenses incident to the installation and connection
of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner. The owner shall
indemnify the City from any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly
be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer.
[CC 1986 § 113.085]
A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided
for every building; except where one building stands at the rear of
another on an interior lot and no private sewer is available or can
be constructed to the rear building through an adjoining alley, court,
yard, driveway, the building sewer from the front building may be
extended to the rear building and the whole considered as one (1)
building sewer.
[CC 1986 § 113.090]
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 all requirements of this Chapter.
[CC 1986 § 113.095]
The size, slope, alignment, material of construction of a building
sewer, and the methods to be used in excavating, placing of the pipe,
jointing, testing, and backfilling the trench, shall all conform to
the requirements of the building and plumbing code or other applicable
rules an regulations of the City. In the absence of code provisions
or in application thereof, the material and procedures set forth in
appropriate specifications of the ASTM and WPCF Manual of Practice
No. 9 shall apply.
[CC 1986 § 113.100]
Whenever possible, the building sewer shall be brought to the
building at an elevation below the basement floor. In all buildings
in which any building drain is too low to permit gravity flow to the
public sewer, sanitary sewage carried by such building drain shall
be lifted by an approved means and discharged to the building sewer.
[CC 1986 § 113.105]
No person shall make connection of roof downspouts, exterior
foundation drains, areaway drains, 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.
[CC 1986 § 113.110]
A.
The connection of the building sewer into the public sewer shall
conform into Chapter 11 of the Uniform Plumbing Code or, to the extent
the same may be modified by applicable rules, regulations or ordinances
of the City of Edgerton, to such rules, regulations and ordinances.
B.
Provisions specifically applicable to sewer connections in the City
of Edgerton are:
1.
All bends shall be forty-five degrees (45°) or less; no
ninety-degree bends will be allowed. Turns of ninety degrees (90°)
shall be accomplished by using to two (2) forty-five-degree bends.
2.
Sewer service line material shall be PVC pipe and fittings with
rubber gasketed connections. Pipe and fittings shall conform to ASTM
3034, Cell classifications of either 12454(b) or 12454(c) and shall
be SDR 35. All such connections shall be made gastight and watertight.
3.
All sewer service lines shall be a minimum of four (4) inches
in diameter from the building to the public sewer.
C.
Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials must be
approved by the Superintendent before installation.
[CC 1986 § 113.115]
All lines shall be inspected by a City-appointed inspector prior
to back fill or covering work. The applicant for the building sewer
permit shall notify the Superintendent at least twenty-four (24) hours
in advance when the line is ready for inspection and connection. Connection
to the City sewer shall be made under the supervision of the Superintendent
or his/her representative.
[CC 1986 § 113.120]
All excavations for building sewer installations shall be adequately
guarded with barricades and lights so as to protect the public from
hazard. Streets, sidewalks, parkways and other public property disturbed
in the course of the work shall be restored in a manner satisfactory
to the City.
[CC 1986 § 113.125]
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any stormwater,
surface water, groundwater, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, including
interior and exterior foundation drains, uncontaminated cooling water,
or unpolluted industrial process waters to any sanitary sewer.
[CC 1986 § 113.130]
Stormwater and all other unpolluted drainage shall be discharged
to such sewers as are specifically designated as combined or storm
sewers, or to a natural outlet approved by the Superintendent. Industrial
cooling water or unpolluted process waters may be discharged, on approval
of the Superintendent, to a storm sewer, combined sewer or natural
outlet.
[CC 1986 § 113.135]
A.
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any of the following
described waters or wastes into any public sewers:
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)
mg/l as CN in the wastes as discharged to the public sewer.
3.
Any waters or wastes having a pH lower than five point five
(5.5), or having any other corrosive property capable of causing damage
or hazard to structures, equipment, and personnel of the sewage works.
4.
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 sewage works such as, but not limited
to, ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags,
feathers, tar, plastics, woods, unground garbage, whole blood, paunch
manure, hair and fleshings, entrails and paper dishes, cups, milk
containers, etc., either whole or ground by garbage grinders.
5.
Any waters or wastes having:
[Ord. No. 407, 12-2-1992]
a.
A five-day BOD greater than two hundred forty (240) parts per
million by weight; or
b.
Containing more than two hundred forty (240) parts per million
by weight of suspended solids; or
c.
Having a average daily flow greater than two percent (2%) of
the average sewage flow of the City, shall be subject to the review
of the Superintendent.
6.
Where necessary in the opinion of the Superintendent, the owner
shall provide at his/her expense, such preliminary treatment as may
be necessary to:
7.
Plans, specifications, and any other pertinent information relating
to proposed preliminary treatment facilities shall be submitted for
the approval of the Superintendent and no construction of such facilities
shall be commenced until said approvals are obtained in writing.
[CC 1986 § 113.140]
A.
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged the following
described substances, materials, waters, or wastes if it appears likely
in the opinion of the Superintendent that such wastes can harm either
the sewers, sewage treatment process, or equipment, having an 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 facts as the quantities of subject wastes in
relation to flows and velocities in the sewers, materials of construction
of the sewers, nature of the sewage treatment process, capacity of
the sewage treatment plant, degree of treatability of wastes in the
sewage treatment plant, and other pertinent factors. The substances
prohibited are:
1.
Any liquid or vapor having a temperature higher than one hundred
fifty degrees Fahrenheit (150° F.) [sixty-five degrees centigrade
(65° C.)].
2.
Any water or waste containing fats, wax, grease, or oils, whether
emulsified or not, in excess of one hundred (100) mg/l or containing
substances which may solidify or become viscous at temperatures between
thirty-two degrees Fahrenheit and one hundred fifty degrees Fahrenheit
(32° F. and 150° F.) [zero and sixty-five degrees centigrade
[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-fourths
(3/4) horsepower [seventy-six hundredths (0.76) hp metric] or greater
shall be subject to the review and approval of the Superintendent.
4.
Any waters or wastes containing strong acid iron pickling wastes,
or concentrated plating solutions whether neutralized or not.
5.
Any waters or wastes containing iron, chromium, copper, zinc,
and similar objectionable or toxic substances; or wastes exerting
an excessive chlorine requirement, to such 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.
6.
Any waters or wastes containing phenols or other taste-or odor-producing
substances, in such concentrations exceeding limits which may be established
by the Superintendent as necessary, after treatment of the composite
sewage, to meet the requirements of the State, Federal or other public
agencies of jurisdiction for such discharge to the receiving waters.
7.
Any radioactive wastes or isotopes of such half-life or concentration
as may exceed limits established by the Superintendent in compliance
with applicable State or Federal regulations.
8.
Any waters or wastes having a pH in excess of nine point five
(9.5).
9.
Materials which exert or cause:
a.
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.)
b.
Excessive discoloration (such as, but not limited to, dye wastes
and vegetable tanning solutions).
c.
Unusual BOD, biochemical oxygen demand, or chlorine requirements
in such quantities as to constitute a significant load on the sewage
treatment works.
d.
Unusual volume of flow or concentration of waters constituting
slugs as defined herein.
10.
Waters or wastes containing substances which are not amenable
to treatment or reduction by the sewage treatment processes employed,
or are amendable to treatment only to such degree that the sewage
treatment plant effluent cannot meet the requirements of other agencies
having jurisdiction over discharge to the receiving waters.
[CC 1986 § 113.145]
A.
If any waters or wastes are discharged, or are proposed to be discharged to the public sewers, which waters contain the substances or possess the characteristics enumerated in Sections 710.260 and 710.270 of this Chapter and which in the judgment of the Superintendent may have a deleterious effect upon the sewage works, processes, equipment, or receiving waters, or which otherwise create a hazard to life or constitute a public nuisance, the Superintendent may:
1.
Reject the wastes;
2.
Require pretreatment to an acceptable condition for discharge
to the public sewers;
3.
Require control over the quantities and rates of discharge;
and/or
4.
Require payment to cover the added costs of handling and treating wastes not covered by existing taxes or sewer charges under the provisions of Section 710.280(B) of this Chapter.
B.
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,
and subject to the requirements of all applicable codes, ordinances,
and laws.
[CC 1986 § 113.150]
Grease, oil, and sand interceptors shall be provided when in
the opinion of the Superintendent they are necessary for the proper
handling of liquid wastes containing grease in excessive amounts,
or any flammable wastes, sand, or other harmful ingredients, except
that such interceptors shall not be required for private living quarters
or dwelling units. All interceptors shall be of a type and capacity
approved by the Superintendent and shall be located as to be readily
and easily accessible for cleaning and inspection.
[CC 1986 § 113.155]
Where preliminary treatment or flow-equalizing facilities are
provided for any waters or wastes, they shall be maintained continuously
in satisfactory and effective operation by the owner at his/her expense.
[CC 1986 § 113.160]
When required by the Superintendent, the owner of any property
serviced by a building sewer carrying industrial wastes shall install
a suitable control manhole together with such necessary meters and
other appurtenances in the building sewer to facilitate observation,
sampling, and measurement of the wastes. Such manhole, when required,
shall be accessibly and safely located, and shall be constructed in
accordance with plans approved by the Superintendent. The manhole
shall be installed by the owner at his/her expense, and shall be maintained
by him/her so as to be safe and accessible at all times.
[CC 1986 § 113.165]
All measurements, tests, and analyses of the characteristics
of water and wastes to which reference is made in this Chapter 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, the control
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 of life, limb, and property. (The particular
analyses involved will determine whether a twenty-four-hour composite
of all outfalls of a premises is appropriate or whether a grab sample
or samples should be taken. Normally, but not always, BOD and suspended
solids analyses are obtained from twenty-four-hour composites of all
outfalls whereas pHs are determined from periodic grab samples.)
[CC 1986 § 113.170]
No statement contained in this Chapter shall be construed as
preventing any special agreement or arrangement between the City and
any industrial concern whereby an industrial waste of unusual strength
or character may be accepted by the City for treatment, subject to
payment therefor by the industrial concern.
[CC 1986 § 113.175]
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 any sewage works. Any
person violating this provision shall be subject to immediate arrest
under charge of disorderly conduct.
[CC 1986 § 113.180]
The Superintendent and other duly authorized employees of the
City bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted
to enter all properties for the purposes 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 direct bearing on the kind and source of discharge
to the sewers or waterways or facilities for waste treatment.
[CC 1986 § 113.185]
While performing the necessary work on private properties referred to in Section 710.370, the Superintendent or duly authorized employees of the City shall observe all safety rules applicable to the premises established by the owner and the owner shall be held harmless for injury or death to the City employees and the City shall indemnify the owner against loss or damage to its property by City employees and against liability claims and demands for personal injury or property damage asserted against the owner and growing out of the gauging and sampling operation, except as such may be caused by negligence or failure of the owner to maintain safe conditions.
[CC 1986 § 113.190]
The Superintendent and other duly authorized employees of the
City bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted
to enter all private properties through which the City holds a duly
negotiated easement for the purpose of, but not limited to, inspection,
observation, measurement, sampling, repair, and maintenance of any
portion of the sewer 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.
[CC 1986 § 113.195]
Any person violating any of the provisions of this Chapter shall
become liable to the City for any expense, loss, or damage occasioned
the City by reason of such violation.
[CC 1986 § 113.200]
[Ord. No. 18-034, 6-1-2022]
A.
Water
and sanitary sewer services shall be deemed to be furnished to the
user of the premises receiving either or both of such services. Where
necessary, wastewater lift stations shall be installed and generally
maintained on a yearly basis by the Public Works and Water Service
Department for the City of Edgerton.
B.
The
user of premises receiving the services of a wastewater lift station
shall be held responsible for the proper use thereof. The user shall
be responsible for all costs associated with the maintenance and repair
of systems that is the result of abuse by the user, and not the result
of normal wear and tear.
1.
Abuse, includes, but is not limited to, the discharge of items or
other materials detrimental to the proper functioning of the wastewater
lift station, such as baby wipes, feminine hygiene products, paper
towels, clothing, fabrics, oil or grease, plastic bags, cardboard,
Styrofoam, etc.
2.
Any suspected abuse of the wastewater lift stations shall be documented
by the Public Works and Water Service, and the user shall be jointly
and severally liable for costs associated with time and materials
necessary to restore the wastewater lift station to working order.
