The Cayuga County Legislature wishes to minimize County residents'
exposure to undisinfected and untreated wastewater discharges, thereby
minimizing the potential spread of communicable disease and related
health hazards arising from such discharges. Accordingly, the Legislature
finds that the imposition of a County-wide, year-round municipal wastewater
disinfection requirement will be an effective means of eliminating
undisinfected wastewater discharges, which is consistent with the
Cayuga County Sanitary Code.
Notwithstanding any other provision of the Cayuga County Sanitary
Code, New York State SPDES program or any permit issued pursuant thereto,
no County, city, village, town, town district, or any state department,
agency or authority, or any municipal or governmental entity shall
discharge, cause, or allow to be discharged undisinfected sewage or
undisinfected wastewater into Owasco Lake. For the purposes of this
chapter, "Owasco Lake" shall be defined to include the waters extending
from the mouth of the Owasco Lake Inlet to that portion of the Owasco
Lake Outlet extending south from the State Dam.
The municipal wastewater treatment plant operator or a designated
substitute must notify the Cayuga County Health Department as soon
as possible (but in no event more than two hours) after learning that
undisinfected and/or untreated sewage or wastewater has been or will
be discharged onto the ground surface or into any body of water in
the County.
To the extent that the provisions of any other portion of the
Cayuga County Sanitary Code conflicts with or is less restrictive
than the provisions of this chapter, this chapter shall control.