[Ord. No. 2018-93]
All sewers, culverts, and drains now made, or hereafter to be made, in any of the streets, avenues, alleys, or other public places in the City shall be under the charge of the Department of Public Works, which Department is charged with the duty of keeping the same in good condition and repair and to see that the same are kept free from all obstructions; and the Director of Public Works shall cause such repairs thereof and of the catch basins, culverts, and openings connected therewith, as may from time to time become necessary.
The City Engineer shall prescribe the manner and point of piercing and opening any of the sewers or drains in any of the public streets or public places of the City and the form, size, and material of the connection made therewith and shall have the authority to grant permits to make lateral connections with said sewers, which said permit when granted to any person or persons shall specify the point in such sewer where such lateral connections shall be made, the form, size, and material to be used in making such connections, how the same shall be connected at each end of such lateral, the hour of the day when the street or public thoroughfare may be dug up for such purpose, and the property for which such connection is made.
Any person making, attempting to make, or directing or ordering the making of any connection or opening into any such sewer or drain without first having obtained a permit or having obtained such permit, makes such connection in a manner different from the mode prescribed in such permit issued by said City Engineer be fined not less than $10 nor more than $50.
The City Engineer may grant permission to persons to construct, at their own expense, sewers or drains to lay pipes to connect with any sewers or drains built in any of the streets, avenues, alleys, or public places in the City in the manner and subject to the provisions herein prescribed and also subject to the further provision that such persons will indemnify the City against any loss or damage which it may sustain by reason of injuries resulting from the work so permitted to be done.
No person, firm, or corporation constructing any work under the provisions of the preceding section of this article shall have any claim against the City if the work so permitted at any time after the same may be completed is ordered to be taken up by the authority of the City Manager; nor shall any person, firm, or corporation have any exemption from an assessment lawfully imposed for constructing sewers or drains in the vicinity of their property and the constructing of any sewers or drains by any person, firm, or corporation under the provision of the preceding section of this article shall be deemed and taken as an acquiescence in the provisions of this section, whether the same be set forth in the permit of the City Engineer authorizing such work or not and shall be binding upon the heirs, administrators, successors, or assigns of any such person, firm, or corporation.
It is hereby made the duty of the City Engineer to provide permits to be used for the purposes herein specified. Upon application to the City Engineer by any and the person, firm or corporation by any person for such permit, he shall fill out the same in duplicate to the person, corporation applying therefor, which duplicates shall be signed by the City Engineer and the person, firm, or corporation asking for such permit, one of which shall be delivered to the applicant and the other to remain undetached in the said book of permits in the office of the said City Engineer and shall be by him safely kept for any future use or reference by the City.
A. 
It shall be unlawful for any person owning property located within the City of Bloomington to permit any of the following conditions to be or remain on such property after the compliance date specified in notification by the City Engineer or after obtaining actual knowledge of the existence of such a condition, whichever is earlier:
(1) 
A storm sewer or storm drain which is so constructed or is in such a condition as to allow or permit the discharge of stormwater, surface water or ground water into a building drain, building sewer or public sanitary sewer, either directly through a direct connection or indirectly by discharging or permitting the discharge of such water in or near areas of gravel, crushed rock, or other porous soil-or material located near or around openings, holes, cracks, loose joints or other gaps in a building drain, building sewer, or public sanitary sewer;
(2) 
A private combined sewer;
(3) 
A stormwater, surface water, or ground water collection or diversion device, including without limitation the following: area drains, yard drains, footing tiles, downspouts, leaders, stormwater, surface water or ground water, sump pumps, or other pumping device which is constructed or in such a condition so as to discharge or permit or allow the discharge of stormwater, surface water, or ground water into a building drain, building sewer, or public sanitary or combined sanitary and storm sewer either directly through a direct connection or indirectly by discharging or permitting the discharge of such water in or near areas of gravel, crushed rock, or other porous soil or material located near or around openings, holes, cracks, loose joints, or other gaps in a building drain, building sewer, or public sanitary sewer;
(4) 
A building drain or building sewer with broken, missing, or cracked tiles, loose or separated joints, or other holes, cracks, gaps, or spaces;
(5) 
Any other fixture, structure or condition which permits or allows or is in such a condition to permit or allow stormwater, surface water, or ground water to enter directly or indirectly a building drain, building sewer or public sanitary sewer.
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(6) 
Existing development.
(a) 
Any nonresidential property served by a combination sewer system must have a separate sanitary service line connected to the existing sewer system. In the event the combination sewer system is modified to a separate sewer system consisting of a storm sewer and a sanitary sewer, a separate non-polluted water discharge line from the property will be connected to the storm sewer system and the sanitary sewer service will be connected to the sanitary sewer. Such connections shall be made within 12 months of the date the separate system is placed into service. However, in the event the compliance with this section causes a severe economic hardship, the property owner may apply for an extension of time. Such extension of time may be granted only for such times as the demonstrated hardship exists.
(b) 
A separate sewer system shall be considered to be available if located within 100 feet of the nearest property line of the property.
[Ord. No. 2001-23]
(7) 
Proposed development. Any new nonresidential development proposed to be served by an existing combination sewer shall have separate service lines for sanitary waste and for non polluted water respectively. These services may terminated in existing combination sewer but must be done in a way that these line could be connected appropriately when a separate sewer system is available.
[Ord. No. 2001-23]
B. 
The City Engineer may give notification of the existence of such a description described in Subsection A of this section either personally or by ordinary mail with postage fully prepaid to the owner of record of the property on which such a condition is located or to the person who last paid real estate taxes on such property, and upon the giving or mailing of such notification, the property owner shall be deemed to have notice of the existence of such a condition.
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C. 
The notification provided in Subsection B of this section shall be given if one or more of the following occurs:
(1) 
An on-site visual or physical inspection of the property indicates the existence of a condition described in Subsection A of this section;
(2) 
A dye or TV monitor test indicates that water or dye placed in stormwater, surface water, or ground water collection or diversion devices or in the ground near the foundation of a building or structure located on such property enters the public sanitary sewer;
(3) 
A "smoke test" indicates that smoke placed into the public sanitary sewer under pressure is escaping through the ground or through downspouts, leaders, gutters, yard drains, area drains, or other stormwater collection or diversion devices located on the owner's property.
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D. 
The City Engineer is hereby authorized and directed to develop material describing the testing procedures hereinabove referred to and indicating the manner in which such tests shall be conducted.
[Ord. No. 1981-73]
No garbage, unless passed through a disposal unit, butcher's offal, dead animal, or other object or material tending to obstruct a sewer shall be deposited or thrown in any sewer, sewer outlet, or catch basin and any person injuring, breaking, or removing any part of any sewer or drain or in any manner obstructing the mouth or outlet of any sewer or drain shall be subject to a penalty of not less than $10 nor more than $100 for each offense.
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It is hereby made the duty of the members or officers of the Police Department to be vigilant in the enforcement of the provisions of this article and at once to report any violation thereof to the Director of Public Works. Any member of the Police Department shall, on observing or on being informed of the violation of any of the provisions of this article by any person or persons report at once such act to the Director of Public Works. It is hereby made the further duty of any member of said Police Department on being informed or upon observing any person or persons making any opening or excavation in any of the public streets, alley, or other public grounds of the City to require such person or persons to exhibit his or their authority or permission so to do, and if none has been obtained from the proper officer by the person or persons making such opening or excavation, or if such person or persons shall refuse to exhibit or their authority or permit, such officer immediately shall report the same to the Director of Public Works.
Any person who shall uncover or excavate under or around any of the brick or pipe sewers of the City for any purpose whatever without first having the written authority so to do of the City Engineer shall upon conviction be subject to a penalty of not less than $5 nor more than $100 for each offense, which said penalty shall be recoverable against the person or persons or their employees so uncovering or excavating under or around said sewers or drains as aforesaid.
A. 
No person shall discharge, cause to be discharged, or permit the discharge of any stormwater, ground water, run-off, sub-surface drainage, or unpolluted industrial process water from private property to any public sanitary sewer.
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B. 
No person shall discharge, cause to be discharged or permit the discharge of any material into the public sanitary sewer which does not comply with the Bloomington and Normal Sanitary District ordinances.
[Ord. No. 1981-73]
That it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to connect or cause to be connected any sanitary sewer or other title or drain carrying water sewers constructed within the corporate limits of the City, and it shall be unlawful to make or cause to be made any sanitary sewer connection with lateral stormwater sewers which may be connected with said stormwater sewers.
A. 
That hereafter no connection shall be made to or with any sewer or system of sewers of said City or to or with any watermain of the high pressure distribution system or said City or to any extension thereof, whether said extension be within or outside the corporate limits of said City, for the purpose of giving sewer service or supplying water to or for any property lying outside of the corporate limits of said City, and no sewer service shall be given and no water supplied to any property lying outside of such corporate limits other than those which now are supplied with such sewer and water service.
B. 
This Ordinance shall not apply to the sale of water at wholesale to the Town of Normal, Illinois, or to the sale of water to industries or other users on property not contiguous to the City, under the terms of any existing or future contract entered into voluntarily by the said City under authority and approval of the City Council thereto, which said contract provides that the rates for said water shall be 1 1/2 times that charged to resident users and sewer service shall be 1 1/2 times that charged to resident users, and which agreement further provides that in the event any portion of said property should at any time become contiguous with the corporate limits of the City in any of the manners prescribed by law, the said City may after reasonable notice discontinue furnishing said service and continue to refuse to furnish such service until the entire property of said user has become annexed to the City in the manner prescribed by law. Such other and further conditions as the City Council may in its discretion require from time to time in negotiating with such noncontiguous petitioner for water or sewer service shall, if accepted by said petitioner, be fully enforceable as a condition to furnishing said service.
It shall be the duty of the City Engineer to keep currently in his office maps and plats showing the sewerage districts of the City, the location of the various sewers therein, their dimensions, grades, openings, inlets, connections, and the direction of flow.
Property adjacent to this sewer, which shall subsequently desire to connect thereto, shall be required to sign an agreement with the City prior to connection to the sewer and shall be required to pay to the City their prorated share of the original cost of the sewer, said share to be calculated by the City Engineer on the basis of front foot cost. The amount paid as a prorated share of the original construction cost shall in no way obligate the City to furnish connections, tile pipes, or any other parts or portions of the individual service required by the potential user. The service necessary will be installed by the customer at his expense and in conformity with all rules, regulations, and ordinances governing the use of the sewer system.
[Ord. No. 1981-73]
Any person violating any provision of this article or permitting a violation to remain beyond the period of time provided for voluntary correction or elimination thereof, shall upon conviction be fined not less than $100 nor more than $500 for each violation. A separate offense shall be deemed committed on each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues.
When used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meaning indicated in this section.
BUILDING DRAIN
The lowest horizontal portion of a building or structure's sewage collection and disposal system which is designed to carry sewage through or beyond the foundation wall to the building sewer. A building drain may include a sewage sump pump, ejector, lift pump or other similar device which pumps sewage.
BUILDING SEWER
A pipe or conduit located on private property owned and controlled by the private property owner which i's designed and intended to carry sewage from the building to the public sanitary sewer or a private sewage disposal system.
COMBINED SEWER
A pipe or conduit receiving both surface water and sewage.
DIRECTOR
The City Engineer of the City of Bloomington or his authorized deputy, agent, or representative.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
Solids, liquids, or gaseous wastes resulting from any industrial or manufacturing operation or process.
PUBLIC, SANITARY, OR STORM SEWER
A sanitary sewer or storm sewer or storm drain located in the public right-of-way or public easement in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights and which is controlled by a public authority.
SANITARY SEWER
A pipe or conduit designed and intended to carry sewage and to exclude storm, surface, and ground Water.
SEWAGE
The water carried wastes from residences, businesses, institutions, and industrial establishments, plus minor or incidental amounts of ground surface or stormwater.
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN
A pipe or conduit which is designed and intended to carry storm, surface, and ground water and to exclude sewage and industrial wastes.
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