[Adopted 4-22-1985 as
Article 33]
Pursuant to General Municipal Law Article 14-F, and Village
Law Article 14, there are hereby established and imposed user charges
and assessments for the collection, conveyance, treatment and disposal
of sewage, upon real property in the Village of Adams, served by the
public sewer system.
Real property within the Village shall be classified as follows
for the purposes of making charges hereunder.
A. Property served by a sewage collection system which was constructed
by the Village of Adams. Any real property which generates sewage
and which abuts on any street or right of way in which a public sanitary
sewer is located and which sewer is located within 100 feet of the
property line, will be so classified.
B. Property not served by a sewage collection system constructed by
the Village of Adams.
[Amended 6-18-1990 by L.L. No. 2-1990; 5-18-1992 by L.L. No. 3-1992; 5-17-1993 by L.L. No. 2-1993]
An annual charge will be made of $14.39 for each attributable unit as set forth in §
200-3A for treatment plant costs, and in addition an annual charge will be made of $81.86 for each attributable unit as set forth in §
200-3B for sewer costs, on all real property described in §
200-2A as a debt service (principal and interest) to retire the bonds used for the payment of the Village Sewage System and Treatment Plant.
[Amended 5-19-1986 by L.L. No. 2-1986; 9-21-1987 by L.L. No. 3-1987; 5-17-1993 by L.L. No. 2-1993]
To provide for the operation and maintenance of the sewage conveyance,
treatment and disposal system.
A. A usage rate of $4.10 per 1,000 gallons of water used as determined by the Village water meters or a flow meter (whichever is greater) upon the real property described in §
200-3A is hereby imposed. An annual minimum charge for 32,000 gallons will be made for each meter user. An annual minimum charge for 80,000 gallons will be made for each user without a meter.
B. A usage rate for industrial users (any customer using more than 1.5 million gallons per quarter) of $2.50 per 1,000 gallons of water used as determined by the Village water meters or a flow meter (whichever is greater) upon the real property described in §
200-2A is hereby imposed.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
The Village will review not less often than every two years,
the wastewater contributions, and total cost of operations and maintenance,
and revise this article as needed to meet the requirements.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
Any user of the sewage system that discharges toxic wastes which
cause increased treatment and handling costs will be required to pay
such costs.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
Each user will be notified at least annually in conjunction
with a regular bill of the rate and portion of the charges attributable
to wastewater treatment.
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this article shall be the same as the terms used in Article
II, Use of Public and Private Sewers and Drains, of this chapter.
This article shall be in full force and effect from and after
its passage, approval, recording, and publication as provided by law.
All local laws or ordinances or parts of local law or ordinances
in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, section or
other part of this article shall be adjudged by any court of competent
jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment, decree or order shall not
effect, impair or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined
in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision,
section or other part thereof, directly involved in the controversy
in which such judgment, decree or order shall have been rendered,
and to this end the provisions of each section of this article are
hereby declared to be severable.
The Village Board expressly reserves the right at any time to
alter, amend, or make such addition to this article as may be desirable.
[Adopted 2-11-1980 by L.L. No. 1-1980]
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of terms used in this article shall be as follows:
ASTM
American Society for Testing and Materials.
B.O.D.
(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 milligrams
per liter. The laboratory determinations shall be made in accordance
with standard methods.
BOARD
The duly elected Board of Trustees of the Village of Adams
or its authorized deputy, agent, or representative.
BUILDER
Any person, persons, or corporation who undertakes to construct,
either under contract or for resale, any habitable building.
BUILDING DRAIN
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system
which receives the discharge 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.
CONTRACTOR
Any person, firm, or corporation approved by the Board to
do work in the Village.
COUNTY
The County of Jefferson.
DEVELOPER
Any person, persons, or corporation who undertake to construct
simultaneously more than one housing unit on a given tract or land
subdivision.
ENGINEER
The professional engineer retained by the Village of Adams.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing
of food, and from the handling, storage, and sale of produce.
N.Y.S.D.E.C.
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any sewer outlet that would ultimately reach a watercourse,
pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface water or groundwater.
OWNER
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, person,
or group having title to real property.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation,
or group.
pH
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the concentration
of hydrogen ions in moles per liter of solution.
PRETREATMENT
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination
of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of the pollutant properties
in wastewater to a less harmful state prior to or in lieu of discharging
or otherwise introducing such pollutants into a publicly owned treatment
works. The reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical
or biological processes, process changes or by other means, except
as prohibited by 40 CFR 403.6, General Pretreatment Regulations for
Existing and New Sources of Pollution.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
The wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing
of food that has 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.
PROPERTY LINE
Boundary of the street if the building sewer is to connect
with the public sewer in a public street. "Property line" shall mean
the edge of a permanent sewer right-of-way in those instances where
the building sewer connects to the public sewer in a right-of-way.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights, and is controlled by public authority.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and to which stormwaters, surface
waters, and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together
with such groundwater, surface water, and stormwater as may be present.
SEWAGE WORKS
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating, and disposing
of sewage.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SHALL
Is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
STANDARD METHODS
The examination and analytical procedures set forth in the
most recent edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water,
Sewage and Industrial Wastes," published jointly by the American Public
Health Association, the American Water Works Association and the Water
Environment Federation.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
STATE PLUMBING CODE
The New York State Building Construction Code applicable
to plumbing, including all amendments.
STORM SEWER OR STORM DRAIN
A pipe or conduit which carries stormwaters and surface waters
and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes.
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. The laboratory determination shall be made in accordance
with "standard methods."
TRAP
A device, fitting or assembly of fittings installed in the
building drain to prevent sewer gases from entering and circulating
through the building drainage system inside the building.
U.S.E.P.A.
United States Environmental Protection Agency.
VENT
That part of a plumbing system, consisting of piping installed
to permit adequate circulation of air in all parts of the building
sanitary drainage system and to prevent trap siphonage and back pressure.
VILLAGE
The Village of Adams, Jefferson County, New York.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.