The purpose of this Chapter is to establish requirements for
the sewage system and for discharges into such system.
Unless otherwise defined in this Chapter or by use intended
to have a different meaning, certain terms and phrases used in this
Chapter are defined as follows:
(a)
"Director" means the Director of Public Works of the City or such
other person as may be designated by the Director of Public Works
to perform the services or make the determinations permitted or required
in this Chapter to be made by the Director of Public Works.
(b)
"Domestic waste" means waste which contains human excreta or is normal
animal or vegetable household waste.
(c)
"Industrial waste" means liquid and/or solids other than domestic
waste.
(d)
"Lot" means a parcel of land consisting of one or more contiguous
lots of record in one ownership.
(e)
"Person" means any individual, firm, company, partnership, association
or private, public or municipal corporation's responsible corporate
office, the United States of America, the State, districts and all
political subdivisions, governmental agencies and mandatories thereof,
except the City.
(f)
"Premises" means a parcel or parcels of real estate or portions thereof
including any improvements thereon which is determined by the City
to be a single user for purposes of receiving, using or paying for
sewer service.
(g)
"Public owned treatment works" (POTW) means a treatment works as
defined by Section 212 of the Act (33 U.S.C. 1292) which is owned
in this instance by the City. This definition includes any sewers
that convey wastewater to the POTW treatment plant, but does not include
pipes, sewers, or other conveyances not connected to the facility
providing treatment. For the purposes of this Chapter, "POTW" shall
also include any sewers that convey wastewater from persons outside
the City, who are, by contract or agreement users of the City treatment
plant.
(h)
"Sewage system" means the City's facilities for the collection,
storage, treatment, and disposal of industrial wastes or domestic
waste or both and includes monitoring, sampling, metering, other devices
and appurtenances.
(i)
"Sewer connection" means a sewer line conveying waste from the premises
of a user to a main or lateral.
(j)
"Sewer lateral" means a sewer line which discharges into a sewer
main and/or receives sewage from a sewer connection.
(k)
"Sewer main" means a sewer line receiving sewage from one or more
sewer laterals or sewer connections.
(l)
"Sewer service" means discharge or authority to discharge into the
sewage system.
(m)
"Significant industrial user" (SIU) includes:
(1)
All categorical users, and;
(2)
Any noncategorical users that:
i.
Discharges twenty-five thousand (25,000) gallons or more per day
of process wastewater (excluding domestic wastewater),
ii.
Contributes a process waste stream which makes up five (5%)
percent or more of the average dry weather hydraulic or organic (BOD,
SS) capacity of the POTW, or
iii.
Has a reasonable potential, in the opinion of the City, to adversely
affect the POTW;
(n)
"User" means any person who discharges, causes or permits the discharge
of waste into the sewage system.
(o)
"User classification" means a classification of user based on the
Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Manual. Classification of
users as determined in this Chapter shall be as follows:
(1)
"Commercial user" means any user not defined as a residential or
industrial user.
(2)
"Industrial user" means any user engaged in the business of processing
or manufacturing agricultural products, animals, poultry, goods, wares,
or other products or materials who processes or manufactures the same
for the purpose of sale, resale, or redelivery in processed or manufactured
form.
(3)
"Residential user" means domestic user, schools, churches and those
structures exclusively domiciliary in nature, including nursing homes
and convalescent hospitals, single-family homes, flats and apartments
and boardinghouses (but excluding transient rooms, hotels and motels
and all other quarters primarily offered to the transient trade).
(4)
"Significant industrial user" is defined in subsection (m) of this
Section.
(p)
"Waste" includes sewage and any and all other waste substances, water,
liquid, solid, gaseous or radioactive associated with human habitation,
or of human, fowl or animal origin, or from any producing, manufacturing
or processing operation of whatever nature, including such waste placed
within containers of whatever nature prior to, and for purposes of,
disposal.
[Ord. No. 679, § 1(part),
1976; Ord. No. 1252-18 § 1]
[Ord. No. 679, § 1(part),
1976.]
When mains and laterals are in place or within a reasonable
distance from a particular parcel, as determined by the director,
the city may furnish sewer service to the property upon payment of
the appropriate charges and costs.
[Ord. No. 679, § 1(part),
1976.]
Lines on private property belong to the property owner. All
lines and appurtenant facilities constructed in or under streets,
easements, or alleys shall become the property of the city upon the
completion of the installation and upon the final inspection and approval
of the lines by the director.
(a)
When a lateral is to be constructed across private property to serve
another lot, an easement must first be conveyed from one property
owner to the other. The easement line, size and installation shall
be approved by the city.
(b)
When a main is to be constructed across private property to serve
more than one lot, as easement shall be granted to the city, and the
easement line, size and installation shall be approved by the city.
[Ord. No. 679, § 1(part),
1976.]
[Ord. No. 679, § 1(part),
1976.]
The city shall maintain all city mains and appurtenances within
public easements or on public property. The property owner shall maintain
all laterals, connection lines and appurtenances for his premises
to the main.
(a)
All lands and buildings occupied by people or requiring sewage shall
be connected with the city's sewer system within six months after
the completion of an annexation; provided, that the city council may
in its sole discretion and in the event it decides such extensions
are in the best interests of the city, extend the time limit to connect
with the city sewer system in lands annexed to the city. The city
may grant more than one extension, provided, however, that any extension
shall be for no more than five years.
(b)
In case of unusual physical conditions, including, but not limited to circumstances where pumping plants are required, the provisions of subsection (a) of this section may be waived by the city council on the following conditions:
(1)
The applicant for such waiver must execute and have acknowledged
an agreement with the city providing that the cost of the sewer line
across his property, plus his pro rata portion of the cost of extending
the sewer line from the existing sewer line to applicant's property
and including the applicant's pro rata cost of special equipment
and materials required, such as pumping plants, pressure sewer lines,
extra manhole costs and similar items, on demand of the city, and
when the sewer line is installed by the city.
(2)
The agreement provided for in subdivision (1) of this subsections
hall provide that such applicant's pro rata costs of the sewer
line, which cost shall be determined against the applicant's
property served by the sewer line, and shall be a lien on the property
for the amount thereof, from the time of recordation of the agreement
by the applicant, which lien shall continue until the assessment and
all interest thereon is paid, or until it is discharged of record.
The agreement shall provide that it shall run with the applicant's
property, and be binding upon all successors in interest of the applicant.
(3)
The city council shall hold a public hearing on the fixing of the
applicant's pro rata cost of the sewer line, with ten days'
written notice to the applicant or his successor in interest of the
hearing, after the receipt by the city council of the report of the
director, determining the applicant's pro rata cost. At the hearing
the city council shall finally determine the applicant's pro
rata cost of the sewer line.
(4)
The applicant shall pay his pro rata cost of the sewer line to the
city within ten days after such cost has been finally fixed and determined
by the city council. In the event the applicant does not pay the cost
within the period, the city council shall order the amount of the
cost, as fixed by resolution, to be turned over to the county auditor,
who shall enter the amount thereof on the county assessment book opposite
the description of the particular property and the amount shall be
collected together with all other taxes thereon against the property.
(5)
As an alternate method of collection of the amount of the lien, the
city may file and maintain an action to foreclose such lien.
(6)
Any septic tanks proposed to be installed by the applicant shall
be approved by the director and the health officer and shall be on
a lot area of a minimum of eight thousand square feet, per dwelling
unit or commercial unit.
(7)
When a request for waiver of subsection (a) of this section is received,
the director shall determine the area to be served by the sewer line
required for eventual service to the applicant's property. Waivers
of such subsection may not be granted by the city council for any
area in excess of fifty percent of the area served.
(8)
No such waiver as provided in this section may be granted for industrial
purposes.
[Ord. No. 679, § 1(part),
1976.]
[Ord. No. 679, § 1(part),
1976.]
Any person residing within the limits of the city shall be furnished
sewage service by the city on the payment of applicable fees; provided,
that the applicant for the services shall be required to pay for the
extension of the sewer main to and across the street frontage of the
property served; and provided further, that in the case of dead-end
streets, incapable of extension, and with the permission of the director,
the applicant shall only be required to extend the sewer main to his
sewer connection.
(a)
Any applicant for city sewer service shall, at his own expense, install
a sewer main of not less than eight inches inside diameter from the
nearest existing main at a point extending across the front of the
applicant's property; provided, that for good cause shown, the
director may in writing allow the main to be smaller than eight inches
inside diameter. In the case of corner lots, the main shall extend
across applicant's property on the side from which service is
to be made.
(b)
The total cost of an eight-inch line shall be paid by the applicant;
provided, that the pro rata cost to intervening properties under other
ownerships shall be returned to the applicant at the time the intervening
property owners request permission to hook up to the sewer; and also
provided, that such requests are within ten years from the date of
the original applicant's request.
(c)
Whenever an applicant requests sewer service from the city and should
it be deemed necessary by the city, because of potential development
of the applicant's property or intervening property or property
more distant from the city, to require a main larger than eight inches
in diameter, the same may be required by the city, and paid by the
applicant.
[Ord. No. 679, § 1(part),
1976; Ord. No. 938, § 1.]
No person shall discharge waste or any other substance or material
into the sewage system which, either alone or by interaction with
other substances or materials, causes, threatens to cause, or is capable
of causing:
The Director shall advise the City Council immediately and the
City shall have the right to disconnect and plug any sewer connection
in case it is found that any of the following will be or have been
discharged into the public sewer:
(a)
Storm water, groundwater, rainwater, street drainage, subsurface
drainage, yard drainage, pool, or pond water;
(b)
Any holding tank waste, unless such discharges are made into a City-approved
facility designed to receive such wastes;
(c)
Radioactive waters;
(d)
Waste containing in excess of:
|
#
|
Pollutant
|
Local Loading Limit
(lb/d)
|
Local Concentration Limit
(mg/L)
|
|---|---|---|---|
|
1
|
TKN
|
24.42
|
-
|
|
2
|
Arsenic
|
0.05
|
0.01
|
|
3
|
BOD5
|
800.42
|
-
|
|
4
|
Cadmium
|
0.09
|
0.005
|
|
5
|
Chloride
|
390.71
|
-
|
|
6
|
Chromium
|
3.93
|
0.1
|
|
7
|
Copper
|
-
|
0.05
|
|
8
|
Cyanide
|
0.07
|
0.1
|
|
9
|
Lead
|
0.09
|
0.015
|
|
10
|
Manganese
|
0.17
|
0.05
|
|
11
|
Mercury
|
0.05
|
0.002
|
|
12
|
Nickel
|
1.50
|
-
|
|
13
|
Nitrate
|
350.42
|
-
|
|
14
|
Selenium
|
0.08
|
0.02
|
|
15
|
Silver
|
4.44
|
0.1
|
|
16
|
TDS
|
1,340.68
|
-
|
|
17
|
TSS
|
461.26
|
-
|
|
18
|
Zinc
|
-
|
0.08
|
(e)
Waste having a temperature higher than 150 degrees Fahrenheit (65.5
degrees Celsius);
(f)
Waste containing any material or waste which will cause obstruction
of flow of the City's treatment process and cannot pass through
a three-eighths-inch screen;
(g)
Without prior authorization from the City:
(1)
Waste containing more than 300 mg/l of oil or grease of animal
or vegetable origin,
(2)
Waste containing more than 100 mg/l of oil or grease of mineral
or petroleum origin,
(3)
Waste having a pH lower than 5.5 or higher than 8.5 (unless
authorized by any permit issued pursuant to this Chapter),
(4)
Containing in excess of 0.02 mg/l total identifiable chlorinated
hydrocarbons which cannot be removed by the City's usual waste
treatment processes,
(5)
Containing in excess of 1.0 mg/l phenolic compounds which cannot
be removed by the City's wastewater treatment process.
(h)
Waste containing pollutants which create a fire or explosion hazard
in the POTW, including, but not limited to, waste streams with a closed
cup flashpoint of less than 140 degrees Fahrenheit (60 degrees Celsius);
(i)
Pollutants which cause corrosive structural damage to the POTW;
(j)
Pollutants which result in the presence of toxic gases, vapors, or
fumes within the City's treatment facilities;
(k)
Any trucked or hauled pollutants, except at discharge points designated
by the City.
[Ord. No. 679 § 1(part),
1976; Ord. No. 1252-18 § 2.]
[Ord. No. 679, § 1(part),
1976.]
No person shall discharge or throw any substance or material
into a manhole, or into other openings in the city sewage system other
than through an approved sewer connection.
[Ord. No. 679, § 1(part),
1976.]
Where there is an existing septic tank in use before the sewer
connection is required, the sewer lateral shall not drain the same
but shall run directly from the building to the main. Immediately
after connection, the septic tank shall be completely filled with
earth.
[Ord. No. 679, § 1(part),
1976.]
No person shall make a connection with the sewage system without
first obtaining a permit from the city.
[Ord. No. 679, § 1(part),
1976.]
No unauthorized person shall interfere with the sewage system,
or any portion thereof.
[Ord. No. 679, § 1(part),
1976.]
No person shall supply city sewer service to any premises without
city authorization. The city shall have the right, upon five days'
written notice, to disconnect water and sewer service to the premises
supplying the unauthorized service.
[Ord. No. 679, § 1(part),
1976.]
No person shall discharge, or cause or permit to be discharged
directly or indirectly into the sewage system water from cooling towers
or evaporative coolers, or air-conditioning units.
