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Division 1. Use Required
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No person shall place, deposit, or permit to be deposited in
any unsanitary manner on public or private property within the Town,
or in any area under the jurisdiction of the Town, any human or animal
excrement, garbage or other objectionable waste.
No person shall discharge into any natural outlet within the
Town or in any area under the jurisdiction of the Town, any sewage
or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has been
provided in accordance with this chapter.
Except as hereinafter provided, no person shall construct or
maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool, or other facility
intended or used for the disposal of sewage.
[Amended 2-14-2005 by Ord. No. 2-2005; 8-8-2016 by Ord. No. 7-2016]
A.
The owner of all houses, buildings
or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation, or
other purposes, situated within the Town 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 Town,
shall at his expense install suitable toilet facilities therein, and
connect such facilities directly with the proper public sewer in accordance
with the provisions of this chapter, within 90 days after date of
official notice to do so.
B.
The public sewer must be within
300 feet of the structure for this section to be applicable.
C.
The Planning Board through a conditional use application may waive the three-hundred-foot requirement in Subsection B above thereby allowing the use of a subsurface waste water disposal system for single-family residential buildings including any accessory buildings after having found there are unreasonable costs associated with connecting into the public sewer line. The Planning Board shall consider the following as a minimum standard when finding unreasonable costs:
(1)
The cost of connecting into
the public sewer verses the cost of an in-ground septic system. The
cost differential between connecting into the public sewer or a subsurface
system should be supported by a minimum of two bids for the installation
of the public sewer line and one bid for the installation of the in-ground
system.
(2)
The soils conditions from
the structure to the public sewer line: Soil conditions must be shown
or described by a formal soils report documenting the soils conditions
and difficulties between the structure and where the proposed public
sewer connection is to be.
(3)
Minimum lot size. The subject
property must meet both the state's minimum lot size law for subsurface
disposal systems and local zoning district minimum lot size requirements.
(4)
The complexity of the proposed
design for either system. The Planning Board shall have the right
to hire an independent third party for review of the applicant's cost
factors. Upon such decision by the Board, the applicant shall place
a sum of money in escrow with the Town to cover the cost of the third
party review. Said escrow amount shall be determined by the Planning
Board.
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Division 2. Use Regulations and Standards
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No person shall discharge
or cause to be discharged any stormwater, surface water, groundwater,
roof runoff, subsurface drainage, uncontaminated cooling water or
unpolluted industrial process waters to any sanitary sewer.
A.
Stormwater and all other unpolluted
drainage shall be discharged to such sewers as are specifically designated
as combined sewers or storm sewers or to a natural outlet approved
by the Public Works Director.
B.
Industrial cooling water or unpolluted
process waters may be discharged, on approval of the Public Works
Director, to a storm sewer, combined sewer or natural outlet.
A.
No person shall discharge or cause
to be discharged any of the following waters or wastes to 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;
(3)
Any waters or wastes having
a corrosive property after dilution, capable of causing damage or
hazard to structures, equipment, and personnel of the sewage works;
or
(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.
A.
No person shall discharge or cause
to be discharged substances, materials, waters or wastes if it appears
likely in the opinion of the Public Works Director that such wastes
can harm either the sewers, the sewage treatment process, sewage treatment
equipment or the quality of the effluent from the sewage treatment
process, have an adverse effect on the receiving stream or can otherwise
endanger life, limb, public property or constitute a nuisance.
B.
In forming his opinion as to the
acceptability of these wastes, the Public Works Director will give
consideration to such factors 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 any other pertinent factors.
A.
If any waters, wastes, materials
or substances are discharged or are proposed to be discharged to the
public sewers, which in the judgment of the Public Works Director
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 Public Works Director may:
B.
If the Public Works Director
permits the pretreatment or equalization of waste flows, the design
and installation of the plant and equipment shall be subject to the
review and approval of the Public Works Director, and subject to the
requirements of all applicable codes, ordinances, and laws.
C.
If a violator in noncompliance
with industrial pretreatment and related requirements of the Kennebec
Sanitary Treatment District (KSTD) rules and regulations or applicable
federal and state regulations is identified by the Kennebec Sanitary
Treatment District, the Town after authorization of the Town Council
may initiate such enforcement action that is requested by the district,
or the Town may request the district to proceed with an enforcement
action. Failure of the Town to act within the time stated by the Kennebec
Sanitary Treatment District shall be deemed a request that the district
proceed with an enforcement action. In an emergency, the Kennebec
Sanitary Treatment District may proceed immediately with an enforcement
action and give concurrent notice to the Town of its acts.
A.
Grease, oil, and sand interceptors
shall be provided when, in the opinion of the Public Works Director,
they are necessary for the proper handling of liquid wastes containing
grease in excessive amounts or any flammable wastes, sand or other
harmful ingredients. Such interceptors shall not be required for private
living quarters or dwelling units. All interceptors shall be located
as to be readily and easily accessible for cleaning and inspection.
B.
This system shall be maintained
at the expense of the owner.
Where preliminary treatments 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 expense.
[Amended 5-12-1975 by Ord. No. 48-1975]
A.
When required by the Public Works
Director, 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.
B.
The manhole, when required, shall
be accessibly and safely located. It shall be constructed in accordance
with plans approved by the Public Works Director. The manhole shall
be installed by the owner at his expense, and shall be maintained
by him so as to be safe and accessible at all times.
C.
The owner when requested shall
keep records and report the results of such monitoring to the Public
Works Director. Such records shall be made available upon request
by the Public Works Director to other agencies having jurisdiction
over discharges to the receiving waters.
A.
All measurements, tests, and
analyses of the characteristics of waters 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.
The characteristics shall be determined at the control manhole provided,
or upon suitable samples taken at the control manhole.
B.
In the event that no special
manhole has been required, the control manhole 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 of constituents
upon the sewage works and to determine the existence of hazards to
life, limb, and property.
[Added 5-12-1975 by Ord.
No. 48-1975]
A.
The Town Council shall establish
the user charge and industrial cost recovery system in accordance
with appropriate federal and state rules and regulations pertaining
to the costs associated to the use of the sewer by an industry.
B.
The Town Council shall establish
the user charge system in accordance with appropriate federal and
state rules and regulations pertaining to the costs associated to
the use of the sewer by a nonindustrial user.
C.
Any person proposing a new discharge
into the system or a substantial change in the volume or character
of pollutants that are being discharged into the system shall notify
the Public Works Director at least 45 days prior to the proposed change
or connection.
No statement contained in this article shall be construed as
preventing any special agreement or arrangement between the Town and
any industrial concern whereby an industrial waste of unusual strength
or character may be accepted by the Town for treatment, subject to
payment, by the industrial concern.
