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.
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.
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.
[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.