[Ord. 103, 1979]
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings of the terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
(A) 
Federal Government:
ADMINISTRATOR
The Administrator of the U.S. environmental protection agency.
FEDERAL ACT
The federal water pollution control act (33 USC 1251 et seq.) as amended by the federal water pollution control act of amendments of 1972 (Pub. L. 92-500) and (Pub. L. 93-243).
FEDERAL GRANT
The U.S. government participation in the financing of the construction of treatment works as provided for by Title II, grants for construction of treatment works, of the act and implementing regulations.
(B) 
State Government:
DIRECTOR
The director of the Illinois environmental protection agency.
STATE ACT
The Illinois antipollution bond act of 1970.
STATE GRANT
The state of Illinois participation in the financing of the construction of treatment works as provided for by the Illinois antipollution bond act and for making such grants as filed with the secretary of state of the state of Illinois.
(C) 
Local Government:
CITY
The City of Lincoln.
INSPECTOR
That person regularly appointed by the City Council to inspect private sewage disposal systems, building drains and sewers and connections to the City sewerage system.
NPDES PERMIT
Any permit or equivalent document or requirements issued by the Administrator, or, where appropriate, by the director, after enactment of the federal water pollution control amendments of 1972, to regulate the discharge of pollutants pursuant to Section 402 of the federal act.
ORDINANCE
This ordinance.
PERSON
Any and all persons, natural or artificial including any individual, firm, company, municipal, or private corporation, association, society, institution, enterprise, governmental agency or other entity.
SHALL; MAY
Shall is mandatory; may is permissible.
SUPERINTENDENT OF SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
The regularly appointed superintendent of the sewage treatment plant of the City, his authorized deputy, agent, or representative.
(D) 
Wastewater And Its Characteristics:
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD)
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.
EFFLUENT CRITERIA
Defined in any applicable NPDES permit.
FLOATABLE OIL
Oil, fat, or grease in a physical state such that it will separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pretreatment facility. A wastewater shall be considered free of floatable oil if it is properly pretreated and the wastewater does not interfere with the collection system.
GARBAGE
The solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substances discharged, permitted to flow or escaping from any industrial, manufacturing, commercial, or business establishment or process or from the development, recovery or processing of any natural resource as distinct from sanitary sewage.
MAJOR CONTRIBUTING INDUSTRY
An industrial user of the publicly owned treatment works that: 1) has a flow of 50,000 gallons or more per average workday; or 2) has a flow greater than 10% of the flow carried by the municipal system receiving the waste; or 3) has in its waste, a toxic pollutant in toxic amounts as defined in standards issued under Section 307(a) of the federal act; or 4) is found by the permit issuance authority, in connection with the issuance of the NPDES permit to the publicly owned treatment works receiving the wastes to have significant impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on that treatment works or upon the quality of effluent from that treatment works.
MILLIGRAMS PER LITER
A unit of concentration of water or wastewater constituent. It is 0.001 gram of the constituent in 1,000 milliters of water. It has replaced the unit formerly used commonly, parts per million, to which it is approximately equivalent, in reporting the results of water and wastewater analysis.
pH
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the hydrogen ion concentration expressed by one of the procedures outlined in "standard methods".
POPULATION EQUIVALENT
A term used to evaluate the impact of industrial or other waste on a treatment works or stream. One population equivalent is 100 gallons of sewage per day, containing 0.17 pounds of BOD and 0.20 pounds of suspended solids.
ppm
Parts per million by weight.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
The wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food that have been shredded to such a 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 (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.
SEWAGE
Used interchangeably with wastewater.
SLUG
Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes more than five times the average twenty-four-hour concentration of flows during normal operation.
STANDARD METHODS
The examination and analytical procedures set forth in the most recent edition of "Standard Methods For The Examination Of Water And Wastewater" published jointly by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation.
STORM WATER RUNOFF
That portion of the precipitation that is drained into the sewers.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
Solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in water, sewage, or industrial waste, and which are removable by a laboratory filtration device. Quantitative determination of suspended solids shall be made in accordance with procedures set forth in "standard methods".
UNPOLLUTED WATER
Water of quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria in effect or water that would not cause violation of receiving water quality standards and would not be benefitted by discharge to the sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
WASTEWATER
The spent water of a community. From this standpoint of course, it may be a combination of the liquid and water carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions, together with any ground water, surface water, and storm water that may be present.
WATER QUALITY STANDARDS
Defined in the water pollution regulations of Illinois.
(E) 
Sewer Types And Appurtenances:
BUILDING DRAIN
That part of the lowest piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste, and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer or other approved point of discharge, beginning five feet (1.5 meters) 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.
COMBINED SEWER
A sewer which is designed and intended to receive wastewater, storm, surface and ground water drainage.
CONTROL MANHOLE
A structure located on a site from which industrial wastes are discharged. Where feasible, the manhole shall have an interior drop. The purpose of a "control manhole" is to provide access for the City representative to sample and/or measure discharges.
FIELD TILE
Any drainage facility usually, but not necessarily, consisting of pervious, unflanged jointed tile or other media laid for the prime purpose of draining away surface or subsurface waters and not designed for the carrying of sewage.
FORCEMAIN
A conduit for carrying pumped sewage under pressure to a point where gravity will carry the sewage to the place of treatment or disposal.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer provided by or subject to the jurisdiction of the City. It shall also include sewers within or outside the City boundaries that serve one or more persons and ultimately discharge into the City sanitary (or combined) sewer system, even though those sewers may not have been constructed with City funds.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer that conveys sewage or industrial wastes or a combination of both, and into which storm, surface, and ground waters or unpolluted industrial wastes are intentionally admitted.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for conveying sewage or any other waste liquids, including storm, surface and ground water drainage.
SEWERAGE
The system of sewers and appurtenances for the collection, transportation and pumping sewage.
STORM SEWER
A sewer that carries storm, surface and ground water drainage but excludes sewage and industrial wastes other than unpolluted cooling water.
(F) 
Treatment:
PRETREATMENT
The treatment of wastewaters from sources before introduction into the wastewater treatment works.
WASTEWATER FACILITIES
The structures, equipment and processes required to collect, carry away, and treat domestic and industrial wastes and transport effluent to a watercourse.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS
An arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater, industrial wastes, and sludge. Sometimes used as synonymous with "waste treatment plant" or "wastewater treatment plant" or "pollution control plant".
(G) 
Watercourse:
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface or ground water.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(H) 
User Types:
USER CLASS
The type of user, either "residential", "commercial", "industrial", or "institutional", as defined herein:
1. 
RESIDENTIAL USERAny building or any part of any building designed for or occupied by one or more persons as a single housekeeping unit. Where there is more than one single housekeeping unit in a flat or apartment, each single housekeeping unit shall constitute a separate residential user.
2. 
COMMERCIAL USERAny connection to said system other than a "residential user" or an "institutional user" as herein defined including hotels, restaurants, stores, mercantile establishments, factories which do not fit the definition of an industrial user, shops, schools, hospitals, packinghouses, hatcheries, etc., which do not fit the definition of an industrial user.
3. 
INDUSTRIAL USER
(a) 
Any nongovernmental user of publicly owned treatment works which discharges more than 25,000 gallons per day of sanitary waste, or a volume of process waste, or combined process and sanitary waste, equivalent to 25,000 gallons per day of sanitary waste. Sanitary wastes are the wastes discharged from the average residential user. The strength of the average residential waste discharge in terms of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) and suspended solids (SS) per volume of flow, as a minimum, and those concentrations shall be applied in determining equivalent volumes of process waste or combined discharges of sanitary and process waste.
(b) 
Any nongovernmental user of a publicly owned treatment works which discharges wastewater to the treatment works which contains toxic pollutants 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 hazard to humans or animals, create a public nuisance, or create any hazard in or have an adverse effect on the eaters receiving any discharge from the treatment works.
4. 
INSTITUTIONAL USEREither the state of Illinois department of mental health or the state of Illinois department of corrections.
(I) 
General:
EASEMENT
An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others.
INDUSTRIAL COST RECOVERY
A charge levied on industrial dischargers to recover the amount of state and/or federal grants made to the City to aid in the construction of sewerage improvements, that charge to be levied in proportion to the industry's use of the facilities.
REPLACEMENT
Expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories, or appurtenances which are necessary during the service life of the treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed. The terms "operation" and "maintenance" include replacement.
SEWERAGE FUND
The principal accounting designation for all revenues received in the operation of the sewerage system.
STREET BREAKING
Any digging in, excavation of, or disturbance of the surface or subsurface of any public street, avenue, alley or other public way, between the platted or dedicated lines thereof, for making any installations, renewals, repairs, removals or relocation of private service connections, whether for gas, water, sewer or other utility or accommodations.
USEFUL LIFE
The estimated period during which the collection system and/or treatment works will be operated and shall be 30 years from the date of start up of any wastewater facilities constructed with a federal grant.
(J) 
Types Of Charges:
EXTRA STRENGTH SURCHARGE
The assessment, in addition to the service charge and volume charge, which is levied on those persons whose wastes are greater in strength than the concentration values established in Section 7-8-1 of this title.
RESIDENTIAL CHARGE
A charge levied on each residential user. The charge will be equal for each residential user and will be levied in lieu of service charges and volume charges levied against other users.
SERVICE CHARGE
A charge levied on all nonresidential users to reimburse the City for that portion of the costs of operation, maintenance and replacement not related to the volume discharged by each user.
SEWERAGE CHARGE
The charge per month levied on all users of the wastewater facilities. The charge shall be computed as outlined in Section 7-8-1 of this title and shall consist of the total of the service charge, the volume charge and an extra strength surcharge, if applicable.
VOLUME CHARGE
The charge levied on all nonresidential users in proportion to the volume of wastewater, having normal or below normal domestic strength, discharged by said user.
[Ord. 103, 1979; Ord. 440, 6-2-1997]
(A) 
It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit, or permit to be deposited in any insanitary manner on public or private property within the City or in any area under the jurisdiction of said City, any human or animal excrement, garbage, or other objectionable waste.
(B) 
It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet within the City, or in any area under the jurisdiction of said City, any sewage or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions of this chapter.
(C) 
Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful to construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool, or other facility intended or used for the disposal of sewage within the City.
(D) 
The owner of all houses, buildings, or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purposes situated within the City and abutting on any street, alley, or right of way in which there is now located or may in the future be located, any public sanitary (or combined) sewer of the City, is hereby required at his expense to install suitable toilet facilities therein, and to connect such facilities directly with the proper public sewer in accordance with provisions of this chapter, within 90 days after date of official notice to do so, provided that said public sewer is within 200 feet of the property line.
(E) 
Any inflow sources, i.e., foundation drains, downspouts, or other sources which are connected to a combined sewer shall be disconnected from said combined sewer and connected to a separate storm sewer at such time as said separate storm sewer is made available to the property with the inflow source connection. The disconnection of the inflow source(s) shall be made within 90 days after the date of said notice to make said disconnection. "Made available" shall be defined as a separate storm sewer installed within the City right of way adjacent to the front yard of said property.
[Ord. 103, 1979]
Where a public sanitary (or combined) sewer is not available under the provisions of Subsection 7-7-2(D) of this chapter, the building sewer shall be connected to a private sewage disposal system complying with the provisions of this Section 7-7-3.
[Ord. 103, 1979]
Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful to construct or to maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool or other facility intended or used for the disposal of sewage not having proper drainage outlet to public sewers.
[Ord. 103, 1979]
Outdoor toilets, privies or outhouses are declared to be a nuisance, and the same shall be abated in the following manner: Notice shall be given by the health officer, Mayor, or any other official designated by the Council, that the said outdoor toilet, privy or outhouse shall be removed, and the said vaults or pits filled in, and said nuisance shall be abated. After 90 days, said nuisance may be abated by the City and costs and expenses of the same obtained in a judgment against the property owner or the possessor of the property, or action may be taken under Section 7-7-8 of this chapter. This subsection shall apply to the owners and possessors of real estate, and it shall be unlawful to either maintain the said outdoor toilets, privies or outhouses, and to construct the same or to use the same, or to permit its continued use after notice.
[Ord. 103, 1979]
Before commencement of construction of a private sewage disposal system, the contractor shall first obtain a license from the Illinois department of public health and a written permit signed by the City Clerk. The application for such permit from the City shall be made on a form furnished by the City, which the applicant shall supplement with such plans, specifications and/or other information as are deemed necessary by the City Clerk. A private sewage disposal permit and inspection fee of $50 shall be paid into the City treasury at the time the application is filed. This fee shall be in addition to any fee or deposit required for breaking the surface of streets or other public ways.
[Ord. 103, 1979]
A private sewage disposal system shall not be used or put into operation until the installation is completed to the satisfaction of the Building and Safety Official. He shall be allowed to inspect the work at any stage of construction. And, the owner shall notify the City Clerk when the work is ready for final inspection, and before any underground portions are covered. The inspection shall be made within 48 hours of receipt of the notice by the Building and Safety Official.
[Ord. 103, 1979]
The type, capacities, location and layout of the private sewage disposal system shall comply with all recommendations of the department of health of the state of Illinois. No permits shall be issued for any private sewage disposal system employing subsurface soil absorption facilities where the uncovered unit area of the lot is less than 15,000 square feet. No septic tank or cesspool shall be permitted to discharge to any public sewer or natural outlet.
[Ord. 103, 1979]
At such time as a public sewer becomes available to a property served by a private sewage disposal system, a direct connection, as provided in Subsection 7-7-2(D) of this chapter, shall be made to the public sewer system in compliance with this chapter, and any septic tanks, cesspools and similar private sewage disposal facilities for such property shall be evacuated and filled in with suitable material and its use abandoned.
However, in the event that a new annexation of lands to the City contains lots or subdivisions where no sewers were available to the users and where septic tanks have been installed, the owners and users of said septic tanks on said lots shall be allowed a period of seven years from the date of installation of the same until they shall be required to connect with the sewer system of the City, unless the said septic tank or tanks in said area shall create a nuisance or shall be the cause of an unsanitary condition in said area.
Persons who have by this chapter, through proper notice and upon demand by the City, installed a septic tank, the same being a private sewerage disposal system in the place of outhouses and privies, or persons who, upon original construction on lots within the City where sewers are not available, have installed septic tanks or cesspools, shall be allowed to use the same for a period of seven years from the date of installation before they shall be required to hook onto or connect with the sewer system of the City in the event that in the meantime become available within the proximity of their lots or property, with the same exceptions hereto as aforesaid stated for lands annexed to the City, the same being that in the event that said cesspool or septic tank becomes a nuisance or is insanitary or foul or offensive.
[Ord. 103, 1979]
The owner shall operate and maintain the private sewage disposal facilities in a sanitary manner and at no expense to the City.
[Ord. 103, 1979]
No statement contained in this chapter shall be construed to interfere with any additional requirements that may be imposed by the City.
[Ord. 2013-785, 8-19-2013; amended 7-17-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-1010; 2-20-2024 by Ord. No. 2024-1024]
(A) 
Connection With Sewers. No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any connections with or opening into, use, alter or disturb any public sewer or appurtenance thereof, without first obtaining a written permit from the Building and Zoning Department.
(B) 
Tapping Sewers. No person shall tap or cause to be tapped or to be connected to, or suffer or cause to flow or to drain, or to continue to flow or drain into the public sewer system of the City, the effluent of any source or sources of sewage, without first obtaining a permit therefor and complying with the regulations governing the securing of such permits, and the making and use of connections to the City's sewer systems, whether such systems lie wholly or partly within or without the boundary limits of the City. Furthermore, the Sewer Project Manager or his/her designee shall inspect each tap before it is made permanent so as to see that an approved connection has been installed to prevent the sewer pipe from slipping into the sewer line. If for any reason the sewer tap has been connected prior to the Sewer Project Manager or his/her designee's inspecting of same, the Sewer Project Manager or his/her designee shall have the power and the obligation to ask that same be removed so that the Sewer Project Manager or his/her designee can properly inspect the installation of the sewer tap.
(C) 
Construction/Repair of Sewers.
1. 
No unauthorized person shall construct, alter, or eliminate any private sewer service connected to City sewage system, without first obtaining a written permit from the City. Any work performed shall comply with City requirements and be subject to inspection of the Sewer Project Manager and Street Superintendent (in the event of a street break) or their designee. This permit shall be required for any and all sewer work to be done on a homeowner's lateral from the foundation of the residence to where the lateral taps into the City main sewer line. The fee for said permit shall be $25.
2. 
The responsibility to acquire the permit shall be the responsibility of the contractor performing the work. Failure to acquire a permit under this subsection shall subject the contractor to a fine for $100 for the first offense, $500 for the second offense, and $1,000 for the third and each subsequent offense. The costs for the violation of this subsection cannot be passed to the homeowner where the work is to be performed. A contractor cannot acquire a new permit if a fine amount is outstanding. Habitual offenders run the risk of having a permanent ban on the issuance of a permit.
[Ord. 632, 4-3-2006]
There shall be two categories of building or property sewer permits: a) a single-family residential service, and b) nonsingle-family services. In either case, the owner or his agent shall make application on a special form furnished by the City and make the payments or deposits by the ordinance required. The permit application shall be supplemented by such plans, specifications or other information as is considered pertinent in the judgment of the Building and Safety Official.
(A) 
The tapping and inspecting fee for a single-family home, with a water service of one inch or smaller, shall be as follows:
SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL SERVICE
Fiscal Year
Tapping Fee
May 1, 2006 through April 30, 2007
$850
May 1, 2007 through April 30, 2008
$900
May 1, 2008 through April 30, 2009
$950
May 1, 2009 through April 30, 2010
$1,000
May 1, 2010 and thereafter
$1,050
(B) 
The tapping and inspecting fees for all nonsingle-family structures shall be based upon the size of the structure's water service. The tapping and inspecting fee for all nonsingle-family structures shall be as follows:
NON-SINGLE-FAMILY SERVICES
Water Service Size
(Inches)
Tapping Fee
May 1, 2006 - April 30, 2007
May 1, 2007 - April 30, 2008
May 1, 2008 - April 30, 2009
May 1, 2009 - April 30, 2010
May 1, 2010 And Thereafter
1
$850
$900
$950
$1,000
$1,050
1.5
$2,550
$2,625
$2,705
$2,785
$2,870
2
$4,080
$4,200
$4,325
$4,455
$4,590
3
$8,165
$8,410
$8,660
$8,920
$9,190
4
$12,760
$13,140
$13,535
$13,940
$14,360
6
$25,515
$26,280
$27,070
$27,880
$28,715
8
$40,825
$42,050
$43,310
$44,610
$45,950
10
$99,875
$102,870
$105,960
$109,140
$112,415
12
$172,775
$177,960
$183,300
$188,800
$194,465
The tapping and inspecting fee provided for herein shall be in addition to any fee required by the City for breaking the surface of streets or other public ways.
The above fees for tapping and inspecting as provided in this section shall apply if the fee has been paid prior to the beginning of the work for which the application is made. In the event application is not made until the work has been started for the tap-in connection or until the actual connection for the tap- in has been completed, the owner shall pay to the City in addition to the fee provided in this section, any expenses incurred by the City to open the trench or ditch in which the connection has been made to ensure that the work has been properly completed; and in addition thereto, the owner of the property which is served by the tap-in connection, who has not made application for a permit until the actual connection for the tap-in has been completed, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined an amount not less than $200 and not more than $400 for each conviction.
One-half of all of the fees and penalties received pursuant to this section shall be placed in the general fund of the City of Lincoln and 1/2 of all of the fees and penalties received pursuant to this section shall be placed in a special capital account to be used as directed by the City Council from time to time.
[Ord. 103, 1979]
All disposal by any person into the sewer system is unlawful except those discharges in compliance with federal standards promulgated pursuant to the federal act and more stringent state and local standards.
[Ord. 103, 1979]
A building sewer permit will only be issued and a sewer connection shall only be allowed if it can be demonstrated that the downstream sewerage facilities, including sewers, pump stations and wastewater treatment facilities, have sufficient reserve capacity to adequately and efficiently handle the additional anticipated waste load.
No permit to make a connection to the City's sanitary, combined or storm sewer system in contravention of the requirements of this chapter shall hereafter be issued under the provisions for tapping of or connection to sewers in the City.
[Ord. 249, 12-7-1987]
All costs and expense incident to the installation, maintenance and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner. The owner shall indemnify the City from any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation or maintenance of a building sewer. The owner of any property shall be responsible to bear all costs and expenses in maintaining the individual sewer to the connection to the City sewer line.
[Ord. 103, 1979; Ord. 439, 6-2-1997]
A separate and independent sanitary sewer connection shall be provided for every building; except that where one building stands at the rear of another on an interior lot and no private sewer is available or can be constructed to the rear building through the property or an adjoining alley, court, yard or driveway, the sewer from the front building may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered as one sewer (except for sewer service charges accruing from such buildings or properties).
The domestic waste connection, for all new buildings and when connected to a combined sewer, shall be constructed to handle only domestic waste from the building. All inflow sources, i.e., foundation drains, downspouts, or other sources, shall be connected to a separate inflow connection. At such time as a separate storm sewer is made available to the property, the owner shall disconnect the inflow connection from the combined sewer and connect it to the separate storm sewer entirely at the expense of the owner.
[Ord. 103, 1979]
Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test by the Building and Safety Official, to meet all requirements of this chapter and are adequate to serve the purposes of the new building and its use.
[Ord. 103, 1979]
The size, slope, alignment, materials of construction of a building sewer, and the methods to be used in excavating, placing of the pipe, jointing, testing, and backfilling the trench, shall all conform to the requirements of the building and plumbing codes or other applicable rules and regulations of the City. Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials must be approved by the City Council. In the absence of code provisions or in amplification thereof, the materials and procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the "American Society Of Testing Materials, Water Pollution Control Federation Manual Of Practice No. 9", and "Standard Specifications For Water And Sewer Main Construction In Illinois" shall apply.
Whenever possible, the building sewer shall be brought to the building at an elevation below the basement floor. In all buildings in which any building drain is too low to permit gravity flow to the public sewer, sanitary sewage carried by such building drain shall be lifted by a means of a pump, and discharged to the building sewer. Water operated ejectors are prohibited.
[Ord. 103, 1979]
The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the City Clerk when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection shall be made under the supervision of the Building and Safety Official or his representative.
[Ord. 103, 1979]
All excavations for building sewer installation shall be adequately guarded with barricades and lights so as to protect the public from hazard. Streets, sidewalks, parkways, and other public property disturbed in the course of the work shall be restored in a manner satisfactory to the City.
[Ord. 103, 1979]
(A) 
Surface Drains: No person for himself or for any occupant, owner or agent of any property shall connect or discharge into any storm sewer, storm sewer manhole or other appurtenance, street gutter or surface drain, or upon any street, alley, avenue or public place any sanitary sewage; or suffer or cause any sanitary sewage to discharge or drain therein or thereon.
(B) 
Connecting Roof, Surface Or Footing Drains To Sanitary House Or Property Sewer Prohibited: It shall be unlawful for the owner, occupant, or agent of any building or structure or real property either by himself or others to connect or cause to be connected to the building or property sanitary sewer, the drainage of storm water from any roof, yard or lot surface. Any person leaving a sanitary sewer stub unsealed in an excavation such as a basement, crawlspace, sewer trench or other construction so that surface water may enter the sanitary sewer shall be subject to an immediate fine as provided in this chapter. Such drainage shall be permitted to follow the natural watershed; or in case a storm sewer is available, such storm drainage shall be connected directly with such storm sewer system; in any case avoiding the dilution of the sanitary sewage load or establishment back pressure tending to discharge sewage into basements, cellars or house fixtures.
[Ord. 194, 2-4-1985]
Cash deposits and liquidated damages shall conform to the provisions of Title 8, Chapter 2 of this Code.
[Ord. 103, 1979]
The owners of lots, lands and parcels of land abutting upon or adjacent to streets, avenues, alleys, roadways and other public places in the City, which are proposed to be improved by paving or repaving, by surfacing or resurfacing (either with or without curbs, gutters, etc., or other lateral construction), by widening, oiling or other type of surface improvement, and in which streets and other public ways, a gas or water main, sewer or other public service main, or any or all of such mains have been connected with such mains by service pipes, conduits or laterals shall, upon notice, as hereinafter provided, of such proposed improvement, cause such connections to be installed or extended or relocated to a point outside the curb line or outside the edge of such proposed improvement, or if service connections already installed are in a deteriorated condition requiring repairs or replacement, such repairs or replacements shall at once be made and completed to a point outside the curb line or outside the edge of such proposed improvement. All in order to obviate damage to new street improvement by necessity of cutting into or under the surface of the same for installation, repair or renewal of various types of service connections after the improvement is made.
[Ord. 103, 1979]
The owners of such abutting lots, lands, or parcels of land shall lay and construct or cause to be laid and constructed, such service pipes, conduits, laterals or connections as provided in Section 7-7-4-13 of this chapter, within 30 days from the publication of notice that such street, avenue, alley, roadway or other public place is to be improved by paving or repaving, surfacing or resurfacing, by oiling, widening or by other type of surface improvement. Provided, however, that said period of 30 days may be extended by the Mayor of the City, at his discretion, upon application and good cause shown by the owner or owners of abutting or adjacent lots, land or parcels of land; but no extension shall be granted for more than 15 days at any one time.
[Ord. 103, 1979]
Upon the neglect or failure of the owner or owners of such abutting real estate to lay or extend such service pipes, conduits, laterals or connections as herein required, or if any owner or owners do not lay or extend such service pipes, laterals or connections as herein and within the time herein required, such owner or owners or subsequent owner or owners of such abutting or adjacent real estate shall be and they are hereby precluded and prohibited from cutting through the surface or from tunneling under such pavement or other improved surface and roadbed, or in any way disturbing the same or the curb thereof for such purposes for a period of five years from the date of completion of such improvement, except on written application to the City Council, which may grant at its discretion permission subject to compliance by the property owner with such conditions as the said City Council shall deem desirable and necessary under the circumstances for the protection of the public improvement and its restoration to good condition after the petitioner has completed the work provided for under the permit granted by said City Council.
[Ord. 103, 1979]
Applications to connect to or use or to continue to use connections to the City's sewer system within the City shall be made as provided in Sections 7-7-4-8 through 7-7-4-15, inclusive, of this chapter, the permits for which contemplate the digging, trenching or excavation for a sewer connection to be made approximately in front of the lot from which the building or property sewer originates. When it is necessary to extend the sewer more than 30 feet beyond the property line from which it emerges into the street, there shall be made an additional charge for street breaking on the following basis:
(A) 
Covered by the original permit fee, an extension of not to exceed 30 feet beyond the lot line from which it emerges.
(B) 
For each additional foot in an unimproved street surface, $1 per square foot.
(C) 
For each additional foot in a bituminous improved surface, $2 per square foot.
(D) 
For each additional foot in a brick, concrete or other hard surfaced street, $4 per square foot.
(E) 
These charges shall be paid at the time of applying for the permit.
[Ord. 103, 1979]
Where sewers or laterals or extensions thereof are or may be constructed without equitable participation in the cost thereof by properties thereto, the City may, by ordinance, prescribe a frontage or other equitable fee for making connections thereto.
[Ord. 275, 7-17-1989]
No person owning, leasing, representing or controlling real property lying in whole or in part outside the City shall be permitted to tap, connect or to drain sewage or wastes into any part of the sanitary or storm or combined sewer systems of the City, or into any tile, drain or outlet discharging into the City sewer systems. Those individuals out of City limits presently on the City's public sewerage system shall be allowed to continue under the same rules, regulations and restrictions as apply to users of such facilities within the limits of the City, subject to the same penalties as provided for within the City's boundaries.
[Ord. 466, 4-6-1998]
It shall be unlawful for any person to rod, jet, or otherwise penetrate any sewer pipe or connection, wherever located, that ultimately connects to the sewerage system for the City without notifying promptly the City sewerage system of said work. Upon the failure to so notify, both the owner of said property where said work is performed and the person or persons who make said entry, if convicted of violating this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $500 for each offense. Additionally, said owner and persons responsible shall be liable for damages for any expense, loss or damage incurred by the City as a result of said violation.
[Ord. 103, 1979]
(A) 
Sanitary Sewers: No person shall discharge, or cause to be discharged, any storm water, surface water, ground water, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, uncontaminated cooling water, or unpolluted industrial process waters to any sanitary sewer.
(B) 
Storm Sewer/Combined Sewer: Storm water 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 City Council. Industrial cooling water or unpolluted process waters may be discharged, on approval of the City Council, to a storm sewer, combined sewer, or natural outlet.
(C) 
Prohibited Waters/Wastes To Any Sewer: No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any of the following described waters or wastes to any public sewers:
1. 
Any gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil, or other flammable 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 pH lower than 5.5, or higher than 9.0, or having any other corrosive property capable of causing damage or hazard to structures, equipment and personnel of the sewage works.
4. 
(a) 
Any wood or metal or anything made of wood or metal or constructed partly of wood or partly of metal; glass, glass bottles or glass in any form; or crockery or broken crockery; dishes, china, broken chinaware; or gasoline, greases or tar or lubricants in any form; or bones, feathers, offal from slaughterhouses or slaughtering, from meat markets, groceries or from poultry dressing plants, and all such waste matter from whatever source or whatever created or produced; or brick, brickbats, clay or concrete tile or pieces of clay or concrete tile or clay tile materials or concrete in any form; or stone, sand, gravel or cinders; leather in any form; or cloth, clothing, burlap, gunny sacks or pieces or parts thereof in any form; or weeds, grass, cornhusks, cornstalks, corncobs and other vegetable growths, vegetable tops, vegetable and fruit peelings and other vegetable and fruit waste; and all matter not susceptible of being carried in solution in water, and not proper sewage, requiring sewage treatment, nor capable of sewage treatment.
(b) 
No person shall place or throw or cause to be placed or thrown any of the designated substances or things upon the ground or upon floors or surfaces or into open ditches or drains adjacent to any manhole, catch basin or inlet, either owned or controlled by the public or such designated substances or things, by reason of rain or other natural causes such named substances or things will be carried or conducted into the sewerage system or into any sewer in the City.
(D) 
City Council Discretion: No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged the following described substances, materials, waters, or wastes if it appears likely in the opinion of the City Council that such wastes can harm either the sewers, sewage treatment process, or equipment; have an adverse effect on the receiving stream; or can otherwise endanger life, limb, public property, or constitute a nuisance. In forming their opinion as to the acceptability of these wastes, the City Council 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 the maximum limits established by regulatory agencies. The substances prohibited are:
1. 
Any liquid or vapor having a temperature higher than 150° F., (65° C.).
2. 
Any waters or wastes containing toxic or poisonous materials; or oils, whether emulsified or not, in excess of 100 mg/l or containing substances which may solidify or become viscous at temperatures between 32° and 150° F., (0° and 65° C.).
3. 
Any garbage that has not been properly shredded. The installation and operation of any garbage grinder equipped with a motor of 3/4 horsepower (0.76 hp metric), or greater, shall be subject to the review and approval of the superintendent.
4. 
Any waters or wastes containing strong acid, iron pickling wastes, or concentrated plating solutions whether neutralized or not.
5. 
Any waters or wastes containing iron, chromium, copper, zinc, or similar objectionable or toxic substances; or wastes exerting an excessive chlorine requirement, to such degree that any such material received in the composite sewage at the sewage treatment works exceeds the limits established by the City Council for such materials.
6. 
Any waters or wastes containing phenols or other taste or odor producing substances, in such concentrations exceeding limits which may be established by the City Council as necessary after treatment of the composite sewage, to meet the requirements of the state, federal, or other public agencies of jurisdiction for such discharge to the receiving waters.
7. 
Any radioactive wastes or isotopes of such half-life or concentration as may exceed limits established by the City Council in compliance with applicable state or federal regulations.
8. 
Any mercury or any of its compounds in excess of 0.0005 mg/l as Hg at any time except as permitted by the City Council in compliance with applicable state and federal regulations.
9. 
Any cyanide in excess of 0.025 mg/l at any time except as permitted by the City Council in compliance with applicable state and federal regulations.
10. 
Any waters or wastes containing a toxic or poisonous substance in sufficient quantity to injure or interfere with any sewage treatment process, constitute a hazard in the receiving waters of the sewage treatment plant or a hazard to humans or animals.
11. 
Any waters or wastes containing suspended solids of such character and quantities that unusual attention or expense is required to handle such materials at the sewage treatment plant.
12. 
Any noxious or malodorous gas or substance capable of creating a public nuisance.
13. 
Any waters or wastes that contain ammonia-nitrogen in concentrations in excess of 1 1/2 time that of normal domestic sewage.
14. 
Materials which exert or cause:
(a) 
Unusual concentrations of inert suspended solids (such as, but not limited to, fuller's earth, lime slurries, and lime residues) or of dissolved solids (such as, but not limited to, sodium chloride and sodium sulfate);
(b) 
Excessive discoloration (such as, but not limited to, dye wastes and vegetable tanning solutions);
(c) 
Unusual BOD, chemical oxygen demand, or chlorine requirements in such quantities as to constitute a significant load on the sewage treatment works;
(d) 
Unusual volume of flow or concentrations of wastes constituting "slugs" as defined herein.
15. 
Waters or wastes containing substances which are not amenable to treatment or reduction by the sewage treatment processes employed, or are amenable to treatment only to such degree that the sewage treatment plant effluent cannot meet the requirements of agencies having jurisdiction over discharge to the receiving waters.
[Ord. 103, 1979]
If any waters or wastes are discharged, or are proposed to be discharged to the public sewers, which waters contain the substances possess the characteristics enumerated in Section 7-7-5-1 of this chapter, and/or which are in violation of the standards for pretreatment provided in Chapter 1, EPA rules and regulations, subchapter D, water programs part 128 - pretreatment standards, federal register volume 38, no. 215, Thursday, November 8, 1973, and any amendments thereto, and which in the judgment of the City Council 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 City Council may:
(A) 
Reject the wastes;
(B) 
Require pretreatment to an acceptable condition for discharge to the public sewers;
(C) 
Require control over the quantities and rates of discharge; and/or
(D) 
Require payment to cover the added costs of handling and treating the wastes not covered by existing taxes or sewer charges, under the provisions of Section 7-8-1 of this title.
If the City Council permits the pretreatment or equalization of waste flows, the design and installation of the plants and equipment shall be subject to the review and approval of the City Council and subject to the requirements of all applicable codes, ordinances and laws.
[Ord. 103, 1979]
Grates, grease, oil and sand interceptors shall be provided when, in the opinion of the superintendent of the sewage treatment plant, they are necessary for the proper handling of liquid wastes containing grease in excessive amounts, or any flammable wastes, sand or other harmful ingredients; except that such interceptors shall not be required for nonmultiple type private living quarters or dwelling units. All interceptors shall be of a type and capacity approved by the City inspector and shall be so located as to be readily and easily accessible for cleaning and inspection.
Grease and oil interceptors shall be constructed of impervious materials capable of withstanding abrupt and extreme changes in temperature. They shall be substantial in construction, watertight, and equipped with easily removable covers which, when bolted in place, shall be gastight and watertight.
Where installed, all grease, oil and sand interceptors shall be maintained by the owner, at his expense, in continuously efficient operation at all times.
All floor drains, catch basins and inlets, up to and including a six inch opening shall be fitted and covered and kept covered with grate covers of not larger than 1/2 inch mesh. And all floor drains, catch basins and inlets, in excess of six inch openings, shall be covered and kept covered with approved iron grates, to retain all foreign matter and substances likely to clog and obstruct sewers, and not proper sewage nor susceptible to sewage treatment.
[Ord. 103, 1979]
The admission into the public sewers of any waters or wastes having: a) a five day biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) greater than 200 ppm by weight; or b) containing more than 240 ppm by weight of suspended solids (SS); or c) containing any quantity of substances having the characteristics described in Section 7-7-5-1 of this chapter; or d) having an average daily flow greater than 2% of the average daily sewage flow of the City, shall be subject to the review and approval of the superintendent of the sewage treatment plant. Where necessary in the opinion of such superintendent of the sewage treatment plant, the owner shall provide, at his own expense, such preliminary treatment as may be necessary to: a) reduce the biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) to 200 ppm and the suspended solids (SS) 240 ppm by weight; or b) reduce objectionable characteristics or constituents to within the maximum limits provided in Section 7-7-5-1 of this chapter; or c) control the quantities and rates of discharge or other disposal of such waters or wastes. Plans, specifications and any other pertinent information relating to proposed preliminary treatment facilities shall be submitted for the approval of the superintendent of the sewage treatment plant and of the environmental protection agency of the state of Illinois; and not construction of or installation of such facilities shall be recommended until said approvals are obtained in writing. Where preliminary treatment facilities are required to be provided for any objectionable wastes or waters, they shall be maintained continuously in satisfactory and effective operation, by the owner at his expense.
[Ord. 103, 1979]
Each industry shall be required to install a control manhole and when required by the City Council, 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. Such manhole, when required, shall be accessibly and safely located, and shall be constructed in accordance with plans approved by the superintendent of the sewage treatment plant. 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.
[Ord. 103, 1979]
The owner of any property serviced by a building sewer carrying industrial wastes shall provide laboratory measurements, tests, and analyses of waters and wastes to illustrate compliance with this chapter and any special conditions for discharge established by the City or regulatory agencies having jurisdiction over the discharge.
The number, type and frequency of laboratory analyses to be performed by the owner shall be as stipulated by the City; but no less than once per year, the industry must supply a complete analysis of the constituents of the wastewater discharge to assure that compliance with the federal, state and local standards are being met. The owner shall report the results of measurements and laboratory analyses to the City at such times and in such manner as prescribed by the City. The owner shall bear the expense of all measurements, analyses, and reporting required by the City. At such times as deemed necessary, the City reserves the right to take measurements and samples for analysis by an outside laboratory service.
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, and shall be determined at the control manhole provided, or upon suitable samples taken at said control manhole. 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 carried out by customarily accepted methods to reflect the effect of constituents upon the sewage works and to determine the existence of hazards to life, limb, and property. (The particular analyses involved will determine whether a twenty-four hour composite of all outfalls of a premises is appropriate or whether a grab sample or samples should be taken. Normally, but not always, BOD and suspended solids analyses are obtained from twenty-four-hour composites of all outfalls, whereas pHs are determined from periodic grab samples.)
[Ord. 103, 1979]
No statement contained in this chapter shall be construed as preventing any special agreement or arrangement between the City and any industrial concern whereby an industrial waste of unusual strength or character may be accepted by the City for treatment, subject to payment therefor, in accordance with Section 7-8-1 of this title, by industrial concern, provided such payments are in accordance with federal and state guidelines for user charge system and industrial cost recovery system.
[Ord. 103, 1979]
No unauthorized person shall maliciously, wilfully, or negligently break, damage, destroy, or tamper with any structure, appurtenance, or equipment which is a part of the sewage works. Any person violating this provision shall be subject to immediate arrest under charge of disorderly conduct or malicious mischief.
[Ord. 103, 1979]
The superintendent and other duly authorized employees of the City, the Illinois environmental protection agency, and the U.S. environmental protection agency, bearing proper credentials and identification, shall be permitted to enter all properties for the purposes of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, and testing in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. None of the above shall have the authority to inquire into any processes, including metallurgical, chemical, oil refining, ceramic, paper, or other industries beyond that point having a direct bearing on the kind and source of discharge to the sewers or waterway or facilities for waste treatment.
While performing the necessary work on private properties referred to in this section, the superintendent or duly authorized employees of the City, the Illinois environmental protection agency, and the U.S. environmental protection agency shall observe all safety rules applicable to the premises established by the company, and the company shall be held harmless for injury or death to the City employees, and the City shall indemnify the company against loss or damage to its property by City employees and against liability claims and demands for personal injury or property damage asserted against the company and growing out of the gauging and sampling operation, except as such may be caused by negligence or failure of the company to maintain safe conditions.
The superintendent and other duly authorized employees of the City bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted to enter all private properties through which the City holds a duly negotiated easement for the purposes of, but not limited to, inspection, observation, measurements, sampling, repair, and maintenance of any portion of the sewage works lying within said easement. All entry and subsequent work, if any, on said easement, shall be done in full accordance with the terms of the duly negotiated easement pertaining to the private property involved.
[Ord. 103, 1979]
Any person found violating any provision of this chapter, except Section 7-7-6 of this chapter, shall be served by the City with written notice stating the nature of the violation and providing a reasonable time limit for the satisfactory correction thereof. The offender shall, within the period of time stated in such notice, permanently cease all violations. The City may revoke any permit for sewage disposal as a result of any violation of any provision of this chapter.
Any person who shall continue any violation beyond the time limit provided for in the written notice to cease violation, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be fined in the amount not less than $200 for each violation. Each day in which any such violation shall continue shall be deemed a separate offense.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall become liable to the City for any expense, loss or damage occasioned to the City by reason of such violation.