There is hereby enacted an ordinance regulating the use of public
and private sewers and drains, sewage disposal, the installation and
connection of building and house sewers, the discharge of waters and
wastes into the public sewer system and providing penalties for violation
thereof; and for the establishment of rates and charges for the connection
to and use of the public sewer system in the Town of Winchester, County
of Litchfield and State of Connecticut.
Unless specifically indicated otherwise in the content, terms
used in this chapter shall have the following meanings:
BOD (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 parts per million by weight.
BUILDING CODE
The Building Code of the Town of Winchester, including amendments
or additions thereto, and shall include the Plumbing Code therein
contained.
BUILDING DRAIN
Includes, where appropriate, the house drain, and shall mean
that part of the lowest horizontal 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, beginning
five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER
Includes the term "house sewer" where appropriate and shall
mean the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or
other place of disposal.
GARBAGE
Wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food,
and from the handling, storage and sale of produce; and shall include
such wastes as defined above which have been shredded to such degree
that all particles will be carried freely under normal flow conditions
in the public sewer, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch in any
dimension.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The liquid wastes from industrial processes as distinct from
sanitary sewage.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm-, surface
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 ground-, surface and stormwaters as may be present.
SEWAGE WORKS
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage, and shall include both public and private sewage facilities
within the Town of Winchester.
SEWER COMMISSION
The Water and Sewer Commission of the Town of Winchester
as defined in Section 605 of the Town Charter, as amended.
SUPERINTENDENT
The Superintendent of Public Works of the Town of Winchester,
or his authorized assistant, deputy, agent or representative.
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.
Where no connection to any public sewer shall be required as set forth in §
323-3C, the building drain may be connected to a private disposal system, constructed and maintained in accordance with the provisions of the Building Code of the Town of Winchester; or at his own expense the owner may connect the building drain into the public sewer system.
No unauthorized person shall maliciously, willfully or negligently
break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface or tamper with any structure,
appurtenance or equipment which is a part of the municipal sewage
works. Any person violating this provision shall be subject to immediate
arrest under charge of disorderly conduct, and subject to the maximum
fine permitted by state law for each violation.
The Superintendent and other duly authorized employees of the
Town bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted
to enter upon all properties for the purposes of inspection, observation,
measurement, sampling and testing, in accordance with the provisions
of this chapter.
The Sewer Commission shall have the authority to establish assessments,
charges, rentals and connection fees in accordance with the provisions
of the Connecticut General Statutes.