This chapter shall be known as the city's "Sewer System Use
and Regulation Ordinance."
(1993 Code, § 3-2.1.1; Ord. 578, passed 3-4-1991)
(A)
City's declaration of intent. Pursuant to the general laws
of the state and the City Charter, the City Council does hereby declare
its intention to own, acquire, construct, equip, operate, and maintain,
either within or without the corporate limits in whole or in part,
sewers, including maintenance, enlargement, or extension of the present
sewer system of the city, sewage treatment plant or plants, intercepting
sewers, outfall sewers, force mains, or pumping stations with all
appurtenances necessary, useful, or convenient for the treatment and
disposal of sewage.
(B)
Chapter intent. The intent and purpose of this chapter is
to provide for the orderly functioning of the publicly owned wastewater
collection and transport system and associated treatment works; to
set forth uniform requirements for direct and indirect contributors
to the wastewater collection and treatment system for the city; and
to enable the city to comply with applicable state and federal laws.
(1993 Code, § 3-2.1.2; 1993 Code, § 3-2.1.3; Ord. 578, passed 3-4-1991)
The objectives of this chapter are:
(A)
To
provide control of construction and use of the city sewerage system;
(B)
To
prevent the introduction of pollutants into the wastewater system
which will interfere with the operation of the system or contaminate
the resulting sludge;
(C)
To
prevent the introduction of pollutants into the wastewater system
which will pass through the system, into receiving waters or the atmosphere;
(D)
To
improve the opportunity to recycle and reclaim wastewaters and sludges
from the system;
(E)
To
provide for equitable distribution of the cost of the wastewater system;
and
(F)
To
assure the financial self-sufficiency of the sewerage system.
(1993 Code, § 3-2.1.4; Ord. 578, passed 3-4-1991)
(A)
Abbreviations. For the purpose of this chapter, the following
abbreviations shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or
requires a different meaning.
BOD5. Biochemical oxygen demand
(5-day).
DEQ. The State Department of Environmental
Quality.
EPA. The U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency.
l. Liter.
mg. Milligram.
mg/l. Milligrams per liter.
NPDES. National Pollutant Discharge
Elimination System.
OSPSC. The State Plumbing Specialty
Code.
POTW. Publicly owned treatment
works.
TSS. Total suspended solids.
U.S.C. United States Code.
(B)
AVAILABLE SEWER.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND or BOD5.
BUILDING DRAIN.
BUILDING SANITARY SEWER.
BUILDING STORM SEWER.
CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARDS.
CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND or COD.
CITY ENGINEER.
COLLECTION SYSTEM.
COMBINED SEWER.
COMMERCIAL USER.
COMPATIBLE POLLUTANT.
COMPOSITE SAMPLE.
CONTROL MANHOLE.
COOLING WATER.
DIRECT DISCHARGE.
DOMESTIC SEWAGE.
DOMESTIC USER.
DRAINAGE WATER.
EQUIVALENT RESIDENTIAL UNIT or E.R.U.
FLOW.
GARBAGE.
GRAB SAMPLE.
HOLDING TANK OR SEPTIC TANK WASTE.
INDUSTRIAL DISCHARGER OR USER.
INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER.
INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER DISCHARGE PERMIT.
MAY.
NATURAL OUTLET.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE.
(a)
(b)
PERSON.
pH.
POLLUTANT.
POLLUTION.
PRETREATMENT.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE.
PUBLIC SEWER.
REPLACEMENT.
RESIDENTIAL USER.
SANITARY SEWER.
SETTLABLE SOLIDS.
SEWAGE.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT.
SEWER.
SEWER OPENING.
SEWER USER.
SEWERAGE SYSTEM OR WORKS.
SHALL.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
SLUG.
STORM DRAIN or STORM
SEWER.
SUPERINTENDENT.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS.
TOXIC POLLUTANT.
UNPOLLUTED WATER.
USER.
USER CHARGE.
WASTEWATER.
WATERCOURSE.
Definitions. For the purpose of this chapter, the following
definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires
a different meaning.
Any sewer that can be accessed and sufficient grade exists
to serve the property.
The quantity of dissolved oxygen utilized in the biochemical
oxidation of organic matter over a period of 5 days at a temperature
of 20TC expressed in terms of mg/l.
The part of the lowest horizontal piping of a building drainage
system which receives the discharge from waste and other drainage
pipes within the building or structure, and conveys the same to the
building sanitary sewer which begins at a point 5 feet outside the
established line of the building structure.
The part of the horizontal piping of a wastewater drainage
system beginning from any building drain, and conveys wastewater to
a public sewer or other point of disposal.
The part of the piping of a storm water drainage system which
begins at the connection to the building storm drain at a point 5
feet outside the established line of the building or structure, and
conveys storm water, surface water, and other unpolluted water to
the public storm sewer, street, or other point of disposal.
National pretreatment standards specifying quantities or
concentrations of pollutants or pollutant properties which may be
discharged or introduced into a public sewerage system by specific
industrial categories.
The measure of the organic matter content in wastewater and
which is the oxygen equivalent of the organic matter that can be oxidized
under standard laboratory procedure using a strong chemical oxidizing
agent in an acidic medium.
The consulting engineer retained by the city, or his or her
authorized agent.
Facilities maintained by the city for collecting, pumping,
conveying, and controlling wastewater.
A sewer that is designed as both a sanitary sewer and a storm
sewer.
The occupant or lessee of any premises used for commercial
or business purposes which is not an industrial user as defined in
this chapter.
The pollutants of biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solids,
pH, and fecal coliform bacteria, plus additional pollutants which
the city treatment works may be specifically designed to treat.
A series of samples mixed together so as to approximate the
average strength of discharge to the sewer. A COMPOSITE
SAMPLE for 1 day shall consist of a pool of 24 samples,
each taken hourly, unless special conditions warrant otherwise and
the City Engineer designates an alternative acceptable procedure.
A manhole as required under the provisions of this chapter;
to which wastes produced on premises and discharged into a sanitary
sewer are accessible for testing.
The water discharged from any use to which the only pollutant
added is heat.
The discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly
to the waters of the state.
Wastewater of the type commonly introduced into a treatment
works by residential users.
Any person who discharges only domestic sewage.
Storm water, ground water, surface drainage, subsurface drainage,
spring water, well overflow, roof drainage, or other like drainage
other than sewage or industrial wastewater.
A volume of wastewater which incurs the same costs for operations
and maintenance as the average volume of domestic waste discharged
from an average residential dwelling unit in the treatment works service
area. For purposes of making this determination the city may utilize
the metered water use records. Where a user believes his or her wastewater
discharge to the treatment works is substantially different than his
or her water consumption, an appropriate adjustment may be made provided
the user demonstrates to the satisfaction of the city the actual wastewater
discharge.
The daily total of wastewater flow from an industrial, commercial,
or domestic user.
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing
of food, and from the handling, storage, and sale of produce.
A wastewater sample which is taken from a waste stream on
a 1-time basis without regard to the flow in the waste stream and
without consideration of time.
Waste from chemical toilets, campers, trailers, septic tanks,
or tank trucks.
Any nonresidential discharger who discharges industrial wastewaters
directly or indirectly into the city sewer system.
Any nondomestic liquid, gaseous substance, or semisolid from
any producing, manufacturing business or trade, or processing operation
of whatever nature (as distinct from sanitary sewage), including holding
tank or septic tank waste.
A permit to discharge industrial wastewaters into the city
sewer system issued under the authority of this chapter and which
prescribes certain discharge requirements and limitations.
The act referred to is permissive.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, or other body
of surface or ground water.
Activities required to ensure the dependable and economical
function of treatment works.
OPERATION.
Includes financial and personnel management records, laboratory
control, process control, safety and emergency operation planning,
attorney fees, consultant fees, court costs, and any costs or fees
reasonably associated with any of the above.
MAINTENANCE.
Preservation of functional integrity and efficiency of equipment
and structures. This includes preventive maintenance, corrective maintenance,
and replacement of equipment.
Any individual, company, enterprise, partnership, corporation,
association, society, or group.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
Any spoil, waste, residue, sewage, garbage, sludge, munitions,
chemicals, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, rock,
sand, dirt, soil, agricultural, municipal, or industrial material
discharged into water.
The degradation of the chemical, physical, biological, or
radiological quality of ground, surface, subsurface, or storm drainage
waters by humans, or the activities thereof.
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination
of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties
in wastewater to a less harmful state prior to or in lieu of discharging
or otherwise introducing the pollutants into the city sewerage system.
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.
Any sewer operated and maintained by the city.
Obtaining and installing equipment, accessories, or appurtenances
that are necessary during the design or useful life, whichever is
longer, of the collection and treatment works to maintain the capacity
and performance for which the works were designed and constructed.
The occupant of a single-family dwelling, or a portion of
a multifamily dwelling.
A conduit intended to carry liquid and water-carried wastes
from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions.
Those solids that are capable of being settled in a standard
imhoff cone.
A combination of water-carried wastes from residences, commercial
buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, together with
such ground, surface, and storm waters as may be present.
An arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
sewage.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
Includes all lavatories, wash basins, toilets, bathtubs,
showers, sinks, laundry trays, floor drains, and any and all other
fixtures or connections which shall provide an opening for sewage
and waste to be drained into the sewer, but shall not include cleanout
openings which are used solely for maintaining, repairing, or cleaning
the plumbing system.
Any person using a city sewer, or who has a residence, multi-family,
or commercial building, institutional building, industrial building,
or other structure containing plumbing, requiring connection to a
sanitary sewer.
The entire sewage collection and treatment system, exclusive
of building sanitary sewers. This includes all conduits, pumps, treatment
equipment, and any other components involved in the collection, transportation,
treatment, and disposal of domestic and industrial wastewater and
sludge.
The act referred to is mandatory.
Any industrial user of the city POTW who:
Has a dry weather wastewater discharge which exceeds 25,000
gallons per day;
Is subject to promulgated National Categorical Pretreatment
Standards;
Requires pretreatment in order to comply with the discharge
limitations; or
Is found to have significant impact, either singly or in combination
with other contributing industries, on the collection or treatment
system, the quality of sludge, the system's effluent quality, or air
emissions generated by the system.
Any discharge of water, sewage, or industrial waste which
in concentration of any constituent or in quantity of flow causes
interference to the operation of the POTW.
The portion of the storm drainage system that is within the
public right-of-way or easement operated and maintained by the city.
This may include but is not limited to pipes, culverts, ditches, waterways,
or any other appurtenances used for the removal or transportation
of rain water or other unpolluted water.
The Public Works Superintendent of the city or his or her
authorized representative.
The total suspended matter that either floats on the surface
or is in suspension in wastewater, and that is removable by laboratory
filtering.
Any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic
in regulations promulgated by the EPA.
Water to which no sewage or industrial wastewater has been
added; or water which has been used in such a manner that no pollutants
have been introduced to the flow.
Every person using any part of the sewage works of the city.
A charge levied on users of a treatment works for the user's
proportionate share of the costs of operation and maintenance (including
replacement) of the works.
Liquid or water-carried pollutants including any ground water,
surface water, and storm water that may be present, whether treated
or untreated, which is contributed into or permitted to enter the
POTW.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
(1993 Code, § 3-2.1.5; Ord. 578, passed 3-4-1991)
This chapter shall not substitute for nor eliminate the necessity
for conformity with any and all laws or rules of the state or regulation
of the city.
(1993 Code, § 3-2.6.9; Ord. 578, passed 3-4-1991)
The document entitled "Sewerage System Facilities Plan Update,
October 1989" is hereby adopted.
(Res. 561, passed 11-5-1990)
