It shall be unlawful for any person to place,
deposit or permit to be deposited, in any unsanitary manner, on public
or private property, within the Town of Van Buren or in any area under
the jurisdiction of said municipality, any human or animal excrement,
garbage or objectionable waste. Also, no person shall discharge domestic
sewage onto the surface of the ground or discharge it in a way that
permits it to come to the surface of the ground.
No person shall connect a private sewage system
so that sewage flows into a storm sewer or into a drain intended exclusively
for stormwater.
No person shall discharge sewage into a well.
It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural
outlet within the town or in any area under the jurisdiction of said
municipality any wastewater or other polluted waters, except where
suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent
provisions of this chapter.
No property owner, builder or developer shall
be issued a building permit for a new dwelling or structure requiring
sanitary facilities unless a suitable and approved method of wastewater
disposal, conforming to this chapter, is available.
Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be
unlawful to construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, cesspool,
septic tank or other facility intended or used for disposal of wastewater.
The owners of all houses, buildings or properties
used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes
situated within the Town of Van Buren and abutting on any street,
alley or right-of-way in which there is located a public sewer, are
hereby required, at the owners' expense, to install suitable sanitary
facilities therein, and to connect such facilities directly with the
proper public sewer, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter,
within 90 days after official notice to do so, provided that said
public sewer is within 100 feet (30.5 meters) of the property line.
The use of the public sewers of the Town of Van Buren shall be strictly limited and restricted, except as provided in §
149-14, to receive and accept the discharge of sewage and other wastes, including industrial wastes generated on or discharged from real property within the bounds of the service area of the town's POTW.
At the recommendation of the Superintendent,
who determines that one or more segments of the POTW is exceeding
its hydraulic capacity at any time; any specific purpose of this chapter
is being violated; provisions of an intercommunity agreement are being
violated; or a moratorium is necessary to prevent exceedance of any
of the limits specified in an intercommunity agreement, the Town Board
shall have the authority to limit or deny new connections to the POTW
until the conditions leading to the moratorium are corrected. Such
correction may be by:
A. Construction of new facilities.
B. Enlarging existing facilities.
C. Correction of inflow and infiltration.
D. Cleaning and repairing of existing facilities.
E. Amendment of the intercommunity agreement.
All requirements, directives and orders calling
for mandatory use of the sewers, within the service area of the POTW,
for the proper discharge of sewage and other wastes, including industrial
wastes, shall be established and given by the Town Board, New York
State Department of Health, Onondaga County Department of Health,
Onondaga County Department of Drainage and Sanitation, NYSDEC, USEPA
and/or other such state or federal agencies, which have enforcement
powers.