No connections shall be made to a sanitary sewer which connections are intended to discharge inflow. Such prohibited connections include, but are not limited to, footing drains, roof leaders, roof drains, cellar drains, sump pumps, catch basins, uncontaminated cooling water discharges or other sources of inflow.
Connections which contribute inflow to the sanitary sewers must be disconnected in a fashion approved by the Superintendent.
Prior to such time as any property having service is sold or ownership is transferred, the owner shall notify the Superintendent of such pending sale or transfer. The Superintendent shall inspect such property for the purpose of determining if any connections which contribute inflow exist. Any such connections so identified shall be removed and remedied to the satisfaction of the Superintendent prior to such sale or transfer.
It shall be a willful violation of this chapter for any person to reconnect any inflow source which has been disconnected pursuant to this article.
The Superintendent is enabled to take whatever action is necessary to determine the amount of inflow, including the requirement for installation of a control manhole. The property from which the inflow originated shall be billed for inflow according to Article XII, however, the Town of Van Buren Town Board may cause a surcharge at a rate not to exceed five times that for normal sewage volume charge.