[Amended 8-4-2014]
The sewer collection, treatment and distribution system owned and operated by the Town of Selbyville shall be known collectively as the "Town of Selbyville Sewer Utility." The operation and management of this utility shall be under the control of the Town Council and shall direct the construction of additions thereto and the maintenance thereof and, in all cases not particularly provided for by this Part 1 or other ordinances of the Town, shall determine in what manner and upon what terms sewers may be taken from or added to the sewer utility, any property owner or sanitary sewer service user and the character of the connections and appliances which may be made or used therefor. Please see § 160-9, Improvements, Subsection C, Construction standards and specifications.
The following definitions shall apply under
this Part 1 concerning wastewater service:
Accepted or acceptable under an applicable specification
cited in this Part 1, or accepted as suitable for the proposed use
under procedures and powers of the Town or the Town's designated representative.
A structure built, erected and framed of component structural
parts designed for the housing, shelter, enclosure or support of persons,
animals or property of any kind.
A person who is the title owner or beneficial owner of property
and who seeks to construct on said property.
A structure having walls and a roof designed and used for
housing, shelter, enclosure or support of persons, animals or property.
A right acquired by public authority to use or control property
for a designated use. An easement restricts but does not abridge the
rights of the fee owner to the use and enjoyment of his land.
An arbitrary term used to express the load-producing effects
on the sewerage system caused by one dwelling place.
A quantity in terms of which the load-producing effects on
the sewerage system of sanitary fixtures are expressed on some arbitrarily
chosen scale.
One-time fee, rate, charge or assessment imposed by the Town
to provide for the expansion of sewer or water facilities and distribution
system.
Pipe extending from the sewer main to the property line or
easement.
An area of land measured, surveyed and plotted and set apart
for separate use and occupancy.
“May” is a permissive word.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface or groundwater.
When used alone shall mean these regulations, subsequent
amendments, or any emergency rule or regulation which the Town may
lawfully adopt.
An area of land measured, surveyed and plotted and set apart,
which may be a lot or may include one or more plotted lots.
Any natural individual, firm, partnership, company, association,
society, corporation, organization or any other group acting as a
unit.
Any natural individual who holds appropriate licenses from
the State of Delaware, Sussex County and the Town of Selbyville.
Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage,
garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials,
radioactive materials, hair, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock,
sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal and agricultural waste
discharged into water.
A legal right of passage over another person's ground acquired
by public authority.
A sewer supply pipe for public use.
The pipe from the sewer lateral to the sewerage system of
the building served.
"Shall" is a mandatory term.
A public or private thoroughfare which affords the principal
means of access to abutting property having a minimum right-of-way
width of 50 feet or, prior to the enactment of the Town Subdivision
Ordinance,[1] having a right-of-way width as platted of record in the
Office of the Recorder of Deeds, in and for Sussex County.
The Mayor and Council of the Town of Selbyville; includes
Town's consulting engineer and other agents or representatives.
It shall be unlawful for any person to place,
deposit or permit to be deposited on public or private property in
any area served by the Town in any unsanitary manner, in a manner
to cause objectionable odors, in a manner which causes or results
in discharge or runoff into the rivers, streams, or other state waters
in violation of federal or state law, or in a manner which may otherwise
cause a nuisance any human or animal excrement, garbage, pollutant
or other objectionable waste. The Town is excepted from the requirement
of this Part 1 for servicing its own properties.
It shall be unlawful to discharge or allow wastewater
or pollutants to run off property to any natural outlet in any area
served by the Town. The Town is excepted from the requirement of this
Part 1 for servicing its own properties.
Where public sewers are provided in an area
served by the Town, it shall be unlawful to construct or maintain
any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool or other facility intended
or used for disposal of sewage.
A.
The owners of all houses, buildings or properties
used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes,
situated in an area served by the Town and abutting on any street,
alley, easement or right-of-way in which there is now located or may
in the future be located a public sanitary sewer of the Town, are
hereby required, at their expense, to install suitable toilet facilities
therein and to connect such facilities directly with the proper public
sewer in accordance with the provisions of this Part 1 within 30 days
after date of official notice to do so and to make such connections
in accordance with the provisions of this Part 1.
B.
At such time as a public sewer becomes available to
a property served by a private sewage disposal system in an area served
by the Town, a direct connection shall be made to the public sewer,
and any septic tanks, cesspools and similar private sewage disposal
facilities shall be abandoned and filled with suitable material.
C.
The provisions of Subsections A and B of this section shall not apply to those houses and buildings situated within the Town which the Mayor and Council determine are subject to restrictions imposed by the Farmers Home Administration prohibiting sewer connections within areas designated as "one-hundred-year-flood zones."
More than one sewer lateral may be required
by the Town for each lot or for each two or more adjacent lots set
apart and occupied and used for the same purpose, provided that the
owner of the lots(s) installs such additional sewer lateral(s).
