A. Except as otherwise provided by this section, it shall
be unlawful to place, deposit or discharge, or to cause, suffer or
permit to be placed, deposited or discharged, either directly or indirectly,
into any public sewer of this City or into any house sewer connection
therewith in said City, or on or upon any street, alley or public
place, or on or upon any private property or any other place in said
City, in such manner that the same will be permitted to run into any
such public sewer or house sewer, any of the following substances:
(1) Any oil, petroleum, naphtha, liquid asphaltum or per-petroleum
product, or any fatty matter, rags, sand, earth or stone dust.
(2) Dead animals, fish, fruit or vegetable matter in any
form, except garbage deposited into the sanitary sewer system by means
of acceptable garbage grinders as provided for in this chapter.
(3) Any refuse or industrial liquid waste, other than
domestic sewage, that will not readily disintegrate in the sewage
treatment plant or that will cause or tend to cause obstructions in
the sewer system of the sewage treatment plant or interfere or tend
to interfere with the efficient and successful operation of said system
or said plant, or cause a potential hazard or objectionable odor.
(4) Any chemicals or waste destructive masonry.
(5) Grease, except in quantities commonly contained in
domestic sewage.
(6) Any effluent of a temperature exceeding 140° F.
(8) Any industrial waste, including but not limited to
mineral salts, molds or wastes resulting from their manufacture and
other products which will tend to sterilize activated sludge, trickling
filter slimes or slime growth on artificial or natural slow sand filters.
B. Before any person may discharge alkalis, acids or
other corrosive or harmful wastes into the public sewer, he shall
reduce the biochemical oxygen demand and the pH shall not be in excess
of 11 nor less than six. Control shall be to the extent which the
Engineer finds adequate, taking all circumstances into consideration.
C. Except as provided in Subsection
D of this section, it shall be unlawful for any person to make or maintain any connection with any part of the public sewer for the purpose of discharging sewage or waste which contains any of such objectionable substances mentioned in this section.
D. Permits.
(1) Whenever any person desires to make or maintain any
connection with any part of the public sewer for the purpose of discharging
sewage or waste which contains any of said objectionable substances,
such person shall apply to the Director of Public Works of the City
of Peekskill for a permit for said purpose. Said permit shall be issued
only when the Engineer is satisfied that an adequate intercepting
appliance has been provided to prevent such objectionable substances
or substance from entering the public sewer. Said permit shall be
issued only upon payment of the sum of $500 to the Director and shall
expire one year after the date of its issuance.
[Amended 5-14-2007 by L.L. No. 3-2007; 6-24-2019 by L.L. No. 3-2019]
(2) Said permit shall be revocable whenever it shall appear
to the Engineer that the holder thereof has violated any provision
of this chapter or when such intercepting appliance does not prevent
such objectionable substance or substances from entering the public
sewer. Said permit shall be revoked by registered mail to the permittee
at the address set forth in said permit. Said permit shall be deemed
revoked as of the fifth day after receipt of said notice.
(3) It shall be unlawful for the holder of any permit
issued pursuant to this chapter to fail to maintain such appliance
in a satisfactory working condition.
(4) Permits issued under this chapter shall be nontransferable.
(5) Before granting a permit to any applicant to discharge
any industrial liquid waste or industrial sewage into the public sewer,
the Engineer shall determine either that the waste is one which will
not damage or destroy the public sewer or cause an unwarranted increase
in the cost of maintenance of the public sewer or retard or inhibit
the treatment of the sewage or is one that can be made acceptable
by pretreatment.
E. The provisions of this chapter requiring the installation
of adequate intercepting appliances and the obtaining of permits shall
not apply to any person, firm or corporation maintaining a connection
with the public sewer upon the effective date of this chapter until
the expiration of 60 days from said effective date.
No person shall connect or cause or permit to
be connected any roof drain, yard drain or other conduit used for
carrying off rain or surface water with any public sewer or house
connection sewer leading thereto. No person shall cause or permit
any indirect connection to the public sewer or house connection sewer
leading thereto by means of which rain- or surface waters are permitted
to enter said public sewer.
A. Unpolluted waters from refrigeration systems, air-conditioning
systems or industrial cooling operations shall be discharged into
a storm sewer where such sewer is available or into a dry well, except
as provided in the Plumbing Code.
B. Unpolluted waters from swimming pools shall be discharged
into a storm sewer where such sewer is available or into a dry well
where space and soil conditions permit the installation of a dry well.
C. Before any unpolluted waters may be discharged into
any storm sewer drain, a permit must be obtained from the Director
of Public Works for said purpose, and all such waters so discharged
shall meet the requirements of the Water Pollution Control Board of
the State of New York.
[Amended 6-24-2019 by L.L. No. 3-2019]
Whenever it shall come to the attention of the Director that sewage is overflowing from any plumbing fixture which is below grade of the manhole in the street or right-of-way due to the backing up of sewage in the public sewer or due to the pressure in the public sewer or due to any cause whatsoever except a temporary stoppage in any such plumbing fixture, said Director may order and require such plumbing fixture to be plugged up or capped or may require that a backwater trap or backwater sewer valve, required by §
462-14, be installed to prevent such overflow.
A. Garbage resulting from the preparation of any food
or drink prepared and served or proposed to be served on the premises
may be ground and discharged into the public sewer only upon prior
approval of the Engineer and Building Inspector as to the fineness
of content, determined by an analysis made with United States Standard
sieves and based on wet, drained weights in accordance with the following:
(1) Not less than 40% shall pass a No. 8 sieve.
(2) Not less than 65% shall pass a No. 3 sieve.
(3) Not less than 100% shall pass a one-fourth-inch screen.
B. The method of discharge permitted under this section
shall be by flushing with water directly into a trapped outlet into
the house plumbing leading to the public sewer. The Engineer may limit
the permissible quantity or quality of garbage to be disposed of through
garbage grinders.
No person engaged in washing motor vehicles
or other equipment exclusive or incidental to any other business shall
permit any water or effluent from such operation to flow into any
public sewer or house connection sewer unless the washing area is
equipped with an approved interceptor. Such washing area shall be
roofed over and shall be so constructed as to prevent any water from
flowing over any street or public property or any storm- or surface
water from entering any public sewer.
Cellar drains and showers in basements or yards
shall be protected to prevent the admission of sand, detritus and
storm- or surface water into the public sewer or into any house connection
sewer leading thereto. When necessary, in the opinion of the Engineer
or the Building Inspector, such appurtenances shall be equipped with
an approved interceptor.
No person shall cause or permit the exhaust
from any steam engine or the blowoff from any boiler to be discharged
directly into any public sewer or into any house connection sewer
leading thereto. Such exhaust or blowoff shall first be discharged
into a watertight sump which may in turn be connected to the public
sewer.
A. It is hereby declared to be a nuisance and it shall
be unlawful for any person to use or maintain, or suffer or permit
to be used or maintained, upon any premises owned, controlled or occupied
by him or it, any cesspool except existing cesspools, when a public
sewer is available to such premises. Any existing cesspool shall not
be permitted to be pumped out or otherwise emptied to any degree for
future use when a public sewer is available for the disposal of the
sewage conveyed into said cesspool.
B. For the purpose of this chapter, a public sewer shall
be deemed available to any premises if it shall lie in the street,
alley or easement abutting said premises. In the application of this
chapter, any rear portion of any lot, regardless of the matter of
ownership, shall be deemed to be a part of the premises included with
the lot as shown by the recorded subdivision of which it is a part.
Should any sewer in front of any premises be of insufficient depth
to serve the rear portion of such lot by gravity, any person desiring
to install plumbing thereon shall make provision for conveying sewage
therefrom to the public sewer, it being the intent hereof that when
any portion of the City has been sewered, cesspools therein shall
be prohibited even though it may not be physically possible to provide
gravity sewer service.
A. It is hereby declared to be a nuisance and it shall
be unlawful for any person to keep or maintain, or suffer or permit
to be kept or maintained, at or upon any premises in the City of Peekskill
owned, occupied or controlled by him or it, any privy or dry closet
for the reception of human excrement or fecal matter.
B. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation
to commence or proceed with the erection, construction, alteration,
repair, raising, addition to, removal or demolition of any building
unless there shall be provided for the use of any person employed
or working upon any such building or portion thereof a sanitary chemical
toilet or a water flush toilet connected to a sewer, enclosed within
a suitable building or structure. Such toilets shall be located upon
or within a reasonable distance of the lot or premises upon which
such construction work is being done and shall in no case be located
more than 500 feet from the site of the proposed work. The Building
Inspector shall not approve the foundation for any building unless
and until the toilet facilities provided for the use of persons employed
or working thereon shall have been first inspected and approved by
the Building Inspector.
It is hereby declared to be a nuisance and it
shall be unlawful for any person to use or suffer or permit to be
used in the City of Peekskill for the purpose of a laundry or wash
house any building or premises unless the same shall be connected
with a public sewer, or to convey or suffer or permit to be conveyed
any slops, wash water or refuse substance from any laundry or wash
house within said City into any sink, cesspool, pit or on the ground,
or in any manner dispose of the same except by conducting the same
into a public sewer, provided such sewer is available as stated in
this chapter. Where no such public sewer is available, such wastes
shall be discharged into a cesspool constructed according to the Plumbing
Code.
Every industrial waste pretreatment plant shall
be equipped with an adequate fresh water supply easily available for
diluting and flushing, and all sewer connections shall be thoroughly
flushed after discharge of each batch of industrial liquid waste.
Every industrial waste pretreatment facility
shall be adequately maintained to accomplish its intended purpose.
Abandonment or failure to properly maintain such equipment shall be
cause for immediate revocation of the industrial connection sewer
permit and disconnection from the public sewer.
Every interceptor shall be cleaned by the operator
thereof as often as necessary to prevent objectionable materials from
entering the public sewer.
The Engineer or the Building Inspector may make
inspections at any reasonable time of all interceptors or other installations
on any premises and shall require that any such interceptor or other
installation be used and maintained as required by this chapter and
be kept in a clean and sanitary condition, and may prosecute any person
managing, operating or having control of any such premises or portion
thereof for failing, refusing or neglecting to comply with the provisions
of this chapter, using the penal provisions of the chapter for any
such prosecution.
The Engineer or Building Inspector may inspect
as often as he deems necessary every sewage pumping plant, sewage
treatment plant, industrial liquid waste pretreatment plant house
or valve or other similar appurtenances to ascertain whether such
facilities as connection sewer, interceptor, dilution basin, neutralization
basin and backwater trap are maintained and operated in accordance
with the provisions of this chapter. All persons shall permit the
Engineer and/or Building Inspector to have access to all such facilities
at all reasonable times.
Any tree growing in any public street or sidewalk
along the line of any public sewer or house connection sewer which
endangers or which in any way may endanger the security or usefulness
of any public sewer or house connection sewer is hereby declared a
public nuisance and shall be removed.
No person shall remove or cause to be removed,
or damage or cause to be damaged, any portion of any public sewer
or any house connection sewer in a public easement, or use or cause
to be used, or cause to be taken, any water from any sewer or flushing
apparatus for any use whatever.
A. No person shall open or enter or cause to be opened
or entered any manhole in any public sewer to dispose of garbage or
other deleterious substances or storm- or surface waters or for any
other like purpose.
B. No person shall remove any covering or cause any covering
to be removed from any manhole in any public sewer in the City of
Peekskill except properly authorized public officers of the City of
Peekskill, Westchester County or State of New York or their representatives
or inspectors.
[Amended 6-24-2019 by L.L. No. 3-2019]
Cesspool effluent which does not contain concentrations
of industrial liquid wastes, oil, greases or other deleterious substances
may be dumped into certain specific manholes when permission in writing
is secured from the Director of Public Works. No person shall dump
cesspool effluent into any manholes other than those designated by
the Director of Public Works or do so without permission in writing.
Such permission may be granted only upon application in writing by
a person engaged in the business of disposing of such effluent. Such
application shall state the street address of each location from which
such effluent is to be obtained. The permit shall give the date and
location of the manhole to be used. The Director of Public Works may
refuse to grant such permission to any person who fails to comply
with the provisions of this chapter.
[Amended 6-24-2019 by L.L. No. 3-2019]
When cesspool effluent is dumped into a specified
manhole under permission from the Director of Public Works, it shall
be discharged through a pipe or hose in such a manner that none of
the effluent shall be left adhering to the sides or shelf of the manhole,
and if any such effluent is inadvertently allowed to adhere to the
sides or shelf of the manhole, the manhole shall be thoroughly cleaned
with clear water by the person or firm using the manhole.
All house connection sewers and appurtenances
thereto now existing or hereafter constructed shall be maintained
by the owner of the property served in a safe and sanitary condition,
and all devices or safeguards which are required by this chapter for
the operation thereof shall be maintained in good working order.
A. The requirements contained in this chapter covering
the maintenance of sanitary sewage treatment plants, sewage pumping
plants, industrial liquid waste pretreatment plants, dairy screen
chambers, interceptors or other appurtenances shall apply to all such
facilities now existing or hereafter constructed. All such facilities
shall be maintained by the owner thereof in a safe and sanitary condition,
and all devices or safeguards which are required by this chapter for
the operation of such facilities shall be maintained in good working
order.
B. This section shall not be construed as permitting
the removal or nonmaintenance of any devices or safeguards on existing
facilities unless authorized in writing by the Building Inspector.