All properties, residential, commercial, industrial
and institutional, within the corporate limits of the Town of Georgetown
discharging wastes must be connected to the municipal sanitary sewer
system. This also applies to properties to be annexed into the corporate
limits. No privately owned sewer transmission and/or treatment and
disposal systems will be permitted within the corporate limits.
The Town Council shall appoint a Town Manager
or designated representative who, as part of his or her responsibilities,
perform the duties as herein set forth and shall make reports of all
inspections to the Town Council each month or as requested by the
Town Council.
No buildings or premises shall be connected
with any sewer without a building permit being first obtained from
the Town Manager or designated representative. These permits shall
be kept on hand during the progress of the work and exhibited whenever
required. Permits may be withheld at any time, from any person, firm
or corporation violating the rules and regulations of the sewer code.
Permits will not be granted to any person who performs unsatisfactory
work or refuses to remedy defective work. No such permit shall be
issued by the Town Manager or designated representative, except upon
the express approval of the Town Council of Georgetown, for any building
or premises unless, at the time the connection is made, all outlets
in said building or premises are attached to the connection.
The jurisdiction of the Town Manager or designated
representative shall cover the construction, reconstruction, altering
or repairing of all sewers or sewer connections from the point where
connection is to be made with the municipal sewer to the point where
the sewer drain is brought above the surface of the ground or to the
walls of the building. He or she shall have supervision over the enforcement
and carrying out of the provisions and restrictions of this code and
be responsible for the enforcement thereof, subject at all times to
the instructions and directions of the Town Council of Georgetown.
Plans and specifications covering the proposed outside drainage construction and the nature of the existing plumbing and proposed sewer lateral shall be submitted to the Town Manager or designated representative for approval. Such plans and specifications shall be approved or rejected by the Town Manager or designated representative within five work days when practicable. A certificate of such approval or rejection shall be issued in writing. Refer to Article IV for materials and methods of construction.
The sewer laterals of lots and buildings of
separate ownership must be separate from that of other owners and
shall be separately and independently connected with the municipal
sewerage system unless otherwise permitted by special action of the
Town of Georgetown.
The Town of Georgetown shall have authority
to order the Town Manager or designated representative to disconnect
the sewer service of any person or corporation for failure to comply
with the provisions of this chapter.
The Town Manager or designated representative is authorized to refuse permission to connect any property to the public sewer system or to compel the disconnecting of any property to the public sewer system in order to prevent the discharge into the public sewer system of any substance deemed harmful or to have a deleterious effect upon the public sewer system, including the sewage disposal system of the Town of Georgetown. Refer to Article III for definition of allowable waste.
The Town Manager or designated representative is authorized to compel pretreatment of any industrial waste in order to prevent a discharge into the sewer system of any substance or waste deemed harmful or to have a deleterious effect upon the public sewer system of the Town of Georgetown, including the sewage disposal system. Refer to Article V for industrial user requirements.
No person(s) shall maliciously, willfully or
negligently break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface or tamper with
any structure, appurtenance or equipment which is a part of the wastewater
facilities.
The Town Manager and other duly authorized employees
of the Town of Georgetown bearing proper credentials and identification
shall be permitted to enter all private properties through which the
Mayor and Council hold a duly negotiated easement for the purposes
of, but not limited to inspection, observation, measurement, sampling,
repair and maintenance of any portion of the wastewater facilities
lying within said easement. All entry and subsequent work, if any,
on said easement, shall be done in full accordance with the terms
of the duly negotiated easement pertaining to the private property
involved.
The Town Manager and other duly authorized employees
of the Town of Georgetown bearing the proper credentials and identification
shall be permitted to enter all industrial properties for the purpose
of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling and testing pertinent
to discharge to the community system in accordance with the provisions
of this chapter.
[Amended 10-28-2015 by Ord. No. 2015-16]
Whenever a condition arises where the provisions
of the chapter cannot comply without working unusual hardship to the
property owner, the matter of making specific exceptions to said chapter
shall be left to the discretion of the Town Council of Georgetown.
