A.Â
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged
any stormwater, surface water, groundwater, roof runoff, subsurface
drainage, uncontaminated cooling water or unpolluted industrial process
waters to any sanitary sewer.
B.Â
Stormwater and all other unpolluted drainage shall
be discharged to such sewers as are specifically designated as combined
sewers or storm sewers, or to a natural outlet approved by the Commissioners.
Industrial cooling water or unpolluted process waters may be discharged,
on approval of the Commissioners, to a storm sewer, combined sewer
or natural outlet.
A.Â
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged
any of the following described waters or wastes to any public sewers:
(1)Â
Any gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil or other
flammable or explosive liquid, solid or gas.
(2)Â
Any waters or wastes containing toxic or poisonous
solids, liquids or gases in sufficient quantity, either singly or
by interaction with other wastes, to injure or interfere with any
sewage treatment process or constitute a hazard to humans or animals,
create a public nuisance or create any hazard in the receiving waters
of the sewage treatment plant.
(3)Â
Any waters or wastes having pH lower than 6.2 or having
any other corrosive property capable of causing damage or hazard to
structures, equipment and personnel of the sewage works.
(4)Â
Solid or viscous substances in quantities or of such
size capable of causing obstruction to the flow in sewers, or other
interference with the proper operation of the sewage works such as,
but not limited to, ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal,
glass, rags, feathers, tar, plastics, wood, underground garbage, whole
blood, paunch manure, hair and fleshings, entrails and paper dishes,
cups, milk containers, etc., either whole or ground by garbage grinders.
B.Â
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged
the following described substances, materials, waters or wastes if
it appears likely, in the opinion of the Commissioners, that such
wastes can harm either the sewers, sewage treatment process or equipment,
have an adverse effect on the receiving stream or can otherwise endanger
life, limb, public property or constitute a nuisance. In forming their
opinion as to the acceptability of these wastes, the Commissioners
will give consideration to such factors as the quantities of subject
wastes in relation to flows and velocities in the sewers, materials
of construction of the sewers, nature of the sewage treatment process,
capacity of the sewage treatment plant, degree of treatability of
wastes in the sewage treatment plant and other pertinent factors.
The substances prohibited are:
(1)Â
Any liquid or vapor having a temperature higher than
150° F. (65° C.).
(2)Â
Any water or waste containing fats, wax, grease or
oils, whether emulsified or not, in excess of 100 milligrams per liter
or containing substances which may solidify or become viscous at temperatures
between 32° F. and 150° F. (0° C. and 65° C.).
(3)Â
Any garbage that has not been properly shredded. The
installation and operation of any garbage grinder equipped with a
motor of 3/4 horsepower (0.76 horsepower metric) or greater shall
be subject to the review and approval of the Commissioners.
(4)Â
Any water or wastes containing strong acid iron pickling
wastes or concentrated plating solutions whether neutralized or not.
(5)Â
Any waters or wastes containing iron, chromium, copper,
zinc and similar objectionable or toxic substances or wastes exerting
an excessive chlorine requirement to such degree that any such material
received in the composite sewage treatment works exceeds the limits
established by the Commissioners for such materials.
(6)Â
Any waters or wastes containing phenols or other taste-
or odor-producing substances, in such concentrations exceeding limits
which may be established by the Commissioners as necessary, after
treatment of the composite sewage to meet the requirements of the
state, federal or other public agencies or jurisdiction for such discharge
to the receiving waters.
(7)Â
Any radioactive wastes or isotopes of such half-life
or concentration as may exceed limits established by the Commissioners
in compliance with applicable state or federal regulations.
(8)Â
Any waters or wastes having a pH in excess of 9.5.
(9)Â
Materials which exert or cause:
(a)Â
Unusual concentrations of inert suspended solids
(such as, but not limited to, Fullers earth, lime slurries and lime
residues) or of dissolved solids (such as, but not limited to, sodium
chloride and sodium sulfate).
(b)Â
Excessive discoloration (such as, but not limited
to, dye wastes and vegetable tanning solutions).
(c)Â
Unusual BOD, chemical oxygen demand or chlorine
requirements in such quantities as to constitute a significant load
on the sewage treatment works.
(d)Â
Unusual volume of flow or concentration of wastes
constituting slugs as defined herein.
(10)Â
Waters or wastes containing substances which
are not amenable to treatment or reduction by the sewage treatment
processes employed, or are amenable to treatment only to such degree
that the sewage treatment plant effluent cannot meet the requirements
of other agencies having jurisdiction over discharge to the receiving
waters.
A.Â
If any water or wastes are discharged or are proposed to be discharged to the public sewers, which waters contain the substances or possess the characteristics enumerated in § 236-14B of this article and which, in the judgment of the Commissioners, may have a deleterious effect upon the sewage works, processes, equipment or receiving waters or which otherwise create a hazard to life or constitute a public nuisance, the Commissioners may:
B.Â
If the Commissioners permit the pretreatment of equalization
of waste flows, the design and installation of the plants and equipment
shall be subject to the review and approval of the Commissioners and
subject to the requirements of all applicable codes, regulations and
laws.
Grease, oil and sand interceptors shall be provided
when, in the opinion of the Commissioners, they are necessary for
the proper handling of liquid wastes containing grease in excessive
amounts or any flammable wastes, sand or other harmful ingredients;
except that such interceptors shall not be required for private living
quarters or dwelling units. All interceptors shall be of a type and
capacity approved by the Commissioners, and shall be located as to
be readily and easily accessible for cleaning and inspection.
Where preliminary treatment or flow-equalizing
facilities are provided for any waters or wastes, they shall be maintained
continuously in satisfactory and effective operation by the owner
at his expense.
When required by the Commissioners, the owner
of any property serviced by a building sewer carrying industrial wastes
shall install a suitable control manhole together with such necessary
meters and other appurtenances in the building sewer to facilitate
observation, sampling and measurement of the wastes. Such manhole,
when required, shall be accessibly and safely located and shall be
constructed in accordance with plans approved by the Commissioners.
The manhole shall be installed by the owner at his expense and shall
be maintained by him so as to be safe and accessible at all times.
All measurements, tests and analyses of the
characteristics of waters and wastes to which reference is made in
this regulation shall be determined in accordance with the latest
edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater,
published by the American Public Health Association, and shall be
determined at the control manhole provided or upon suitable samples
taken at said control manhole. In the event that no special manhole
has been required, the control manhole shall be considered to be the
nearest downstream manhole in the public sewer to the point at which
the building sewer is connected. Sampling shall be carried out by
customarily accepted methods to reflect the effect of constituents
upon the sewage works and to determine the existence of hazards to
life, limb and property. (The particular analyses involved will determine
whether a twenty-four-hour composite of all outfalls of a premises
is appropriate or whether a grab sample or samples should be taken.
Normally, but not always, BOD and suspended solids analyses are obtained
from twenty-four-hour composites of all outfalls whereas pH's are
determined from periodic grab samples.) All industries discharging
into a public sewer shall perform such monitoring of their discharges
as the Board of Sewer Commissioners and/or other duly authorized employees
of the Town may reasonably require, including installation, use and
maintenance of monitoring equipment, keeping records and reporting
the results of such monitoring to the Board of Sewer Commissioners.
Such records shall be made available upon request by the Board of
Sewer Commissioners to other agencies having jurisdiction over discharges
to the receiving waters.
No statement contained in this article shall
be construed as preventing any special agreement or arrangement between
the Town and any industrial concern whereby an industrial waste of
unusual strength or character may be accepted by the Town for treatment,
subject to payment therefor, by the industrial concern.
[Added 11-2-1977]
A.Â
No septic tank contents shall be discharged into the
public sewer system, except at the sewage treatment plant location
within the Town of Deerfield so designated by the Board of Sewer Commissioners.
The Board of Sewer Commissioners reserves the right to cancel, suspend
or place a limit on any permit issued for the above purpose if the
hauler violates any provisions of this regulation or if strict control
measures are required at the treatment plant.
B.Â
Septic system haulers shall obtain permits to remove,
transport and dispose of garbage, offal or other offensive substances
of septic systems and tanks of Deerfield residents. Said permit may
be obtained at the office of the Selectboard. A fee of $10 per year
will be charged for each permit issued. Each permit shall be valid
for one year, at which time it must be renewed by the applicant.
[Amended 6-12-2021 ATM by Art. 15]
C.Â
A fee for each dumping of septic system waste disposal
discharged at the treatment plant will be established from time to
time by the Board of Sewer Commissioners, said fee at the current
time to be $40 per dump.
[Amended 5-5-1986]