No privy vault or septic tank for sewerage shall
hereafter be constructed or maintained within the Village on any premises
where the main drain emerges within 200 feet of any street wherein
there is a sewer and wherein the city water is laid; nor shall privy
vaults or septic tanks for sewerage be hereinafter permitted or continued
in use in any part of the Village where water closets can be connected
with the public sewer in the streets, provided that the Division of
Health may, however, issue written permits for the toleration, during
a period not exceeding 12 consecutive months (renewable), of vaults
or septic tanks, or both, for sewerage where the nature of the case
would make the rigid enforcement of this section a detriment to the
public health.
It shall be unlawful to install, construct or
reconstruct any septic tank, sewage disposal device or a subsurface
drainage system in the Village without first having obtained a permit
to do so as hereinafter provided.
A.
A separate permit shall be issued for each installation described in § 238-38, for which a fee as set forth in Chapter 145, Fees, shall be paid, and no permit shall be issued until:
[Amended 10-13-1992 by Ord. No. 2375]
(1)
The applicant has first submitted to the Division
of Health a signed written application, setting forth the information
as to plot, plan, address, boundaries, easements, if any, location
of present and proposed dwellings on subject plot, number of bedrooms
in subject dwelling, type and location of each plumbing fixture and
location of any well, stream or waters of the state, if any, on the
subject plot.
(2)
The applicant has first conducted at the site of the
proposed sewage disposal system percolation tests in the manner prescribed
by the Board of Health.
(3)
The Division of Health has determined that the proposed
sewage disposal system meets the requirements of the Division of Health.
(4)
All grading of the premises, except fine grading with
hand tools, shall have been completed in such a manner as will permit
the proper functioning of the sewage disposal system to be installed.
B.
After issuance of a permit, no grading of premises
shall be performed by mechanized devices, such as power shovels, bulldozers,
trucks and like equipment. No person shall operate or cause or permit
to be operated any such mechanical device over or upon any completed
or partially installed sewage disposal system or subsurface drainage
system.
As a condition in granting the permit to construct
a sewage disposal device, it is understood that any faulty workmanship,
damage or displacement of any part of the facilities by backfilling,
whether observed at the time or observed some time afterwards, remains
the responsibility of the builder and his contractor receiving the
permit, and that the necessary repairs will be made at the builder's
expense for a period of one year.
A.
No person other than a licensed plumber shall install
any private sewage disposal system unless, in addition to complying
with all other requirements of this article, such person shall, at
the time of such work, be the holder of a valid and outstanding certificate
of registration therefor.
B.
A certificate of registration may be obtained from the Division of Health or its authorized representative upon payment of a fee as set forth in Chapter 145, Fees, and upon proof of the applicant's knowledge and experience in the installation of sewage disposal devices and upon filing of a cash or corporate surety bond to the Village in the principal sum of $500. Such bond shall be conditioned upon the proper and workmanlike performance of all sewage disposal system installation work and further conditioned upon indemnification of the Village and the person for whom such work is done for loss resulting from damage or injury to the Division of Health, the Village or such person for whom the work is done and for any money necessarily expended or cost paid by them or replacement of such work, provided that such damage, injury or expenditure is occasioned by the improper workmanlike performance of such work or by the failure to comply with all applicable provisions of all ordinances, regulations and orders of the Division of Health and of the Village relating to sewage disposal systems.
[Amended 10-13-1992 by Ord. No. 2375]
C.
A certificate of registration shall not entitle the
holder to construct, alter or repair any plumbing system or to make
any connection to such system, except an outside connection with a
building drain, or do any work for which a plumber's license is required.
D.
Such certificate shall be valid only during the calendar year for which it is issued and may be renewed not later than December 31 of the calendar year next following the year of issuance, upon the payment of a renewal fee as set forth in Chapter 145, Fees, and the renewal of the bond required by this section.
[Amended 10-13-1992 by Ord. No. 2375]
Floors for settling (septic) tanks and distribution
boxes shall be made of poured concrete five inches in thickness and
shall project two inches beyond the outside of the sidewalls. Floors
shall be provided with a suitable slot or keyway to which the sidewalls
may be firmly fixed. Under special circumstances, the right is reserved
to require a reinforced concrete floor seven inches in thickness to
a distance of one foot beyond the outside of the sidewalls.
The drain pipe from the foundation wall to the
tanks shall be of heavy cast-iron or wrought iron pipe, of approved
diameter.
A.
Each settling (septic) tank shall have an absorption
system consisting of one or more lines of drainage tile not less than
four inches in diameter, laid at a slope of not more than 1/2 to 1 1/2
inches in greatest dimension in trenches not less than 12 inches deep
below the bottom of the tile. The depth of the trench shall not be
more than 36 inches. The gravel or crushed stone layer shall extend
at least 12 inches below and four inches above the tile and shall
be covered first with a layer of impervious paper and then with loam
to the top of the trench. Ends of drainage tile sections shall be
spaced 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch apart and shall be protected against
the entrance of obstructions by means of tarred felt strips not less
than four inches wide placed over the top and around the sides of
the tile at the joints. The bottom of the file shall not be less than
14 inches below the surface of the ground, and in no case shall the
bottom of the trench be less than 24 inches above the normal groundwater
table.
B.
The total length of absorption tile and the width
and spacing of drainage trenches shall be suitable to the soil, based
upon percolation tests, subject to the approval of the Board of Health,
but in no case shall trenches be less than 12 inches wide nor less
than six feet apart, center to center. For single-family dwellings,
there shall be not less than 150 linear feet of drainage tile or as
much more as may be required by the Inspector to properly drain the
sewage from the house for which the installation is being made.
C.
No settling (septic) tanks shall be built within 10
feet of the line of any street, road, lane or alley or within 10 feet
of the property line or fence of any adjacent property nor within
20 feet of the foundation wall of any dwelling house nor within 50
feet of any well, stream or waters of the state.
Finished surface grading shall be done in such
a way that no surface water will stand over the absorption area. A
minimum surface grade of not less than 2% will be permitted.
The Division of Health shall have the right
to require any change in type, size, elevation or capacity of any
of the units comprising the sewage disposal system by reason of conditions
found during its construction.
[Added 10-13-1992 by Ord. No. 2375]
It shall be unlawful to pump out any septic tank within the Village without first having obtained a permit, in writing, from the Division of Health. Applications for such permit are available at the Division of Health and when filed with the Division shall be accompanied by a fee as set forth in Chapter 145, Fees.
