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.
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.
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 Town of Cortlandt for the purpose of a laundry or wash
house any building or premises unless the same shall be connected
to 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 town into any sink, cesspool or pit or onto the
ground, or in any manner to dispose of the same except by conducting
the same into a public sewer, provided that 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.