It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit or permit
to be deposited in any unsanitary manner on public or private property
within the City of Oswego, or in any area under the jurisdiction of
said City, any human or animal excrement, garbage or other objectionable
waste.
It shall be unlawful to discharge without a SPDES permit to
any natural outlet within the City of Oswego or in any area under
its jurisdiction. Wastewater discharges to the City's POTW are
not authorized unless approved by the City Engineer in accordance
with provisions of this Part 2.
No person shall be issued a building permit for a new dwelling
or structure requiring sanitary facilities unless a suitable and approved
method of wastewater disposal, conforming to this Part 2, is available.
All housing construction or building development which takes place
after this Part 2 is enacted shall provide for an approved system
of sanitary sewers.
Except as provided in this Part 2, it shall be unlawful to construct
or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool or other
facility intended or used for the disposal of wastewater.
The owner of any house, building or property which is used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes, under the jurisdiction of this Part
2 and abutting on any street, alley or right-of-way in which there is or may be located a POTW, is required, at the owner's expense, to install suitable toilet facilities therein and to connect such facilities directly to the proper sewer in accordance with the provisions of this Part
2 within 90 days after the date of official notice to do so, provided that the proper wastewater sewer is within 100 feet (30.5 meters) of the property line. This section shall not apply to any person served by a privately constructed, owned, operated and maintained wastewater sewer and wastewater treatment facility which discharges directly to a natural outlet in accordance with the provisions of this Part
2 and applicable state and federal laws.
The use of the City's wastewater sewers shall be strictly limited and restricted, except as provided in §
199-22 of this article, to receive and accept the discharge of sewage and other wastes, including industrial wastes, generated on or discharged from real property within the bounds of the service area of the POTW.
The City Common Council, on the recommendation of the City Engineer,
shall have the authority to enter into agreements to accept sewage
and other wastes, including industrial wastes, generated by or discharged
from persons outside the service area of the POTW.
A. If the person is a municipality, the City Engineer shall, prior to
the City entering into an agreement, request the following from the
contributing municipality:
(1) A description of the quality and volume of wastewater discharged
to the POTW by the contributing municipality.
(2) An inventory of all users located within the contributing municipality
that are discharging to the POTW; and
(3) Such other information as the City Engineer may deem necessary.
B. If the person is a municipality, the agreement shall contain the
following conditions:
(1) A requirement for the contributing municipality to adopt a sewer use local law which is at least as stringent as this Part
2 and local limits which are at least as stringent as those set out in §
199-64 of this Part
2. The requirement shall specify that such local law and limits must be revised as necessary to reflect changes made to the City's local law or local limits;
(2) A requirement for the contributing municipality to submit a revised
user inventory on at least an annual basis;
(3) A provision specifying which pretreatment implementation activities,
including wastewater discharge permit issuance, inspection and sampling
and enforcement, will be conducted by the contributing municipality;
which of these activities will be conducted by the City Engineer;
and which of these activities will be conducted jointly by the contributing
municipality and the City Engineer.
(4) A requirement for the contributing municipality to provide the City
Engineer with access to all information that the contributing municipality
obtains as part of its pretreatment activities.
(5) Limits on the nature, quality and volume of the contributing municipality's
wastewater at the point where it discharges to the POTW;
(6) Requirements for monitoring the contributing municipality's
discharge;
(7) A provision ensuring the City Engineer access to the facilities of
users located within the contributing municipality's jurisdictional
boundaries for the purpose of inspection, sampling and any other duties
deemed necessary by the City Engineer; and
(8) A provision specifying remedies available for breach of the terms
of the intermunicipal agreement.
C. If the person is not a municipality, the discharge shall be made
only with the expressed written consent of the City Engineer (the
issuance of a permit) setting forth the terms and conditions of such
a discharge.
At the recommendation of the City Engineer, who determines that
one or more portions of the POTW is exceeding its hydraulic capacity
at any time or any specific purpose of this Part 2 is being violated,
the City Common Council shall have the authority to limit or deny
new connections to the POTW until the conditions leading to the moratorium
are corrected. Such correction may be by construction of new facilities,
enlarging existing facilities, correction of inflow and infiltration
or cleaning and repairing of existing facilities.
All requirements, directives and orders calling for mandatory
use of the wastewater sewers, within the service area of the POTW,
for the proper discharge of sewage and other wastes, including industrial
wastes, shall be established and given by the City Common Council,
NYSDEC, USEPA and/or other such state or federal agencies which have
enforcement powers.