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City of Oswego, NY
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New Laws (12) Index
A. 
No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any connections with or opening into, use, alter or disturb any wastewater sewer or a storm sewer without first obtaining a written permit from the City Engineer.
B. 
There shall be three classes of permits for connections to the City's POTW: Class I, residential; Class II, commercial; and Class III, industrial. In all cases, the owner shall make application for a permit to connect to the City's POTW on a special form furnished by the City. The permit application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications, wastewater information or other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the City Engineer required to administer this Part 2. A permit and inspection fee of $75 for a Class I, $75 for a Class II or $150 for a Class III connection permit shall be paid to the City at the time the application is filed.
C. 
Connection to a storm sewer shall be subject to a permit and inspection fee of $75. Such connections shall be subject to the provisions of this Part 2 and the approval of the City Engineer.
D. 
Annual sewer service fees for all in-City users connecting to the sanitary sewer system shall be based upon flat-rate water consumption at a minimum of $312 per year or on metered water consumption at a minimum of $216 per year. The sewer service fee shall be payable in quarterly installments, together with water consumption bills. The annual sewer service fees may be amended from time to time by the Common Council.
E. 
Permit applicants with outstanding violations or unpaid monies.
(1) 
No such permit shall be granted to or renewed for an applicant who is in violation of any City of Oswego code, ordinance or local law (hereinafter "violations") or who owes property taxes, water or sewer fees, special assessments, fines for violations of City ordinances or any other fees or past due monies of any name or nature owed to the City of Oswego (hereinafter "unpaid monies").
[Added 2-9-2015 by L.L. No. 2-2015; amended 8-14-2015 by L.L. No. 6-2015]
(a) 
The applicant shall have the burden of providing proof in a form acceptable to the department that there are no such violations or unpaid monies.
(b) 
In the event that the applicant has accrued violations or unpaid monies, such permit or renewal thereof shall be denied regardless of whether such violations or unpaid monies relate to a parcel of real property for which the application is made or another parcel owned by applicant or are personal to the applicant.
(c) 
In the event that the applicant has accrued violations or unpaid monies, such permit or renewal thereof shall be denied regardless of whether such violations or unpaid monies occurred or accrued before the effective date of this local law.
(d) 
Such permit, once granted, shall be revoked in the event that the applicant accrues violations or unpaid monies, or violations or unpaid monies are discovered, after the permit is granted. The revocation shall take effect five business days after receipt by the permit holder of notice from the City of Oswego of the pending revocation. Upon such revocation, all permitted activities and privileges shall immediately cease.
(e) 
No application fees shall be refunded upon revocation of the permit.
(f) 
The applicant must reapply for the issuance of such revoked permit by submitting a new application and paying all necessary application fees, and any such permitted activities or privileges may only be resumed once a new permit has been granted.
(g) 
All requirements set forth herein shall also apply to nonperson entities and such permit or renewal thereof shall be denied to an entity, or revoked, if a person with a substantial interest in such entity owes such unpaid monies or has accrued such violations. A "person with a substantial interest" shall mean an ownership interest of more than 10% of, membership on the governing board of, holding an office in or holding the ability to cast or control more than 10% of the votes in such entity.
(2) 
Notwithstanding the provisions contained in this section to the contrary, when in the opinion of the Director of Code Enforcement the issuance of a permit is necessary to prevent harm to life, safety, or the general welfare of the public, the Director of Code Enforcement shall be authorized to issue said permit for the sole and exclusive purpose of bringing such violations into compliance with the Code of the City of Oswego. Nothing contained herein shall relieve the property owner from complying with all other applicable sections of the Code including, without limitation, the provisions contained in this section.
[Added 4-10-2017 by L.L. No. 2-2017]
The costs and expenses incidental to the building sewer installation and connection to the City's wastewater facilities shall be borne by the owner. The owner shall provide the City with indemnification and insurance in accordance with § 199-41 of this Part 2.
A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided for every building, except where one building stands at the rear of another on an interior lot and no private sewer is available or can be constructed to the rear building through an adjoining alley, court yard or driveway, the building sewer serving the front building may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered as one building sewer. The City assumes no obligation or responsibility for damage caused by or resulting from any single-building sewer which serves two buildings.
Existing building sewers may be used for connection of new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test by the City Engineer, to meet the requirements of this Part 2.
The size, slope, alignment, construction materials, trench excavation and backfill methods, pipe placement, jointing and testing methods used in the construction and installation of a building sewer shall conform to the building and plumbing code or other applicable requirements of the City. In the absence of code provisions or in amplification thereof, the materials and procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the ASTM and WEF Manual of Practice No. 9 shall apply.
Whenever practicable, the building sewer shall be brought to a building at an elevation below the basement floor. In buildings in which any building drain is too low to permit gravity flow to the City's POTW, wastewater carried by such building drain shall be lifted by an approved means and discharged to a building sewer draining to the City sewer.
A. 
No person shall connect roof, foundation, areaway, parking lot, roadway or other surface runoff or groundwater drains to any sewer which is connected to the POTW unless such connection is authorized, in writing, by the City Engineer.
B. 
Except as provided in Subsection A above, roof, foundation, areaway, parking lot, roadway or other surface runoff or groundwater drains shall discharge to natural outlets or storm sewers.
C. 
For properties where separate storm sewers are available within 100 feet of the property line or where, in the judgment of the City Engineer, sufficient natural drainage is available, connections which contribute inflow to the sanitary sewers must be disconnected in a fashion approved by the City Engineer.
D. 
Swimming pool drains shall not be connected to any wastewater sewer.
E. 
It shall be a willful violation of this Part 2 for any person to reconnect any inflow source which has been disconnected pursuant to this article.
A. 
The connection of a building sewer into a wastewater sewer shall conform to the requirements of the building and plumbing code or other applicable requirements of the City or the procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the ASTM or the WEF Manual of Practice No. 9. The connection shall be made by a master plumber licensed in the City and shall be gastight and watertight and verified by proper testing. Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials must be approved, in writing, by the City Engineer before installation.
B. 
The connection of a surface runoff or groundwater drain to a storm sewer or natural outlet designed to transport surface runoff or groundwater drainage shall conform to the requirements of the applicable building code or other applicable requirements of the City. The connection of any such drain to a wastewater sewer under special permit as provided under § 199-48A of this article shall conform to the requirements specified by the City Engineer as a condition of approval of such permit.
The applicant for a building sewer or other drainage connection permit shall notify the City Engineer when such sewer or drainage connection is ready for inspection prior to its connection to the City's facilities. Such connection and testing as deemed necessary by the City Engineer shall be made under the supervision of the City Engineer.
Each connection permit issued to a property owner pursuant to the provisions of § 199-42 of this article shall be invalid unless work is commenced and completed in accordance with the terms thereof, and no work shall be done after any permit has expired unless and until a new permit shall have been obtained from the City Engineer. The City reserves the right to revoke any permit so issued upon violation of any of the provisions of this Part 2. The property owner whose permit shall be so revoked shall thereupon be required to secure a new permit upon such terms as the City may prescribe.
Excavations for building sewer installation shall be adequately guarded with barricades and lights so as to protect the public from hazard. Streets, sidewalks, parkways and other public property disturbed in the course of the work shall be restored in a manner satisfactory to the City.
The City Engineer shall not issue a permit for any class of connection to the POTW unless there is sufficient capacity, not legally committed to other users, in the POTW to convey and adequately treat the quantity of wastewater which the required connection will add to the system. The City Engineer may permit such a connection if there are legally binding commitments to provide the needed capacity.
A. 
Where the buildings to be connected to the City POTW are used, in whole or in part, for the preparation or serving of food or for any other processing where grease or oil may be produced, including but not limited to schools and universities, hospitals, restaurants, hotels, nursing homes, shopping plazas, drug stores, bars and saloons, there shall be installed in each connection a grease interceptor or trap of design and make approved by the City Engineer.
B. 
All industrial and commercial storage or repair garages, automotive garages and gasoline stations with grease racks, grease pits or wash racks, all motor vehicle laundries and all facilities which have oily and/or flammable wastes as a result of manufacturing, storage, maintenance, repair or testing processes shall provide sand interceptors, catch basins and oil interceptors as are approved by the City Engineer.
C. 
Interceptors and separators shall be maintained in efficient operating condition by removal of accumulated grease, scum, oil or other floating substances and solids deposited in the interceptor or separator so as to preclude these substances from entering the POTW; or at scheduled intervals as directed by the City Engineer.
D. 
All building sewers from users defined by Subsections A, B and C above shall be provided with oil and grease interceptors or traps or other suitable pretreatment facilities as required to meet the provisions of § 199-60B(12).
E. 
A suitable access to facilitate observation, sampling and measurement of the treated wastewater discharged to the POTW shall be required.