No connections shall be made to a sanitary or to a combined sewer which
connections are intended to discharge inflow. Such prohibited connections
include, but are not limited to, footing drains, roof leaders, roof drains,
cellar drains, sump pumps, catch basins, uncontaminated cooling water discharges
or other sources of inflow.
For properties where separate storm sewers are available within 100
feet of the property line or where, in the judgment of the Superintendent
or the Town Consulting Engineer, sufficient natural drainage is available,
connections which contribute inflow to the sanitary sewers must be disconnected
in a fashion approved by the Superintendent or Town Consulting Engineer within
90 days of notification by the Town.
[Amended 9-13-1995 by L.L. No. 3-1995]
Upon notice from the Town Assessor, the Superintendent shall inspect any newly sold property for the purpose of determining if storm sewers or natural drainage is available and, if so, if all connections which contribute inflow have been disconnected. All such connections shall be terminated per § 114-54.
It shall be a willful violation of this chapter for any person to reconnect
any inflow source which has been disconnected pursuant to this article.
The Superintendent is enabled to take whatever action is necessary to determine the amount of inflow, including the requirement for installation of a control manhole. The property from which the inflow originated shall be billed for inflow according to Article XI; however, the Town Board may cause a surcharge at a rate not to exceed five times that for normal sewage volume charge.
