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 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, prior to the sale of the
property.
Upon notice from the Tax Assessor, the City
Engineer 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.
It shall be a willful violation of this Part
3 for any person to reconnect any inflow source which has been disconnected pursuant to this article.
The City Engineer 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
XIV; however, the Common Council may cause a surcharge at a rate not to exceed five times that for normal sewage volume charge.