If any person shall construct, install, alter or repair any sewer or
connection to any public sewer of the Town in violation of the requirements
of this chapter, or, having obtained a permit as provided by this chapter,
shall construct, install, alter or repair a sewer or connection thereto without
having given the WPCA or its authorized representative ample notice, time,
opportunity and assistance, during their regular working hours, to inspect
such sewer or connection and the work and materials used thereon, said WPCA
or its authorized representative may, in its or his discretion, order or direct
the person who constructed such sewer, etc., and the owner of any property
in which said sewer, etc., may be located or which may be served thereby,
or in whose interest and employ said work was done, to uncover and fully expose
any or all portions of such sewer connection and afford said inspector adequate
opportunity to examine and inspect such sewer, etc., and to secure such records
thereof as may be proper. If such sewer or connection and the appurtenances
thereof shall be found not to be in full accord with the requirements of this
chapter and the standards established under its provisions, then said WPCA
may order and direct such person, owner or lessee, to make such changes in,
or addition to, or remove portions of, appurtenances of such sewer, etc.,
as may be necessary to insure that such sewer, etc., will conform to the requirements
of this chapter and of the standards established under its provisions. All
of such work shall be performed by said person, owner or lessee without delay
and without expense to the Town.
If the WPCA shall have evidence that a sewer or any part or appurtenance
thereof, which is connected to or discharges into any public sewer of the
Town, has been constructed, repaired or altered or is or has been used, operated
or maintained, or that substances are being or recently have been discharged
through the same in violation of the requirements of this chapter or of the
standards established under its provisions, said WPCA or its authorized representative
shall inquire into the matter. Said WPCA may require that the owner, lessee
or tenant of the property where such sewer, etc., may be located or of property
served by such sewer, etc., assist said WPCA and its representatives in such
inquiry and permit them to examine such sewer, etc., and observe the manner
in which sewer, etc., is used, operated or maintained and the wastes discharged
through the same. If said WPCA shall find on such inquiry that there exists
good reason to believe that the requirements of this chapter have not been
or are not being complied with, it may require that the owner, lessee or tenant
of said property furnish said WPCA with adequate proof that said requirements
are being conformed to said requirements and will continue to be complied
with. If it shall appear that said requirements have not been or are not being
conformed to or complied with or that good reason exists to believe that they
may not thereafter be conformed to or complied with, said WPCA may order and
require that such owner, lessee or tenant shall immediately take such measures
and provide and install such appurtenances to make such changes in such sewer,
etc., or the manner of using and maintaining the same as will insure that
said requirements will be conformed to or complied with thereafter. All assistance,
proof, changes and new appurtenances required by this section to be furnished
or provided by the owner; lessee, or tenant of property in question shall
be promptly furnished by such owner, lessee or tenant without expense to the
Town.
If any person, after proper order or direction from the WPCA, fails to take the remedial steps or perform the acts required under §
264-62 or
264-63 of this chapter, or fails thereafter to use, operate and maintain any connection with the public sewers of the Town, or appurtenance thereof, as required by this chapter, the WPCA, by its agents and in such manner as it may choose, may disconnect the building sewer which was wrongfully connected, altered, repaired or used, or through which improper wastes were discharged into the public sewer system of the Town. In disconnecting such building sewers, the WPCA may, if necessary, interfere with or cut off sewerage from other portions of the property where such violation of this chapter has occurred or of any adjacent property which is served by such house connection.
A. If the WPCA shall have disconnected a building sewer
from the public sewer system, as above provided, said WPCA may collect the
cost of making such disconnection from any person responsible for, or willfully
concerned in, or who profited by such violation of the requirements of this
chapter.
B. If the WPCA has disconnected any property from the public
sewer system, as above provided, it may thereafter refuse to permit the restoration
of the former connection or of any new connection to the property concerned
in the violation of this chapter until the claim of the WPCA for the cost
of making such disconnection and the reasonable overhead and any legal expense
incurred by the WPCA in connection therewith shall have been paid in full
plus interest.