For purposes of enforcing these regulations,
the Health Agent or a designated agent of the Board of Health shall
be the approving authority.
No individual sewage disposal system or other
means of sewage disposal shall be located, constructed, altered, repaired
or installed until a permit for such work has been issued by the agent
of the Board of Health. At the time of filing of the application with
said agent, a fee shall be charged. The fee for new construction shall
be $15. The fee for repair shall be $10. Fees for permits shall not
be returned if repair or construction is abandoned.
Each disposal works installer shall be required
to complete a simple septic installer's test questionnaire and execute
a memorandum of understanding to qualify as an applicant for an installer's
permit. The fee for a disposal works installer's permit shall be $20.
A disposal works construction permit shall become
void if the installation of a subsurface sewage disposal system is
not completed and in operation within six months from the date of
issue of such permit. Following submission of reapplication, a new
permit may be issued by the agent of the Board of Health. The fee
for reapplication shall be $15.
Dwellings with expansion attics shall provide
a septic system according to the total number of finished and/or unfinished
bedrooms.
The owner or other person(s) having control
over any existing building(s) hereafter seeking to alter, add to or
extend existing foundation(s) shall not commence construction under
a building permit until first obtaining a permit for the alteration
of the sewage disposal system, if applicable, from the agent of the
Board of Health. Septic tanks must be installed for any building(s)
being altered, added to or extending existing foundation(s), if applicable,
that do not already have an existing septic tank. Tank size shall
be determined in accordance with Regulation 6 of Title V of the Department
of Environmental Quality Engineering (DEQE).
Occupancy of any such affected structure (§
200-7) shall not take place until a certificate of compliance has been issued by the agent of the Board of Health as relating to the design of the plans, materials and the construction of the completed installation of the sewage disposal system.
Construction of leaching facilities in clean
granular fill is permissible when the following conditions exist:
A. When the impervious material can be excavated to pervious
material below and be replaced with clean fill and the underlying
pervious strata is at least four feet thick.
B. Where a depth of at least four feet of pervious material is natural soil and can be maintained below the bottom of the leaching area. In no case will excavation be allowed into impervious material without penetrating into pervious material as in Subsection
A.
The common use of an individual sewage system
by more than one property, dwelling or other premises is prohibited,
unless written approval is obtained from the agent of the Board of
Health. The sewage disposal system shall be located on the one lot
which it serves.
All plans submitted for review and approval
shall contain an additional area reserved for future expansion of
the disposal field, being at least equal to the area of the disposal
field. The expansion area must conform to all requirements of the
regulations herein and to Title V of the DEQE. The expansion area
is to be kept open and may not be built upon, with the exception of
movable structures such as toolhouses and aboveground swimming pools.
However, movable structures may not be constructed should they preclude
the expansion area from conforming to the minimum distances as established
in Regulation 3.7 of Title V.
If any section, paragraph, sentence, clause,
phrase or word of the regulations herein shall be judged invalid for
any reason whatsoever, that decision shall not affect any other portion
of the regulations herein which shall remain in full force and effect,
and to this end the provisions of the regulations herein are hereby
declared severable.
The Town of Yarmouth Board of Health reserves
the right to adopt additional regulations as deemed necessary or to
restrict or delete any of the herein mentioned regulations in the
best interest of the Town of Yarmouth. All regulations herein are
subject to the various provisions as set forth in Title V of the DEQE.