It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit, or permit to
be deposited, in any unsanitary manner, on public or private property within
the Village of Rouses Point or in any area under the jurisdiction of said
municipality, any human or animal excrement, garbage, or objectionable waste.
Also, no person shall discharge domestic sewage onto the surface of the ground
or discharge it in a way that permits it to come to the surface of the ground.
No person shall connect a private sewage system so that sewage flows
into a storm sewer or into a drain intended exclusively for stormwater.
No person shall discharge sewage into a well.
It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet, within the
Village of Rouses Point or in any area under the jurisdiction of said municipality,
any wastewater or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has
been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions of this chapter.
No property owner, builder, or developer shall be issued a building
permit for a new dwelling or structure requiring sanitary facilities unless
a suitable and approved method of wastewater disposal, conforming to this
chapter, is available. All housing construction or building development which
takes place after this chapter is enacted shall provide for an approved system
of sanitary sewers.
Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful to construct or
maintain any privy, privy vault, cesspool, septic tank, or other facility
intended or used for disposal of wastewater.
The owner(s) of all houses, buildings, or properties used for human
occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purposes, situated within the
Village of Rouses Point and abutting on any street, alley, or right-of-way
in which there is now located or may, in the future, be located a public sewer,
is hereby required, at the owner's expense, to install suitable sanitary facilities
therein and to connect such facilities directly with the proper public sewer,
in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, within 90 days after official
notice to do so, provided that said public sewer is within 100 feet (30.5
meters) of the property line.
The use of the Village of Rouses Point public sewers shall be strictly limited and restricted, except as provided in § 94-14, to receive and accept the discharge of sewage and other wastes, including industrial wastes generated on or discharged from real property within the bounds of the service area of the POTW.
A.
The Village of Rouses Point Board, on the recommendation
of the DPW Superintendent and/or WWTP Chief Operator, shall have the authority
to enter into agreements to accept sewage and other wastes, including industrial
wastes, generated by or discharged from persons outside the service area of
the POTW.
B.
If the person is a municipality, that municipality shall
have enacted a sewer use law as restrictive on the discharge of sewage and
other wastes as the restrictions contained in this chapter.
C.
If the person is not a municipality the acceptance shall
be made only with the expressed written consent of the DPW Superintendent
and/or WWTP Chief Operator (the issuance of a permit), setting forth the terms
and conditions of such a discharge.
At the recommendation of the DPW Superintendent and/or WWTP Chief Operator,
who determines that one or more segments of the POTW is exceeding its hydraulic
capacity at any time or any specific purpose of this chapter is being violated,
the Village of Rouses Point Board shall have the authority to limit or deny
new connections to the POTW until the conditions leading to the moratorium
are corrected. Such correction may be by:
