No connections intended to discharge inflow shall be made to a sanitary
sewer. 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 DPW Superintendent
and/or WWTP Chief Operator, sufficient natural drainage is available, connections
which contribute inflow to the sanitary sewers must be disconnected in a fashion
approved by the DPW Superintendent and/or WWTP Chief Operator.
It shall be a willful violation of this chapter for any person to reconnect
any inflow source that has been disconnected pursuant to this article.
The DPW Superintendent and/or WWTP Chief Operator 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 XII, however, the Village of Rouses Point Board of Trustees may cause a surcharge at a rate not to exceed five times that for normal sewage volume charge.
