Article I
DEFINITIONS
Section 1.
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this law shall be as follows:
A. BOD (denoting biochemical oxygen demand) - The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5) days at twenty degrees centigrade (20 C), expresed in milligrams per liter.
B. BUILDING DRAIN - That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning five (5) feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
C. BUILDING SEWER - The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
D. GARBAGE - Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
E. INDUSTRIAL WASTES - Any liquid, gaseous, solid or other waste substance, or a combination thereof, resulting form any process or industry, manufacturing, trade or business, or from the development or recovery of any natural resources.
F. NATURAL OUTLET - Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
G. OTHER WASTES - Garbage, refuse, decayed wood, sawdust, shavings, bark, sand, lime, cinders, ashes, offal, oil, tar, dyestuffs, acids, chemicals and all other discarded matter in sewage or industrial waste.
H. PERSON - Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
I. pH - The logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen ion concentration, indicating the intensity scale of acidity and alkalinity expressed in terms of a pH sclae running from 0.0 to 14.0, with a pH value of 7.0 the midpoint of the scale, representing exact neutrality, and with values above 7.0 indicating alkalinity and those below 7.0 acidity.
J. PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE - The wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispending of food that have been shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particles greater than one-half (1/2) inch in any direction.
K. PUBLIC SEWER - A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and is controlled by the Town of Huron.
L. SANITARY SEWER - A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
M. SEWAGE - All water-carried human or animal wastes or body wastes, normal culinary, laundry and washing wastes, and the like, from residences, buildings, industrial establishments or other places. The admixture, with "sewage", as above defined, of industrial waste or other waste, as hereafter defined, also shall be considered "sewage" within the meaning of this local law.
N. SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT - Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
O. SEWER RENT - Charges established and imposed pursuant to this local law, and any subsequent amendments hereto, for the use of the sanitary sewer system operated by Sewer District No. 1 of the Town of Huron.
P. SEWER SYSTEM - All sewer pipes and other appurtenances which are used or useful in whole or in part in connection with the collection, treatment or disposal of sewage, industrial waste and other wastes, and which are owned, operated or maintained by the Sewer District No. 1 of the Town of Huron, including sewage pumping stations and sewage treatment and disposal works.
Q. SEWER - A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
R. SHALL - Is mandatory; MAY - Is permissive.
S. SLUG - Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which, in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow, exceeds for any period of duration longer than fifteen (15) minutes more than five (5) times the average twenty-four hour concentration or flows during normal operations.
T. STORM DRAIN (sometimes termed "Storm Sewer") - A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling water.
U. SUPERINTENDENT - The Superintendent of Sewage of Sewer District No. 1 of the Town of Huron or his authorized deputy, agent or representative as hereafter appointed from time to time by the Huron Town Board.
V. SUSPENDED SOLIDS - Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension in water, sewage or other liquids, and which are removable by laboratory filtering.
W. WATERCOURSE - A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
Article II
USE OF PUBLIC SEWERS
SECTION I.
It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit or permit to be deposited in any unsanitary manner on public or private poperty within the Town of Huron any human exrement.
SECTION II.
It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet within the Town of Huron any sewage or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has been provided.
SECTION III.
It shall be unlawful to construct or maintain within the boundary lines of Sewer District No. 1 of the Town of Huron any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool or other facility intended or used for the disposal of sewage.
SECTION IV.
Connections. The owner of all houses, buildings or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes situated within the Sewer District No. 1 of the Town of Huron is hereby required at his expense to connect the building sewer directly with the proper public sewer, in accordance with the provisions of this law, provided that said public sewer is accessible and available.
ARTICLE III
BUILDING SEWERS AND CONNECTIONS
SECTION I.
No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any connections with or opening into, use, alter or disturb any public sewer or appurtenance thereof without first obtaining a written permit from the Superintendent.
SECTION 2.
There shall be two (2) classes of building sewer permits: (1) for residential and commercial services, (2) for service to establishments producing industrial wastes. In either case, the owner or his agent shall make application on a form furnished by the Town. The permit application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications, or other information considered pertinent in the judgement of the Superintendent.
SECTION 3.
All costs and expenses incident to the installation and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner. The owner shall indemnify the Sewer District from any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer.
SECTION 4.
A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided for every building except where one building stands at the rear of another on an interior lot and no private sewer is available or can be constructed to the rear building through an adjoining alley, court yard or driveway, in which case, the building sewer from the front building may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered as one (1) building sewer.
SECTION 5.
Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test by the Superintendent, to meet all requirements of this law.
SECTION 6.
The size, slope, alignment, materials of construction of a building sewer, and the methods to be used in excavation, placing of the pipe, jointing, testing and backfilling the trench, shall conform to the requirements of the Building and Plumbing Codes or other applicable rules and regulations of the Town of Huron. In the absence of code provisions, the materials and procedures shall be subject to the approval of the Superintendent but in no event shall the internal diameter of the building sewer be less than four (4) inches. The slope of such four-inch pipe shall no be less than one-fourth (1/4) inch per foot, except where unusual circumstances establish a proven hardship in the opinion of the Superintendent. All building sewers shall be laid to uniform grade and in straight alignment insofar as possible and changes in direction shall be made only with properly curved pipe fittings. The depth of the sewer shall be sufficient to afford protection from frost. Building sewers shall be extra-heavy cast-iron soil pipe, or cement-asbestos pipe (Class 2400) or other material approved by the Superintendent and shall be surrounded by sand or select earth compacted to at least one (1) foot above the pipe. All such connections shall be made watertight.
SECTION 7.
In all buildings in which any building drain is too low to permit gravity flow to the public sewer, sanitary sewage carried by such building drain shall be lifted by an approved means and discharged to the building sewer.
SECTION 8.
No person shall make connection of roof downspouts, exterior foundation drains, areaway drains or other sources of surface runoff or groundwater to a building sewer or building drain which in turn is connected directly or indirectly to a public sanitary sewer.
SECTION 9.
The connection of the building sewer into the public sewer shall conform to the requirements of the Building and Plumbing Codes or other applicable rules and regulations of the Town of Huron. In the absence of code provisions, cast-iron soil pipe shall be used for the building drain through the wall of any building and at least five (5) feet from the building to the connection to the building sewer.
SECTION 10.
The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the Superintendent when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection shall be made under the supervision of the Superintendent or his representative.
SECTION 11.
All excavations for building sewer installations shall be adequately guarded with barricades and lights so as to protect the public from hazard. Streets, sidewalks, parkways and other public property disturbed in the course of the work shall be restored in a manner satisfactory to the Town of Huron.
Article IV
RESTRICTIONS REGARDING DELETERIOUS WASTES
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Sewage delivered into the sewer system shall not:
SECTION 1.
Be of such a nature and delivered at such a rate as to impair the hydraulic capacity of the sewage system, normal and reasonable wear and usage expected.
SECTION 2.
Be of such a quantity, quality, or other nature as to impair the strength or the durability of the sewer structures, equipment or treatment works which are a part of the sewage system, either by chemical or by mechanical action.
SECTION 3.
Be of such a quantity, quality or other nature as to create flammable or explosive conditions in the sewage system.
SECTION 4.
Have a flash point lower than one hundred eighty-seven degrees Farenheit (187 F) as determined by the Tagliabue (Tag.) close-cup method.
SECTION 5.
Have a pH value lower than six point zero (6.0) nor greater than ten point zero (10.0) or otherwise contain chemical properties which are hazardous or capable of doing damage to any part of the sewage system or to personnel.
SECTION 6.
Include any radioactive substance, except as otherwise hereinafter set forth, unless the Superintendent shall have given written consent to its inclusion.
SECTION 7.
Include any garbage other than that received directly into the sewer sytem from domestic and commercial garbage grinders in dwellings, restaurants, stores and institutions, by which such garbage has been shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely under flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half (1/2) inch in any dimension.
SECTION 8.
Include night soil or septic tank pumpage (except by special permission, in writing, from the Superintendent at such points and under such conditions as the authority may stipulate in each permit.)
SECTION 9.
Be any solid or viscous material which could cause an obstruction to flow in the sewers or in any way could interfere with the treatment process, including as examples of such materials but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, significant proportions of ashes, wax, paraffin, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags, lint, feathers, tars, plastics,wood and sawdust, paunch manure, hair and fleshings, entrails, lime slurries, beer and distillery slops, grain-processing wastes, grinding compounds, acetylene-generation sludge, chemical residues, acid residues, food-processing bulk solids, snow, ice, and all other solid objects, material, refuse and debris not normally contained in sanitary sewage.
SECTION 10.
Be sludge or other material from sewage or industrial waste treatment plants or from water treatment plants.
SECTION 11.
Be water which has been used for cooling or heat transfer purposes without recirculation, discharged form any system of condensation, air conditioning, refrigeration or similar use.
SECTION 12.
Be water accumulated in excavations or accumulated as the result of grading, water taken from the ground by well points, or any other drainage associated with construction.
SECTION 13.
Be any liquid or vapor having a temperature higher than one hundred fifty degrees Farenheit (150 F) or exceeding any lower limit fixed by Superintendent to prevent odor nuisance where the volume of discharge represents a significant portion of the flow through a particular sewer.
SECTION 14.
Be any water or wastes containing grease or oil or other substances that will solidify or become discernibly viscous at temperatures between thirty-two degrees Farenheit (32 F) and one hundred fifty degrees Farenheit (150 F.).
SECTION 15.
Be any water or wastes containing emulsified oil or grease exceeding seventy five (75) parts per million of ether-soluable matter.
SECTION 16.
Be any gasoline, benzine, naphtha, fuel oil, lubricating oil or other flammable or expolosive liquid, solid or gas.
SECTION 17.
Be any wastes with phenolic compounds over ten (10) parts per million, expressed as phenol.
SECTION 18.
Be any wastes with sulfides over ten (10) parts per million, expressed as hydrogen sulfide.
SECTION 19.
Be any wastes that contain a corrosive, noxious or malodorous material or substance which (either singly or by reaction with other wastes) is capable of causing damage to the sewage system or to any part thereof, or creating a public nuisance or hazard, or of preventing entry into the sewers for maintenence and repair.
Section 20.
Be any wastes that contain concentrated dye wastes or other wastes that are either highly colored or could become highly colored by reacting with other wastes.
SECTION 21.
Any water or wastes containing a toxic or poisionous substance in sufficient quantity to injure or to interfere with any sewage treatment process, to constitute a hazard to humans or to animals, or to create any hazard in the waters which receive the treated or untreated sewage. The twenty-four hour average concentration of certain toxic substances in sewage as it arrives at the point of connection to the sewer system not to exceed the following:
Iron as Fe - 15 parts per million
Chromium as Cr - 5 parts per million
(hexavalent)
Copper as Cu - 3 parts per million
Zinc as Zn - 2 parts per million
and the concentration at any time not to exceed three (3) times the average concnetration limits stated above.
SECTION 22.
Be any water or wastes containing the discharge of acid iron pickling wastes or plating solutions unless satisfactorily pretreated.
SECTION 23.
Be any radioactive toxic isotopes of over one hundred year half life, the radioactive isotopes I131 and P32 as used _______ing prohibited if properly diluted at the source.
SECTION 24.
Be any wastes which are unusual in composition, that is, contain an extremely large amount of suspended solids or BOD; are high in dissolved solids such as sodium chloride, calcium chloride or sodium sulfate, contain substances conducive to creating tastes or odors in drinking water supplies; otherwise make such waters unpalatable even after conventional water purification treatment, or are in any other way extremely unusual unless the Superintendent determines that such wastes may be admitted to the project or shall be modified or treated before being so admitted.
SECTION 25.
Be any material or substance no specifically mentioned in this section which is in itself corrosive, irritating to human beings and animals, toxic, noxious or which by interaction with other wastes could produce undesirable effects, including deleterious action on the sewage system or on any part thereof, could adversely affect any treatment process, could constitute a hazard to humans or to animals, or could have an adverse effect upon the receiving stream.
Article V
PENALTIES FOR OFFENSES
SECTION 1.
Any person found to be violating any provision of this law shall be served by the Town with written notice stating the nature of the violation and providing a reasonable time limit for the satisfactory correction thereof. The offender shall, within the period of time stated in such notice, permanently cease all violations.
SECTION 2.
Any person who shall continue any violation beyond the time limit provided shall be guilty of a violation and, on conviction thereof, shall be fined in an amount not exceeding two hundred dollars ($200.00) for each violation. Each day in which any such violation shall continue shall be deemed a separate offense.
SECTION 3.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this law shall become liable to the Town of Huron for any expense, loss or damage occasioned the Town by reason of such violation.
SECTION 4.
For the purpose of the establishing violations and penalties hereunder, it shall be necessary that the property owner affected shall be first served with a written notice, personally or by mail, of the existence of the prohibited condition on his premises.
Article VI
SEWER RENTS IMPOSED
SECTION 1.
The cost of the public sanitary sewer system, together with the maintenence thereof and repairs thereto, shall be by a scale of rents to be called "sewer rents", to be paid at the times and in the manner hereinafter provided.
SECTION 2.
The sewer rents established herein shall be imposed on the occupants of all premises located within Sewer District No. 1 of the Town of Huron, connected with or required to be connected with and served by or required to be served by the sewer system. An "occupant" shall be deemed to be a person or persons living together as a family unit in a house or separate apartment in any building, and shall also include occupants of a commercial or industrial business and occupants of all trailers or mobile homes whether located in a trailer park or not. The term "user" and "occupants" as used in this local law shall be deemed to be synonymous. In those buildings, where there are two (2) or more users but only one (1) water meter for the entire structure,or in those trailer parks or mobile home parks where there are two (2) or more users but only one (1) meter for the entire park, a minimum charge will be made for each service, the excess charge to be made to the owner of the building or the main apartment or to the owner of the trailer park, as the case may be, unless all parties concerned agree otherwise and notify the Town Clerk of their agreement.
SECTION 3.
Sewer rents shall be periodically billed to and paid by the owners of property for the use of the sewer system. The billing period shall be established and may be revised by resolution of the Town Board,, and shall be a minimum of three months. All bills for sewer rent shall be mailed on or after the first day of the month immediately following the period for which they apply, and shall be due and payable on or before fifteen (15) days after the date of mailing. Any unpaid sewer charge in arrears for thirty (30) days after its due date shall be charged an additional penalty of ten percent (10%). Any consumer whose unpaid sewer charge is in arrears for sixty(60) days after its due date shall be deemed in violation of the rules and regulations under this local law.
SECTION 4.
Sewer rents, together with the amount of any penalty, which shall become due and owing as provided in this local law, shall constitute a lien upon the real property served by the sewer system or such part of parts thereof as shall be included within the sewer district. Such rents and/or penalties so becoming due may be included in the town tax levy and accounted for and collected with the town and county taxes pursuant to the provisions of New York State General Municipal Law.
SECTION 5.
The minimum charge per user as herein established shall apply to all parcels, residences, apartments, etc. which become unoccupied subsequent to the passage of this law and have not been permanently discontinued for use as dwelling units. The minimum charge shall also apply to seasonal users of any residence. An apartment or residence shall not be deemed to have become permanently discontinued for use as a residence or as an apartment unless the owner of the building shall notify in writing the Town Clerk of the permanent discontinuance of the apartment or residence as such. If for any reason whatsoever, within twelve (12) months after the filing of such notice with the Town Clerk, the owner shall wish to reinstate the apartment or residence as residential property, the service shall not be reinstated until the minimum charges for the period of discontinuance shall have been paid to the Town Clerk.
Article VII
SEWER RENT SCHEDULE
The Town Board shall, by resolution, establish a sewer rent schedule, which shall include a minimum charge, and may amend that schedule from time to time.
Article VIIA
ADMINISTRATION
SECTION 1. SEWER SUPERINTENDENT. The Town Board may appoint a sewer superintendent to administer this local law and oversee the operations of Sewer District No. 1.
SECTION 2. OTHER OFFICIALS. The Town Board may, from time to time, appoint a sewer billing clerk and such other officials and deputies as it deems approproate to assist the sewer superintendent.
Article VIII
SEVERABILITY
The invalidity of any section, clause, sentence or provision of this law shall not affect the validity of any other part of this law which can be given effect without such invalid part or parts.
Article IX
EFFECTIVE DATE
This local law shall take effect immediately upon its filing in the office of the Secretary of State.
