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CITY OF NEW BUFFALO CODE OF ORDINANCES Section 16-10. Private sewage disposal. A. Where a public sanitary or combined sewer is not available under the provisions of Section 16-9, the building sewer shall be connected to a private sewage disposal system complying with the regulations of the City and of the Berrien County Health Department. B. As such time as a public sewer becomes available to a property served by a private sewage disposal system, as provided in Section 16-9, a direct connection shall be made to the public sewer in compliance with this Chapter, and any septic tanks, cesspools, and similar private sewage disposal facilities shall be abandoned and filled with suitable material. C. The owner shall operate and maintain the private sewage disposal facilities in a sanitary manner at all times, at no expense to the City. D. No statement contained in this Chapter shall be construed to interfere with any additional requirements that may be imposed by the City or the Berrien County Health Department. Section 16-11. Building sewers and connections. A. No unauthorized and unlicensed 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 District. B. There shall be two (2) classes of building sewer permits: (1) For residential and commercial service, and (2) For service to establishments producing industrial wastes. In either case the owner or their agent shall make application on a special form furnished by the City. The permit application will be supplemented by any plans, specifications, or other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the Superintendent. A permit and inspection fee for an industrial building sewer permit shall be paid to the City Treasurer at the time the application is filed. C. All costs and expense incident to the installation and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner. The owner shall indemnify the City from any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer. D. A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided for every building; except where a 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, the building sewer from the front building may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered as one (1) building sewer. E. Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found, upon examination and test by the Superintendent, to meet all requirements of this Chapter. F. 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 all conform to the requirements of the building and plumbing code or applicable rules and regulations of the City. In the absence of code provisions or in amplification thereof, the materials and procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the A.S.T.M. and W.P.C.F. Manual of Practices No. 9 shall apply. G. Whenever possible, the building sewer shall be brought to the building at an elevation below the basement floor. In all buildings in which any building drain is too low to permit gravity flow to the public sewer, sewage carried by such building drain shall be lifted by an approved means and discharged to the building sewer. H. No person shall make connection of roof downspouts, exterior foundation drains, areaway drains, or other sources of surface runoff or ground water to a building sewer of building drain which in turn is connected directly or indirectly to a public sanitary sewer. Chapter 16- SEWERS AND SEWAGE DISPOSAL 16-7
CITY OF NEW BUFFALO CODE OF ORDINANCES I. The connection of the building sewer into the public sewer shall conform to the requirements of the building and plumbing code or other applicable rules and regulations of the City, or the procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the A.S.T.M. and W.P.C.F. Manual of Practice No. 9. All such connections shall be made gas-tight and watertight. Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials must be approved by the District before installation. J. The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the District 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/her representative. K. All excavations for building sewer installation 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 Superintendent. Section 16-12. Use of public sewers and rates and liens. A. No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any storm water, surface water, ground water, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, uncontaminated cooling water, or unpolluted industrial process waters into any sanitary sewer. B. Storm water and all other unpolluted drainage shall be discharged to such sewers as are specifically designated as combined sewers or storm sewers, or to a natural outlet approved by the appropriate state and county agency. Industrial cooling water or unpolluted process waters may be discharged, upon the approval of the appropriate state or county agency, to a storm sewer or natural outlet. C. Except as hereinafter provided by specific limits, no person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any of the following described waters or wastes to any public sewer: 1. BOD in excess of three-hundred (300) milligrams per liter (mg/1). 2. COD in excess of four-hundred fifty (450) mg/l. 3. Chlorine demand in excess of fifteen (15) mg/l. 4. Color, as from but not limited to dyes, inks, vegetable tanning solutions, shall be controlled to prevent light absorbency which would interfere with treatment plant processes or that prevent analytical determinations. 5. Explosive liquid, solid, or gas, gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil, or other flammable liquid shall not be admitted. 6. Garbage not properly shredded { greater than one-half (1/2) inch} shall not be allowed. 7. Grease, oils, wax, fat, whether emulsified or not, in excess of fifty (50) mg/1, or other substances which may solidify or become viscous at temperatures between thirty-two (32) degrees Fahrenheit, and onehundred fifty (150) degrees Fahrenheit shall not be admitted to the sanitary sewer. 8. Industrial wastes in concentrations above limitations set forth by appropriate state agencies to comply with federal guidelines for protection of treatment plant and receiving water course shall not be allowed to enter sanitary sewers in sufficient quantity to impair the operation of the sewage treatment processes. 9. Inert suspended solids (such as but not limited to Fullers earth, lime slurry, and lime residues) or of dissolved solids (such as but not limited to sodium chloride and sodium sulfate) in unusual concentrations shall not be allowed. Chapter 16- SEWERS AND SEWAGE DISPOSAL 16-8
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