[Ord. No. 1226, § I, 6-23-2020]
All connection and extension permits for sanitary sewers shall
continue to be issued by the Commissioner and in accordance with this
chapter. The Commissioner and Department of Public Utilities will
track and manage the available capacity when considering applications
for new sewer connection and extension permits. The available capacity
is limited by the permitted flow from the WWTP, by existing flows,
by contractual obligations, and by planned development in the City.
The Department of Public Utilities keeps a record of the flow allocations
between these categories. The Department of Public Utilities reserves
the right to reallocate flows between these categories as long as
the total flows do not exceed the WWTP's average monthly permitted
flow of 17.0 MGD, provided that the following provisions are met:
(a)
Reallocation of flows within the City or from any outside community
does not result in an exceedance of the total projected available
capacity and are consistent with existing agreements.
(b)
Changes to contractual flows from outside the City shall only be
allowed by approval of the City Council or any future established
Board of Public Works.
(c)
Reallocations shall be included as an agenda item at a publicly held
meeting of the Department of Public Utilities.
[Ord. No. 1226, § I, 6-23-2020]
In any street opened or proposed to be opened for public travel
and accommodation, every sewer now installed therein, or that may
be hereafter installed, for the purpose of serving more than one building
sewer, shall be deemed to be a public sewer and hereafter every such
sewer shall become the property of the City upon its connection with
the wastewater system of the City, and its acceptance by the Commissioner.
No sewer or sewer appurtenance or structure shall be accepted by the
Commissioner if such sewer shall discharge into any privately owned
system of sewerage or privately owned wastewater handling or pumping
facility prior to its connection to the wastewater system of the City.
All such sewers hereafter installed, whether at the expense of the
City or of private persons, shall be installed under the direction,
supervision and control of the Commissioner.
[Ord. No. 1226, § I, 6-23-2020]
Whenever any street is opened for the installation of pipes
or conduits for water, gas, electric, telecommunications, or other
purposes, or for the prosecution of any work of construction, such
pipe installation and the work connected therewith, or such work of
construction, shall be executed as not to obstruct in any way the
course, capacity or construction of the public sewer, and whenever
utilities for any purpose of any work of construction are found to
exist at such a depth or in such location as to interfere with an
existing sewer or with the construction of any public sewer of the
required size, and at the proper depth and grades, the person or the
department maintaining the utility shall, upon notice thereof, at
once remove, change or alter such pipes or other works in such manner
as the Commissioner shall direct. If such person or department neglects
to comply immediately with the terms of such notification, the Commissioner
may make such removal, change or alteration, and the cost thereof
shall be paid by such person or department.
[Ord. No. 1226, § I, 6-23-2020]
The Commissioner shall keep an accurate account of the cost
and all other expenses of each public sewer, and shall annually, upon
request of the City Council, make a report thereof to the City Council.
Such Commissioner shall, within one month of receiving a request by
the City Council, submit to the City Council a report of all work
performed in the sewer system during the year, including the total
length and the amount of all expenditures from the appropriation for
sewers.
[Ord. No. 1226, § I, 6-23-2020]
The wastewater from each building on every street provided with
a public sewer shall be connected into such sewer; provided, however,
that the Commissioner may exempt any building from the foregoing requirement
until such time as they may determine. On all streets provided with
a public sewer, the wastewater from all buildings hereafter constructed
shall be connected into such sewer. No subsurface disposal system,
holding tank, or cesspool for wastewater shall hereafter be constructed
on any building abutting on a street provided with a public sewer.
[Ord. No. 1226, § I, 6-23-2020]
Abandonment of on-site septic systems shall comply with the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection
Regulations 310 CMR 15.354, Abandonment of Systems.
