A.
Whenever a Village sanitary sewer or tributary thereto is not available to a building or property as provided in Article IV, or whenever a property owner receives a waiver from the Article IV connection requirement pursuant to an action of the Board of Trustees under this article, then the building drain shall be connected to a private sewage disposal system complying with the requirements of NYSDEC, the Department of Health and this article.
B.
A waiver from the connection requirement of Article IV may be granted by the Board of Trustees only if the property contains not more than one non-owner-occupied dwelling unit with an existing private sewage disposal system which was installed prior to the effective date of the Village's original sewer connection requirement and has been inspected, within one month of the date of the waiver application and at the expense of the applicant, by the Village Engineer and found to be operating in accordance with all applicable laws, rules or regulations of the Village, the Department of Health and the NYSDEC.
C.
The Board of Trustees shall not consider any request for a waiver
until a completed application, on Village forms, has been submitted
to the Village Clerk, together with an application fee. The fee shall
be that established pursuant to a resolution of the Board of Trustees.
D.
All waivers shall expire on the next proceeding 31st day of May.
E.
Any application to renew a waiver for an additional one-year period
must be submitted, in accordance with the provisions of this section,
no earlier than April 1 and no later than April 30 of each year.
F.
A waiver, once granted, will exempt a property from sewer use charges
and rents.
G.
If a waiver is denied, or if any major repairs become necessary to a private sewage disposal system operating under a waiver, then the property owner must abandon the private system and connect to the Village sewer in accordance with Article IV. For purposes of this subsection, "major repairs" shall be those where the cost of repair or replacement exceeds 50% of the present value of the sewage disposal system (exclusive of inside plumbing fixtures and the building drain), as determined by the Board of Trustees.
Before commencement of construction of a private sewage disposal
system, the owner shall first obtain a written permit issued by the
Administrator. The application for such permit shall be made on a
form furnished by the Village and shall be supplemented by any plans,
specifications and other information as is deemed necessary by the
Administrator. A permit and inspection fee will be paid to the Village
at the time the application is filed. All information required shall
become a part of the application. No revisions shall be made to a
system which is the subject of an issued permit without the prior
written approval of the Administrator.
The methods, practices and materials used in the construction
of a private sewage disposal system located in the Village shall be
in accordance with the provisions of the approved application and
issued permit and any rules, regulations, specifications and requirements
of the Department of Health, NYSDEC and those adopted by the Board
of Trustees to implement the provisions of this chapter as provided
herein. In the absence of any particular provisions in this chapter,
or rules, regulations, specifications and requirements promulgated
pursuant thereto, or in amplification thereof, the materials and procedures
set forth in appropriate specifications of the American Society of
Testing and Materials (ASTM), and the Water Pollution Control Federation
(WPCF), Manual of Practice No. 9, shall apply.
The Administrator shall be allowed to inspect work being performed
on a private sewage disposal system at any stage of construction.
No underground portions shall be covered unless they have been inspected
and approved by the Administrator. Where work is ready for inspection
pursuant to the provisions of an issued permit, the owner shall notify
the Administrator, who shall make reasonable efforts to perform the
inspection within 24 hours of receipt of the notice. Prior to final
approval of the construction, the owner shall provide the Administrator
with two complete sets of as-built drawings of the system and any
sewage infiltration test results, both certified by a professional
engineer licensed in the State of New York. The maximum allowable
rate of infiltration into any section of a sewage system shall not
exceed 200 gallons per inch of pipe diameter per mile of sewer per
day. The system shall not be used until the Administrator grants final
approval of the construction.
A.
The owner of a private sewage disposal system shall operate and maintain
the facilities in a satisfactory manner at all times, in compliance
with an issued permit and all applicable laws, rules and regulations,
at no expense to the Village.
B.
If the private system fails for any reason, the owner shall notify
the Village immediately. Notification shall be followed within 15
days by a detailed, written statement describing the causes of the
failure and the measures taken to prevent future failures.
The owner of property served by a private sewage disposal system shall abandon the system whenever the property is connected to the Village sewer system, or tributaries thereto, pursuant to the provisions of Article IV. The abandoned facilities shall be cleaned of sludge and either removed or filled with clean bank-run gravel or dirt or other suitable material, as directed by the Administrator. Any sludge shall be deemed scavenger waste and as such shall not be discharged into the Village sewer system, but shall be disposed of in accordance with applicable local, state or federal requirements.
