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City of Laconia, NH
Belknap County
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Pursuant to the provisions of RSA 147 and 252, and any other authority thereto enabling, the owner of any improved property benefited, improved, served or accommodated by any public sewer or to which any public sewer is available shall connect such improved property therewith, in such manner as the City of Laconia may require, within 45 days after notice to such owner from the City of Laconia to make such connection, for the purpose of discharge of all sanitary sewage and industrial wastes from such improved property into the sewer system, subject to such limitations and restrictions as shall be established herein or otherwise shall be established by the City of Laconia, from time to time. Each such owner shall, within the same time limit, cease and desist from all further discharge of sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes into any other conduit or preexisting system, whether privately or publicly owned.
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A public sewer system shall be deemed available to improved property if such improved property is within 250 feet, measured from the closest part of any structure on said improved property which contains plumbing, to the public sewer system, along or across the shortest available easement.
All sanitary sewage and industrial wastes from any improved property, after connection of such improved property with a public sewer, as required under § 189-5 shall be conducted into a public sewer, subject to such limitations and restrictions as shall be established herein or otherwise shall be established by the City of Laconia from time to time.
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No person shall place or deposit or permit to be placed or deposited upon public or private property within the City of Laconia any sanitary sewage, garbage or industrial wastes in violation of § 189-5.
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No person shall discharge or permit to be discharged to any natural outlet within the City of Laconia any sanitary sewage, garbage or industrial wastes in violation of § 189-5, except where suitable treatment has been provided which is satisfactory to the City of Laconia and the New Hampshire Water Supply and Pollution Control Commission.
No privy vault, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank or similar receptacle shall be used and maintained at any time upon any improved property which has been connected to a public sewer or which shall be required under § 189-5 to be connected to a public sewer. Aforesaid privy vaults, cesspools, sinkholes, septic tanks or similar receptacles shall be abandoned and filled with suitable material.
Any person proposing a new discharge into the system or a substantial change in the volume or character of pollutants that are being discharged into the system shall notify the City at least 45 days prior to the proposed change or connection.
No privy vault, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank or similar receptacle at any time shall be connected with a public sewer.