[Code 1991, § 18-76]
The Director of Public Works is authorized and directed to promulgate
regulations governing the means and methods of disposing sewage into
the City's sanitary and sewer system. Such regulations shall
be duly published by the Director of Public Works in the water and
wastewater rules and regulations.
[Code 1991, § 18-77]
The use or maintenance of any cesspool or any unconnected water
closet or privy is prohibited.
[Code 1991, § 18-78]
It shall be unlawful for any person to injure, break, or remove
any portion of a manhole, or any part of the public sewer system.
Any person violating this section shall be responsible for the cost
of repairing the damage done, in addition to any fine that may be
imposed.
[Code 1991, § 18-79]
It shall be unlawful for any unauthorized person to remove the
cover of any manhole or other opening into a sewer or drain.
[Code 1991, § 18-80]
It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit any of the following
waste materials into any City sewer:
A.
Liquid or vapor having a temperature higher than 150° F.
B.
Water or waste which contains more than 100 parts per million by
weight of fat, oil, or grease, exclusive of soap.
C.
Gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil, or other flammable or explosive
liquid, solid, or gas.
D.
Garbage, debris, or material that has particles greater than 1/2
inch in any dimension.
E.
Ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags, feathers,
tar, plastics, wood, or other substance of physical, chemical or biological
characteristics capable of causing obstruction to the flow in sewers
or other interference with the proper operation of or injury to the
sewage works.
F.
Roof or surface drainage.
G.
Subsoil drainage.
H.
Waste from any industrial, septic, or other waste haulers at any
location in the sewer collection system or treatment facility.
[Code 1991, § 18-81]
A.
All sewage shall be drained off and disposed of through the proper
receptacles into the sanitary sewer. Sewage, for the purpose of this
section, shall be held to include water, human excrement, and liquid
refuse that should be properly disposed of through the sanitary sewers
of the City, but shall not include rainwater drainage or soil drainage.
B.
Any person discharging sewage or wastewater having characteristics
differing from domestic sewage shall pretreat such sewage or wastewater
prior to its entry into the City's sewer system, as required
by the water and wastewater rules and regulations.
[Code 1991, § 18-82]
A.
The City Council shall, from time to time, establish sanitary sewer
service initiation fees by resolution or ordinance. Such initiation
fees shall be duly published by the Director of Public Works in the
water and wastewater rates and charges.
B.
Requests for new or altered sanitary sewer service shall only be
accepted and processed by the department of building and development
services when filed in conjunction with building permit applications.
C.
Any person applying for a building permit to construct, enlarge,
alter, renovate or remodel any structure shall make application for
new or altered sanitary sewer service to the Director of Building
and Development Services.
D.
Based upon the information supplied by the applicant and the initiation
fees set forth in the water and wastewater rates and charges, the
Director of Building and Development Services shall determine what
sanitary sewer initiation fees are due for the premises. Such fees
shall be paid by the applicant to the City Treasurer upon application
for a building permit.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Per the City's request, references
to "Department of Code Compliance" have been replaced with "Department
of Building and Development Services."
[Code 1991, § 18-83]
A.
The City Council shall, from time to time, establish sewer rates
and charges by resolution or ordinance. Such rates and charges shall
apply to all persons who discharge sewage or industrial waste into
the sanitary sewer system of the City. The rates and charges shall
be duly published by the Director of Public Works in the water and
wastewater rates and charges.
B.
The City Manager or his designee shall periodically issue bills to
all persons receiving sewer service. Such bills shall be issued in
accordance with the rates and charges established by the City Council
and published in the water and wastewater rates and charges.
[Code 1991, § 18-84; Ord. No. 08-17, 6-10-2008]
A.
No septic tank shall be constructed or maintained within the City
limits except with a permit granted by the City Manager, upon the
recommendation of the Health Officer. Such septic tank shall be installed
and maintained in conformity with specifications laid down by the
Health Officer according to the rules and regulations of the state
board of health. All septic tanks and other on-site sewage treatment
systems not requiring a Virginia Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
(VPDES) permit shall have pump-out accomplished at least once every
five years, in accordance with a schedule and regulations to be established
by the Director of Building and Development Services.
B.
For new construction within a Chesapeake Bay Preservation Area, the
applicant shall provide a reserve sewage disposal site with a capacity
at least equal to that of the primary sewage disposal site. This reserve
sewage disposal site requirement shall not apply to any lot or parcel
recorded prior to October 1, 1989, if the lot or parcel is not sufficient
in capacity to accommodate a reserve sewage disposal site, as determined
by the local Health Department. Building shall be prohibited on the
area of all sewage disposal sites until the structure is served by
public sewer or an on-site sewage treatment system which operates
under a VPDES permit.
C.
As an alternative to the 100% reserve sewage disposal site, owners
of such systems may use the option of installing an alternating drainfield
system provided the following conditions are met:
(1)
Each of the two alternating drainfields in the system shall have,
at a minimum, an area not less than 50% of the area that would otherwise
be required if a single primary drainfield were constructed.
(2)
An area equaling 50% of the area that would otherwise be required
for the primary drainfield site must be reserved for subsurface absorption
systems that utilize a flow diversion device, in order to provide
for future replacement or repair to meet the requirements for a sewage
disposal system. Expansion of the primary system will require an expansion
of this reserve area.
(3)
The two alternating drainfields shall be connected by a diversion
valve, approved by the local Health Department, located in the pipe
between the septic (aerobic) tank and the distribution boxes. The
diversion valve shall be used to alternate the direction of effluent
flow to one drainfield or the other at a time. However, diversion
valves shall not be used for the following types of treatment systems:
(4)
The diversion valve shall be a three-port, two-way valve of approved
materials (i.e., resistant to sewage and leakproof and designed so
that the effluent from the tank can be directed to flow into either
one of the two distribution boxes).
(5)
There shall be a conduit from the top of the valve to the ground
surface with an appropriate cover to be level with or above the ground
surface.
(6)
The valve shall not be located in driveways, recreational courts,
parking lots, or beneath sheds or other structures.
(7)
In lieu of the aforementioned diversion valve, any device that can
be designed and constructed to conveniently direct the flow of effluent
from the tank into either one of the two distribution boxes may be
approved if plans are submitted to the local Health Department and
found to be satisfactory.
(8)
The owner(s) shall alternate the drainfields every 12 months to permit
the yearly resting of half of the absorption system.
(9)
The department of building and development services shall notify
the owner(s) annually of the requirement to switch the valve to the
opposite drainfield.
