It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit, or permit
to be deposited, in any unsanitary manner, on public or private property,
within the Village or in any area under the jurisdiction of said municipality,
any human or animal excrement, garbage, or objectionable waste. Also,
no person shall discharge domestic sewage onto the surface of the
ground or discharge it in a way that permits it to come to the surface
of the ground.
No person shall connect a private sewage system so that sewage
flows into a storm sewer or into a drain intended exclusively for
stormwater.
No person shall discharge sewage into a well.
It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet within
the Village or in any area under the jurisdiction of said municipality
any wastewater or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment
has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions of this
chapter.
No property owner, builder, or developer shall be issued a building
permit for a new dwelling or structure requiring sanitary facilities
unless a suitable and approved method of wastewater disposal, conforming
to this chapter, is available. All housing construction or building
development which takes place after this chapter is enacted shall
provide for an approved system of sanitary sewers.
Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful to construct
or maintain any privy, privy vault, cesspool, septic tank, or other
facility intended or used for disposal of wastewater.
The owner(s) of all houses, buildings, or properties used for
human occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purposes situated
within the Village and abutting on any street, alley, or right-of-way
in which there is now located or may in the future be located a public
sewer is hereby required, at the owner's expense, to install
suitable sanitary facilities therein and to connect such facilities
directly to the proper public sewer, in accordance with the provisions
of this chapter, within 90 days after official notice to do so, or
prior to issuance of a certificate of occupancy, provided that said
public sewer is within 100 feet (30.5 meters) of the property line.
The use of the Village public sewers shall be strictly limited
and restricted, except as provided in Section 307 of the Act, to receive
and accept the discharge of sewage and other wastes, including industrial
wastes, generated on or discharged from real property within the bounds
of the service area of the POTW.
A.
The Village Board, on the recommendation of the Superintendent, shall
have the authority to enter into agreements to accept sewage and other
wastes, including industrial wastes, generated by or discharged from
persons outside the service area of the POTW.
B.
If another municipality, or user located within another municipality,
contributes wastewater to the POTW, and the Village has no authority
pursuant to state or federal law to regulate such contribution of
wastewater in accordance with this chapter, the Village shall enter
into an intermunicipal agreement with the contributing municipality.
C.
Prior to entering into an agreement with a contributing municipality,
the Village shall request the following information from the contributing
municipality:
D.
An intermunicipal agreement with a contributing municipality shall
contain the following conditions:
(1)
A requirement for the contributing municipality to adopt a sewer use local law which is at least as stringent as this chapter and local limits, including required baseline monitoring reports (BMRs) which are at least as stringent as those set out in § 355-80. The requirement shall specify that such local law and limits must be revised as necessary to reflect changes made to the Village Sewer Use Local Law or local limits;
(2)
A provision specifying which pretreatment implementation activities,
including individual wastewater discharge permit issuance, inspection
and sampling, and enforcement, will be conducted by the contributing
municipality; which of these activities will be conducted by the Superintendent;
and which of these activities will be conducted jointly by the contributing
municipality and the Superintendent;
(3)
A requirement for the contributing municipality to provide the Superintendent
with access to all information that the contributing municipality
obtains as part of its pretreatment activities;
(4)
Limits on the nature, quality, and volume of the contributing municipality's
wastewater at the point where it discharges to the POTW;
(5)
Requirements for monitoring the contributing municipality's
discharge;
(6)
A provision ensuring the Superintendent access to the facilities
of users located within the contributing municipality's jurisdictional
boundaries for the purpose of inspection, sampling, and any other
duties deemed necessary by the Superintendent; and
(7)
A provision specifying remedies available for breach of the terms
of the intermunicipal agreement.
E.
If the person is not a municipality, the acceptance shall be made
only with the express written consent of the Superintendent (the issuance
of a permit) setting forth the terms and conditions of such acceptance.
At the recommendation of the Superintendent, who determines
that one or more segments of the POTW are exceeding their hydraulic
capacity at any time or any specific purpose of this chapter is being
violated, the Village Board shall have the authority to limit or deny
new connections to the POTW until the conditions leading to the moratorium
are corrected. Such correction may be by:
All requirements, directives, and orders calling for mandatory
use of the sewers, within the service area of the POTW, for the proper
discharge of sewage and other wastes, including industrial wastes,
shall be established and given by the Village Board, NYSDEC, USEPA
and/or other such state or federal agencies which have enforcement
powers.
