[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Conesus 5-17-2022 by L.L. No. 3-2022.[1] Amendments noted where applicable.]
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Editor's Note: This local law was originally adopted as Ch. 104 but was renumbered to maintain the alphabetical organization of the Code.
Both the Town of Conesus and the Livingston County Water and Sewer Authority own, operate and maintain certain sanitary sewer transmission and/or treatment improvements within the Town of Conesus that service residential and commercial properties within the Town.
A. 
The purpose of these sewer use rules and regulations is to provide for efficient, economic, environmentally safe, and legal operation of the publicly owned sanitary sewer system serving properties within the Town of Conesus.
B. 
In order for the Town of Conesus and the Livingston County Water and Sewer Authority to properly administer their respective obligations with regard to such publicly owned facilities, it is important that both the Town of Conesus and the Livingston County Water and Sewer Authority have consistent rules and regulations that apply to customer usage of such facilities that treat wastewater.
C. 
Consistent rules and regulations between the Town and the Authority will allow both parties to most efficiently and effectively ensure proper use of the public sanitary sewer and treatment system and, when such rules and regulations are violated, to seek proper enforcement against violating users.
The specific purposes of these regulations are the following:
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To prevent the introduction of substances into the publicly owned sanitary sewer system that will:
(1) 
Interfere with the publicly owned sanitary sewer system in any way;
(2) 
Pass through the publicly owned sanitary sewer system to the state's waters and cause contravention of standards for those waters or cause violation of the publicly owned sanitary sewer system's SPDES permit;
(3) 
Increase the cost or otherwise hamper the disposal of publicly owned sanitary sewer system sludge and/or residuals;
(4) 
Endanger Authority or any municipal employees;
(5) 
Cause air pollution, or groundwater pollution, directly or indirectly; and
(6) 
Cause, directly or indirectly, any public nuisance condition.
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To prevent new sources of infiltration and inflow as much as possible and eliminate existing sources of infiltration and inflow.
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To assure that new sewers and connections are properly constructed.
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To provide for equitable distribution amongst all users of the Livingston County Water and Sewer Authority Publicly Owned Treatment Works ("POTW") of all costs associated with sewage transmission, treatment, and residuals disposal, and to provide for the collection of such costs.
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To provide enforcement mechanisms to ensure proper usage of the POTW to further the above purposes.
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In order for the Livingston County Water and Sewer Authority to properly administer its obligations with regard to its facilities within the Town of Conesus, it is crucial that the Authority and Town have the same rules and regulations governing the use of and discharge into the public sanitary sewer and treatment system.
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The Town of Conesus hereby adopts as its rules and regulations governing the use of and discharge into the public sanitary sewer and treatment system serving the Town of Conesus the Livingston County Water and Sewer Authority Sewer Use Rules and Regulations as most recently adopted (as of the date of this chapter) by the Livingston County Water and Sewer Authority on September 25, 2019, and as they may be periodically updated by the Livingston County Water and Sewer Authority from time to time (unless the Town refuses to ratify any such updates). A copy of the most recent applicable Livingston County Water and Sewer Authority Sewer Use Rules and Regulations, as adopted herein by the Town of Conesus, will be available at the office of the Conesus Town Clerk and in the Town of Conesus Building and Zoning Office.