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 Town or in any area under the jurisdiction of the 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 Town
or in any area under the jurisdiction of the 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, if service is available.
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
Town and abutting on any street, alley, or right-of-way in which there is
now located a public sewer, is hereby required, at the owner's expense,
to install suitable sanitary facilities therein, and to connect such facilities
directly with the proper public sewer, in accordance with the provisions of
this chapter, within 90 days after official notice to do so, provided that
said public sewer is within 100 feet (30.5 meters) of the property line.
The use of the Town public sewers shall be strictly limited and restricted, except as provided in § 120-13, 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 any POTW.
The Town 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. Any such agreements involving the Mahopac Wastewater
Treatment Plant are not valid without prior written approval from the NYCDEP.
A.
If the person is a municipality, that municipality shall
have enacted a Sewer Use Law as restrictive on the discharge of sewage and
other wastes as the restrictions contained in this chapter.
B.
If the person is not a municipality, the discharge shall
be made only with the expressed written consent of the Town Board and, in
the case of agreements involving the Mahopac Wastewater Treatment Plant, the
NYCDEP (the issuance of a permit) setting forth the terms and conditions of
such a discharge.
At the recommendation of the Superintendent, or, in the case of the
Mahopac Wastewater Treatment Plant, the NYCDEP, who determines that one or
more segments of the POTW is exceeding its hydraulic capacity at any time
or any specific purpose of this chapter is being violated, the Town 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 Town Board or NYSDEC and, in the case of discharges to the
Mahopac Wastewater Treatment plant, the NYCDEP.
