For the purpose of this article, the following definitions shall
be used:
COUNTY
Harford County, Maryland.
INDUSTRIAL USER
Any improved property used, in whole or in part, for manufacturing,
processing, cleaning, laundering or assembling any product, commodity,
or article or from which any process waste, as distinct from domestic
waste, shall be discharged to the wastewater treatment system.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
Any liquid or gaseous substance, whether or not solids are
contained therein, discharged from any industrial establishment during
the course of any industrial, manufacturing, trade, or business process
or in the course of the development, recovery, or processing of natural
resources, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
NPDES
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System.
PRETREATMENT
The treatment of industrial sewage from privately owned industrial
sources by the generator of that source prior to introduction of the
waste effluent into a publicly owned treatment works.
TOWN
The Town of Bel Air, Maryland.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
The structures, equipment and processes required to collect,
transport and treat domestic and industrial wastes and to dispose
of the effluent and accumulated residual solids.
Sewage, consisting of wastewater originating within buildings
of all types, shall be received into the sewerage system. Roof water
and other stormwater or surface water shall not be discharged into
sewers provided for carrying the fouled water from buildings. The
Commissioners reserve the right to require such preliminary treatment
of industrial wastes as they may deem proper before such wastes shall
be discharged into the Town's sewers.
Any available information in regard to size, location, or depth
of public sewers and drains shall be furnished to licensed master
plumbers upon application in person or writing. All reasonable care
shall be taken to ensure the correctness of such information, but
the Town shall make no guarantee of the correctness of information
so given.
Duly authorized agents or employees of the Town, when attending
to their duties, shall have access to private properties at all reasonable
hours.
The Commissioners shall permit owners of properties fronting
on streets immediately along and adjacent to the corporate limits
of the Town to connect to the sewage system provided that:
A. Any such owner consents to a proposed annexation of the property
to be connected.
B. Pending such proposed annexation, such an owner agrees to pay to
the Town such reasonable charge for permission to use the sewerage
system as may be set by the Commissioners, including any duly approved
charges levied by Harford County.
Whenever the Commissioners shall have extended the sewer main within the street frontage abutting any property line, the property owner, upon notice from the Town and within the time prescribed in such notice and in accordance with a Town of Bel Air permit issued pursuant to Chapter
353 of the Code, shall make adequate connection therewith.
Sewer connections which have been installed but never connected
or used for a period of one year or more or have been previously disconnected
may be returned to use only when they are found by the Director of
Public Works to be adequate and proper for the services to be performed.
By agreement with the County, the Town paid an "Annual Area
Connection Charge Equivalent Payment" as its proportional share of
the cost of basic main and other sewage treatment facilities used
to treat Town-generated sewage as such facilities existed on or before
May 29, 1979. The Town made further an "Annual Area Connection Charge
Equivalent Payment" for additional basic main facilities and upgrades/expansion
of the existing facilities completed between May 29, 1979, and June
20, 1988. Any new basic main facilities or other treatment facilities
constructed by the county after June 20, 1988, and used to transport
and/or treat Town-generated sewage shall be financed by funds generated
by collection of additional sewer connection charges as approved by
the Commissioners.
Sanitary sewer capital contribution charges, sewer connection
charges and sewer service rates shall be reviewed by the Commissioners
annually.
All properties connected to the sanitary sewerage system of
the Town of Bel Air after passage of this article shall be equipped
with approved water meters at time of connection.
Billing periods shall be quarterly or monthly as information
is received for those metered users for which the Maryland American
Water Company, or its successors or assigns, furnishes usage data.
Billing periods shall be quarterly for those users not served by the
Maryland American Water Company or its successors or assigns.
Any violation of any of the provisions of this article shall be a municipal infraction, and any violator shall be fined as provided in Chapter
1, Article
II, of this Code for each day or fraction thereof during which a violation continues.
The purpose of this article is to establish uniform requirements
for direct and indirect contributors into the Town sanitary sewerage
system and the collection and treatment system owned and operated
by the county and to comply with applicable federal and state laws
and regulations, including the Federal General Pretreatment Regulations
(40 CFR Part 403) and the State Water Pollution Regulations (COMAR
26.08); and to prevent the introduction of pollutants into the wastewater
transport, treatment and disposal systems which singly or by interaction
with other pollutants will:
A. Interfere with the maintenance and operation of a publicly owned
treatment works (POTW).
B. Cause any county-owned, maintained or operated POTW to violate its
NPDES discharge permit.
C. Contaminate the sludge at a POTW.
D. Pass through a POTW, inadequately treated, into any receiving waters
or the atmosphere, or otherwise adversely affect the receiving stream
of a POTW.
E. Pose a health threat to any workers on the collection system or POTW
or constitute a hazard to humans or animals.
F. Be otherwise incompatible with a POTW.
No person shall, directly or indirectly, discharge or cause
to be discharged any stormwater, foundation drainwater, roof runoff,
surface drainage or unpolluted industrial cooling waters into any
sewer connected through the Town's sewer collection system to the
County's wastewater treatment plant. All connections which would result
in the discharge of infiltration or inflow are hereby specifically
prohibited.
Grease, oil, and sand interceptors or retainers shall be installed
and maintained by the user at the user's expense when they are necessary
for the proper handling of liquid wastes containing grease, oil or
sand in excessive amounts or any other harmful ingredients. The interceptors
shall be a type and capacity approved by the Plumbing Services Division
of the Harford County Department of Inspections, Licenses and Permits
and the Harford County Health Department. They shall be accessible
for cleaning by the user and for inspection by the Department of Public
Works.