(a) BOD (denoting Biochemical Oxygen Demand) shall mean the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20 degrees C, expressed in milligrams per liter.
(b) Building Drain shall mean that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste, and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning 10 feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
(c) Building Inspector shall mean the officer of the city designated by the City Council to enforce city building and associated codes.
(d) Building Sewer shall mean the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
(e) Combined Sewer shall mean a sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
(f) Garbage shall mean solid waste from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food, and the handling, storage, and sale of produce.
(g) Industrial Waste shall mean the liquid waste from industrial manufacturing processes, trade, or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
(h) Natural Outlet shall mean any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface or groundwater.
(i) Person shall mean any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation, or group.
(j) pH shall mean the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
(k) Properly Shredded Garbage shall mean the waste from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food that has been shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle, greater than one-half inch in any dimension.
(l) Public Sewer shall mean a sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights and is controlled by a public authority.
(m) Public Works Director shall mean the officer designated by the City Council, or his authorized deputy, agent, or representative.
(n) Sanitary Sewer shall mean a sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface, and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
(o) Sewage shall mean a combination of the water-carried waste from residents, business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, together with such ground, surface, and storm waters as may be present.
(p) Sewage Treatment Plant shall mean any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
(q) Sewage Works shall mean all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating, and disposing of sewage.
(r) Sewer shall mean a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
(s) Shall is mandatory; May is permissive.
(t) Slug shall mean any discharge of water, sewage, or industrial waste, which in concentration of any given constituent, or in quantity of flow, exceeds, for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes, more than five times the average 24-hour concentration or flows during normal operation.
(u) Storm Drain (sometimes termed "storm sewer") shall mean a sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial waste, other than unpolluted cooling water.
(v) Suspended Solids shall mean solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in water, sewage, or other liquids, and which are removable by laboratory filtering.
(w) Utility Services shall be for water and sewer service charges and all applicable and authorized additions and penalties with respect thereto.
(x) Watercourse shall mean a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
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(a) 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 city of Frontenac, or in any area under the jurisdiction of the city, any human or animal excrement, garbage, or other objectionable waste.
(b) It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet within the city of Frontenac, or in any area under the jurisdiction of the city, any sewage or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions of this article.
(c) Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful to construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool, or other facility intended or used for the disposal of sewage.
(d) The owner of all houses, buildings, or properties used for human employment, recreation, or other purposes, situated within the city 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 sanitary or combined sewer of the city, is required at his expense to install suitable toilet facilities therein and to connect such facilities directly to the proper public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this article, within 180 days after date of official notice to do so, provided that said public sewer is within 100 feet of the property line.
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(a) Where a public sanitary or combined sewer is not available under the provisions of Section 15-402(d), the building sewer shall be connected to a private sewage disposal system complying with the provisions of this article.
(b) Before commencement of construction of a private sewage disposal system, the owner shall first obtain a written permit signed by the City Building Inspector. The application for such a permit shall be made on a form furnished by the city, which the applicant shall supplement with any plans, specifications, and other information deemed necessary by the Building Inspector.
(c) A permit for a private sewage disposal system shall not become effective until the installation is completed to the satisfaction of the Building Inspector. The Building Inspector shall be allowed to inspect the work at any stage of construction, and in any event, the applicant for the permit shall notify the Building Inspector when the work is ready for final inspection, and before any underground portions are covered.
(d) The type, capacity, location, and layout of a private sewage disposal system shall comply with all recommendations of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. No permit shall be issued for any private sewage disposal system employing subsurface soil absorption facilities where the area of the lot is less than 3 acres. The minimum area may be reduced if, in the opinion of the Building Inspector, the conditions are adequate to sustain a private sewage disposal system. In forming his/her opinion as to the acceptability of the lot, the Building Inspector shall consider such factors as drainage fixture calculation, soil composition, lot size, building occupancy, and any other relevant factors. No septic tank or cesspool shall be permitted to discharge to any natural outlet.
(e) At such time as a public sewer becomes available to a property served by a private sewage disposal system, as provided in Section 15-403(d), a direct connection shall be made to the public sewer in compliance with this ordinance, within 180 days of notice from the City. Any septic tanks, cesspools, and similar private sewage disposal facilities shall be abandoned, cleaned of sludge, and filled with clean bank-run gravel or dirt.
(f) If a public sewer is not available to the owner, the owner shall operate and maintain the private sewage disposal facilities in a sanitary manner at all times, at no expense to the city.
(g) No statement contained in this article shall be construed to interfere with any additional requirements that may be imposed by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.
(a) No unauthorized person shall uncover or make any connections with or opening into, use, alter, or disturb any public sewer or appurtenance thereof without first obtaining a written permit from the city.
(b) The owner or his/her agent shall make application on a form furnished by the city. The permit application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications, or other information considered to be pertinent in the judgment of the Building Inspector or Public Works Director.
(c) All costs and expenses incident to the installation and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner. The owner shall indemnify the city from any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer.
(d) A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided for every building; except where one building stands at the rear of another on an interior lot and no private sewer is available or can be constructed to the rear building through an adjoining alley, court-yard, or driveway, the building sewer from the front building may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered as one building sewer.
(e) Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test by the Building Inspector or Public Works Director, to meet all requirements of City Ordinance.
(f) The size, slope, alignment, materials of construction of a building sewer, and the methods to be used in excavating, placing the pipe, jointing, testing, and backfilling the trench, shall all conform to the requirements of the building and plumbing code or other applicable rules and regulations of the city. In the absence of code provisions or amplification thereof, the materials and procedures outlined in appropriate specifications of the A.S.T.M. and W.P.C.F. Manual of Practice No. 9 shall apply.
(g) Whenever possible, the building sewer shall be brought to the building at an elevation below the basement floor. In all buildings in which any building drain is too low to pe1mit gravity flow to the public sewer, sanitary sewage carried by such building drain shall be lifted by an approved means and discharged to the building sewer.
(h) No connection shall be made of roof downspouts, inte1ior or exterior foundation drains, areaway drains, or other sources of surface runoff or groundwater, to a building sewer or building drain, which in tum is connected directly or indirectly to a public sanitary sewer.
(i) The connection of a building sewer into the public sewer shall conform to the requirements of the building and plumbing codes or other applicable rules and regulations of the City or the procedures outlined in appropriate specifications of the A.S.T.M. and the W.P.C.F. Manual of Practice No. 9. All such connections shall be made gastight and watertight. Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials must be approved by the Public Works Director before installation.
(j) The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the Public Works Director when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection shall be made under the supervision of the Public Works Director or his/her designee.
(k) All excavations for building sewer installation shall be adequately guarded with barricades and lights to protect the public from hazards. Streets, sidewalks, parkways, and other public property disturbed in the course of the work shall be restored in a manner satisfactory to the city.
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(a) No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any stormwater, surface water, groundwater, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, including interior and exterior foundation drains, uncontaminated cooling water, or unpolluted industrial process waters into any sanitary sewer.
(b) Stormwater and all other unpolluted drainages shall be discharged to such sewers as are specifically designated as combined sewers or storm sewers, or to a natural outlet approved by the Public Works Director. Industrial cooling water or unpolluted process waters may be discharged on approval of the Public Works Director to a storm sewer, combined sewer, or natural outlet.
(c) No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any of the following described waters or waste to any public sewers:
(1) Any gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil, or other flammable or explosive liquid, solid or gas.
(2) Any water or waste containing toxic or poisonous solids, liquids, or gases in sufficient quantity, either singly or by interaction with other waste, to injure or interfere with any sewage treatment process, constitute a hazard to humans or animals, create a public nuisance, or create any hazard in the receiving waters of the sewage treatment plant, including but not limited to cyanides in excess of two mg/l of CN in the waste as discharged to the public sewer.
(3) Any water or waste having a pH lower than 5.5 or having any other corrosive property capable of causing damage or hazard to structures, equipment, and personnel of the sewage works.
(4) Solid or viscous substances in quantities or of such size capable of obstructing the flow in sewers, or other interference with the proper operation of the sewage works such as, but not limited to, ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags, feathers, tar, plastics, wood, unground garbage, whole blood, paunch manure, hair and fleshings, entrails and paper dishes, cups, milk containers, etc., either whole or ground by garbage grinders.
(f) No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged the following described substances, mate1ials, waters, or waste, if it appears likely in the opinion of the Public Works Director, that such waste can harm either the sewers, sewage treatment process, or equipment, have an adverse effect on the receiving stream, or can otherwise endanger life, limb, public property, or constitute a nuisance. In fanning his/her opinion as to the acceptability of this waste, the Director of Public Works shall consider such factors as the quantities of subject waste in relation to flows and velocities in the sewers, materials of construction of the sewers, nature of the sewage treatment process, capacity of the sewage treatment plant, degree of treatability of waste in the sewage treatment plant, and other pertinent factors. The prohibited substances are:
(1) Any liquid or vapor having a temperature higher than 150 degrees F.
(2) Any water or waste containing fats, wax, grease, or oils, whether emulsified or not, in excess of one hundred mg/1 or containing substances which may solidify or become viscous at temperatures between 32 and 150 degrees F.
(3) Any garbage that has not been properly shredded. The installation and operation of any garbage grinder equipped with a motor of 3/4 horsepower or greater shall be subject to the review and approval of the Public Works Director.
(4) Any water or waste containing strong acid iron pickling waste, or concentrated plating solutions whether neutralized or not.
(5) Any waters or waste containing iron, chromium, copper, zinc, or similar objectionable or toxic substances; or waste exe1iing an excessive chlorine requirement, to such degree that any such material received in the composite sewage at the sewage treatment works exceeds the limits established by the Public Works Director for such materials.
(6) Any waters or waste containing phenols or other taste- or odor-producing substances, in such concentrations exceeding limits which may be established by the Public Works Director as necessary, after treatment of the composite sewage, to meet the requirements of State, Federal, or other public agencies of jurisdiction for such discharge to the receiving waters.
(7) Any radioactive waste or isotopes of such half-life or concentration as may exceed limits established by the Public Works Director in compliance with applicable State and Federal regulations.
(8) Any water or waste having a pH in excess of 9.5.
(9) Materials which exert or cause:
(A) Unusual concentrations of inert suspended solids (such as, but not limited to, Fuller's earth, lime slurries, and lime residues) or of dissolved solids (such as, but not limited to, sodium chloride or sodium sulfate).
(B) Excessive discoloration (such as, but not limited to, dye waste and vegetable tanning solutions).
(C) Unusual BOD, chemical oxygen demand, or chlorine requirements in such quantities as to constitute a significant load on the sewage treatment works.
(D) Unusual volume of flow or concentration of waste constituting "slugs" as defined herein.
(E) Waters or waste containing substances which are not amenable to treatment or reduction by the sewage treatment processes employed or are amenable to treatment only to such degree that the sewage treatment plant effluent cannot meet the requirements of other agencies having jurisdiction over discharge to the receiving waters.
(F) Any water or waste having: (1) a 5-day BOD greater than 300 parts per million by weight, (2) containing more than 300 parts per million by weight of suspended solids, or (3) having an average daily flow greater than two percent of the average sewage flow of the city, shall be subject to the review of the Public Works Director. Where necessary, in the opinion of the Public Works Director, the owner shall provide, at his expense, such preliminary treatment as may be necessary to: (1) reduce the biochemical oxygen demand to 300 parts per million by weight, (2) reduce the suspended solids to 350 parts per million by weight, or (3) control the quantities and rates of discharge of such waters or waste. Plans, specifications, and any other pertinent information relating to proposed preliminary treatment facilities shall be submitted for the approval of the Public Works Director and no construction of such facilities shall be commenced until said approvals are obtained in writing.
(g) If any waters or waste are discharged, or are proposed to be discharged to the public sewers, which waters contain the substances or possess the characteristics enumerated in Section 15-405(f), and which in the judgment of the Public Works Director, may have a deleterious effect upon the sewage works, processes, equipment, or receiving waters, or which otherwise create a hazard to life to constitute a public nuisance, the Public Works Director may: (1) reject the waste, (2) require pretreatment to an acceptable condition for discharge to the public sewers, (3) require control over the quantities and rates of discharge, and/or (4) require payment to cover the added cost of handling and treating the waste not covered by existing taxes or sewer charges under the provisions of Section 15-405(m).
(h) If the Public Works Director permits the pretreatment or equalization of waste flows, the design and installation of the plants and equipment shall be subject to the review and approval of the Public Works Director, and subject to the requirements of all applicable codes, ordinances and State or Federal laws.
(i) Grease, oil, and sand interceptors shall be provided when, in the opinion of the Public Works Director, they are necessary for the proper handling of liquid waste containing grease in excessive amounts, or any flammable waste; sand, or other harmful ingredients; except that such interceptors shall not be required for private living quarters or dwelling units. All interceptors shall be of a type and capacity approved by the Public Works Director and shall be located as to be readily and easily accessible for cleaning and inspection.
(j) Where preliminary treatment or flow-equalizing facilities are provided for any waters or waste, they shall be maintained continuously to the satisfaction of the Public Works Director at the owner's expense.
(k) When required by the Public Works Director, the owner of any property serviced by a building sewer carrying industrial waste shall install a suitable control manhole together with such necessary meters and other appurtenances in the building sewer to facilitate observation, sampling, and measurement of the waste. Such manhole, when required, shall be accessibly and safely located, and shall be constructed in accordance with plans approved by the Public Works Director. The manhole shall be installed by the owner at his/her expense and shall be maintained to be safe and accessible at all times.
(l) All measurements, tests, and analyses of the characteristics of waters and waste to which reference is made in this ordinance shall be determined in accordance with the latest edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater", published by the Ame1ican Public Health Association, and shall be determined at the control manhole provided, or upon suitable samples taken at said control manhole. If no special manhole has been required, the control manhole shall be considered to be the nearest downstream manhole in the public sewer to the point at which the building sewer is connected. Sampling shall be carried out by customarily accepted methods to reflect the effect of constituents upon the sewage works and to determine the existence of hazards to life, limb, and property. The particular analyses involved will determine whether a 24-hour composite of all outfalls of a premise is appropriate or whether a grab sample or samples should be taken. Normally, but not always, BOD and suspended solids analyses are obtained from 24-hour composites of all outfalls whereas pH's are determined from periodic grab samples.
(m) No statement contained in this article shall be construed as preventing any special agreement or arrangement between the city and any industrial concern whereby an industrial waste of unusual strength or character may be accepted by the city for treatment, subject to payment therefore, by the industrial concern.
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No unauthorized person shall maliciously, willfully, or negligently break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface, or tamper with any structure, appurtenance, or equipment which is part of the sewage works. Any person violating this provision shall be subject to immediate arrest and prosecution under applicable City, State, or Federal Laws
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(a) The Public Works Director and other duly authorized employees of the city bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted to enter all prope1iies for the purpose of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, and testing in accordance with the provisions of this article. The Public Works Director or his representatives shall have no authority to inquire into any processes including metallurgical, chemical, oil, refining, ceramic, paper, or other industries beyond that point having a direct bearing on the kind and source of discharge to the sewers, waterways or facilities for waste treatment.
(b) The Public Works Director and other duly authorized employees of the city bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted to enter all private properties through which the city holds a duly negotiated easement, for the purposes of, but not limited to, inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, repair, and maintenance of any portion of the sewage works lying within said easement. All entry and subsequent work, if any, on said easement, shall be done in full accordance with the terms of the duly negotiated easement pertaining to the private property involved.
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(a) Any person found to be violating any provision of this ordinance, except Section 15-406, shall be served by the city with written notice stating the nature of the violation and providing a reasonable time limit for the satisfactory correction thereof. The offender shall, within the period of time stated in such notice, permanently cease all violations.
(b) Any person who shall continue any violation beyond the time limit provided for in Section 15-408(a) shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined in the amount not exceeding $100 for each violation. Each 24-hour period in which any such violation shall continue shall be deemed a separate offense.
(c) Any person violating any of the provisions of this article shall become liable to the city for any expense, loss, or damage occasioned by the city by reason of such violation.
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