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HomeMy Public PortalAbout00109REPEALED BY ORDINANCE #1348 REPEALED BY ORDINANCE #2289 REPEALED BY ORDINANCE #4786 O R D I N A N C E NO. 109 AN ORDINANCE regulating the use of public and private sewers and drains, private and semi-public sewage disposal, and the discharge of waters and wastes into the public sewer or drainage systems and providing penalties for the violation thereof. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE METRO- POLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT: ARTICLE I Section One. Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise the meaning of terms used in this ordinance shall be as follows: B.O.D. (denoting Biochemical Oxygen Demand) shall mean the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in 5 days at 20ΕC., expressed in parts per million by weight. COMBINED SEWER shall mean a sewer designed and intended to receive and convey both sewage and storm water including roof and street drainage. DISTRICT shall mean The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District. DRAINAGE CHANNEL shall mean any artificially con- structed open channel, ditch, swale, or flume, whether lined or unlined, for the drainage of stormwater and groundwater. 2 GARBAGE shall mean every refuse accumulation of animal, fruit and vegetable matter that attend the preparation, use, cooking, dealing in or storing of meat, fish, fowl, fruit and vegetables, and condemned foods found within the District except frozen or decayed fruits, meats, fish or fowl shipped into the District in unusable condition. The term garbage shall be held to also include refuse and offal from slaughter houses, pork houses and poultry houses. INDUSTRIAL CONNECTION SEWER shall mean that portion of sewer line required to carry the sewage of any industrial or commercial establishment from the last point of sewage entry on the premises to a sewer or to carry the discharge from any industrial pretreatment facility to a sewer. INDUSTRIAL WASTE shall mean any industrial liquid, waste water, or toxic substance from any industrial process. INDUSTRIAL WASTE TREATMENT PLANT shall mean any treat- ment plant device or facility used or intended to be used for the specific treatment of industrial wastes in which other wastes may or may not be present; provided, that a treatment plant in a public sewage system shall not be so designated. NATURAL OUTLET shall mean any outlet for drainage of stormwater into a watercourse, stream, creek, river, pond, lake or other large body of water, exclusive of sinks and subterranean channels. PERSON shall mean any individual, firm, company, 3 association, society, corporation, or group. pH shall mean the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution. PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE shall mean the wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food that have been shredded to such degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension. PUBLIC SEWER shall mean a sewer owned and maintained by The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District. SANITARY SEWER shall mean a sewer designed and intended to receive and convey only sewage as defined herein, together with such infiltration as cannot be avoided. SEMI-PUBLIC sewage disposal or sewage treatment facility shall mean a device or facility for treating or disposing of sewage or industrial wastes from a school, public building, institution, church, hotel, motel, or other building or structure not classified as private. SEWAGE shall mean the water carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, singular or in any combination, together with such ground surface and stormwaters as cannot be avoided. SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT shall mean any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage. 4 SEWER shall mean any public, semi-private or private lateral or main sewer, pipe, or enclosed conduit constructed in a street, alley, place, easement or right-of-way, exclusive of a building or industrial connection sewer for the conveyance of sewage, water carried wastes, or storm water. SEWERAGE SYSTEM shall mean and include any sewage treatment facility, sewer, appurtenance, equipment or any combination thereof used or intended to be used for the purpose of conveying, treating, or disposing of any storm water, waste water, industrial waste, or human excrement accumulating on any premise in the District. SHALL is mandatory; "May" is permissive. STORM SEWER shall mean a sewer designed and intended to receive and convey only storm or unpolluted waters. STORM WATER shall mean any water resulting from precipitation mixed with the accumulation of dirt, soil, and other debris or substances collected from the surfaces on which such precipitation falls or flows. 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. WATERCOURSE shall mean a natural surface drainage channel for stormwater and groundwater in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently. ARTICLE II 5 Section Two. It shall be unlawful to discharge or deposit into any natural outlet, drainage channel, or watercourse within The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District any sewage, industrial wastes, garbage, polluted water or any other substance which constitutes a nuisance or hazard to the public health or welfare, except the effluent from a properly designed and approved sewage treatment facility or device which has been provided in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance. Section Three. Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful to install any cesspool, septic tank or other facility intended or used for the disposal of sewage. ARTICLE III Section Four. At such time as a sanitary or combined public sewer becomes available to a property served by a private or semi-public sewage disposal system or treatment facility, as provided in Section Five of this ordinance, a direct connection shall be made to the public sewer in compliance with this ordinance, and any septic tank, cesspool, or similar private or semi-public sewage disposal or treatment facilities shall be abandoned and filled with suitable material. This section shall not apply to any private sewer constructed, owned, and operated by any industrial establishment in accordance with the rules and regulations of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District, and which has a direct sewer connection to the Mississippi River. Section Five. Where a public sanitary or combined 6 sewer is not available under the provisions of this ordinance, the building sewer shall be connected to an approved private or semi- public sewer or sewage disposal system or sewage treatment facility complying with the provisions of this article. A sewer shall be considered available if it is within one hundred fifty feet (150') of any part of the property to be connected to the sewer. Section Six. Before commencement of construction of a private or semi-public sewage disposal system or treatment facility the owner shall first obtain a construction permit from The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District. The application for such permit shall be made on a form furnished by the District, which the applicant shall supplement by plans, specifications and other data including the results of soil absorption tests performed as required by the District if sub-surface disposal is proposed. A permit and inspection fee of Fifteen ($15.00) Dollars shall be paid to the District at the time the application is filed. On and after the effective date of this ordinance the District shall exclusively issue permits for private and semi- public sewage disposal or treatment facilities. Section Seven. The District shall be allowed to inspect the work at any stage of construction and in any event, permittee shall notify the District when the work is ready for final inspection and before any underground portions are covered. The inspection shall be made within forty-eight hours of the 7 receipt of notice by the District. Section Eight. The type, capacities, location, and layout of a private, semi-public, or industrial sewage disposal system or treatment facility shall comply with all recommendations of the Division of Health, Department of Public Health and Welfare of the State of Missouri, and with all rules and regulations of the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District pertaining thereto. All such rules and regulations shall become effective upon approval of the Board of Trustees of the District and shall be filed in the Office of the Secretary-Treasurer as a public record and shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, State of Missouri, in accordance with the provisions of 536.020 Revised Statutes of Missouri, 1949. Section Nine. The Owner shall operate and maintain any private, semi-public, or industrial sewage disposal or treatment facilities in an efficient and satisfactory manner at all times, at no expense to the District. Such facilities shall be subject to inspection by the Executive Director or his designated representative at all times. ARTICLE IV Section Ten. No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any storm water, surface water, ground water, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, uncontaminated cooling water or un- polluted industrial process waters into any sanitary sewer. Any connection, drain or arrangement which will permit any such waters 8 to enter any sanitary sewer shall be deemed to be a violation of this section and this ordinance. Section Eleven. It shall be unlawful for any plumber, drainlayer, contractor, or any other person constructing a sewer, a house or building connection, an industrial connection sewer connected to a sanitary sewer to leave such connection open, unsealed, or incomplete in such manner that will permit storm or surface water to enter into any sanitary sewer within the District. All such openings shall be tightly sealed at all points whenever work is not actually in progress on such sewer or connection. Section Twelve. Storm water and all other unpolluted drainage shall be discharged into such sewers as are specifically designated as combined sewers or storm sewers, or to a drainage channel or natural outlet approved by the Executive Director of the District. Industrial cooling water or unpolluted process waters may be discharged, upon approval of the Executive Director of the District, to a storm sewer, combined sewers, drainage channel or natural outlet. ARTICLE V Section Thirteen. No person shall deposit or throw into any sewer, sewer inlet or privy vault, or into any private drain connecting with a public sewer any straw, hay, shavings, tinners scraps, waste, produce or material of manufacture, rags, or garbage, which has not been properly shredded, or any substance 9 which may choke up or cause a nuisance; nor shall any dam or other obstruction be placed in any sewers unless permission so to do is expressly granted by the Executive Director or his duly authorized agents. Section Fourteen. No gasoline filling station, garage, refining plant, chemical plant, packing house, slaughterhouse, lard rendering establishment, dairy, steam engine, steam boiler, steam plant, or any other establishment from which any substance would be discharged into the sewers which would tend to obstruct or damage the sewers or cause a nuisance or endanger the public health or safety or endanger persons who might be in such sewers, shall be connected with any public sewer or to any private sewer which discharges directly or indirectly into any public sewer, except through one or more intervening catch basins or traps as may be prescribed by the Executive Director, and in case the substance discharged by any establishment cannot be so intercepted or trapped as to render the discharged substance harmless to the sewer, not dangerous to the public health or safety and not dangerous to persons who may enter such sewers, the discharge from such plant shall be entirely excluded from the sewer. The catch basins hereinbefore required shall be maintained and operated in a manner satisfactory to the Executive Director and the substance removed from such catch basins and traps shall not be deposited in public highways or sewers. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 10 Section Fifteen. The owner or occupant of any establishment which discharges any substance into any public sewer or into any private sewer which discharges directly or indirectly into any public sewer not in accordance with the preceding sections, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. The owner or occupant of such establishment upon order of the Executive Director or his duly authorized agents, shall cease from such violation and if the Executive Director further finds that catch basins or traps can be so installed as to avoid the violation of such sections, such catch basins or traps shall be so installed within thirty days of the order by and at the expense of such establishment under the supervision and to the satisfaction of the Executive Director. If the order so given shall not have been complied with, the person failing to so comply shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. Section Sixteen. If the drainage from any gasoline filling station, garage, refining plant, chemical plant, packing house, slaughterhouse, lard rendering establishment, dairy, steam engine, steam boiler, steam plant or any other establishment shall cause a deposit or obstruction or damage to any public sewer the Executive Director shall cause such deposit or obstruction to be removed promptly or cause such damage to be repaired, keeping an account of the cost of such work including materials, labor and supervision and shall certify an account of such cost to the person from whose establishment or premises the material causing 11 such deposit, obstruction or damage came and if such person shall fail, neglect or refuse to pay the sum specified to the Secretary- Treasurer of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District within five days after demand has been made, the person shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. Section Seventeen. The admission into the public sewers that discharge into any treatment facility maintained and operated by The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District of any waters or wastes having (a) a 5-day Biochemical Oxygen Demand greater than 300 parts per million by weight, or (b) containing more than 350 parts per million by weight of suspended solids, or (c) containing any quantity of substances having the characteristics described in Section Fourteen, or (d) having an average daily flow greater than 2% of the average daily sewage flow of the District, shall be subject to the review and approval of the Executive Director. If such excess Biochemical Oxygen Demand, or suspended solids, could constitute a nuisance or adversely affect the operation of any sewage treatment plant or overload any sewage treatment plant owned or operated by The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District the owner shall provide, at his expense, such preliminary treatment as may be necessary to, (a) reduce the Biochemical Oxygen Demand to 300 parts per million and the suspended solids to 350 parts per million by weight, or (b) control objectionable characteristics or constituents in such a manner so as not to obstruct or interfere with the maintenance 12 or operation of any public sewage facility, or (c] control the quantities and rates of discharge of such waters or wastes. Plans, specifications, and any other pertinent information relating to proposed preliminary treatment facilities shall be submitted for the approval of the Executive Director, and no con- struction of such facilities shall be commenced until said approval is granted in writing. Section Eighteen. Where installed, all grease, oil and sand interceptors and where preliminary treatment facilities are provided for any waters or wastes, they shall be maintained continuously in satisfactory and efficient operation by the owner at his expense. ARTICLE VI Section Nineteen. When required by the Executive Director, the owner of any property served by a building or industrial connection sewer carrying industrial wastes shall install a suitable control manhole in the building sewer to facilitate observation, sampling and measurement of the wastes. Such manhole, when required, shall be accessibly and safely located, and shall be constructed in accordance with plans approved by the Executive Director. The manhole shall be installed by the owner at his expense, and shall be maintained by him so as to be safe at all times and accessible at reasonable times. Section Twenty. All measurements, tests and analyses 13 of the characteristics of waters and wastes to which reference is made in Sections Fourteen and Seventeen shall be determined in accordance with the 10th Edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water, Sewage and Industrial Wastes published jointly by the American Public Health Association, The American Water Works Association and the Federation of Sewerage and Industrial Wastes Association. Additional methods of making measurements, tests or analyses of the characteristics of waters or wastes may be provided by the Executive Director with the approval of the Board of Trustees of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District when in the opinion of the Executive Director they are necessary. All measurements, tests or analyses provided for in this Section shall be determined at the control manhole provided for in Section Nineteen, or upon suitable samples taken at said control manhole. In the event that 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 or industrial connection sewer is connected. Section Twenty-One. It shall be the duty of every person, public utility, or institution holding a permit to operate a sewerage system or sewage treatment plant to furnish records for ascertaining compliance with this Ordinance as may be required by the Executive Director. Section Twenty-Two. The Executive Director shall cause to be made such surveys, investigations, and studies of sewage, 14 sewerage systems, watercourses, and streams receiving sewage and drainage as may be necessary to determine that all sewerage systems are installed, operated, and maintained in compliance with the provisions of this Ordinance. ARTICLE VII Section Twenty-Three. It shall be unlawful to place any dam or other obstruction in any drainage facility or water course unless permission to do so is expressly granted in writing by the Executive Director. Section Twenty-Four. It shall be unlawful for any unauthorized person to maliciously, willfully, or negligently break, damage, destroy, uncover , deface, alter, or tamper with any structure, appurtenance, or equipment which is a part of the sewerage system of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District. ARTICLE VIII Section Twenty-Five. Any person found to be violating the provisions of Section Five or Section Ten of this Ordinance shall be given 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 satisfactorily correct said violation. Section Twenty-Six. Any person who shall continue any violation beyond the time limit provided for in Section Twenty- Five of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than Ten Dollars 15 ($10.00) nor more than Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00) or be imprisoned in the City Workhouse or the County Jail as the case may be not less than three (3) days nor more than ninety (90) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment for each violation. Each day in which any such violation shall continue shall be deemed a separate offense. Section Twenty-Seven. If any person shall continue a violation of Section Five or Section Ten of this ordinance beyond the time limit provided in the notice to correct said violation the Executive Director may order the work of correcting the violations of Section Ten of the ordinance to be done by the District and shall make a charge against the owner or occupier of such premises for the reasonable cost of such work. If such bill is unpaid after thirty (30) days, notice may be filed in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of the City of St. Louis or of St. Louis County as the case may be, whereupon such bill shall become a lien against the property involved. Section Twenty-Eight. Any person violating any provision of this ordinance other than Sections Five and Ten shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than Five Dollars ($5.00) nor more than Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00) or be imprisoned in the City Workhouse or the County Jail, as the case may be, not less than three (3) days nor more than ninety (90) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, and each day of such violation shall 16 constitute a separate offense. ARTICLE IX Section Twenty-Nine. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Section Thirty. The invalidity of any section, clause, sentence, or provision of this ordinance shall not affect the validity of any other part of this ordinance which can be given effect without such invalid part or parts. The foregoing Ordinance was adopted January 14, 1957.