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HomeMy Public PortalAboutR0082 R E S O L U T I O N NO. 82 WHEREAS, the District has not heretofore promulgated and published any policy with regard to permitting the construction of individual septic tanks or other individual sewage disposal facilities within the boundaries of the District, and WHEREAS, the formulation and publication of such a policy is necessary in the interest of the public health and for the guidance of home builders, NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Trustees of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District as follows: 1. The District reaffirms its position that where it is feasible to dispose of sanitary sewage through the construction of sewers to connect with an adequate sewer system that method and no other will be permitted. 2. Where the construction of sanitary sewers is not feasible and, in the opinion of the Executive Director, service to a number of dwelling units may be rendered by the construction of treatment facilities to which all dwelling units in any given area may be connected, such joint facilities may be installed in accordance with standards prescribed by the District. 3. Where neither the construction of sewers to connect with an adequate sewer system nor the construction of joint facilities to serve any given area is feasible, and the Executive Director, upon examination finds that the use of individual septic tanks or other individual sewage disposal facilities is the only reasonable method of sanitary sewage disposal, the Executive Director may, upon making such finding, 2 permit such installation. 4. The owner, developer or subdivider of any building project, planning for which had been started prior to the first day of September 1956, and which the Executive Director upon examination finds cannot reasonably be served in any manner other than by individual septic tanks or other individual sewage disposal facilities shall be permitted to install septic tanks or other individual disposal units upon the conditions hereinafter set out. Each owner, builder, subdivider or developer who has in process on the first day of September, 1956, plans for such installations, shall within thirty days from and after such date notify the District thereof. The Executive Director shall cause an examination to be made of the porosity of the soil and if he finds that the property cannot presently be served in any manner other than by individual septic tanks or other individual disposal units, and further finds by percolation tests that such individual disposal methods are feasible, he shall file such findings with the application and may approve the issuance of a permit based thereon. 5. No plans for individual septic tanks or individual sewage disposal units not in process on or before the first day of September, 1956, and for which the owner, builder, subdivider or developer has not given the thirty day notice provided in the preceding paragraph shall be approved. All subdivision plans, or plans for more than one dwelling unit, begun after the first day 3 of September, 1956, which contemplate sanitary sewage disposal by means of individual septic tanks or individual sewage disposal units shall be disapproved. In areas where no sewers are available and where individual septic tanks or other individual sewage disposal units have heretofore been installed, and in areas where, because of the size and isolation of the lots or tracts on which structures are to be erected, no method of disposal other than by individual installations for sewage disposal are practicable, the Executive Director may, upon examination of the facts and so finding, authorize the installation of individual septic tanks or other individual sewage disposal units. 6. From and after the first day of September, 1956, no permit for the installation of an individual septic tank or other individual sewage disposal unit shall be issued until the owner has filed with the District on a form furnished by the District his certificate that such installation is being made with full knowledge on the part of the owner that the property served thereby will be and become liable for its proportionate share of the cost of any sewer or sewer system which may hereafter be constructed by the District to serve the area in which such property is located. The term "owner" as used in this Resolution shall be deemed to mean the owner of not more than two adjoining lots. 7. The Executive Director shall promptly notify the Real Estate Board, Builders Association, the City and County 4 Planning Commissions, City and County Health Departments, Veterans Administration, Federal Housing Authority and such other interested parties as he may see fit of the action of this Board, and shall take such other steps as he may deem proper to give the widest publicity possible of this action. The foregoing Resolution was adopted August 27, 1956.