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,
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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
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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
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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.