Chapter 14.06
BRISTOL BAY BOROUGH SEWER UTILITY
Sections:
14.06.020 Use of public sewer required.
14.06.030 General conditions of construction of sewer connections.
14.06.040 Sewer connection permits.
14.06.050 Sewer disconnection and connection fees.
14.06.060 Delinquent accounts--Remedies.
14.06.065 Responsibility for equipment.
14.06.070 Sewer--Extensions by private developers.
14.06.075 Sewer--Control of wastewater.
14.06.085 Power and authority of inspectors.
14.06.090 Violations and remedies.
Appendix A
14.06.010 Definitions.
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of the terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
"Assembly" means the assembly of the Bristol Bay Borough.
"Borough" means the Bristol Bay Borough including the assembly, mayor or authorized employees of the borough.
"Bristol Bay Borough sewer system" means that sewer system installed and subsequent extensions thereof by the Bristol Bay Borough.
"Building drain" means that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from waste, and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning immediately outside the building wall.
"Connection fee" means the fee charged for connection to the system including a proportionate share of the cost for constructing the system plus the actual cost for materials and labor and mark-up in making the connection and other costs as determined by the borough.
"Discharge" means the introduction of any substance into the BBB sewerage system from any source, directly or indirectly, by means of pipes, conduits, pumping stations, ditches, or tank trucks, and all constructed devices and appliances appurtenant thereto.
"Duplex" means a residential building containing two separate living units. Each living unit shall be counted as an individual residential sewer customer.
"Easement" means an acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others.
"Electrical service" means an individual electric circuit used exclusively for sewage pumping from a building interceptor tank or grinder pump into the public sewer.
"Final assessment order" means that order entered by the borough pursuant to this code.
"Garbage" means the animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, and serving of food.
"Industrial wastes" means the wastewater from industrial processes, trade, or businesses as distinct from domestic or sanitary wastes.
"Interceptor tank" means a septic tank-like structure which contains facilities for retention of sewage wastes, connected to a pump for pumping the contents into the public sewer.
"May" means it is permissive.
"Mayor" means the mayor of the Bristol Bay Borough or his authorized representative.
"Multi-family" means a residential building containing three or more separate living units. Each living unit shall be counted as an individual residential sewer customer.
"Natural outlet" means any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows, into watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or groundwater.
"Owner" also includes purchaser under land sale contract.
"Person" means the legal person, including individual, corporation, partnership, trust or any other entity.
"pH" means the logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen-ion concentration. A measure of acidity or alkalinity of wastewater or other liquid. The concentration is the weight of hydrogen-ions, in grams, per liter of solution. Neutral water, for example, has a pH value of 7 and hydrogen-ion concentration of 10-7.
"Plumbing fixture unit" defined by the U.S.A. Standards Institute National Plumbing Code (USASI A40.8-1955) as discharge flow in gpm of a single fixture divided by 7.5. For fixture unit ratings see American Society of Civil Engineers Manual no. 37, 1970, Table X, p. 36. (Appendix A of this chapter.)
"Practical route" means that route determined by the borough to be economically feasible.
"Properly shredded garbage" means the wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food that have been shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in the building drain with no particle greater that one-half inch (twenty-seven centimeters) in any dimension.
"Public sewer" means the Bristol Bay Borough sewer system, also referred to as system, including pumping facilities, system piping, control panels, grinder pumps and treatment facilities.
"Sanitary sewer" means a sewer that carries liquid and water carried wastes from the residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions together with minor quantities in ground, storm, and surface waters that are not admitted intentionally.
"Service lines" means the piping installed on property to connect the interceptor tank or building drain system serving the structures thereon to the system piping. Unlike a lateral of a main or a main, service lines are not designed or intended to receive effluent flow from structures other than those structures with wastewater plumbing existing on the property when the lines were installed.
"Service fee" means the fees, normally monthly, levied for operation and maintenance of the system.
"Sewage" means the spent water of a community. The preferred term is "wastewater."
"Shall" means that it is mandatory.
"Slug" means any discharge of water or wastewater which in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow shall adversely affect the collection system or performance of the wastewater treatment works.
"Storm drain" (or "storm sewer") means a drain or sewer for conveying surface water, groundwater, subsurface water, or unpolluted water from any source.
"Suspended solids" means the total suspended matter that either floats on the surface of, or is in suspension in, water, wastewater, or other liquids, and that is removable by laboratory filtering as prescribed in "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater."
"System piping" means the main transmission lines and its laterals which collect wastewater from service lines.
"Toxic pollutant" means any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic by the Administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency under the provisions of Section 301(a) of the Act and listed in 40 CFR 401.15.
"User" means any person or entity responsible for the discharge of wastewater into the Bristol Bay Borough sewerage system.
"Wastewater" means the spent water of a community. From the standpoint of source, it may be a combination of the liquid and water carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions.
"Wastewater facilities" means the structures, equipment, and processes required to collect, carry away, and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of the effluent. Wastewater facilities include the interceptor tanks, pumping facilities, service lines, system piping and control panels. May be used interchangeably with "sewer facilities."
"Wastewater treatment works" means an arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater, industrial wastes, and sludge. Sometimes used synonymous with "waste treatment plant" or "wastewater treatment plant" or "sewage treatment plant."
"Water course" means a natural or artificial channel for the passage of water either continuously or intermittently.
"WEF" means Water Environment Federation. (Ord. 93-10 §1(part), 1993).
14.06.020 Use of public sewer required.
A. The wastewater plumbing of any structure must be connected to the public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this chapter unless the structure is more than two hundred feet from any portion of the sewer system as measured in a straight line from the sewer system piping.
B. Where the public sewer is not available under the provisions of subsection A of this section, the building sewer shall be connected to a private wastewater disposal system complying with the sewage disposal provisions of the State of Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation. (Ord. 93-10 §1(part), 1993).
14.06.030 General conditions of construction of sewer connections.
A. All materials used in the construction of a sewer service line, including any required interceptor tank and/or lift station, to the sewer lateral or main line where it intersects the property line shall be the property of the property owner, whether purchased and/or installed by the applicant or by the borough.
B. The materials and workmanship to connect the wastewater plumbing of any structure to the borough public sewer system must meet or exceed those prescribed in the borough standard specifications for sewer construction and shall be inspected by a borough representative.
C. Electricity necessary to operate the effluent pump and service heat trace shall be paid by the owner or sewer customer.
D. Whenever possible, the building sewer gravity line shall be brought to the building at an elevation below the basement floor. In buildings where any building drain is too low to permit gravity flow to the public sewer, sanitary sewage carried by such building drain shall be lifted by a means approved by the borough and discharged to the service line.
E. The borough shall not be responsible for the operation or maintenance of any portion of the wastewater system inside any structure or located on privately owned property which is not within the established easement for the public sewer.
F. The borough shall be responsible for all costs associated with maintenance of system grinder pumps, including those located on private property, as long as the grinder pump installed meets all borough sewer utility specifications. (Ord. 93-10 §1(part), 1993).
14.06.040 Sewer connection permits.
A. A permit is required for any connection to the public sewer. There shall be two classes of sewer connection permits:
1. Class I. Includes residential structures up to twelve bedrooms and all other structures which in the judgment of the borough are designed to serve or has the capacity of serving less than twenty-five persons per day;
2. Class II. Includes residential structures with more than twelve bedrooms and all other structures which in the judgment of the borough is designed to serve or has the capacity of serving more than twenty-five persons per day, including all commercial and all industrial structures.
B. The owner(s) or his authorized agent shall make application for a sewer connection permit on forms provided by the borough. Applicants for all Class II connection permits and for any facility that will exceed a design flow of two thousand gal/day must obtain written approval of plans and specifications from the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation.
C. Each applicant for a sewer connection permit shall submit copies of any plans, specifications or other information pertinent. The owner(s) shall provide access by the borough employees to the applicant’s property for the purposes of inspecting service lines, interceptor tanks, electric service and control panels serving the property.
D. The sewer customer is responsible for the connection construction and all costs and expenses for labor and material incidental to the installation and connection of the portion of the wastewater disposal facility located within the property line. (Ord. 93-10 §1(part), 1993).
14.06.050 Sewer disconnection and connection fees.
A. Disconnection fees will be established by assembly resolution when the customer requests the service be disconnected for the winter or if the service is disconnected by the borough for nonpayment.
B. Connection fees will be established by the assembly resolution upon the request of customers wishing to be reconnected to the sewer service who had previously requested disconnection for the winter or for nonpayment of sewer usage fees.
C. New Service. Connection fees for new service will not be assessed a connection fee. The customer is responsible for installing the service line to the point of connection to the borough sewage main line. Prior to connection the customer must contact the borough wastewater department for borough approval to coordinate the service connection and inspection. The service connection will not be allowed without inspection and approval by a borough wastewater operator. The service line must be visible for this inspection. When new service is provided, a shutoff valve will be installed somewhere in the system to allow the borough to shut off service if needed. (Ord. 2009-03 (part), 2009).
14.06.055 Sewer service fees.
A. Service fees shall be established by assembly resolution and charged to the public sewer customer. The assembly, by resolution, shall fix service fee due dates, penalties, and interest.
B. Customers for sewer service shall apply for such service on forms provided by the borough. A deposit equivalent to the actual or estimated first and last month service fee shall be made with the borough finance department prior to receiving sewer service. The deposit is not a payment on account.
1. In the event sewer service is discontinued, the deposit may be applied to the closing bill. Any amount in excess of the closing bill will be refunded to the depositor. The deposit will be refunded if, after twelve continuous months the customer has no record of late payments. Deposits in excess of one hundred dollars shall be placed in an interest bearing account and shall earn interest at the rate of the interest bearing account;
2. The deposit and accrued interest shall be forfeited if the customer’s account becomes delinquent and service is discontinued, and the full amount shall be applied to the unpaid balance. If any deposit remains after all fees have been paid the remaining funds will be returned to the customer. Sewer service will not be restored to a customer with a delinquent account until all sewer service fees, charges and penalties due the borough from the customer have been paid and the deposit replaced. Service will not be restored to a customer indebted to the borough;
3. Service fees may be paid either annually, semiannually, quarterly, or monthly at the option of the customer. Customers will be charged their monthly rate no matter if their dwelling is occupied or vacant. Large use seasonal customers using more than twenty-five ERUs per month may negotiate an annual agreed-upon amount with the borough manager that will be paid annually. Non-public sewer customers, who are on septic sewer systems, wishing to pay the annual sewer fee equivalent, based on their ERU rate, in advance will be entitled to one septic tank pumping or emptying per year (example: single-family dwelling, one ERU, annual fee is three hundred sixty dollars). Customers will be responsible for setting up payment plans with the finance department.
4. Customers sixty-two years of age and older may apply for a senior citizen exemption to service fees or septic pumping for their primary place of residence.
C. Sewer service rates shall be based on equivalent residential units (ERU). The following equivalent residential units shall apply:
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Classification |
Equivalent Unit |
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1. |
Single-family dwellings |
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1.0 |
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2. |
Multifamily residences: for each single-family residence |
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1.0 |
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3. |
Mobile home park: for each rental space where sewer is available to a space used. The mobile home park manager shall, the first of each month, provide the borough with a list of all spaces occupied. All mobile home parks shall be billed directly for each space occupied. |
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1.0 |
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4. |
Hotel and motel, with individual bath: per room |
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.33 |
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5. |
Hotel and motel with individual bath and kitchen: per room |
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.7 |
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6. |
Boarding house or hotel without individual baths: per room or fraction thereof |
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.25 |
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7. |
Bunkhouse with central bath facility: per bunk |
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.2 |
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8. |
Bar or cocktail lounge: for every 25 seats or fraction thereof |
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1.0 |
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9. |
Bar with restaurant: for every 25 seats or fraction thereof |
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2.0 |
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10. |
Restaurants: for every 25 seats or fraction thereof |
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1.0 |
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11. |
Clubs with bar and kitchen: for every 25 seats or fraction thereof |
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1.0 |
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12. |
Clubs with kitchen: for every 25 seats or fraction thereof |
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.7 |
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13. |
Retail store, office: for every 12 plumbing fixture units or fraction thereof |
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1.0 |
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14. |
Schools: |
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a. Public or private high schools or colleges: for every 25 persons or fraction thereof in average daily full-time attendance |
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1.0 |
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b. Public or private elementary schools: for every 25 persons or fraction thereof in average daily attendance |
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1.0 |
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c. Public or private child care centers: for every 25 persons or fraction thereof in average daily attendance |
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1.0 |
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Average daily attendance shall be based on annual attendance. Persons as used in this section shall include students, teachers and all school staff and administrators.
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15. |
Theater or auditorium: for each 100 seats or fraction thereof |
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1.0 |
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16. |
Churches: for every church |
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1.0 |
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17. |
Churches with meeting rooms: for every church |
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1.5 |
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18. |
Laundromats or self-service laundry: for every washing machine in a commercial laundromat or self-service laundry or in any other washing facility, the use of which is not strictly limited to occupants of a residential building, or mobile home park or on which the facility is located |
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.5 |
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19. |
Hospital, rest home, convalescent home: for each bed |
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.3 |
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20. |
Gasoline service station or repair garage |
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1.0 |
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21. |
Carwash, self-service: per stall |
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1.0 |
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22. |
Public restrooms and showers: for 12 plumbing fixture units or fraction thereof |
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1.0 |
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23. |
Combine facilities: for each building which has more than one type of business or function on one sewer system, the number of service units which will be charged, is the combined sum of the individual units, which are applicable to the facility involved |
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24. |
Where the commercial customer is not specifically listed above, the borough manager shall determine which category the customer most closely resembles in the quantity of use and classify each customer accordingly. |
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D. The payment of service fees as determined herein shall entitle the customer to the following maintenance services:
1. The cleaning or emptying of the interceptor tank each:
a. Three years for Class I customers,
b. Two years for Class II customers,
c. One year for Class II customers with a design flow or actual flow in excess of sixty thousand gallons/month or non-public sewer customers who have paid in advance. (Ord. 2009-03 (part), 2009; Ord. 2006-05, 2006; Ord. 2005-08, 2005; Ord. 93-10 §1(part), 1993).
14.06.060 Delinquent accounts--Remedies.
The borough shall send a notice of account delinquency to each delinquent customer on or after ten days after the account becomes delinquent. An account is delinquent if not paid in full within thirty days of its due date. The borough’s failure to send a notice or a bill for services does not in any way effect or reduce the borough’s remedies nor relieve or reduce responsibility for full payment.
A. On or after fifteen days after the account becomes delinquent, the borough may send a turnoff notice to the customer and property owner. The notice shall state a date on or after which the sewer service will be turned off or disconnected if the delinquent account has not been paid in full prior thereto. Such date will not be less than five nor more than fifteen days from the date of the notice. Delivery of the notice to the premises served, and mailing the notice to the address on record of the customer and property owner, shall be considered effective notice to both the customer and to the property owner.
B. On or after the turnoff date, any agent of the borough may discontinue the sewer service by any legal means, including and not limited to interrupting the electrical or mechanical mechanisms, and disconnecting or obstructing the sewer service. In the event the sewer service is disconnected, the borough shall notify the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation.
C. The borough may refuse to provide sewer service and may discontinue sewer service to any premises without prior notice where discharges into the sewer system are dangerous, unsafe, or not in conformity with the provisions of this chapter.
D. Each customer shall give the borough written notice of his intention to discontinue sewer service at least two working days prior to the desired date of sewer service discontinuance; otherwise, the customer shall be responsible for sewer service charges until actual discontinuance. Upon discontinuance of sewer service, a bill shall be computed and such bill shall be payable immediately. In no case will the bill be less than the monthly minimum specified in the current sewer rate schedule.
E. In the event sewer service is discontinued for any reason, sewer service shall not be resumed until all sewer service fees, charges and interest for sewer service previously provided to the customer have been paid in full, plus the disconnect fees and the estimated cost to resume the service and the replaced deposit.
F. Each customer, each owner and each purchaser of property receiving public sewer service shall be jointly and severally liable to the borough for the sewer service fees, charges and interest thereon, any disconnect costs and any costs, including actual attorney’s fees, incurred by the borough in connection with its efforts to collect same. In the event that sewer service charges are not timely paid, the borough shall, from and after the date such payment becomes delinquent, have a lien against the property to which the sewer services were or are provided for the amount of the sewer service fees, charges, interest, disconnect costs, costs and actual attorneys fees hereinabove provided. The borough may foreclose such liens in the same manner as real property tax liens are foreclosed (AS 29.45.290 et seq. and Chapter 3.12 of this code), which lien is prior and paramount to all other liens or encumbrances against the property except real property tax liens. (Ord. 93-10 §1(part), 1993).
14.06.065 Responsibility for equipment.
The borough shall not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature whatsoever caused by any defect in the customer’s plumbing or equipment, nor shall the borough be responsible for damages caused by freezing of the service lines as a result of the customer’s failure to activate the service line heat trace, where one is installed. (Ord. 93-10 §1(part), 1993)
14.06.070 Sewer--Extensions by private developers.
A. A developer considering extensions to the public sewer shall contact the public works director, who will determine if an engineer, who is registered as a professional engineer under the laws of the state of Alaska, will be required to do preliminary design and cost estimates. The developer shall then do either:
1. Petition the borough to have the extension constructed under the criteria in Section 14.06.070 (B);
2. Determine to construct the improvements at developer’s cost as set forth in this section.
B. The borough may finance extensions, after conducting public hearings (with notice given to interested property owners to be benefited by the proposed extension) and upon approval of the assembly, sewer laterals, interceptors or trunks may be extended at the borough’s expense and in accordance with borough specifications and standards where the proposed extension meets the following:
1. The extension costs do not exceed twenty-five thousand dollars per equivalent residential unit (ERU) to be served by the extension;
2. The total cost of the extension does not exceed one hundred thousand dollars;
3. The funds for the extension are available in the borough sewer enterprise fund.
C. Any extensions shall be performed in accordance with borough specifications and standards. Extensions or improvements will not be allowed or accepted unless the plans have been approved by the borough and by the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, and the developer has signed and met the terms and conditions of a sewer system extension agreement with the borough. The design standards and conditions shall become a part of the extension agreement and may be altered from time to time as the assembly deems necessary. (Ord. 93-10 §1(part), 1993).
14.06.075 Sewer--Control of wastewater.
A. No person(s) other than authorized agents of the borough shall uncover, make connections with or opening into, use, alter, or disturb the borough public sewer or appurtenance thereof without first obtaining a written permit from the borough.
B. No person(s) shall discharge or cause to be discharged any waters such as stormwater, groundwater, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, or cooling water into the public sewer or into any service lines, drains or ditches which discharge into the public sewer.
C. No person(s) shall discharge or cause to be discharged any of the following described waters or wastes to any public sewers:
1. Any gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil, or other flammable or explosive liquid, solid, or gas;
2. Any waters containing toxic or poisonous solids, liquids, or gases in sufficient concentrations, either singly or by interaction with other wastes, to injure or interfere with any waste treatment process, constitute a hazard to humans or animals, create a public nuisance, or create any hazard in the receiving waters of the wastewater facilities;
3. Any waters or wastes having a pH lower than 4.5 or greater than ten or having any other corrosive property capable of causing damage or hazard to structures, equipment and personnel of the wastewater facilities;
4. Solid or viscous substances in quantities or of such size capable of causing obstruction to flow in sewers, or other interference with the proper operation of wastewater facilities such as, but not limited to, ashes, bones, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags, feathers, tar, plastic, wood, unground garbage, whole blood, paunch manure, hair and fleshing, entrails and paper dishes, cups, milk containers, fish and fish wastes, grease, rubber etc. either whole or ground by garbage grinders;
5. Ceramic dusts or particles or other abrasive substances; and
6. Any water received through infiltration or inflow.
D. The following described substances, materials, waters, or waste shall be limited in discharges to the system to concentrations or quantities which will not harm either the sewers, wastewater treatment process or equipment, will not have an adverse effect on the receiving ground, or will not otherwise endanger lives, limb, public property, or constitute a nuisance. The borough may set limitations lower than the limitations established in the regulations below if in its opinion such more severe limitations are necessary to meet the above objectives. In forming an opinion as to the acceptability, the borough will give consideration to such factors as the quantity of subject waste in relation to flows and velocities in the sewers, materials of construction of the sewers, the wastewater treatment process employed, capacity of the wastewater treatment plant, degree of treatability of the waste in the wastewater treatment plant, and other pertinent factors. The limitations or restrictions on materials or characteristics of waste or wastewaters discharged to the sanitary sewer which shall not be violated without approval of the borough are as follows:
1. Wastewater having a temperature higher than one hundred fifty degrees Fahrenheit (sixty-five degrees Celsius);
2. Wastewater containing more than one hundred milligrams per liter of petroleum oil, nonbiodegradable cutting oils, or product of mineral oil origin;
3. Wastewater from industrial plants containing floatable oils, fat, fish, fish waste or grease;
4. Any garbage that has not been properly shredded (see definitions). Garbage grinders/disposals are discouraged;
5. Any waters or wastes containing iron, chromium, copper, zinc, and similar objectionable or toxic substances to such degree that any such material received in the composite wastewater at the wastewater treatment works exceeds the limits established by the borough for such materials;
6. Any waters and wastes containing odor-producing substances exceeding limits which may be established by the borough;
7. Any radioactive wastes or isotopes of such half-life or concentration as may exceed limits established by the borough in compliance with applicable state or federal regulations;
8. Quantities of flow, concentrations, or both which constitute a "sludge" as defined herein;
9. Waters or wastes containing substances which are not amenable to treatment or reduction by wastewater treatment processes employed, or are amenable to treatment only to such degree that the wastewater treatment plant effluent cannot meet the requirements of other agencies having jurisdiction over discharge to the receiving waters; and
10. Any water or waste which, by interaction with other water or wastes in the public sewer system, release obnoxious gases, form suspended solids which interfere with the collection system, or create a condition deleterious to structures and treatment processes.
E. If any waters or wastes are discharged or are proposed to be discharged to the public sewers, which waters contain the substances or possess the characteristics enumerated in subsection D of this section, and which in the judgment of the borough, may have a deleterious effect upon the wastewater facilities, processes, equipment, or receiving waters, or which otherwise create a hazard to life or constitute a public nuisance, the borough may:
1. Reject the wastes;
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 wastes not covered by existing fees.
When considering the above alternatives, the borough may give consideration to the economic impact of each alternative on the discharger. If the borough 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 borough.
F. Grease, oil and sand interceptors shall be provided when they are necessary for the proper handling of liquid wastes containing floatable grease in excessive amounts as specified in subsection (C)(4) of this section or any flammable wastes, sand, or other harmful ingredients. Functioning grease traps are determined to be necessary on the discharge line from any food preparation and food cleanup facilities to be connected or connected to the public sewer, and the capacity of such traps and the necessity and capacities of all grease, oil and sand interceptors in any facility to be connected to the public sewer shall be determined by the borough. All interceptors shall be of a type and capacity approved by the borough, and shall be located as to be readily and easily accessible for cleaning and inspection. In the maintaining of these interceptors the owner(s) shall be responsible for the proper removal and disposal by appropriate means of the captured material and shall maintain records of the dates, and means of disposal which are subject to review by the borough. Any removal and hauling of the collected materials not performed by owner(s) personnel must be performed by currently licensed waste disposal firms.
G. Where pretreatment or flow-equalizing facilities are provided or required for any waters or wastes, they shall be maintained continuously in satisfactory and effective operation by the owner at his expense.
H. The borough may require an applicant or person receiving sewer service to provide information needed to determine compliance with this chapter. These requirements may include:
1. Wastewater discharge average and peak rate and volume over a specified time period;
2. Chemical and biological analysis of wastewater sampled at specified times, locations, durations and frequencies;
3. Information on raw materials, processes, and products affecting wastewater volume and quality;
4. Quantity and disposition of specific liquid, sludge, oil, solvent, or other materials important to control sewer use;
5. A plot plan of sewers on the user’s property showing sewer and pretreatment facility location;
6. Details of wastewater pretreatment facilities;
7. Details of system to prevent and control the losses of materials through spills to the public sewer; and
8. Water usage average and peak usage over a specified period of time.
I. All measurements, tests, and analysis of the characteristics of waters and wastes to which reference is made in this chapter shall be determined in accordance with the latest edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater" published by the American Public Health Association. Sampling methods, location, times, durations and frequencies are to be determined on an individual basis subject to approval by the borough.
J. No statement contained in Section 14.06.070 shall be construed as preventing any special agreement or arrangement between the borough and any industrial concern whereby an industrial waste of unusual strength or character may be accepted by the borough for treatment. The prior approval of Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC) is required for acceptance of any industrial waste.
K. No user shall install a sewer service line without providing a cleanout outside the building to be served, and if the service line consists of a pipe longer than one hundred feet between the sewer main and the building to be served, without installing additional cleanouts at intervals not exceeding one hundred feet. If the pipe connecting the sewer main to the building to be serviced changes direction in any manner forty five degrees or greater in one bend or two or more bends placed in an interval of not greater than ten feet, additional cleanouts for each such change of direction shall be installed.
L. The customer is responsible for all frozen sewer service lines up to the point of connection to the public sewer, unless otherwise provided in this chapter.
M. When required by the borough, any commercial or industrial user shall install a suitable control manhole on his property to facilitate observation, sampling and measurement of wastes. Such manhole, when required by the borough, shall be accessible and safely located and shall be constructed in accordance with plans approved by the borough. Installation and maintenance expense shall be the responsibility of the sewer customer. (Ord. 93-10 §1(part), 1993).
14.06.080 Prohibitions.
A. No person shall maliciously, wilfully, negligently or inadvertently break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface, or tamper with any structure, appurtenances or equipment which is a part of the wastewater facilities or, drive a motor vehicle over any interceptor tank without permission from the borough.
B. No person shall excavate within any area subject to a recorded easement granting the borough access and installation rights for wastewater facilities without first obtaining a permit to do so from the borough. (Ord. 93-10 §1(part), 1993).
14.06.085 Power and authority of inspectors.
A. The borough, including other duly authorized employees or organizations of the borough are authorized to obtain information concerning industrial processes which have a direct bearing on the kind and source of discharge to the wastewater collection system.
B. The borough and other duly authorized agents and employees of the borough bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted to enter all private properties through which the borough holds a duly negotiated easement for the purposes of inspection, observation, measurement, and sampling of any portion of the wastewater facilities 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. (Ord. 93-10 §1(part), 1993).
14.06.090 Violations and remedies.
A. If any person shall construct a public sewer, private sewer or building sewer in violation of this chapter, the Manager may issue an order to such person to stop work in progress which is not then in compliance with this chapter or the manager may issue an order to correct work which has been performed. Such person shall forthwith take such action as may be necessary to comply with such order and with this chapter, all at the expense of such person.
B. Discontinuance of Service.
1. The borough may order the sewer customer on any property from which discharges prohibited by this chapter are entering any sewer to correct such condition. The borough shall first give written notice of such prohibited discharge to the person, and only if such person fails to correct such condition within thirty days after receipt of such notice, the borough may enter upon such property and remove or close sewer connections as hereinafter provided;
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 1 of this subsection, at the borough’s discretion sewer service to any property may be discontinued immediately and without notice, upon determination that here is being discharged from such property any material deemed to be dangerous, injurious to treatment process or hazardous to any person, structure or treatment process. The borough shall have the right to enter upon the person’s property to remove or close sewer connections as hereinafter provided.
C. Sewer service shall not be restored until all charges, including the expense of removal, closing, and restoration, and any other costs or actual attorney’s fees shall have been paid and the cause for discontinuance of service corrected.
D. Change of ownership or occupancy of premise found delinquent shall not be cause for reducing or eliminating these charges to the customer.
E. Any person found to be in violation of any provision of this chapter shall be served by the borough 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.
1. Any person who shall continue any violation beyond the time limit provided for in this chapter or the time limit provided in the written notice required by this section shall be guilty of an infraction, and on conviction thereof, shall be fined in an amount not exceeding one hundred dollars for each violation. Each day in which any violation shall continue shall be deemed a separate offence;
2. Civil cause of Action. The borough may bring a cause of action against any individual, corporation, partnership, company or other entity for violation of any provision of this chapter, and the Superior Court of the State of Alaska shall have jurisdiction in the matters under the provisions of this chapter;
3. Injunction. In any suit brought under any provision of this chapter, the court may enjoin the party subject to suit from further violation of this chapter;
4. Damages. In any suit brought under the provisions of this chapter in which it is determined that the party subject to suit is in violation of any section of this chapter, the party subject to suit shall be liable to the borough for its damages including actual attorney fees and costs of this action. (Ord. 93-10 §1(part), 1993).
APPENDIX A
TABLE OF EQUIVALENT FIXTURE UNITS BY FIXTURE OR TYPE
|
Fixture Type
|
Fixture Units
|
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1 bathroom group consistent of tank-operated water closet, lavatory, and bathtub or shower |
6 |
|
Bathtub (with or without overhead shower) |
2 |
|
Bidet |
3 |
|
Combination sink and tray |
3 |
|
Combination sink and tray with food disposal unit |
4 |
|
Dental unit or cuspidor |
1 |
|
Dental lavatory |
1 |
|
Drinking fountain |
.5 |
|
Dishwasher, domestic |
2 |
|
Floor drains |
1 |
|
Kitchen sink, domestic |
2 |
|
Kitchen sink, domestic, with food waste grinder |
3 |
|
Lavatory |
1 |
|
Lavatory, barber, beauty parlor |
2 |
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Lavatory, surgeon’s |
2 |
|
Laundry tray (1 or 2 compartments) |
2 |
|
Shower stall, domestic |
2 |
|
Showers (group) per head |
3 |
|
Sinks |
|
|
Surgeon’s |
3 |
|
Flushing rim (with valve) |
8 |
|
Service (trap standard) |
3 |
|
Service (P trap) |
2 |
|
Pot, scullery, etc. |
4 |
|
Urinal, pedestal, syphon jet, blowout |
8 |
|
Urinal, wall lip |
4 |
|
Urinal stall, washout |
4 |
|
Urinal trough (each 2 ft section) |
2 |
|
Wash sink (circular or multipal) each set of faucets |
2 |
|
Water closet, tank operated |
4 |
|
Water closet, valve operated |
8 |
From United States of America Standards Institute National Plumbing Code, USASI A40.8-1955
(Ord. 93-10 §1(part), 1993).