Chapter 13.10
SEWER USE REGULATIONS
Sections:
13.10.070 Use of public sewers required.
13.10.080 Building sewers and connections.
13.10.090 Restrictions on use.
13.10.100 Protection from damage.
13.10.010 Definitions.
Definitions for the terms utilized in this chapter are set forth within Chapter 13.01 JCMC, Public Utilities and Services Definitions. [Ord. 1258 § 4 (Exh. D), 2019.]
13.10.020 Sewer extensions.
The entire cost of any sewer system extension shall be borne by those property owners who use the extension. [Ord. 1258 § 4 (Exh. D), 2019.]
13.10.030 Rates.
The rates to be charged to all persons, firms, or corporations shall be reasonable and uniform, taking into consideration the service rendered, as established by resolution of the city council. [Ord. 1258 § 4 (Exh. D), 2019.]
13.10.040 Charges combined.
The public works department of Junction City is hereby directed to collect the rates and charges provided for in JCMC 13.10.030 from each user of the sewage facilities of the city at the premises where sewage facilities were provided to the user. Where the user has a delinquent bill for one premises, the delinquency shall be charged against the user for sewage facilities obtained at any other premises within the city. [Ord. 1258 § 4 (Exh. D), 2019.]
13.10.050 Reserved.
13.10.060 Billing procedures.
Billing procedures and delinquent charge collection efforts are governed by city’s utility billing code provisions, as set forth in Chapter 13.60 JCMC. [Ord. 1258 § 4 (Exh. D), 2019.]
13.10.070 Use of public sewers required.
It is unlawful for any person to place, deposit or permit to be deposited in an unsanitary manner upon public or private property within the city, or in any area under the jurisdiction of the city, any human excrement, garbage or other objectionable waste.
It is unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet within the city, or in any area under the jurisdiction of the city, any sanitary sewage, industrial wastes or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions of this chapter.
It is unlawful to construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool or other facility intended or used for the disposal of sewage within the corporate limits of the city, or in any area under the jurisdiction of the city. [Ord. 1258 § 4 (Exh. D), 2019.]
13.10.080 Building sewers and connections.
No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any connections with or opening into, use, alter or disturb any public sewer or appurtenances thereto.
There shall be two classes of building sewer permits: permits for residential and commercial service, and permits for service to establishments producing industrial wastes. In either case, the owner or owner’s agent shall make application on a special form furnished by the city. The permit applications shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications or other information considered pertinent in the director’s judgment.
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.
Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings or new building sewers only when they meet all requirements of this article as evidenced by examination and testing to the satisfaction of the director.
Suitable adaptors shall be used when connecting soil pipes of dissimilar materials.
The building sewer shall be polyvinyl chloride (PVC) sewer pipe, SDR 35, ASTM D-3034 with bell-andspigot gasketed joints, O-ring gaskets conforming to ASTM F-477; or acrylonitrilebutadiene-stryene (ABS) sewer pipe, ASTM D-2751 with solvent cemented joints, solvent cement conforming to ASTM D-2235.
The size and slope of the building sewer shall be subject to the approval of the director, but in no event shall the diameter be less than three inches. A minimum slope of one-fourth inch per foot shall be provided for three-inch pipe, one-eighth of an inch per foot for four-inch through six-inch pipe and one-sixteenth of an inch per foot for eight-inch pipe and larger.
Building sewers serving buildings with basements shall, whenever possible, be brought to the building at an elevation below the basement floor.
The building sewer shall be laid at a uniform grade and in straight alignment insofar as is possible. Changes in direction shall be made only with curved pipe no greater than 45-degree long radius bends. No 45-degree or 90-degree short radius elbows shall be used.
In all buildings in which any building drain is too low to permit gravity flow to the public sewer, sanitary sewage carried by such drain shall be lifted by approved artificial means and discharged to the building sewer.
All excavations required for the installation of a building sewer shall be open trench work unless otherwise approved by the director. Pipe laying and backfill shall be performed in accordance with regulations of the Oregon State Plumbing Specialty Code.
All joints and connections shall be made gastight and water tight. Testing shall be per “Low Pressure Air Test for Building Sewers,” IAPMO IS 16-76 as published in the Oregon State Plumbing Specialty Code. Satisfactory testing shall be performed in the presence of the director or the director’s designee. The city shall connect to sewer laterals.
The applicant for a building sewer permit shall notify the director when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer. After final approval of the building sewer by the director, the owner shall make the final connection to the building drain per city design standards unless otherwise authorized by the director.
No person shall make connection of roof downspouts, exterior foundation drains, areaway drains or other sources of surface runoff or groundwater to a building sewer or building drain which in turn is connected directly or indirectly to a public sanitary sewer. [Ord. 1258 § 4 (Exh. D), 2019.]
13.10.090 Restrictions on use.
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any stormwater, surface water, groundwater, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, cooling water or unpolluted industrial process water to any sanitary sewer.
Stormwater and all other unpolluted drainage shall be discharged to such sewers as are specifically designated as storm sewers or to a natural outlet approved by the director. Industrial cooling water or unpolluted process water may be discharged, upon approval of the director, to a storm sewer or natural outlet. [Ord. 1258 § 4 (Exh. D), 2019.]
13.10.100 Protection from damage.
No person, or persons, shall unlawfully, maliciously, willfully, intentionally, or negligently break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface or tamper with any structure, facility, appurtenance or equipment which is a part of the sanitary sewer system of the city. This section does not apply to any employee of the city during the time that employee is engaged in that employee’s official employment, nor to any person or persons authorized to work in any manner thereon. [Ord. 1258 § 4 (Exh. D), 2019.]
13.10.110 Access.
The employees of the city shall at all reasonable times have access to any premises served by the city for inspection, repair, or the enforcement of the provisions of this chapter. [Ord. 1258 § 4 (Exh. D), 2019.]
13.10.120 Sewer fund.
The finance director of the city of Junction City is hereby directed to set aside and pay into the sewer fund heretofore created by Ordinance No. 287 all of the gross revenue received from charge and rates collected for the use of the sewer facilities as herein provided. [Ord. 1258 § 4 (Exh. D), 2019.]
13.10.130 Penalties.
Any person violating any provisions of this chapter upon conviction shall be penalized by a fine of not more than $500.00 per violation. In the case of a continuing violation, every day’s continuance of the violation is a separate violation. [Ord. 1258 § 4 (Exh. D), 2019.]