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1.
Definitions ....................................................................................................................................... 2
2.
Metric Units ..................................................................................................................................... 3
3.
Connection to Sanitary Sewer .......................................................................................................... 3
4.
Valid Permit ..................................................................................................................................... 4
5.
District Disapproval ......................................................................................................................... 4
6.
Tampering or Interfering .................................................................................................................. 4
7.
Connection Required ....................................................................................................................... 4
8.
Type and Size ................................................................................................................................... 4
9.
Discharge of Sewer .......................................................................................................................... 5
10.
Discharge into Sanitary sewer ......................................................................................................... 6
11.
Obstructing Substances .................................................................................................................... 7
12.
Discharge into Sewer ....................................................................................................................... 7
13.
Permits for Connection .................................................................................................................... 8
14.
Mechanically or Electrically Operated Garbage Grinder ................................................................ 9
15.
Industrial Enterprise or Premises ..................................................................................................... 9
16.
Sewer Connected to Storm sewer ................................................................................................... 10
17.
Damage to Public sewer ................................................................................................................ 10
18.
Authority to Enter .......................................................................................................................... 10
19.
Offences ......................................................................................................................................... 10
20.
Repeals Bylaws .............................................................................................................................. 10
21.
Effective Date ................................................................................................................................ 11
22.
Citation ........................................................................................................................................... 11
Sewer Connection Bylaw No. 1410
Consolidated Version
Page 1
January 9, 2003
DISTRICT OF SALMON ARM
BYLAW NO. 1410
A bylaw to regulate connection to sewers in the District of Salmon Arm
WHEREAS it is deemed desirable and expedient to provide for the connection of sewers from
houses and other buildings with the public sewers of the District of Salmon Arm and to regulate same;
NOW THEREFORE the Council of the District of Salmon Arm enacts as follows:
1.
Definitions
In this bylaw, unless the context otherwise requires:
"B.O.D" [denoting Biochemical Oxygen Demand] means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the
biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at
20° C expressed in parts per million by weight;
"Building Inspector" means the person from time to time duly appointed as Building Inspector for
the District of Salmon Arm and shall include any person lawfully acting in that capacity;
"Combined sewer" means a pubic sewer receiving both storm water and sewage;
"District" means the District of salmon Arm;
"Garbage" means solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food or from the
handling, storage and sale of produce;
"Natural outlet" means any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, bay or other body of
surface water or into groundwater;
"pH" means the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per litre of
solution;
"Properly ground garbage" means the waste from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of
foods, ground to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions
normally prevailing in public sewers;
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"Public sewer" means a sewer which is controlled by the District of Salmon Arm and which is
intended for public use;
"Sanitary building sewer or Sanitary house sewer" means the sewer extending from the property
line of the property concerned to the building or structure situated thereon and joining the sewer
connection to the plumbing system at the building;
"Sanitary sewer" means a public sewer to which storm, surface and ground waters are not
intentionally admitted;
"Sanitary sewer connection or Sanitary building sewer extension" means a sewer pipe extending
from a public sewer to the property line of the property being served or about to be served;
"Sewage" means water carried wastes from residences, buildings, business buildings, institutions
and industrial establishments, together with such ground, surface and storm waters as may be
present or any combination of such wastes and waters and shall include:
a)
"Industrial Wasters" meaning the wastes from Industrial processes;
b)
"Storm Waters" meaning water resulting from a period of natural precipitation;
c)
"Sanitary Sewage" meaning that portion of sewage exclusive of Industrial wastes and
storm waters;
"Sewer" means a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage;
"Storm sewer or Storm drain" means a public sewer which caries storm and surface water but
excludes sewage and polluted industrial waste;
"Superintendent" means the person from time to time duly appointed as Superintendent of Works
for the District of Salmon Arm and shall include any person lawfully acting in that capacity;
"Suspended solids" means 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" means a channel, ravine, gully or other similar depression in which a flow of
water naturally occurs either continuously or intermittently.
2.
Metric Units
Metric units are used for all measurements in the bylaw. The approximate equivalent of those
units in previously used units of Canada measure are shown in brackets following each metric
measurement and such bracketed figures are included for conveniences only.
3.
Connection to Sanitary Sewer
Before any connection as herein set forth is made to the sanitary sewer, the owner of the real
property, or his agent, provided such agent has the written consent of the owner, shall make
application to the District at the District Office, in the form as prescribed by the Clerk, for a
permit to connect the plumbing system of the building or structure situate on the said real
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property to the sanitary sewer and at the time of making such application shall pay to the District
the designated amount as set out in the Fee for Service Bylaw.
4.
Valid Permit
No person shall cause any sanitary building sewer to be connected to the public sewerage system
without a valid permit issued pursuant to Section 3 of this bylaw.
5.
District Disapproval
If the District disapproves of a proposed connection, the applicant shall be so informed, the
reasons for disapproval given, and any fees deposited by the applicant refunded.
6.
Tampering or Interfering
No person other than the District, its servants, employees, agents, contractors or licencees shall
install or cause to be installed any part of the sewer connection or in any way break, interfere or
tamper with any public sewer.
7.
Connection Required
The District Council or the Local Board of Health may require any owner of real property upon
which is situate a building or structure to connect to the public sewer in the manner prescribed
herein, by mailed notice requiring connection within sixty [60] days of receipt of such notice.
a)
If, after the expiration of the sixty [60] day period aforesaid, the owner or occupant
served with such notice has failed or neglected to construct and install a building sewer
and to connect his buildings or structures with the public sewer as required, the District
may enter upon the subject property and cause the connection to be made.
b)
The costs and expenses incurred by the District of installing the building sewer, including
any costs and expenses incidental thereto, shall be charged against the owner of the
subject property and he shall be liable for and responsible to pay such costs and expenses
upon demand.
c)
Any such costs and expenses as aforesaid shall form a lien or charge upon the subject
property, and in the event said charge is not paid by the 31st day of December of the year
in which it is due and payable, the amount of such charge shall be deemed to be taxes in
arrears and shall be entered on the tax roll by the Collector as such.
8.
Type and Size
a)
All building sewers shall be constructed of PVC Gravity Sewer Pipe, SDR 28, meeting
CSA B182.1 with rubber ring gasket joints or sewer pipe material of a quality equivalent
to the above specification and approved by the Building Inspector.
b)
The internal diameter of building sewers and house connections shall be as set out below:
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Any single family residence or structure serving not more than one family - 100 mm
[4 inches]
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Any building or structure serving more than one family but not more than thirty
families - 150 mm [6 inches]
-
Any building or structure serving more than thirty families - as specified by the
Building Inspector.
-
any commercial or industrial building or structure or any other building or structure,
as specified by the Building Inspector, but in any case not less than 100 mm [4
inches].
c)
The minimum slope of the pipes shall be:
-
all 100 mm [4 inch] and 150 mm [6 inch] building sewers and house connections, not
less than 2 cm per M [¼" per ft.]
-
all building sewers and house connections larger than those set out above, specified
by the Building Inspector.
d)
No joint of or in a building sewer shall allow leakage or infiltration at any time at a
greater rate than 4,250 litres per km [1,500 gallons per mile] of sewer in twenty-four
hours under a maximum head of 1.8 m [6 feet].
9.
Discharge of Sewer
a)
No person shall discharge into any ditch, drain, creek, stream, watercourse, waterway,
lake or bay, without first obtaining permission to do so from the Superintendent, any
sanitary sewage, other waters, industrial wastes, petroleum products, coal tar, or any
refuse of any kind whatsoever.
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b)
Where no sewer is available the Superintendent may, upon application therefor, grant
permission for the discharge to or into any ditch, drain, creek, stream, watercourse,
waterway, lake or bay, subject to such standards of quality, quantity and rate of discharge
as the Superintendent may prescribe upon granting his permission aforesaid, of storm
water, sanitary sewage, industrial wastes or other waters, and subject to the approval of
the Ministry of Environment.
c)
Where no appropriate sewer is available or where it is considered that the proposed
discharge would be injurious to or in any way overload the sewer or sewage system, an
industry shall discharge its wastes into such natural outlet or watercourse as may be
prescribed, subject to such standards of quality, quantity and rate of discharge as may be
prescribed by the Ministry of Environment.
d)
In any event the District may require any industry to discharge unpolluted cooling water
or other unpolluted waters into a natural outlet or watercourse rather than into a public
sewer.
10.
Discharge into Sanitary sewer
a)
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged into a sanitary sewer:
♦ Any storm waters, surface water, groundwater, roof run-off or surface drainage, and
not person shall connect to a sanitary sewer any roof leaders, foundation drains, field
drains, sumps or other collectors of surface or groundwater.
♦ Any industrial cooling water.
♦ Any water from an air-conditioning, cooling or condensing system.
b)
Industrial cooling water which may be polluted with insoluble oils or grease or insoluble
suspended solids shall be pre-treated for removal of the pollutants and the resultant clear
unpolluted waters shall be discharged into a storm sewer or an approved natural outlet or
watercourse.
c)
Unpolluted water from air-conditioning, cooling or condensing systems, or from any
swimming pool, shall be discharged into a storm sewer or an approved natural outlet or
watercourse.
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11.
Obstructing Substances
No person shall discharge, deposit or throw or cause, allow or permit to be discharged, deposited
or thrown into any public sewer, plumbing fixtures connected thereto, drain, manhole, culvert, or
catch-basin, or into any building seer any substance of any kind whatsoever tending to obstruct or
injure the sewerage works or cause a nuisance, or which will in any manner interfere with the
proper repairs or maintenance of the sewerage works or which will in any way render it difficult
for any workman to repair the sewerage works.
12.
Discharge into Sewer
a)
Subject to Section 14, no person shall discharge or cause to be discharged into any public
sewer any of the following sewage or wastes:
♦ any liquid or vapour having a temperature higher than 65° Celsius [150° Fahrenheit];
♦ without limiting the generality of this section, the concentration of the following
toxic substances at the point of discharge to a public sewer, shall not exceed:
Arsenic
1.0 milligrams per litre
Cadmium
1.0 milligrams per litre
Chromium [Total]
5.0 milligrams per litre
Copper
2.0 milligrams per litre
Cyanide
1.0 milligrams per litre
Iron
10.0 milligrams per litre
Lead
2.0 milligrams per litre
Nickel
3.0 milligrams per litre
PHenols & Cresols
1.0 milligrams per litre
Zinc
4.0 milligrams per litre
♦ any gasoline, benzine, naphtha, fuel oil or other inflammable or explosive liquid,
solid or gas;
♦ any Garbage except properly ground garbage;
♦ any ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags, feathers, tar, coal
tar, asphalt, cement, plastics, wood, paunch manure, or an other solids or viscous
substance capable of causing obstruction t the flow in sewers or other interference
with the proper operation of the sewage works;
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♦ any waters, sewage or wastes having a pH factor lower than 5.5 or higher than 9.5 or
having any other corrosive property capable of causing damage or hazard to
structures, equipment, or personnel engaged in the operation or maintenance of the
sewage works;
♦ any sewage, waters or wastes containing a toxic or poisonous substance in sufficient
quantity to inure or interfere with any sewage treatment process, or constitute a
hazard to humans or animals, or create any hazard in the receiving waters of the
effluent from the sewerage works or sewage treatment plant;
♦ any waters, sewage or wastes containing dissolved or suspended solids of such
character and quantity that any abnormal attention or expense would be required in
the treating of such sewage;
♦ any waters, sewage or wastes having a B.O.D. greater than 500 parts per million by
weight;
♦ any waters, sewage or wastes containing more than 600 parts per million by weight
of suspended solids except properly ground garbage permitted as above noted;
♦ any radioactive wastes or sewage;
♦ any water or waste that will by itself or with other water or wastes in the sewer
system, release obnoxious gases; or develop colour of undesirable intensity; or form
suspended solids in objectionable concentration; or
♦ water or wastes containing substance in such concentration that they are not
amenable to treatment or reduction by the sewage treatment processes employed, or
are amenable to treatment only to such a degree that the sewage treatment plant
effluent cannot meet the requirements of any other agency having jurisdiction over
discharges to the receiving waters.
13.
Permits for Connection
a)
Where there exists the possibility that there may be discharged into a pubic sewer from
any premises any of the wastes, sewage or substances described above, the District may
issue a permit for the connection of such premises to a public sewer if protective devices
satisfactory to the Superintendent have been installed by the applicant to prevent the
discharge of such wastes, sewage or substances.
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b)
Any building sewer connected to a public sewer or sewer connection without a permit
therefor or any building sewer depositing into a public sewer or into a sewer connection
thence to app public sewer any sewage, substance or matter prohibited by this bylaw may
be disconnected stopped up and closed.
14.
Mechanically or Electrically Operated Garbage Grinder
♦ Every mechanically or electrically operated household or commercial Garbage grinder
shall be so designed and installed that it shall:
♦ operate with cold water flowing into the grinder and through the sink drain in such
manner as to congeal and aerate the solid and liquid grass within the grinding unit;
♦ discharge wastes at a reasonably uniform rate in fluid form which shall flow readily
through an approved trap, drain line or soil line in a manner which prevents clogging or
stoppage of the drain line;
♦ be of such construction and have such operating characteristics that not more than 5% by
weight of all material discharged from it shall have any dimension larger than 6 mm [¼
inch] and no particle shall have any dimension greater than 12 mm [½ inch]. Weight
shall be determined on a dry basis;
♦ be self-scouring with no fouling surface to cause objectionable odours;
♦ be free from electrical or mechanical hazards and adequately protect the user against
injury during operation, and free from cross connection to any water pipe; and
♦ comply in all particulars with all relevant Municipal Bylaws and regulations pertaining
thereto.
15.
Industrial Enterprise or Premises
The owner of any Industrial enterprise or premises connected to a public sewer shall provide
suitable means of inspection to facilitate observation, sampling and measurement of the wastes or
sewage emanating therefrom.
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16.
Sewer Connected to Storm sewer
Every building sewer connected to a storm sewer shall include within the building or structure or
in an approved location outside the building the installation of a standard sump and backwater
valve installed and designed to the specifications and satisfaction of the Building Inspector. The
Superintendent may dispense with the necessity of a backwater valve where he is of the opinion
that the property lies at such an elevation that there would be no danger of flooding of the
property as a result of surcharge or back up on the storm sewer.
17.
Damage to Public sewer
No person shall maliciously, willfully or negligently break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface or
tamper with any public sewer or appurtenances thereto or thereunto belonging.
18.
Authority to Enter
The Superintendent and any person under his authority is hereby authorized and empowered to
enter at all reasonable times upon any property in order to ascertain whether the provisions of this
bylaw are being carried out and for such purpose to enter upon such property in order to:
♦ determine the size, depth, location and condition of any sewer, building sewer and all
connections made and utilized therewith;
♦ determine the location and method and place of discharge of roof and surface drains and
plumbing fixtures; and
♦ inspect, observe, measure, sample and test the quantity and nature of sewage being discharged
into any public sewer, natural outlet or watercourse.
19.
Offences
Any person contravening or committing any breach of or committing any offence against any of
the provisions of this bylaw or who suffers or permits any act or thing to be done in contravention
or in violation of any of the provisions of this bylaw or who refuses, omits or neglects to fulfill,
observe, carry out or perform any duty, obligation, matter or thing whatsoever by this bylaw
prescribed or imposed or required to be done is liable, on conviction, to a fine not exceeding Five
Hundred Dollars [$500.00] or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding six [6] months, or both;
and each day during which any violation, contravention or breach shall continue shall be deemed a
separate offence.
20.
Repeals Bylaws
"Salmon Arm Sewer Connection Bylaw, 1976", No. 1175 and "Sewer Connection Charge Bylaw
amendment Bylaw, 1981", No. 1401 are hereby rescinded.
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21.
Effective Date
This bylaw is in force on and from the first day of January, 1982.
22.
Citation
This bylaw may be cited as "Sewer Connection Bylaw, 1981".
READ A FIRST TIME THIS
30th
DAY OF
November
1981.
READ A SECOND TIME THIS
30th
DAY OF
November
1981.
READ A THIRD TIME THIS
30th
DAY OF
November
19981
RECONSIDERED, FINALLY PASSED AND ADOPTED BY COUNCIL THIS 14th
DAY
OF
December
1981.
"Margaret Lund"
MAYOR
"C.H. Simmons"
CLERK
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B.O.D, 2, 8
Building Inspector, 2, 5, 10
building sewer, 4, 5, 9, 10
Citation, 11
Combined sewer, 2
connection, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9
Connection Required, 4
costs and expenses, 4, 5
Damage to Public sewer, 10
discharge, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
District, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8
foundation, 6
Garbage, 2, 7, 9
grinder, 9
groundwater, 2, 6
Industrial Enterprise or Premises, 9
Industrial Wasters, 3
infiltration, 5
insoluble, 6
Metric Units, 4
Natural outlet, 2
Obstructing Substances, 7
Offences, 10
organic matter, 2
Permits for Connection, 8
pH, 2, 8
Properly ground garbage, 2
public sewer, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Public sewer, 3, 10
PVC Gravity, 5
radioactive, 8
residence, 5
roof run-off, 6
Sanitary building sewer, 3
Sanitary house sewer, 3
Sanitary sewer, 3, 6
Sewage, 3
Sewer, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11
slope, 5
solids, 3, 6, 7, 8
Storm drain, 3
Storm sewer, 3, 10
storm waters, 3, 6
Storm Waters, 3
structure, 3, 4, 5, 10
Superintendent, 3, 5, 6, 8, 10
Suspended solids, 3
Tampering or Interfering, 4
treatment, 8
Type and Size, 5
Valid Permit, 4
Watercourse, 3