HomeMy WebLinkAbout1991-04-08 91-165 ORDER— Council Action
Date 4/8/91 Item No. _q]=165
Item/Subject: Directing City Engineer to Take Action to Cause the Disconnection of
Roof and Yard Drains from Certain Severed Areas of the City
Responsible Deparmuml: Engineering
The City has spent a considerable amount of money t separate sewers in
many par of the City, including theMeadoubrook and Carr Arabia areas.
Many houses
still haveroof drains r yard drainsconnected into their
sanitarys which still contributes [ combined sewer o erflows at
Nations
e location the Interceptor Sewer syae This Order 1s intended
tofocus on the need for a programof private drain disconnection.
This Order fsco ended for passage. o that notices can be sent t
property own Staff will be developing a program to work with the
property owners in this regard, so as to create a little inconvenience
s possible.
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The existing Ordinance has a general provision for penalties ranging from
§50 to $1,000 per day, which covers the entire sewer use Ordinance.
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91-165
MiVed to COMMACt Sullivan, April 8, 1991
CITY OF BANGOR
(TITLE.) (Ori12T Dss ctivg cuy_.zngineer to Take _Acti to Cauee., the Disconnection
of Roof and Yard Drains f Certain Severed Aree f he ity
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By .
Bq CUV Camaail of the City of Barque:
ORDERED.
TUT , WHEREAS, Chapter. V, Article 9. Subsections 4.6 and 5.1 of the
Laws and Ordinances of the City of Baader. Use of Public Sewers and Drains,
provides that roof drains, foundation drains and yard drains Shall not be
connected into sanitary Sewers, and
WHEREAS. Subparagraphs IIAM and (2) of a pending Consent Decree between
the United State of America and the City of Bangor, as part of a Best Management
Practices Plan requires, to.the extent feasible, the gradual elimination of
existing sources of inflow including roof drains and yard drains; and
WHBRBAS, the City has been undertaking an extensive program of combined
sewer separation in various a of the City, where many private properties
are still connected into the separated sanitary sewers, and -
WHEREAS. storm water Inflow from roof drains and yard drains will still
cult in significant instances of combined sewage overflow into the genduakeag
Stream and the Penobscot River,
SOW, THEREFORE, Be It
ORDERED, THAT the City Enginesbe and hereby is directed to cause the
disconnection of roof drains and yar drains from private properties wherever
feasible by giving written notice to the property owners within those areas
of the City where sewer
separation work has been completed, the disconnection
of said residential roof drains and yard drains to be completed by September 1.
1991; and be it further --
ORDERED, THAT the City Engineer/ronduct the necessary surveys of all
commercial and institutional facilities in areas where the sewers have been
separated, and a a
result of said surveys, determine a nable schedule
for the disconnection of said roof and yard drains; and best further
ORDERED, THAT the City Engineer continue the program of roof and yard
re
drain separation in other areas at s ch time as the separation of the sewer
systems has been completed,
In City Council April 8x1991
Parsed as amended
amended as follows
City Engineer " or Waste
ter treatment Suppeer nten ent
M//rune
ulty Clerk
91-165
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