HomeMy WebLinkAbout816ORDINANCE NO. c, li/
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 717 REGULATING THE
USE OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SEWERS AND DRAINS, PRIVATE SEWAGE DIS-
POSAL, THE INSTALLATION AND CONNECTION OF BUILDING SEWERS, AND
THE DISCHARGE OF WATERS AND WASTES INTO THE PUBLIC SEWER SYSTEMS:
AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS THEREOF: IN THE CITY OF
BATESVILLE, COUNTY OF INDEPENDENCE, STATE OF ARKANSAS.
WHEREAS, the cost to the City of Batesville, Arkansas,
for handling excessive solids and sludge and for increased
facilities to improve biological treatment greatly exceeds the
cost for processing normal domestic sewage; and
WHEREAS, the City of Batesville, Arkansas, is respon-
sible to provide sufficient treatment for all waste waters being
released from the City of Batesville Waste Water Treatment Plant
into a natural stream; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Batesville,
Arkansas, deems it necessary to cooperate with the County of
Independence, the State of Arkansas, and the Federal Government
in the control of pollution in our natural streams and rivers for
the safety and welfare of all citizens; and further deems it
necessary to establish maximum limits to be considered as normal
quantities of suspended solids and BOD which may be discharged
into the City's sewer system;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of
the City of Batesville, Arkansas, in regular session assembled
as follows:
Section: 1. Article III, Private Sewage Disposal, Section 4
of Ordinance 717 of City of Batesville, Arkansas, is amended to
read as follows:
The type, capacities, location, and layout of a
private sewage disposal system shall comply with
all recommendations of the Department of Public
Health of the State of Arkansas.
The following lot sizes should be provided, but
are not mandatory, when septic tank absorption
field systems are proposed:
a. If an individual water well supply and septic
tank system are proposed, the lot size should be
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a minimum of 60,.00.0 square feet. The width of
the lot should be at least 200 feet;
b. If a public water supply is proposed and an
individual septic tank absorption field system is
to be used for sewage disposal, the lot size should
be a minimum of 40,000 square feet and the width of
the lot should be at least one-third (1/3) the
depth of the lot.
The lot width and size requirements may be varied in
areas where percolation rates and sub -surface
conditions permit and approval of the Arkansas State
Department of Health is obtained. In those instances
where lots have been platted and recorded prior to
the adoption of this ordinance, the lot sizes will
not apply.
No septic tank or cesspool shall be permitted to
discharge to any natural outlet.
Section: 2. Article V, Use of Public Sewers, Section 3(b), of
Ordinance 717 of City of Batesville, Arkansas, shall be amended
to read as follows:
b. Any waters or wastes containing toxic or
poisonous solids, liquids, or gases in sufficient
quantity, either singly or by interaction with
other wastes, to injure or interfere with any sewer
treatment process, or any part of the sewer treat-
ment facilities or sanitary sewerage works, or
create any hazard in the receiving waters of the
sewage treatment plant, including but not limited
to cyanides in excess of 0.003 as CN in the wastes
as discharged to the public sewer.
Section: 3. Article V. Use of Public Sewers, Section 3(c), of
Ordinance 717 of City of Batesville, Arkansas, shall be amended
to read as follows:
C. Any waters or wastes having a pH lower than
6.0 or having any other corrosive property capable
of causing damage or hazard to structures, sewers,
equipment or appurtenances thereto or to personnel
of the sewage works.
Sec tion: 4. Article V, Use of Public Sewers, Section 3(d�, of
Ordinance 717 of City of Batesville, Arkansas, shall be amended
to read as follows:
d. Solid or viscous substances in quantities or of
such ,size capable of causing obstruction to the flow
in seivers or pumping facilities, or other inter-
ference with the proper operation of the sewage
works such as, but not limited to ashes, cinders,
sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags,
reathers, tar, plastics, wood, unground garbage,
whole blood, pauch manure, hair and fleshings,
entrails and paper dishes, cups, milk containers,
etc. either whole or ground by garbage grinders.
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Section: 5• Article V, Use of Public Sewers, Section 4(h), of
Ordinance 717 of City of Batesville, Arkansas, shall be amended
to read as follows:
h. Any waters or wastes having a pH in excess of
8.0.
Section: 6. T'. -.e maximum permissible limits for the following
described metals are hereby established.
Chromium
Zinc
Copper
Nickel
Lead
Cadmium
Total Metals
0.05
ppm as trivalent
0.01
ppm
0.02
ppm
0.08
'ppm
0.10
ppm
0.01
ppm
0.50
ppm
If at least a tenfold dilution is available in a receiving sewer
I�system at its absolute minimtm flow or in a receiving stream at
its absolute minimum flow, these allowable a le values may be Increased
tenfold but no more. Under no circumstances will more than
X0.05 ppm CN be discharged to a sewer or stream. If discharge to
a sewer or stream is contemplated on any of the metals described
below, reference should be made to the Arkansas Polution Control
Commission for guidance. Said metals are:
Antimony
Mercury
Arsenic
Molybdenum
Barium
Rhenium
Beryllium
Selenium
Bismuth
Silver
Boron
Strontium
Chromium (Hexa)
Tellurium
Cobal"
Tin
Iron
Uranylion
Manganese
Concentrations shall not exceed the following:
5 -Day Biochemical Oxygen Demand 285 ppm
Suspended Solids 285 ppm
Sulphate (SO4) 3.0 ppm
Section: 7. Except as Ordinance No. 717 is amended by provi-
sions set forth above, all provisions of Ordinance 717 remain
lin full force and effect.
�.Section: 8. The invalidity of any section, clause, sentence,
or provision of this ordinance shall not affect the validity of
any other part of this ordinance which can be given effect with-
out such invalid part or parts.
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Section: 9. The City Council of the City of Batesville, !
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Arkansas, hereby finds that there is an immediate and urgent
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need for the prompt passage of this Ordinance for the proper
administration of municipal affairs in advancing with an !applica-
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melon for grants against the cost of additions to the City's
sewage treatment plant, and that, therefore, an emergency exists j
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public peace health safety, and welfare, shall take effect and
be in force from and after it's passage, approval pproval and publication.
i; Passed and approved by the City Council of the City
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il of Batesville, Independence County, Arkansas, this
day of
I+ July, 1972
APPROVED: �-
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Peyt n Golden, Mayor
ATTEST:
i N. U. Carpenter, ity Clerk