Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this article shall be as follows:

(a)   Sewage Works: Shall mean all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.

(b)   Director: Shall mean the public works director of the city or his/her authorized deputy, designee or representative.

(c)   Sewage: Shall mean a combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments.

(d)   Sewer: Shall mean a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.

(e)   Public Sewer: Shall mean a sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and is controlled by public authority.

(f)   Combined Sewers: Meaning sewers receiving both surface runoff and sewage, are not permitted.

(g)   Sanitary Sewer: Shall mean a sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.

(h)   Storm Sewer or Storm Drain: Shall mean a sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes.

(i)    Sewage Treatment Plant: Shall mean any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.

(j)    Industrial Wastes: Shall mean the liquid wastes from industrial processes as distinct from sanitary sewage.

(k)   Garbage: Shall mean solid wastes from preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.

(l)    Properly Shredded Garbage: Shall mean the wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that have been shredded to such degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half inch in any dimension.

(m)  Building Drain: Shall mean that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste, and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning five feet outside the innerface of the building wall.

(n)   Building Sewer: Shall mean the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.

(o)   B.O.D. (denoting Biochemical Oxygen Demand): Shall mean the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5) days at twenty (20) degrees centigrade, expressed parts per million by weight.

(p)   PH.: Shall mean the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.

(q)   Unit: Shall mean that portion or portions of a property which is used or designed for use as a single family dwelling place, business, commercial, fraternal, religious or other facility.

(r)    Suspended Solids or “SS”: Shall mean solids that either float on the surface of, or are removable by laboratory filtering.

(s)   Natural Outlet: Shall mean any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.

(t)    Watercourse: Shall mean a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.

(u)   Person: Shall mean any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.

(v)   Shall is mandatory; May is permissive.

(w)  Normal Domestic Wastewater: Shall mean wastewater that has a BOD concentration of not more than 300mg/l and a suspended solids concentration of not more than 350mg/l.

(x)   Operation and Maintenance: Shall mean all expenditures during the useful life of the treatment works for materials, labor, utilities and other items which are necessary for managing and maintaining the sewage works to achieve the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed.

(y)   Replacement: Shall mean expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed. The term operation and maintenance includes replacement.

(z)   Treatment Works: Shall mean any devices and systems for the storage, treatment, recycling and reclamation of municipal sewage, domestic sewage or liquefied industrial wastes. These include intercepting sewers, outfall sewers, sewage collection systems, individual systems,, pumping, power and other equipment and their appurtenances; extensions improvement, remodeling, additions and alterations thereof; elements essential to provide a reliable recycled supply such as standby treatment units and clear well facilities; and any works, including site acquisition of the land that will be an integral part of the treatment process or is used for ultimate disposal of residues resulting from such treatment (including land for composting sludge, temporary storage of such compost, and land used for the storage of treated wastewater in land treatment systems before land application); or any other method or system for preventing, abating, reducing, storing, treating, separating or disposing of municipal waste or industrial waste, including waste in combined storm water and sanitary water and sanitary sewer systems.

(aa) Useful Life: Shall mean the estimated period during which a treatment works will be operated.

(bb) Water Meter: Shall mean a water volume measuring and recording device, furnished and/or installed by the city or furnished and/or installed by others approved by the city.

(cc) Slug: Shall mean any discharge of water, sewage or industrial wastes which in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds for any period of duration longer than fifteen (15) minutes more than five times the average of twenty-four (24) hour concentration or flows during normal operation.

(dd) Contributor: Shall mean each housing unit, business, building, parcel of real estate or other unit which contributes waste water to the city sewer system and which is assessed a monthly base sewer fee and a monthly user charge.

(ee) Subsidized High Density Residential Contributor: Shall mean any contributor to the city’s treatment works, who resides in a building in which exceeds four (4) floors above street grade and where said building is used for the purpose of providing low income living quarters for those persons qualifying for the same.

(ff)  User Charge: Shall mean that portion of the total wastewater service charge which is levied in a proportional and adequate manner for the cost of operation, maintenance and replacement of the wastewater treatment works.

(gg) User: Shall mean a contributor of wastewater to the city’s treatment works by way of connection to the city’s sewage system.

(Code 1971; Code 1984; Ord. 750; Code 2003)

It shall be 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 said city, any human or animal excrement, garbage, or other objectionable waste.

(Code 1971, Sec. 9-102)

It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet within the city, or in any areas 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 article.

(Code 1971, Sec. 9-103)

Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful to construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool, or other facility intended or used for the disposal of sewage.

(Code 1971, Sec. 9-104; Code 1984)

When a building drain (sewer) is installed or replaced in the city an approved clean out shall also be installed within two (2) feet of the exterior structure. When the flow line of a sewer is greater than four (4) feet below grade, the clean out shall be installed with a combination fitting, wye and 1/8th bend, or other approved fittings which assure directional entry into the sewer. When such sewers installed in areas within the city, which have clay sewer mains, new sewer taps shall be made with the use of a core drill bit and shall provide a coupon of the pipe. Such coupon shall be made available at the time of inspection.

(Code 2004)

The owner of all houses, buildings or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purpose, situated within the city and abutting any street, alley or right-of-way in which there is now located or may in the future be located a public sanitary sewer of the city, is hereby required at the owner’s expense to install suitable toilet facilities therein, and to connect such facilities directly with the proper public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this article, within ninety (90) days after date of official notice to do so if the public sewer is within one-hundred (100) feet of the property line.

(Code 1971, Sec. 9-105; Code 2003)

The city clerk is hereby authorized and directed to collect a fee as set out in Chapter 17 for any connection by any person, persons, business or organization into the sewer system of Haysville. This fee is to be paid at the time application is made.

(Ord. 406; Sec. 1; Ord. 406-A; Code 2003; Code 2007)

No statement contained in this article shall be construed to interfere with any additional requirements that may be imposed by the health officer.

(Code 1971, Sec. 9-113)

No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any connections with or opening into, use, alter, or disturb any public sewer or appurtenance thereof without first obtaining a written permit from the public works director.

(Code 1971, Sec. 9-113)

There shall be three classes of plumbing permits for constructing a building sewer:

(a)   Residential;

(b)   Commercial service; and

(c)   Service to establishments producing industrial wastes.

The applicant shall make application on a special form furnished by the city. The permit application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications, or other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the public works director. A permit and inspection fee as set out in Chapter 17 for residential, for an industrial plumbing permit for constructing a building sewer shall be paid to the city clerk at the time the application is filed.

(Code 1971, Sec. 9-114; Code 2003)

All costs and expense of the installation and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner. The owner shall indemnify, hold harmless and defend the city from any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer.

(Code 1971, Sec. 9-115; Code 2003)

In accordance with the plumbing chapter of this code a separate and independent building sewer shall be provided for every building; except where one building stands at the rear of another on an interior lot and no private sewer is available or can be constructed to the rear building through an adjoining alley, court, yard, or driveway, the building sewer from the front building may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered as one building sewer and except for duplexes which shall have one building sewer for each dwelling unit.

(Code 1971, Sec. 9-116; Code 1984)

Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test by the city engineer, to meet all requirements of this article.

 (Code 1971, Sec. 9-117)

All materials used in building sewers shall be in accordance with the current plumbing code of the city of Haysville.

 (Code 1984)

The connection of the building sewer into the public sewer shall be made in the “Y” branch, if such branch is available at a suitable location. Where the public sewer is twelve (12) inches in diameter or less, and no properly located “Y” branch is available as verified by the public works director, the owner shall at his or her expense have installed a “Y” branch or a tap through the use of a polyvinylchloride (PVC) pre-formed saddle with stainless steel straps and adhered to the public sewer with required, listed PVC adhesive, approved by the public works director in the public sewer at the location specified by the public works director. Where the public sewer is greater than twelve (12) inches in diameter, and no properly located “Y” branch is verified as being available by the public works director, a neat hole may be made in the public sewer to receive the building sewer, with entry in the downstream direction at an angle of about 45 degrees. A 45-degree ell may be used to make such connection, with the spigot end cut so as not to extend past the inner surface of the public sewer. The invert of the building sewer at the point of connection shall be at the same or at a higher elevation than the invert of the public sewer. A smooth, neat joint shall be made, and the connection made secure and watertight by encasement in concrete. Special fittings may be used for the connection only when approved by the public works director or his/her designee.

(Code 1971, Sec. 9-124; Code 2003; Code 2020)

The applicant for the plumbing permit to construct a building sewer shall notify the public works director when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection shall be made under the supervision of the public works director or his or her designee.

(Code 1971, Sec. 9-125; Code 2003)

All excavations for building sewer installation shall be adequately guarded with barricades and lights so as to protect the public from hazard. Streets, sidewalks, parkways and other public property disturbed in the course of the work shall be restored in a manner satisfactory to the city.

(Code 1971, Sec. 9-126)

No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any storm water, surface water, ground water, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, cooling water or unpolluted industrial process waters to any sanitary sewer.

 (Code 1971, Sec. 9-127; Code 2003)

It shall be unlawful to cover or cause to be covered or concealed any city entry access covers with any type of debris such as dirt, grass, grass clippings, rocks, tree limbs, wood, scrap iron, cars. The covering of an access cover shall be a misdemeanor or hold the property owner liable for all damages resulting to the access cover or caused by preventing or delaying access to such cover in emergency situations when the property owner fences in the easement with their property and creates such violation.

(Code 2003)

Storm water and all other unpolluted drainage shall be discharged to storm sewers, or to a natural outlet approved by the public works director. Industrial cooling water or unpolluted process waters may be discharged, upon approval of the public works director, to a storm sewer, or natural outlet. In no case does this authorize any city sanction of illegal procedures or practices which may be in violation of State Water Pollution Statutes or Kansas State Board of Health regulations.

(Code 1971, Sec. 9-128)

No person, persons, business or other entity shall discharge or place or cause to be discharged or placed into any public storm sewer, any substance or obstruction other than storm water and surface runoff water. Any person, persons or business found in violation of this section, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in an amount not exceeding $1,000 for each violation; each day in which such violation shall continue shall be deemed a separate offense. Any person in violation of this section shall become liable to the city for any expense, loss or damage occasioned to the city by reason of such violation.

(Ord. 398; Ord. 648)

No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any of the following described waters or waste to any public sewers:

(a)   Any gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil, or other flammable or explosive liquid, solid, or gas.

(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 sewage treatment process, constitute a hazard in the receiving waters of the sewage treatment plant, including but not limited to cyanides in excess of two mg/l as CN in the wastes as discharged to the public sewer.

(c)   Any water or wastes having a PH lower than 5.5, or having any other corrosive property capable of causing damage or hazard to structures, equipment, and personnel of the sewage works.

(d)   Solid or viscous substances in quantities or of such size capable of causing obstruction to the flow in sewers, or other interference with the proper operation of the sewage works such as, but not limited to, ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags, feathers, tar, plastics, wood, unground garbage, whole blood, paunch manure, hair and fleshings, entrails and paper dishes, cups, milk containers, etc., either whole or ground by garbage grinders.

(e)   Depositing any such substance into the City’s sanitary sewage system is hereby declared a nuisance in accordance with Chapter 7 of this Code. The Director of Public Works, or such Director’s designee, may require any party owning or leasing property from which prohibited substances are being discharged into the City’s sewers, sewage treatment plant, or any part of the sanitary sewer system, to obtain the services of an independent lab to test such wastewater emissions to determine the products discharged into the city’s sanitary sewer system and the levels of such discharges. The independent lab must be instructed to provide a copy of any results directly, and immediately, to the Director of Public Works of the City of Haysville, Kansas. Failure to obtain the required tests within the amount of time allowed for by the Director may result in the City turning off water service to such property. All costs associated with such testing shall be paid by the party obtaining such testing. If the property owner or lessee refuses to obtain such testing, the City may obtain such testing, and charge such costs back to the property owner in accordance with Chapter 7 of this Code.

(Ord. 470; Code 2015)

No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged the following described substances, materials, waters, or wastes if it appears likely in the opinion of the public works director that such wastes can harm either the sewers, sewage treatment process, or equipment, have an adverse effect on the receiving stream, or can otherwise endanger life, limb, public property, or constitute a nuisance. In forming his or her opinion as to the acceptability of these wastes, the public works director will give consideration to such factors as the quantities of subject wastes in relation to flows and velocities in the sewers, materials of construction of the sewers, nature of the sewage treatment process, capacity of the sewage treatment plant, and other pertinent factors. The substances prohibited are:

(a)   Any liquid or vapor having a temperature higher than 150ΕF (65ΕC).

(b)   Any water or wastes containing fats, wax, grease or oils, whether emulsified or not, in excess of 100 mg/l or containing substances which may solidify or become viscous at temperatures between 32 and 150ΕF (0 and 65ΕC).

(c)   Any garbage that has not been properly shredded. The installation and operation of any garbage grinder equipped with a motor of 3/4 horsepower (0.76 hp metric) or greater shall be subject to the review and approval of the public works director.

(d)   Any waters or wastes containing strong acid iron pickling wastes, or concentrated plating solutions whether neutralized or not.

(e)   Any waters or wastes containing iron, chromium, copper, zinc, and similar objectionable or toxic substances; or wastes exerting an excessive chlorine requirement, to such degree that any such material received in the composite sewage at the sewage treatment works exceeds the limits established by the public works director for such materials.

(f)   Any waters or wastes containing phenols of other taste or odor-producing substances, in such concentrations exceeding limits which may be established by the public works director as necessary, after treatment of the composite sewage, to meet the requirements of state, federal, or other public agencies of jurisdiction for such discharge to the receiving waters.

(g)   Any radioactive wastes or isotopes of such half-life or concentration as may exceed limits established by the public works director in compliance with applicable state or federal regulations.

(h)   Any waters or wastes having a PH in excess of 9.5.

(i)    Materials which exert or cause:

(1)   Unusual concentrations of inert suspended solids (such as, but not limited to, Fullers earth, lime slurries, and lime residues) or of dissolved solids (such as, but not limited to, sodium chloride or sodium sulfate).

(2)   Excessive discoloration (such as, but not limited to, dye wastes and vegetable tanning solutions).

(3)   Unusual BOD, chemical oxygen demand, or chlorine requirements in such quantities as to constitute a significant load on the sewage treatment works.

(4)   Unusual volume of low or concentration of wastes constituting “slugs” as defined herein.

(j)    Waters or wastes containing substances which are not amenable to treatment or reduction by the sewage treatment processes employed, or are amenable to treatment only to such degree that the sewage treatment plant effluent cannot meet the requirements of other agencies having jurisdiction over discharge to the receiving waters.

(k)   Any waters or wastes having (1) a five-day BOD greater than 300 parts per million by weight, or (2) containing more than 350 parts per million by weight of suspended solids, or (3) having an average daily flow greater than two percent (2%) of the average sewage flow of the city, shall be subject to the review of the public works director. Where necessary in the opinion of the public works director the owner shall provide, at his or her expense, such preliminary treatment as may be necessary to (1) reduce the biochemical oxygen demand to 300 parts per million by weight, or (2) reduce the suspended solids to 350 parts per million by weight, or (3) control the quantities and rates of discharge of such waters or wastes. Plans, specifications, and any other pertinent information relating to proposed preliminary treatment facilities shall be submitted for the approval of the public works director and no construction of such facilities shall be commenced until the approvals are obtained in writing.

(Ord. 470, Art. V, Sec, 4)

No building sewer, drain or private sewer shall be less than four (4) inches in diameter. Larger sizes shall be used when the calculated volume of sewage will require larger sizes. The current plumbing code shall be used to calculate any required volumes, but in no case shall the diameter of the building sewer be less than that of the soil pipe which is stubbed out from the building.

Violations of any provision of this Chapter shall be addressed in accordance with Section 15-421 of this Chapter, unless a specific penalty provision shall have been made applicable to any specific section of this Chapter.

 (Code 2003; Code 2015)

The city shall not be liable to the property owner for any damage to any items or constructed material located on the public right-of-way when such damage is caused by or results in whole or in part from construction, reconstruction, repair or maintenance work, performed by city forces.

(Code 2022)