10.10.100 Public sewers required.
(1) Connection Requirements. All property with buildings or structures normally used or inhabited by people and such property is located within 300 feet of a sanitary sewer shall be required to have or make a connection to such sewer unless they have been issued a nonconnection permit.
(2) Malfunctioning or Failing Septic Systems. All property with structures or buildings normally used or inhabited by people that is served by septic tanks, cesspools, or similar private sewage disposal facilities that are found to be failing and/or causing contamination of soil surface, surface water, or groundwater shall connect to any public sanitary sewer system ordered and constructed to alleviate such contamination. When a public sewer becomes available to a property served by a private sewage disposal system, a direct connection shall be made to the public sewer in compliance with this chapter, and any septic tanks, cesspools, or similar private sewage disposal facilities shall be abandoned and filled with suitable materials. No repairs, expansions, or modifications to septic tanks, cesspools, or similar private sewage disposal systems shall be allowed when the property being served by said systems is within 300 feet of sewer system.
(3) Declared Health Hazard. All property with structures or buildings normally used or inhabited by people that is located within territory declared by the Oregon State Health Division or the Linn or Benton County Health Department to contain conditions causing a danger to public health shall connect to any public sanitary sewer system ordered and constructed to alleviate such health hazard. When a public sewer becomes available to a property served by a private sewage disposal system, a direct connection shall be made to the public sewer in compliance with this chapter, and any septic tanks, cesspools, or similar private sewage disposal facilities shall be abandoned and filled with suitable materials.
(4) Polluted Discharges. It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet within the City or in any area under the jurisdiction of the City, any sanitary sewage, industrial waste, or other polluted water, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with State and Federal laws and any provisions of this chapter.
(5) New Service Connections. The utility may furnish and install a service of such size and at such location as the applicant requests; provided:
(a) The location is such that the utility has in place a sewer main of sufficient size to provide service without detriment to existing customers. In all cases, the final location of the proposed service shall be subject to approval by the utility.
(b) That such a sewer main is adjacent to and extends along the full length of the property frontage along the right-of-way.
(c) Where a parcel has more than 300 feet of frontage along the right-of-way and the parcel is being developed in phases and the sewer main is not immediately needed for the full length of the parcel to facilitate service to other properties or to meet other utility system needs, the requirement of subsection (5)(b) of this section may be reduced, when approved, by delaying the requirement for a sewer main adjacent to that portion of the parcel that remains as an undeveloped portion of a future phase. Such delay, if authorized, is contingent upon the owners of the parcel signing a waiver of remonstrance agreement that commits the parcel to participate in a future local improvement district for the extension of sewer main(s).
(d) Where the property abuts more than one street or right-of-way, sewer mains shall be extended for the full length of the property frontages along the rights-of-way for all frontages, unless it is determined that the extensions on the frontages from which service is not being taken is not currently needed to facilitate service to other properties, and that said sewer mains may be completed at a future time. Such delay, if authorized, is contingent upon the owners of the parcel signing a waiver of remonstrance agreement that commits the parcel to participate in a future local improvement district for the extension of sewer main(s).
(e) The utility shall have sole authority in determining any and all conditions necessary for the provision of service to a property. (Ord. 156, passed 8-13-2019)