Ordinance No. 067D Individual Septic Systems

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5. Abandonment. Any SSTS, or any component thereof, which is no longer intended to be used, must be abandoned in accordance with Minnesota Rules, Chapter 7080.2500. Section 14. SSTS in Floodplains. SSTS shall not be located in a floodplain. Section 15. Class V Injection Wells. All owners of new or replacement SSTS that are considered to be class V injection wells, as defined in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Title 40, Part 144, are required by the Federal Government to submit SSTS inventory information to the Environmental Protection Agency as described in CFR40, Part 144. Further, owners are required to identify all Class V injection wells in property transfer disclosures. Section 16. SSTS Practitioner Licensing. No person shall engage in evaluations, inspection, design, installation, construction, alteration, extension, repair, maintenance, or pumping of SSTS without an appropriate and valid license issued by the MPCA in accordance with Minnesota Rules, Chapter 7083 except as exempted in 7083.0700. Section 17. Prohibitions. 1. Occupancy or Use of a Building without a Compliant SSTS. It is unlawful for any person to maintain, occupy, or use any building intended for habitation in an unsewered area that is not provided with a wastewater treatment system that disposes of wastewater in a manner that complies with the provisions of this Ordinance. 2. Sewage Discharge to Ground Surface or Surface Water. It is unlawful for any person to construct, maintain, or use any SSTS system regulated under this Ordinance that results in raw or partially treated wastewater seeping to the ground surface or flowing into any surface water. Any surface discharging system must be permitted under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System program by the MPCA. 3. Sewage Discharge to a Well or Boring. It is unlawful for any person to discharge raw or treated wastewater into any well or boring as described in Minnesota Rules, Chapter 4725.2050, or any other excavation in the ground that is not in compliance with this Ordinance. 4. Discharge of Hazardous or Deleterious Materials. It is unlawful for any person to discharge into any treatment system regulated under this Ordinance any Industrial Waste, or hazardous or deleterious material that adversely affects the treatment or dispersal performance of the system or groundwater quality. Section 18. Standards Adopted by Reference. The City hereby adopts by reference Minnesota Rules, Chapters 7080, 7081, 7082 and 7083 in their entirety as now constituted and from time to time amended. This adoption does not supersede the City's right or ability to adopt local standards that are in compliance with Minnesota Statute 115.55. Section 19. Amendments to the Adopted Standards. 1. Determination of Hydraulic Loading Rate and SSTS Sizing. Table IX from Minnesota Rules, Chapter 7080.2150, Subd. 3E entitled "Loading Rates for Determining Bottom Absorption Area for Trenches and Seepage Beds for Effluent Treatment Level C and Absorption Ratios for Determining Mound Absorption Areas Using Detail Soil Descriptions" and Table IXa from Minnesota Rules, Chapter 7080.2150 are herein adopted by reference shall be used to determine the hydraulic loading rate and infiltration area for all SSTS permitted under this Ordinance. 2. Compliance Criteria for Existing SSTS. SSTS built after March 31, 1996, or existing SSTS located in a Shoreland area, existing Wellhead Protection area, or serving food, beverage, or lodging establishment as defined under Minnesota Rules, Chapter 7080.1100, Subd. 84 shall have a three (3') foot vertical separation between the bottom soil infiltrative surface and the periodically saturated soil and/or bedrock. Existing systems that have no more than a fifteen (15%) percent reduction in this separation distance (a separation distance no less than 30.6 inches) to account for settling of sand or soil, normal variation of separation distance measurements and interpretation of limiting layer characteristics may be considered Ordinance No. 67D Individual Septic Systems