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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance #1648ORDINANCE NO. 1648 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 8, CHAPTER 11, SECTION 21 OF THE CANTON MUNICIPAL CODE BY ADDING PROVISIONS REGULATING SEWAGE DLSPOSAL SYSTEMS AT LAKE CANTON WHEREAS, Lake Canton serves as the basic potable water supply for the City of Canton and several other communities; and, WHEREAS, the Committee on Lake, Buildings and Grounds has jurisdiction of all development activity in Lake Canton; and, WHEREAS, the contamination of Lake Canton is threatened by aging private sewage disposal systems on shoreline and other adjacent properties; and, WHEREAS, it appears that in some segments of the Lake Canton area the soil is incapable of accommodating additional private sewage disposal absorption fields or seepage beds; and, WHEREAS, the Fulton County Health Department agrees to assist the City of Canton in alleviating this problem with private sewage disposal systems;. and, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CANTON, Fulton County, Illinois as follows: 1. That the City Council hereby finds the foregoing recitals to be fact. 2. That Title 8, Chapter 11, Section 21 shall be amended with the following additions: 8-11-21: Sewage disposal: A. After January 15, 2000 all new construction on lands or lots bordering Lake Canton may not proceed until the plans for sewage and water have been submitted to and approved by the Fulton County Health Department. B. All private sewage disposal systems existing on January 15, 2000 on lands and lots bordering or adjacent to Lake Canton shall be inspected by the Fulton County Health Department pursuant to objective standards which consider all pertinent factors. The Health Department shall determine if existing systems may continue to be used or whether modification is needed. C. If the existing private sewage disposal systems are inadequate and a private sewage disposal system absorption field or seepage bed can not be installed the replacement shall be by the only alternate system hereafter permitted at Lake Canton, the class 1 aerobic treatment method, provided however that no aerobic system dischazge will be permitted within five hundred (500) feet of the pumping azea (intake). D. The Fulton County Health Department shall have the inherent power to inspect, test and/or monitor any and all new and existing private sewage disposal systems, aerobic or otherwise and to order modification to any system if needed. E. In all instances the owner of the leasehold improvement is responsible for the maintenance of any sewage system aerobic or otherwise. Maintenance of an aerobic sewage disposal system must be provided on a continuous basis by a manufacturer authorized service technician designated for the type of unit being serviced. Maintenance of all other approved private sewage disposal systems must be provided so as unhealthy or nuisance conditions do not occur. F. Hookups which would transmit kitchen waste from garbage disposal or food grinder units into the aerobic treatment systems are prohibited. Such kitchen waste shall be directed first into a solid retention tank that is approved by the Fulton County Health Department. The solids retention tank effluent may then be introduced to the aerobic treatment unit. G. There shall be no direct discharge of any type of sewage affluent into Lake Canton. A minimum set-back of 10 feet from the lake must be provided from the discharge point to the shore of the lake at normal pool level. From the point of dischazge to the lake a gravel or stone surface drainage receiving bed must be provided to eliminate nuisance conditions and to control soil erosion. H. It shall be unlawful in any area surrounding or adjacent to Lake Canton to allow affluent to collect or accumulate so as to be comparable to standing water or create nuisance conditions. I. A procedure guide for aerobic treatment units shall be promulgated by the Fulton County Health Department including minimum sizes for solids retention tanks and for chlorination retention tanks. Such procedures shall have the same force and effect as if set forth fully in this Ordinance. 3. That this Ordinance shall be in full force and effect immediately upon its passage by the City Council of the City of Canton and approved by the Mayor thereof. ~. . ~ PASSED by the City Council of the City of Canton, Fulton County, Illinois at a regular meeting this 21st day of December 1999 AYES: NAYS: ABSENT Aldermen May, Shores, Meade, Nidiffer, Phillips, Sarff, Hartford, Nblleck. None. None. APPROVED: Donald E. Edwards, Mayor ATTEST: c~ ~ Z c~~ Nancy Whites, ty Clerk.