New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter III - Public Water Supplies › Subchapter A - Municipalities, Districts, Companies, Institutions › Part 128 - New York City › Subpart 128-3 - Regulated Activities › Section 128-3.7 - Sewerage systems, service connections and discharges to sewerage systems

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) Combined
					 sewerage systems are prohibited from discharging within the
					 watershed.
(b) A new service
					 connection to a sewerage system is prohibited where the wastewater treatment
					 plant to which the sewerage system has been connected and which discharges
					 within the watershed has had a SPDES flow parameter violation in the prior 12
					 months, or where the additional flow from the new service connection will cause
					 or can be expected to cause such wastewater treatment plant to have a SPDES
					 flow parameter violation.
(c) All
					 new service connections shall be tested as required by and in accordance with
					 the standards set forth in "Design Standards for Wastewater Treatment Works,
					 Intermediate Sized Sewerage Facilities," New York State Department of
					 Environmental Conservation (1988), and the standards in "Recommended Standards
					 for Wastewater Facilities," the Great Lakes--Upper Mississippi River Board of
					 State Public Health and Environmental Managers, Sections 33.92 -33.94 (1990). A
					 copy of the results of the tests shall be forwarded to the department as soon
					 as they are available.
(d) Except
					 for the owner of an individual or two-family residence, the owner of any
					 property which will be served by a new service connection to a sewerage system,
					 or by any alteration or modification of a service connection to a sewerage
					 system, shall submit all plans or designs for such service connection or such
					 alteration or modification to the department prior to or simultaneously with
					 the delivery of the notice to the department required under paragraph (1) of
					 this subdivision. The owner of an individual or two-family residence to be
					 served by a new service connection to a sewerage system, or by an alteration or
					 modification of a service connection to a sewerage system, shall not be
					 required to submit the plans or designs for such service connection or such
					 alteration or modification to the department, unless specifically requested by
					 the department. If so requested, such owner shall submit such plans or designs
					 to the department prior to or simultaneously with the delivery of the notice to
					 the department required under paragraph (1) of this subdivision or, if the
					 request is made by the department after such notice has been given, within 10
					 days after such request has been made.
(1)
					 The owner of any property which will be served by a new service connection to a
					 sewerage system, or by an alteration or modification of a service connection to
					 a sewerage system, shall notify the department 48 hours prior to the
					 installation of such service connection or of such alteration or modification,
					 and provide an opportunity to the department to observe the work. If required
					 or requested pursuant to this subdivision, the owner shall submit to the
					 department all plans or designs for such service connection or for such
					 alteration or modification prior to or simultaneously with the delivery of the
					 such notice to the department.