North Dakota Administrative Code › Title 62 - State Board of Plumbing › Article 62-03.1 - Plumbing Installation Standards › Chapter 62-03.1-03 - Private Sewage Disposal Systems › Section 62-03.1-03-01 - General provisions

Current through Supplement No. 393, July, 2024
1.
				All sewage treatment systems shall be constructed, added to, or altered in
				accordance with this chapter. When a public or noncommunity sewerage system is
				deemed available to a premise used for human occupancy if such premise is
				within two hundred feet [60.96 meters], the approving authority shall require
				that sewage be discharged into that system.
2. Where public or noncommunity sewage
				treatment systems are not available and construction of an individual sewage
				treatment system is contemplated for a building of human occupancy or use or
				addition to, or alteration of any existing sewage treatment system, the master
				plumber or sewer and water contractor, or septic system installer, previous to
				beginning any construction may be required to make application to the local or
				district health units for a written permit to make the desired
				installation.
3. "Sewage treatment"
				under this section means all private methods of collecting and disposing of
				domestic sewage including septic tanks, privies, chemical toilets, and any
				others.
4. All domestic sewage
				shall be disposed of by an approved method of collection, treatment, and
				effluent discharge. Domestic sewage or sewage effluent shall not be disposed of
				in any manner that will cause pollution of the ground surface, ground water,
				bathing area, lake, pond, watercourse, or create a nuisance. It shall not be
				discharged into any abandoned or unused well, or into any crevice, sink hole,
				or other opening either natural or artificial in a rock formation.
5. Where water under pressure is not
				available, all human body wastes shall be disposed of by depositing them in
				approved privies, chemical toilets, or such other installations acceptable to
				the administrative authority.
6.
				Water-carried sewage from bathrooms, kitchens, laundry fixtures, and other
				household plumbing shall pass through a septic or other approved sedimentation
				tank prior to its discharge into the soil or into an alternative system. Where
				underground disposal for treatment is not feasible, consideration will be given
				to special methods of collection and disposal.
7. The building contractor, owner, plumbing
				contractor, or disposal system installer are jointly responsible for compliance
				with this chapter.
8. Abandoned
				disposal systems, septic tanks, pumping and other chambers, and seepage beds
				shall be disconnected from the buildings. The tanks and chambers shall be
				pumped out and filled with earth.
9. No property shall be improved in excess of
				its capacity to properly absorb sewage effluent in the quantities and by the
				means provided in this code.
10.
				When there is insufficient lot area or improper soil conditions for adequate
				sewage treatment for the building or land use proposed, and the administrative
				authority so finds, no building permit shall be issued and no private sewage
				treatment shall be permitted. Where space or soil conditions are critical, no
				building permit shall be issued until engineering data and test reports
				satisfactory to the administrative authority have been submitted and approved
				or a private sewage treatment system complying with the provisions of this
				article has first been designed.
11. Nothing contained in this chapter shall
				be construed to prevent the administrative authority from requiring compliance
				with higher requirements than those contained herein where such higher
				requirements are essential to maintain a safe and sanitary condition.
12. "Administrative authority" under this
				section means the North Dakota state department of health, district health
				units, or county or city health departments that have expertise in onsite
				sewage treatment systems, or individual official, board, department, or agency
				established and authorized by a state, county, city, or other political
				subdivision created by law to administer and enforce the provisions of this
				chapter.
13. "Continuing education"
				under this section means a structured, professionally presented curriculum
				dealing with onsite sewage treatment systems sanctioned wholly or in part by
				the administrative authority.
14.
				"Installer" under this section means an individual or contractor that engages
				in the construction of onsite sewage treatment systems. Homeowners who work on
				their own systems are not included in this definition.
15. "Mottled soil" under this section means
				soil from a soil boring which is marked with spots of contrasting colors. Any
				soil having spots of contrasting colors is considered to be mottled.
16. "Sewage treatment" under this section
				means all private methods of collecting and disposing of domestic sewage
				including septic tanks, privies, chemical toilets, and any others.
17. A "chamber or pump chamber" under this
				section means a watertight receptacle for receiving effluent from the septic
				tank which will be used for placement of an effluent grade pump to distribute
				that effluent to the treatment area.
18. "Noncommunity" under this section means a
				collector system for sewage disposal serving a group of homes which uses
				lagoons or other collective methods of disposal and treatment which are not
				otherwise regulated by the environmental protection agency or state
				regulations.