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BY: Councilman Tallon CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED ORDINANCE N0. 90-106 ?..+. AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING CERTA7N SEWER IMPROVEMENTS NECESSARY TO ABATE EXISTING DETRTMENTAL CONDITIONS AS PUBLIC NUISANCES, TO ASSIST THE CITY IN COMPLYING WITH ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO INFLOW AND INFILTRATION OF STORM WATER INTO THE CITY'S SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM AND TO PROMOTE THE EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT OPERATION OF THAT SYSTEM; AND APPROPRIATING MONEY IN THE SEWER REVENUE FUND FOR THAT PURPOSE. WHEREAS, pursuant to authority and Article XVIII, Section 4 of the operates a sanitary sewer system (the water collec:tion and treat.ment services for certain adjacent areas in the City and the inhabitants of those areas; and provided in Article XVIII, Section 3 Ohio Constitution, the City owns and 5ystem), which provides sanitary waste- for the City and its inhabit.ants and of Fairview Park and Olmsted Township WHEREAS, the City has experienced at times of heavy precipitation significant inflow and inf.iltration of storm water into certain sanitary sewer collect.ion facilities of the System, resulting in an overloading of the System and sanitat•y wastewater backups, bypasses and overflows; and WfiER.EAS, as a consequence of the threat to the pubiic health, safety and we7fare presented by such backups, bypasses and overflows, the City has agreed to certain findings and orders of the Director of the Otiio Fnvironmental Protection Agency requiring the City to decrease the amounts of inflow and infiltration into the System to levels consistent with requirements of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (EPA requirements); and WHEREAS, consistent with those findings and orders and conditions of t.he grant received by the City from the United States Environmental Protection Agency for ttie improvement and expansion of its wastewater treatment plant, the City has undertaken and is undertaking to improve the System by the reliabilitation and reconstruction of sanitary sewers, sanitary sewer connec- tions, pump stations, manholes and necessary appurtenances thereto in City street and easements to meet the EPA requirements; and WHEREAS, based on information and advice from the City's engineering consultants, tliis Council has determined that a substantial portion of the inflow and infiltration of storm water into the System is caused by deteri- orated private laterai sewers tributary to the System and may be caused by roof downspouts, exterior foundation drains, runaway drains or other collectors of storm water, surface runoff or ground water which may be con- nected to building drains which in turn are connected to the private lateral sewers tributary to the System or connected directly to the System contrary to the provisions of Sections 911.07(j) and 911.12(a) of the City's Codified Ordinances; and