Chapter 148 SUBDIVISION AND LAND DEVELOPMENT. (updated 7-28-08)

Section 148-30 SANITARY SEWER DISPOSAL.

A.  The applicant shall provide the type of sanitary sewer disposal facility determined by the town and the Health Department to be consistent with existing physical, geographical and geological conditions. Connection to the town sanitary sewer system shall be required, if available.  Where town sanitary sewers are not available, the following types of sanitary sewage disposal facilities shall be employed in order of desirability:

      1. Community sanitary sewage system with a temporary sewage treatment plant.

      2. On-lot disposal with septic tank and drain field.

B.  Sanitary sewers, whether public, community or on-site, shall be designed and constructed in strict accordance with Department of Health and/or State Water Control Board standards, as applicable.

C.  The sewer system and all service lines and appurtenances, except the water meter, shall be installed in accordance with the plans and profiles prepared for the subdivision or development by a professional engineer or licensed land surveyor and shall be approved by the Director of Public Works.

D.  Sanitary sewers shall not be used to carry stormwater.

E.  Where the Town determines that the public sanitary sewage collection system is accessible to the subdivision, the connections from the system to the property line of each lot in the subdivision shall be made at the time that the general site improvements are installed.  Sewer connection shall be installed by the applicant at his own expense in accordance with the design and specifications of the Town of Front Royal and shall be inspected by the Town in each instance.

(Ord.No. 8-06 Amended 7-24-06-Effective Upon Passage)

F.  Sanitary sewer lines installed in accordance with plans and specifications approved by the town shall be required improvements in each subdivision or development to serve each subdivision lot, except where the town sewer lines are not available to the subdivision site and septic tanks are to be employed.  The applicant at the time the sanitary sewer lines are constructed shall, at his own expense, install connections from the sanitary sewage lines to the property line of each lot in the subdivision not then served by the existing public sanitary sewage system.  All connections shall be in accordance with the design and specifications of the Town of Front Royal and shall be inspected by the town in each instance.  For each connection so made, the applicant, his successors or assigns shall receive a credit of five hundred dollars ($500.), which shall be deducted from any future sewage system tap-on fees charged by the town for that lot.