Sewer Use Highlights Jan 1, 2023

TOWN OF WILTON NEW HAMPSHIRE

HIGHLIGHTS OF RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR MUNICIPAL SEWER USE JANUARY 1, 2023 TFN

ARTICLE I, DEFINITIONS, SECTION 56

"Superintendent" shall mean the Superintendent of the Wilton Wastewater Treatment Plan acting under the direction of the Wilton Sewer Commission, or the Public Works Director if so authorized by the Wilton Sewer Commission.

ARTICLE II, Building Sewers and Connections, SECTION 2 –

There shall be two (2) classes of building sewer permits: (A) for residential and commercial service discharging only domestic wastewater and (B) for service to establishments producing industrial wastes. In either case, the owner or his agent shall make application on a special form furnished by the Board of Sewer Commissioners. The permit application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications or other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the Board of Sewer Commissioners.

There shall be a permit application and inspection fee of fifty ($50) dollars for a residential or commercial building sewer permit and seventy-five ($75) dollars for an industrial building sewer permit, paid to the Town of Wilton at the time the application is filed. Twenty-five ($25) dollars will be retained as a processing charge, if a sewer permit is not granted.

All new sewer services to be connected to the existing sewer system shall be subject a one-time connection / entrance fee of $1200; see also Article V.

All fees required by this article shall be paid to the TOWN OF WILTON.

ARTICLE II, Building Sewers and Connections, SECTION 13

The Owner(s) of all houses, buildings or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes situated within Wilton and abutting on any street, alley or right-of-way in which there is now located a public sanitary sewer of Wilton is hereby required, at the Owner(s) expense, to install suitable toilet facilities therein, and to connect such facilities directly with the proper public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance within ninety (90) days after the date of official notice to do so provided that said public sewer is within one hundred (100) feet (30.5 meters) (200 ft 61 meters) of the building.

ARTICLE III, Use of the Public Sewers, SECTION 4 – B – insertions to read: slid or viscous substances in quantities or of such size capable of causing obstruction to the flow in sewers, or other interference with the proper operation of the wastewater facilities such as, but not limited to, ashes, bones, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags, feathers, tar, plastics, wood, un-ground garbage, whole blood, paunch manure, hair, fleshings and entrails and paper dishes, cups, milk containers, disposable diapers and wipes, tampons, sanitary napkins, bandages, etc., either whole or ground by garbage grinders.