82-01 AMENDING CITY CODE - CHAPTER 68 - SEWER CONNECTIONS

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r _ , �'��+�� � ` ' ORDINANCE NO. � - b � ORDINANCE AMENDING CITY CODE CHAPTER 68 - SEWER CONNECTIONS WHEREAS, the cost and expense to property owners to connect to sewers when the same become initially available to serve certain premises in the City have increased substantially in recent years; and, ' WHEREAS, if sewer connection charges must be paid in total at one time prompt connection to sewers upon the same becoming available is discouraged; and, � WHEREAS, delay in connecting premises to sewers can and does create conditions which threaten the public health, safety and welfare; and, WHEREAS, provisions of a program by which such charges may be paid in installments will encourage more timely connection to sewers and will enhance the public health, safety and welfare; and, WHEREAS, in certain areas of the City formerly served only , with combined sewers carrying both sanitary sewage and water drains have been provided to relieve such combined sewers from surcharge - by surface water, and more such systems will be provided in the future; �! and, WHEREAS, unless and until the induction of surface water into such combined sewers is reduced to a practical irreducible minimum the same remain liable to surcharge and overflow causing sewer back-up and a consequ�nt threat to the public health, safety and welfare as well as inconvenience and damage to property; and, WHEREAS, it is necessary to the public helath, safety and welfare that where such separate systems of surface water drainage have been provided the futher induction or admission of surface water into existing combined sewers be terminated, the main sources of such being downspouts and roof and area drains . NOW, THEREFORE, BE TT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS: