327 IAC 5-10-7 - Connection and regionalization
Authority: IC 13-14-8; IC 13-15-1-2; IC 13-15-2-1; IC 13-18
Affected: IC 13-18-4; IC 13-18-15; IC 13-18-19
Sec. 7.
(a) If the
commissioner finds it is in the interest of the health, safety, convenience,
and welfare of the residents of any area, any person, publicly or semipublicly
owned sewage treatment systems may be ordered to connect to and/or receive and
treat sewage from any other person or from an industry, shopping center, mobile
home park, school, or housing development when such service and use will not
result in irreparable injury to the receiving equipment or make impossible the
rendering of the service previously rendered to the users of such equipment.
The persons involved shall negotiate the terms for such connection and service,
in accordance with the terms of IC
13-18-15.
(b) Any new school, mobile home park, motel,
motor court, or motor hotel shall dispose of sewage through the use of a public
sewerage system if the sewerage system is available within a reasonable
distance from the facility.
(c) Any
existing school, mobile home park, motel, motor court, or motor hotel with a
direct discharge of sewage, as authorized by an NPDES permit shall connect to a
public sewerage system, discontinue the direct discharge, and abandon their
wastewater treatment plant if a public sewerage system becomes available at any
time within a reasonable distance from the facility. In this instance,
"reasonable distance" is related to cost. The intent of this provision is to
encourage the entities mentioned in this section to compare the cost of
connecting to a sewerage system against the cost to build or upgrade and
operate a sewage treatment plant.
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