Section 302 Specific Limitations

Waste and sewage derived from ordinary living uses shall enter the septic or treatment tank unless otherwise specifically exempted by the code official or this code.

Privies shall be prohibited. Cesspools shall be prohibited, except where approved by the code official. Where approved, cesspools shall be designed and installed in accordance with Chapter 10.

The code official shall approve the method of treatment and disposal of all waste products from manufacturing or industrial operations, including combined industrial and domestic waste.

Material such as ashes, cinders or rags; flammable, poisonous or explosive liquids or gases; oil, grease or other insoluble material that is capable of obstructing, damaging or overloading the private sewage disposal system, or is capable of interfering with the normal operation of the private sewage disposal system, shall not be deposited, by any means, into such systems. The code official shall approve the method of treatment and disposal.

The discharge of surface, rain or other clear water into a private sewage disposal system shall be prohibited.

Water softener or iron filter discharge shall be indirectly connected by means of an air gap to the private sewage disposal system or discharge onto the ground surface, provided that a nuisance is not created.

Where a food waste disposal connects to a private sewage disposal system, the system shall be designed to accommodate the solids loading from the disposal unit.