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Treatment & Disposal of Wastewater By Land Application Engineering Legislation Public Works Department This resolution is for the treatment and disposal of wastewater by land application. FIRST READING: July 11,2002 SECOND READING: July 25, 2002 PUBLISHED: July 23, 2002 PASSED: July 25, 2002 A RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION TO DELETE THE FOLLOWING SECTIONS OF CHAPTER 13.30, ENTITLED “TREATMENT AND DISPOSAL OF WASTEWATER BY LAND APPLICATION” OF THE OFFICIAL CODE OF HALL COUNTY, GEORGIA: SECTION 13.30.020 ENTITLED “DEFINITIONS”; SECTION 13.30.030 ENTITLED “GENERAL CONDITIONS AND EXCLUSIONS; AND SECTION 13.30.070 ENTITLED “MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR LAND APPLICATION” SO AS TO SUBSTITUTE IN LIEU THEREOF THE NEWLY REVISED SECTIONS OF THE SAME SECTION NUMBERS AND TITLES SET OUT ABOVE; TO PROVIDE FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE; TO REPEAL CONFLICTING ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners of Hall County adopted the “Wastewater Land Application Control Ordinance” on March 11, 1991, and WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners of Hall County adopted by resolution on June 27, 1996, to become effective July 1, 1996, the codification of Resolutions, General Resolutions and Ordinances passed by the Board of Commissioners of Hall County as The Official Code of Hall County, Georgia 1996 edition published by Municipal Code Corporation; and further provided for the adoption and incorporation of any Resolution, General Resolution or Ordinance passed subsequent to July 1, 1996, to automatical-ly become a part of The Official Code of Hall County, Georgia; and WHEREAS, the “Wastewater Land Application Control Ordinance” was codified and became a part of the Official Code of Hall County, Georgia, as Chapter 13.30, said Chapter being entitled “Treatment and Disposal of Wastewater by Land Application”; and WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners of Hall County is desirous of amending said Chapter 13.30 to require all land application systems permitted after the effective date of this resolution to be subsurface drip irrigation systems. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Commission-ers of Hall County as follows: -1- Section 13.30.020 of Title 13 of The Official Code of Hall County, Georgia entitled “DEFINITIONS” is hereby deleted in its entirety and substituted in lieu thereof a new Section 13.30.020 of the same name. Said Section is hereby adopted as set forth in Exhibit “A”, a copy of which is attached hereto and made a part hereof as if Exhibit “A” were originally set forth in this Resolution. -2- Section 13.30.030 of Title 13 of The Official Code of Hall County, Georgia entitled “GENERAL CONDITIONS AND EXCLUSIONS” is hereby deleted in its entirety and substituted in lieu thereof a new Section 13.30.030 of the same name. Said Section is hereby adopted as set forth in Exhibit “B”, a copy of which is attached hereto and made a part hereof as if Exhibit “B” were originally set forth in this Resolution. -3- Section 13.30.070 of Title 13 of The Official Code of Hall County, Georgia entitled “MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR LAND APPLICATION” is hereby deleted in its entirety and substituted in lieu thereof a new Section 13.30.070 of the same name. Said Section is hereby adopted as set forth in Exhibit “C”, a copy of which is attached hereto and made a part hereof as if Exhibit “C” were originally set forth in this Resolution. -4- All Resolutions or Ordinances, or parts thereof, in conflict with the terms of this Resolution are hereby repealed, but it is hereby provided that any resolution, ordinance or law which may be applicable hereto and aid in carrying out and making effective the intent, purpose, and provisions hereof, which shall be liberally construed to be in favor of Hall County, is hereby adopted as part hereof. -5- If any paragraph, sub-paragraph, sentence, clause, phrase, or any portion of this Resolution shall be declared invalid or uncon-stitutional by any court of competent jurisdiction, or if the provisions of any part of this Resolution as applied to any particular situation or set of circumstances shall be declared invalid or unconstitutional, such invalidity shall not be construed to affect the portions of this Resolution not so held to be invalid. It is hereby declared to be the intent of the Board of Commission-ers to provide for separable and divisible parts, and it does hereby adopt any and all parts hereof as may not be held invalid for any reason. -6- This Resolution is hereby adopted this ______day of ________________, 2002, to become effective the ______day of ________________, 2002, the public health, safety and general welfare demanding it. HALL COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS By ___________________________ Chairman ______________________________ Commissioner ______________________________ Commissioner ______________________________ Commissioner ______________________________ Commissioner ATTEST: __________________________ Clerk Exhibit “A” 13.30.020. Definitions. As used herein, the following definitions shall apply: A. Board of Commissioners: The Board of Commissioners of Hall County, Georgia. B. Cease operations order: A written order from the Hall County Engineer which requires that the spraying or subsurface discharging of wastewater for land application be immediately stopped. C. Direct discharge: The discharge of any treated wastewater outside of the designated wetted area of the land application system by means of pipes, flumes, or any other facility, including surface runoff not related to storm events. D. Environmental Protection Division: The Environmental Protection Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. E. Hall County Engineer: The director of engineering for Hall County, Georgia. F. Land application system: A system for wastewater treatment or disposal by spray irrigation or subsurface drip irrigation. The term refers to the advanced treatment and disposal of wastewater by irrigation onto land to support vegetative growth. G. Person: Any individual, partnership, firm, association, joint venture, public or private corporation, organization, trust, estate, commission, board, public or private institution, utility, cooperative state agency, municipality or other political subdivision of this state; any interstate body; or any other legal entity. H. Sanitary nuisance: The commission of any action by any person, or the keeping, maintaining, propagation, existence or permission of anything by any person, by which the health or life of an individual, or the health or life of individuals, may be threatened or impaired or by which or through which, directly or indirectly, disease may be caused. I. Wastewater: Water that has been used, spent or derived from a domestic,commercial or industrial source which contains dissolved or suspended biodegradable matter or process chemicals. J. Water pollution: The introduction in any surface or underground water of any organic or inorganic matter or deleterious substances in such quantities, proportions or accumulations which are injurious to human, plant, animal, fish and other aquatic life or property, or which unreasonably interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property, or the conduct of business. K. Written violation: A notification of violation given or a consent order issued by the Environmental Protection Division or a citation issued by Hall County. A consent order issued by the Environmental Protection Division is considered a written violation unless a notification of violation has been given for the same item included in the consent order. Exhibit “B” 13.30.030 General conditions and exclusions. A. This Chapter shall apply to any and all wastewater treatment or disposal systems withhin the jurisdiction of Hall County including, but not limited to, residential, commercial or industrial systems except for the following: 1. Residential, commercial or industrial septic tank systems. 2. Residential, commercial or industrial storm water systems. 3. Agricultural practices involving farming operations on the farm. 4. Oxidation or treatment ponds not utilizing land application for disposal. B. All proposed wastewater treatment facilities shall be designed and constructed as subsurface drip irrigation systems for the disposal of wastewater. Existing land application systems are grandfathered and may continue to operate as either drip irrigation or spray irrigation. Additions to existing land application systems permitted before the effective date of this Chapter may utilize either technology for the added irrigation area, provided the facility flow rate does not increase by greater than 50%. Sites that have undergone multiple additions will be required to utilize subsurface drip irrigation when the cumulative effect of the additions is greater than 50%, as compared to the pre-effective date flow rate. No direct discharges of proposed treated wastewater into surface waters will be allowed unless specifically approved by the Environmental Protection Division. C. The property where the land application system is located or proposed to be located must be properly zoned prior to construction of a new wastewater land application system or land expansion of an existing wastewater land application system. Exhibit “C” 13.30.070 Minimum standards for land application. This Chapter, as a minimum, incorporates by reference the following two documents as produced by the Environmental Protection Division, including any future odifications, changes, or deletions. These documents are incorporated in their entirety except where they are in conflict with 13.30.030: Criteria for Slow Rate Land Treatment (February 1986, or current edition), and Guidelines for Land Treatment of Municipal Wastewater by Drip Irrigation (February 1996, or current edition).  |
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