13.18.010 - Establishment—Policy.

There is established a sanitary sewage code for Hartstene Pointe. It is the intent and purpose of the board of county commissioners that sewer systems under its responsibility be constructed and maintained in accordance with uniform standards. To meet this purpose, the existing sewage system at Hartstene Pointe and any further construction shall be in compliance with the authority established hereunder.

(Ord. 132-94 § 1.01, 1994).

13.18.020 - Other applicable laws.

In the event that federal, state or other applicable laws impose a standard or regulation that is in conflict with any provision of this code or any standard or regulation that the county may adopt pursuant to this code, the most restrictive standard shall prevail.

(Ord. 132-94 § 1.02, 1994).

13.18.030 - Definition of terms.

Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as set forth in this section. Terms not specifically defined herein shall be as defined in the latest revised publication, Glossary Water and Wastewater Control Engineering, published jointly by the American Public Health Association, American Society of Civil Engineers, American Water Works Association and Water Pollution Control Federation.

(1)

"Association" means the Hartstene Pointe Maintenance Association (HPMA), a Washington nonprofit organization.

(2)

"Blue card" means a card issued by the Mason County department of community development upon acquisition of building permit and payment of connection fee. This card authorizes the owner to proceed with connection to the water and sewer system.

(3)

"Building sewer" means the sanitary side sewer line, connecting a single structure or more than one structure from the building drain to the public sewer collection and/or trunk line located in easement dedicated to the county, or other approved place of disposal. The building sewer, including that portion called the side sewer stub, is to be inspected at the time of construction and approved by the county but is not owned by the county and therefore shall be maintained by the property owner. This includes single-family dwellings and duplexes.

(4)

"Certified" to present in written formal communication attesting as being true as represented or as meeting a standard as guaranteed by signature.

(5)

"Collection system" means sanitary sewer lines, of eight-inch or larger diameters, including manholes, cleanouts and appurtenances, whose primary function is to collect sanitary sewage rom individual side sewers and transport this sewage to trunk and/or interceptor sewers.

(6)

"Connection charges" means charges assessed by the county against an owner at the time the owner acquires a building permit.

(7)

"Covenants" means the restrictive and other covenants running with the land which govern the use of land in Hartstene Pointe. The covenants applicable to each division of Hartstene Pointe are incorporated in a document bearing the title Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions. The covenants applicable to the first division of Harstene Pointe were recorded in the Mason County Land Records on August 7, 1970, under auditor's fee No. 253021.

(8)

"Department of community development" means a separate and independent department of Mason County responsible for the administration of the sanitary sewer and water utilities owned and operated by Mason County. Also referred to herein as "department."

(9)

"Developer" means any person, or the heirs, successors or assigns of such person, who owns and/or proposes or intends to develop any lot or parcel of real property wherein there is located or is to be located any house, building or structure for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other use.

(10)

"Director" means the director of the department of community development or the director's duly authorized representative.

(11)

"Domestic wastewater facilities" means all facilities generating wastewater principally from single, duplex or multiple dwellings.

(12)

"Duplex" means a two-family dwelling, namely a detached building containing two complete living units sharing a common wall or floor with not more than two kitchens, designated and/or used to house not more than two families living independently of each other and including all necessary household functions of each such family. A duplex shall be considered two single-family dwellings.

(13)

"Easement" means a legally binding agreement entitling the county to construct, repair and/or connect sewer facilities located on private property; or, an agreement between two separate owners, for the purpose of mutual wastewater discharge, to construct sewer facilities on property owned by one owner or the other or both.

(14)

"Effluent" means wastewater that has been treated to remove wastes and is discharged from treatment facilities.

(15)

"Governmental entity" means the organization or agency through which a separate and independent political body exercises authority including but not limited to cities, towns, counties, water and sewer districts and other municipal corporations.

(16)

"Garbage" means the animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and serving of foods. It is composed largely of putrescible organic matter and its natural moisture content.

(17)

"Harstene Pointe" means the total land area on the north tip of Hartstene Island in Mason County, Washington, which consists of:

(A)

The land area described and platted by that certain plat entitled "Hartstene Pointe" which developer filed with Mason County auditor on July 7, 1970, and which said auditor recorded under this fee No. 252193 on pages 80 to 85 of Plat Volume 8 of the Mason County Land Records; and

(B)

Such other lands in Sections 19 and 30 of Township 21 North, Range 1 West, Willamette Meridian and Sections 24 and 25, Township 21 North, Range 2 West, Willamette Meridian (the north tip of Hartstene Island) as may be added thereto by recorded plats identifying the same as additions to Hartstene Pointe.

(18)

"Hartstene Pointe (Mason County) sewerage system" means the system of conduits, pumps, treatment plants and structures located on county-owned property or in private road rights-of-way or on easements dedicated to the county used for the purpose of conveying from their source, treating in any manner, and conveying to final points of disposal, all wastes of any nature permitted by this code to enter said system. Specifically included as integral parts of the system are all conduits of any nature forming a part of the general network of conduits or connected directly or indirectly to said network, all pumps, wastewater treatment plant and structures of any kind used in connection with the collection, treatment and disposal of the wastes handled by the system, all appurtenances to any of the above, either physically or functionally connected therewith. Sanitary sewers, as defined in this section, are included as part of the Hartstene Pointe sewerage system. Building sewers and side sewer stubs as defined in this section are not part of the county system and are operated and maintained by the owner.

(19)

"Large residential development" means any development which includes more than four residential living units.

(20)

"Natural outlet" means any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or groundwater.

(21)

"Natural watercourse" means a surface or underground watercourse created by natural agencies and conditions.

(22)

"Owner" means the lawful and legal owner of a lot or parcel of land (delineated by parcel number) under single ownership also noted on county assessor/treasurer property rolls as the taxpayer.

(23)

"Permit" means written authorization from the director granting the owner permission to make the required building sewer connections to the side sewer stub or to make repairs, alterations, disconnections, caps, or any other sewer construction or repair stipulated in this chapter.

(24)

"Person" means any individual or commercial entity, company, association, society, corporation, partnership or group.

(25)

"Mason County board of commissioners" means those duly elected individuals serving as the legislative body of Mason County. Also referred to herein as the "board."

(26)

"Plumbing outlet" means the part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system of a structure that receives waste from other drainage pipes inside the walls of a structure and conveys it to a building sewer. The building sewer begins twenty-four inches from the outer face of the outside building wall.

(27)

"Premises" means a continuous tract of land, building or group of adjacent buildings under a single ownership.

(28)

"Private sewer facilities" means any sanitary sewer facility including building sewers, constructed within the limits of property privately owned including but not limited to collection lines, trunk sewers, lateral sewers, pump stations, force mains and appurtenances. Side sewer stubs as defined in this section and located within public rights-of-way or perpetual easements owned by Mason County shall be operated and maintained by the private property owner.

(29)

"Properly shredded garbage" means garbage which has been shredded to such degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than one-fourth inch in any dimension.

(30)

"Public sewer facilities" means any sanitary sewer constructed within a public right-of-way or perpetual easement owned by Mason County including but not limited to collection lines, trunk sewers, lateral sewers, side sewer tees, pump stations, force mains and appurtenances. Building sewers and side sewer stubs as defined in this section are not part of the county system and are operated and maintained by the owner.

(31)

"Purchaser" means any person, or the heirs, successors or assigns of such person, who purchases and/or leases any house, building or structure; or one or more units in a subdivision or multiple-housing projects, from a developer as defined in this section.

(32)

"Registered professional engineer" means any individual or corporation holding a currently valid license to practice engineering in the state of Washington.

(33)

"Registered building sewer contractor" means any contractor who is duly registered to construct, install, repair, reconstruct, excavate or connect any building sewer and side sewer stub to public sewers in the state of Washington.

(34)

"Sanitary sewage" means wastewater derived from domestic, commercial and industrial wastes.

(35)

"Sanitary sewer" means a sewer which carries sanitary sewage.

(36)

"Septic tank" means a settling tank in which settled sludge is in immediate contact with the wastewater flowing through the tank and in which the organic solids are decomposed by anaerobic bacterial action. These types of units are prohibited at Hartstene Pointe.

(37)

"Service area" means that area containing Hartstene Pointe and the five hundred thirty-three lots therein.

(38)

"Sewage" is a term now being replaced in technical usage by the preferable term of "wastewater," and for the purpose of this chapter shall be considered synonymous.

(39)

"Sewer line extension" means

(A)

The construction, upgrading, and/or extension of existing sewer facilities located in public rights-of-way or easements conveyed to the county; or

(B)

The construction, upgrading and/or extension of existing sewer facilities located on private property serving four or more structures or exceeding a length of four hundred feet.

Sewer line extensions located on private property shall be operated and maintained by the owner including the side sewer stub as defined in this section. Gravity building sewer lines over four hundred feet in length serving one single-family dwelling are exempt from this definition.

(40)

"Shall, may." "Shall" is mandatory, "may" is permissive.

(41)

"Side sewer stub" means a sanitary sewer constructed from a lateral or trunk sewer to a property line, or edge of a perpetual easement of a property being served. The side sewer stub shall be considered part of the "building sewer" and shall be maintained by the owner.

(42)

"Side sewer tee" means the point at which the side sewer stub joins the public sewer.

(43)

"Single-family dwelling" means any building designed and/or used to house a single family and shall include mobile homes on individual lots whether owned collectively or individually in mobile home courts, condominiums or townhouses.

(44)

"Storm drain" means those drainage pipes which are designated to carry surface drainage water and other such stormwaters as are not permitted to be disposed of through the sanitary sewer system, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.

(45)

"Structure" means anything constructed, erected or placed, the use of which requires location or attachment to something having location on the ground.

(46)

"Unpolluted water" means water in its natural state, or water which, after use for any purpose, is not substantially changed as to chemical or biochemical qualities.

(47)

"Wastewater facilities" means the structures, equipment and processes required to collect, transport and treat domestic and commercial wastes, and dispose of the effluent and waste byproducts.

(48)

"Wastewater treatment plant" means any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating wastewater collected by the county. See "wastewater facilities."

(49)

"Watercourse" means

(A)

A natural or artificial channel for passage of water;

(B)

A running stream of water;

(C)

A natural stream fed from permanent or natural sources, including rivers, creeks, runs and rivulets. There must be a stream, usually flowing in a particular direction (though it need not flow continuously) in a definite channel, having a bed or banks and usually discharging into some other stream or body of water.

(Ord. 132-94 § 1.03, 1994).