Ohio Code 6111.20 – Orders to secure a quality effluent from water purification or sewage treatment works
When the director of environmental protection finds upon investigation, that any water purification or sewage treatment works, on account of incompetent supervision or inefficient operation is not producing an effluent of such quality as might be reasonably obtained from such water purification or sewage treatment works, and by reason of such neglect the public water supply has become impure and dangerous to health, or that a stream, watercourse, canal, lake, pond, or body of water has become offensively polluted or has become a public nuisance or that a public water supply taken from such stream, watercourse, canal, lake, pond, or body of water has been rendered impure and dangerous to health, the director shall issue an order to the mayor or managing officer or officers of the municipal corporation, public institution, or person having charge of or owning such water purification or sewage treatment works, to secure an effluent of such quality as might be reasonably expected from such works and satisfactory to the director.
Terms Used In Ohio Code 6111.20
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Person: means the state, any municipal corporation, any other political subdivision of the state, any person as defined in section 1. See Ohio Code 6111.01
- Sewage: means any liquid waste containing sludge, sludge materials, or animal or vegetable matter in suspension or solution, and may include household wastes as commonly discharged from residences and from commercial, institutional, or similar facilities. See Ohio Code 6111.01
- Treatment works: means any plant, disposal field, lagoon, dam, pumping station, building sewer connected directly to treatment works, incinerator, or other works used for the purpose of treating, stabilizing, blending, composting, or holding sewage, sludge, sludge materials, industrial waste, or other wastes, except as otherwise defined. See Ohio Code 6111.01
If such managing officer or officers of a municipal corporation, public institution, or person fails, for a period of five days after receiving such order, to secure an effluent satisfactory to the director, the director shall order such managing officer or officers or person owning such works to appoint, within ten days, and pay the salary of a competent person to be approved by the director, to take charge of and operate such works as to secure the results demanded by the director.