Section 935.60 Sewage Disposal

Section 935

Section 935.60  Sewage

Disposal

a)         General.  All sewage generated within a migrant labor camp

shall discharge into a sewage disposal system approved by the Illinois

Environmental Protection Agency, or a private sewage disposal system designed,

constructed and maintained in accordance with the Private Sewage Disposal Code

(77 Ill. Adm. Code 905). (A)

1)         A construction permit must be obtained from the Department to

construct a sewage disposal system designed to discharge to a subsurface

seepage field or designed to discharge less than 1,500 gallons per day to the

ground surface or to a body of water.  (C)

2)         If a sewage disposal system is designed to discharge 1,500 or

more gallons per day to the ground surface or to a body of water, a permit for

construction must be obtained from the Illinois Environmental Protection

Agency.  (C)

3)         The effluent of all surface discharge sewage disposal systems

shall meet the quality standards required by the Private Sewage Disposal Code

(77 Ill. Adm. Code 905).  (B)

b)         License Requirements.  Only persons licensed pursuant to the

Private Sewage Disposal Licensing Act [225 ILCS 225] shall construct, install,

repair, modify, maintain, clean or pump private sewage disposal systems.  (C)