A. Applicability: This ordinance shall apply to all users of the publicly owned treatment works. This ordinance authorizes the issuance of individual wastewater discharge permits; providing for individual agreements for those existing users who are not within the city incorporated limits; provides for monitoring, compliance, and enforcement activities; establishes administrative review procedures; and requires user reporting.
B. Public Health Statement: It is hereby determined and declared to be necessary and conducive to and for the protection of the health, safety and welfare of the public and inhabitants of the city, and for the purpose of controlling the use and connection to and for providing an equitable distribution of the costs and expenses of maintenance, operation, upkeep, and repair of the entire sewerage system which includes the sewer collection system and sewage disposal facilities of said city, to charge and collect service charges or fees upon all lots, lands, property and premises served or benefitted by the sewerage system of the city, which system and facilities consist generally of pipelines, conduits, catch basins, manholes, clean outs, sewer mains, intercepting sewer, outfall sewers, lift stations, pumps, structures, mechanical equipment and facilities for the treatment and disposal of sewerage or sewage byproducts; to provide for industry cost recovery from all industrial users and to provide for the control, use and administration of the installation of private sewage disposal systems where a public sanitary sewer is not available. The public facility does not include the portion of sewer connecting a building to the sewer main, otherwise known as the lateral sewer line. (Ord. 602, - -2022; amd. Ord. 608, 6-6-2023)