In adopting this subchapter, the City Council finds that the discharge of water from any roof, surface, ground, sump pump, footing tile or swimming pool or other natural precipitation into the city sanitary sewer collection system will and has on numerous occasions in the past flooded and over-loaded the sanitary sewer collection system to such an extent as to cause damage to residential property and over-loaded the Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP). Such damage is caused by the backup of sewage of the WWTP. The City Council, therefore, finds it essential to the maintenance of health, minimization of damage to property and to maintain the life and capacity of the WWTP that the provisions of this subchapter be strictly enforced to avoid and minimize these problems in the future.
(Ord. 429, passed 8-24-00; Am. Ord. passed 11-26-13)