Representatives of the county, the state, and EPA upon showing proper identification shall have the right to enter and inspect the facilities of any industrial user to ascertain whether the purpose of this chapter is being met and all requirements are being complied with.
(A) While performing the necessary work on private properties referred to above, the Administrator or duly authorized employees of the county shall observe all safety rules applicable to the premises established by the company; the company shall be held harmless for injury or death to the county employees; and the county shall indemnify the company against loss or damage to its property by county employees and against liability claims and demands for personal injury or property damage asserted against the company and growing out of the gauging and sampling operation, except as such may be caused by negligence or failure of the company to maintain safe conditions as required in § 52.063.
(B) The Director and other duly authorized employees of the county, the state, and EPA bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted to enter all private properties through which the county holds an easement, for the purpose of but not limited to inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, repair, and maintenance of any portion of the sewage works lying within said easement. All entry and subsequent work, if any, on said easement, shall be done in full accordance with the terms of the easement pertaining to the private property involved.
(C) All measurements, tests, and analyses of the characteristics of the waters and wastes to which reference is made in this chapter shall be determined in accordance with the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, published by the APHA, and shall be determined at the control manhole provided, or upon suitable samples taken at said control manhole. In the event that no special manhole has been required, the control manhole shall be considered to be the nearest downstream manhole in the public sewer to the point at which the building sewer is connected. Sampling shall be carried out by customarily accepted methods to reflect the effect of constituents upon the sewage works and to determine the existence of hazards to life, limb, and property. The particular analyses involved will determine whether a composite of all outfalls of a premises is appropriate or whether a grab sample or samples should be taken.
(2004 Code, § 181-28) (Ord. 57, passed 2-18-1986; Ord. 57-A, passed 10-5-1993)