(a) This Chapter sets forth uniform requirements for discharges into the City of Celina Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTW), and enables the City to protect public health, safety and the environment in conformity with all applicable local, State and Federal laws relating thereto. These requirements apply to discharges into the City POTW from sources inside and outside of the City. (Ord. 38-09-O. Passed 6-22-09.)
(b) The objectives of this Chapter are:
(1) To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the POTW that will interfere with the operation of the POTW or contaminate the resultant POTW sludge;
(2) To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the wastewater system that do not receive adequate treatment in the POTW and that pass through the POTW into receiving waters, atmosphere or are otherwise incompatible with the POTW
(3) To improve the opportunity to recycle and reclaim wastewater and sludge from the POTW.
(4) To protect the health, safety and welfare of the POTW workers;
(5) To prevent violation of any federal or state permit issued to the City, or any federal, state or local law.
(c) This Chapter provides for the regulation of discharges into the POTW. This Chapter does not provide for the recovery of surcharges for additional costs relating to treatment and collection operations, maintenance, repair or replacement of any component of the POTW, or the costs associated with the construction of collection and treatment systems used by Industrial Dischargers, that are the subject of separate enactments.
(19-02-0. Passed 6-3-02.)