(A) The owner of any property served by a building sewer carrying industrial waste shall install a suitable control manhole in the building sewer to facilitate observation, sampling and measurement of the wastes. Such manhole, when required, shall be accessible and safely located and shall be constructed in accordance with plans approved by the city. The manhole shall be installed by the owner at his expense and shall be maintained by him so as to be safe and accessible at all times.
(B) All measurements, test and analyses of the characteristics of waters and wastes to which references are made in §§ 68-172 and 68-174 shall be determined in accordance with Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures for Analysis of Pollutants, Federal Regulation, 40 C.F.R. 136, as amended, published in the Federal Register, and shall be determined at the control manhole provided for in subsection (A) of this section or upon suitable samples taken at the control manhole. If 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.
(C) No statement contained in this section shall be construed as preventing any special agreement or arrangement between the city and any industrial concern whereby an industrial waste of unusual strength or character may be accepted by the city, subject to payment of surcharge by the industrial concern.
(1993 Code, § 68-175) (Ord. passed 1-22-2001; Ord. 2014-01, passed 1-27-2014)