This chapter sets uniform requirements for discharges into the wastewater collection and treatment system and enables the City of Cookeville to comply with the administrative provisions of the Clean Water Act, PL 92-500, and the applicable effluent limitations, national standards of performance, toxic and pretreatment effluent standards, and any other discharge criteria which are required or authorized by state or federal law, and to derive the maximum public benefit by regulating the quality and quantity of wastewater discharged into the Cookeville Sewer System. This chapter provides a means for determining wastewater volumes, constituents and characteristics, and the issuance of permits to certain users, in order to:
(1) Prohibit and/or regulate the contribution of wastewater which may cause operational or maintenance difficulties or deterioration of the sewers, force mains, pumping stations and other structures appurtenant to the wastewater treatment system as hereinafter defined;
(2) Establish control of the contribution of wastewater which requires greater treatment expenditures that are required for equal volumes of normal domestic waste;
(3) Establish pretreatment requirements for industrial waste before discharge to public sewers as required in 40 C.F.R., Part 403, as amended;
(4) Establish a uniform procedure for design, installation, inspection, operation and maintenance of private wastewater treatment and disposal systems, extension of public sewer systems, laterals and connections to sewer mains.
(Ord. #O17-09-17, October 2017)