The discharge of water from roof, surface, ground water sump pump, footing tile, swimming pool, natural precipitation or private sewage system into the city sewerage system results in flooding and overloading of the sewage system. When this water is discharged into the sanitary sewer system, it is treated at the Metropolitan Sewage Treatment Plant. This results in very large and needless expenditures. The City Council, therefore, finds it in the best interest of the city to prohibit such discharges and to impose surcharges estimating the burden placed on the system from unlawful discharge.
(Ord. 2009-07, passed 4-14-2009)