(A) This chapter sets forth uniform requirements for direct and indirect contributors into the wastewater collection and treatment system of the city and enables the city in its operation of its wastewater collection and treatment system to comply with all applicable laws of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and of the United States particularly the Clean Water Act of 1977, as amended, arid all other similar laws and the regulations issued pursuant to these laws.
(B) The objectives of this chapter are:
(1) To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the municipal wastewater collection and treatment system which will interfere with the operation of the system or degrade or contaminate the resulting sludge and/or discharges from the Public Owned Treatment Works (POTW);
(2) To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the municipal wastewater collection and treatment system which would or might be handful to the collection system or treatment plant or subject the POTW operator to handful effects.
(3) To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the municipal wastewater collection system which will pass through the system, inadequately treated, into receiving waters or the atmosphere or otherwise be incompatible with the system;
(4) To improve the opportunity to recycle and reclaim wastewaters and sludges from the system; and
(5) To provide for equitable distribution of the cost of the municipal wastewater collection and treatment system.
(C) This chapter provides for the regulation of direct and indirect contributors to the municipal wastewater collection and treatment system through the issuance of permits to certain non-domestic users and through enforcement of general requirements for the other users of the system; authorizes monitoring and enforcement activities, requires user reporting, and provides for the setting of fees and charges for the equitable distribution of costs resulting from the program established herein.
(D) This chapter shall apply to the city and to all persons within the city, and to all persons and municipalities outside the city who are, by contract or agreement with the city, users of the municipally-owned collection and/or treatment works. Except as otherwise provided herein, the city, acting through its Mayor and/or City Council and/or the Superintendent of the Sewer Department, as appropriate, shall implement, administer and enforce the provisions of this chapter.
(Ord. 408-1986, passed 9-25-86)