(A) No user-customer of the city’s sewer collector system, whether residential or nonresidential, shall, as to any sewerage line or main owned or maintained by such user-customer, cause or allow any manner of runoff, ground water, nonwastewater, or nonwastewater effluent to be discharged or introduced into such sewerage line or main; or by action, inaction, or neglect, allow runoff, ground water, nonwastewater, or nonwastewater effluent, by infiltration, leakage or otherwise, to enter such sewerage line or main; or allow any such act or event of nonwastewater infiltration or introduction into sewerage lines or mains heretofore enumerated to continue or be ongoing.
(B) The city, its agents and assigns, shall be allowed, permitted, and have the right to test by all manner and means recognized and investigate and inspect the property and premises of the city and the property and premises, close, curtilage, improvements, accessions, structures, buildings, piping, water lines and sewerage lines and mains of, and/or connecting to the city’s municipal water system or the city’s sanitary sewerage collector system owned by the city itself or the city’s user-customer concerning acts, events and incidents of nonwastewater infiltration herein referred to and prohibited hereby and hereunder.
(C) Should any act, event, incident, occurrence, or the existence of a prohibited nonwastewater infiltration be discovered, then the city shall notify the offending property owner-user in writing by both regular and certified United States mail of such condition and provide particulars and assistance upon the property owner’s request in determining the location of the problem area.
(D) Offending property owners must effect all repairs and work necessary to correct or cure the cited act of prohibited infiltration to the city’s complete satisfaction within 90 days of the date the city’s notice letter referred to in division (C) above.
(E) All work and matters necessary to make repairs and effect a cure of the prohibited act of infiltration including any work done causing injury or damages to the city’s property shall be done at the property owner’s cost and expense alone without contribution from the city.
(F) Should the repairs and cure required above be not made or had to the satisfaction of the city within the allowed period of 90 days, then in that event, the city shall immediately terminate the property owner’s water and sewer services requiring the offending property owner-user to incur and pay a reconnect fee special and separate from a nonpayment disconnect in the sum and amount of $50 each for water service and sewerage service.
(Ord. 735-2008, passed 10-20-2008)