(a) Uniform Requirements. This Chapter sets forth uniform requirements for discharging waters and wastes into the public wastewater facilities of the Village of Edgar. This Chapter enables the Village of Edgar to protect public health in conformity with administrative provisions, water quality requirements, and other discharge criteria required or authorized by local, state and federal law.
(b) Objectives. The objectives of this Chapter are to:
(1) Regulate the construction and use of public and private sewers and drains, and their disposal into the public sewerage system.
(2) Provide for annexations and connection to the public sewerage system.
(3) Provide a means of determining wastewater volumes, constituents, and characteristics, and to issue permits to certain users.
(4) Set limitations or restrictions on materials or characteristics of waste or wastewaters discharged to the wastewater facilities to prevent the introduction of pollutants into the wastewater treatment facilities that will interfere with the normal adequate treatment in the wastewater facilities, will pass through the system into the receiving waters, or contaminate the resulting municipal sludge.
(5) Recover from users of the wastewater treatment on an equitable basis, the share of the wastewater facilities cost attributable to such users, and to provide funds for the operation and maintenance, debt retirement and replacement of the wastewater facilities.
(Ord. 2022-2, passed 12-12-2022)