(A) Inspectors.
(1) Inspections of every facility that is involved, either directly or indirectly, with the discharge of waste water to the town’s sewage system may be made by the Town Manager, or his or her designee, as he or she deems necessary.
(2) These facilities shall include, but not be limited to: sewers; sewage pumping plants; pollution control plants; all industrial processes; industrial waste water generation, conveyance, and pretreatment facilities; devices and connection sewers and all similar sewage facilities. Inspections may be made to determine that such facilities are maintained and operated properly and are adequate to meet the provisions of this chapter.
(3) Access to all of the above facilities or to other facilities directly or indirectly connected to the town’s sewage system shall be given to authorized personnel of the town at all reasonable times including those occasioned by emergency conditions. Any permanent or temporary obstruction to easy access to the sewage facility to be inspected shall promptly be removed by the facility user or owner at the written or verbal request of the Town Manager, or his or her designee, and shall not be replaced.
(4) No person shall interfere with, delay, resist, or refuse entrance to an authorized town inspector attempting to inspect any waste water generation, conveyance, or treatment facility connected directly or indirectly to the town’s sewage system.
(B) Construction inspections.
(1) All sewers to be attached directly or indirectly to a town sewer shall be inspected by personnel of the town during construction. At least 48 hours prior to cutting into the town’s sewer, the town shall be notified.
(2) In making a connection to a town sewer, no physical alteration on the town’s facilities shall commence until an inspector is present. No waste water shall be discharged into any sewage facility tributary to a town facility prior to obtaining inspections and approval of sewage construction by the town.
(3) Following satisfactory completion of construction, the town will issue a construction inspection certificate upon request.
(1989 Code, § 14-3-8) (Ord. 89-07, passed 8-24-1989)