(A) Bylaws, rules, and regulations. The Common Council shall, in accordance with state statutes, make and enforce whatever bylaws, rules, and regulations it may deem necessary for the safe, economical, and efficient management of the city’s sewage works, for the regulation, collection, and refunding of the user charges for sewerage service and, in general, for the implementation of the provisions of this chapter.
(B) Implementation of industrial cost recovery. In the event that any industrial user, as defined in division (C) below, begins to discharge to the sewage system, then the city shall develop and implement an industrial cost recovery ordinance to be effective over the remaining cost recovery period, hereby set at 30 years commencing one year after the final project inspection and approval by E.P.A.
(C) Definition of user classes for industrial cost recovery.
USER CLASSES. For the purposes of industrial cost recovery, each recipient of municipal wastewater treatment services shall be either in the industrial class or the non-industrial class. The industrial class, as it pertains to industrial cost recovery, shall include:
(a) 1. Any non-governmental, non-residential user which discharges more than the equivalent of 25,000 gallons per day of sanitary wastes and which is identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual of 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented, under the following divisions:
Division A - Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing; |
Division B - Mining; |
Division D - Manufacturing; |
Division E - Transportation, Communications, Electric. Gas and Sanitary Services; |
Division I - Services. |
2. In determining the amount of a user’s discharge for purpose of industrial cost recovery, domestic wastes or discharges from sanitary conveniences shall be excluded.
3. After applying the sanitary waste exclusion in division (C)(a)2. above, discharges in the above divisions that have a volume exceeding 25,000 gpd or the weight of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) or suspended solids (SS) equivalent to that weight found in 25,000 gpd of sanitary waste are considered industrial users. Sanitary wastes, for purposes of this calculation of equivalency, are the waste discharged from residential users which has the strength of 300 mg/l of BOD and 350 mg/l of SS.
(b) Any non-governmental user which discharges wastewater to the treatment works which contains toxic pollutants or poisonous solids, liquids, or gases in sufficient quantity, either singly or by interaction with other wastes, to contaminate the sludge of the treatment works, or to injure or to interfere with any sewage treatment process, or which constitutes a hazard to humans or animals, creates a public nuisance, or creates any hazard in or has an adverse effect on the waters receiving any discharge from the treatment works.
(c) The non-industrial class, as it pertains to industrial cost recovery, shall include all domestic and governmental users and those industrial, commercial, and institutional users whose wastes do not meet the criteria for industrial users as stated above and as determined by the Board of Public Works and Safety.
(2003 Code, § 13.12.070) (Ord. 80-1, passed 1-14-1980)