(a) This chapter sets forth uniform requirements for discharges into the London wastewater collection and treatment systems and enables the City to protect health in conformity with all applicable local, State and Federal laws relating thereto. The objectives of this chapter include, but are not limited to:
(1) Preventing the introduction of pollutants into the City wastewater system which will interfere with the normal operation of the system or contaminate the resulting Municipal sludge;
(2) Preventing the introduction of pollutants into the City wastewater system which have the potential to reduce treatment in the publicly-owned treatment works (POTW), which will pass through the system into receiving waters or the atmosphere or otherwise be incompatible with the system;
(3) To improve the opportunity to recycle and reclaim wastewater and sludge from the system;
(4) To protect both POTW personnel, who may be affected by wastewater and sludge in the course of their employment, and the general public;
(5) To provide for fees for the equitable distribution of the cost of operation, maintenance and improvement of the POTW;
(6) To enable the City to comply with its National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit conditions, sludge use and disposal requirements and any other Federal or State laws to which the POTW is subject.
(b) This chapter shall apply to all industrial users of the POTW. This chapter authorizes the issuance of industrial wastewater discharge permits; provides for monitoring, compliance and enforcement activities; establishes administrative review and reporting procedures; and provides for the setting of fees for the equitable distribution of costs resulting from the program established herein.
(c) All sewer ordinances existing on the effective date of this chapter shall remain in effect, unless provisions of those ordinances are altered or addressed herein.
(Ord. 180-06. Passed 1-4-07; Ord. 102-11. Passed 2-3-11.)