(a) Where pretreatment facilities are required by the city, plans, specifications and other pertinent information relating to proposed preliminary treatment, including a semiannual report of progress regarding compliance with pretreatment standards, shall be submitted for approval by the city manager; and no construction of such facility shall be commenced until such approvals are obtained in writing.
(b) Where pretreatment facilities are provided for any wastewater or waste, they shall be maintained in satisfactory and effective operation at all times by the owner at the owner's sole expense.
(c) The owner shall regularly submit a wastewater treatment report to the city as often as required by the permit. Such report shall include all measurements, tests and analyses of the characteristics of wastewater and waste as referred to in this section and any other pertinent information as may be required by the city.
(d) All measurements, tests and analyses of the characteristics of wastewater and wastes to which reference is made in this division shall be determined in accordance with standard methods for examination of water and wastewater and federal guidelines establishing the procedures for the analysis of pollutants, and shall be determined at the monitoring facility provided for in section 82-189 or upon suitable samples taken at such monitoring facility. If no special monitoring facility is available, sampling shall be at the nearest downstream manhole in the public sewer to the point at which the building sewer is connected.
(e) Every industrial or commercial entity operating a pretreatment or control facility which discharges wastewater or liquid wastes into the public sewer (sanitary, combined, or storm) shall have the waste treatment or control facilities under the specific supervision and control of a person who has been certified by the state department of environmental quality as being properly qualified to operate the facilities under the requirements of law.
(Ord. No. 144, 5-16-2005; Ord. 222, § 53, 12-3-2018)