All provisions of this chapter and limits set herein shall comply with any applicable state and/or Federal requirements now or projected to be in effect. Pursuant thereto, the city has the legal authority to:
(A) Develop and enforce specific limits on prohibited substances;
(B) Enter the premises of any industrial user to conduct inspections, surveillance, record review, and/or monitoring, as necessary to determine compliance with the sewer use ordinance and, if applicable, any effective industrial wastewater pretreatment permit;
(C) Accept or deny any new or increased discharges from any indirect discharger;
(D) Immediately halt or prevent any discharge of pollutants to the sewage treatment plant which reasonably appears to present an imminent endangerment to the health or welfare of the public, the environment, and/or which threatens to interfere with the operation of the sewage treatment plant;
(E) Require compliance with all applicable pretreatment standards and requirements by indirect dischargers;
(F) Impose fees, if necessary, to offset the cost incurred by the permittee for administering the pretreatment program requirements program requirements established in the sewage treatment plant IDEM permit;
(G) Impose a fine of at least $1,000 per day, per violation, in accordance with 40 C.F.R. 403.8(f)(1)(vi)(A), but no more than $2,500 per day, per violation for a first violation nor more than $7,500 per day, per violation for subsequent violations, in accordance with IC 36-1-3-8(a)(10)(B).
(‘77 Code, § 20-58) (Ord. 374, passed 4-3-78; Am. Ord. 98-6, passed 2-17-98; Am. Ord. 2015-04, passed 6-22-15)