The remedies provided for in this ordinance shall not be exclusive. The City Manager may take any, all, or any combination of these actions against a noncompliant user. Enforcement of pretreatment violations will generally be in accordance with Mt. Vernon’s Enforcement Response Plan. However, the City Manager may seek whatever remedies are authorized by statute, at law or in equity against any person or industrial user violating the provisions of this ordinance. Further, the City Manager is empowered to take more than one enforcement action against any noncompliant user.
(A) In addition to remedies available to the POTW set forth elsewhere in this ordinance, if the POTW is fined by the State of Illinois or USEPA for violation of the POTW NPDES permit or violation of water quality standards as the result of discharge of pollutants, then the fine, including all the POTW legal, sampling analytical testing costs and any other related costs shall be charged to the responsible industrial user. Such charge shall be in addition to, and not in lieu of, any other remedies the POTW may have under this ordinance, statutes, regulations, at law or in equity.
(B) (1) If the discharge from any industrial user causes a deposit, obstruction or damage to any of the POTW wastewater facilities, the POTW shall cause the deposit or obstruction to be promptly removed or cause the damage to be promptly repaired.
(2) The cost for such work, including material, labor and supervision, shall be borne by the person or industrial user causing such deposit, obstruction, or damage.
(C) In addition to any penalty levied under §§ 52.180 through 52.183, the POTW may, where the circumstances of the particular case so dictate, seek injunctive relief to prohibit the user from discharging into the sanitary sewer system, or to provide such other affirmative relief as may be appropriate.
(Prior Code, Art. 16B, § 11.4)