The City is granted 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 this section and, if applicable, any effective industrial wastewater pretreatment permit;
(C) Accept or deny any new or increased discharge from any indirect discharger;
(D) Immediately halt or prevent any discharge of pollutants to the Wastewater Facilities 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 Wastewater Facilities;
(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 established in the City's NPDES permit; and
(G) Impose a fine of not 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) for significant industrial users.
(Ord. 22-08-20, passed 8-11-20)