(b) The purpose of Chapters 911, 915, 917 and 919 is to establish guidelines concerning the sanitary and storm sewers in the City. These guidelines are further needed because the City operates a sewer treatment facility and for the following additional reasons: the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit held by the City outlines parameters regarding the characteristics of wastewater that may be introduced to the public waters which need to be embodied in the Codified Ordinances of this City; there are certain Environmental Protection Agency and certain State and Federal agency guidelines which require wastewater treatment systems to operate effectively in collecting and treating wastewater in order to meet established standards; any Federal grants supporting operations or aspects of wastewater treatment require that policy and standards be set forth in City ordinance.
(c) This chapter further provides for the regulation of discharges into the City wastewater system through the enforcement of administrative regulations. This chapter does not provide for the recovery of operations, maintenance or replacement costs of the sewage disposal system or the costs associated with the construction of collection and treatment systems used by industrial discharges, in proportion to their use of the sewage disposal system, which are the subject of Chapter 917.
(Ord. 84-40. Passed 4-26-84.)