(a) To provide control of construction of sanitary sewers and use of the City wastewater system.
(b) To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the municipal stormwater system, into receiving waters, the environment, or the atmosphere or otherwise be incompatible with the system.
(c) To provide for equitable distribution of the cost of the municipal wastewater systems.
(d) To protect the health of the City employees working in the collection system and at the wastewater treatment facilities.
(e) To provide for separate sanitary and stormwater systems.
(f) To eliminate, if any, combined sanitary and stormwater sewer systems.
This code provides for the regulation of direct and indirect contributors to the municipal wastewater and stormwater systems through the issuance of permits to certain users and through enforcement of general requirements for the other users, authorizes monitoring and enforcement activities, requires user reporting, and provides for the setting of fees for the equitable distribution of costs resulting from the program established herein.
(Ord. 09-119. Passed 11-17-09.)