This chapter shall apply to all users that discharge into the Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority’s (YCUA) publicly owned treatment works (the POTW). In addition, it shall be unlawful for any users located outside the Ypsilanti Township limits to continue discharges to the POTW except as provided in this chapter. In addition, this chapter shall establish permit requirements for connections or alterations to township or YCUA sewage works facilities or the POTW; govern the design, construction, alteration or use of and connection to the sewage works and POTW; regulate the discharge of wastewater into the sewage works and POTW; prohibit certain detrimental conduct; authorize the issuance of permits; authorize inspections; provide for administration and enforcement of this subchapter; establish civil and criminal penalties for violations; and authorize the enforcement of and ensure compliance within the township of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, being 33 U.S.C. §§ 1251 et seq., the Clean Water Act and the Michigan Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act, being M.C.L.A. §§ 324.101 et seq., more specifically defined herein, and regulations promulgated and adopted under the acts and statutes.
(Prior Code, § X-3.39)