(A) The city shall have the right to enter the premises of any user to determine whether the user is complying with all wastewater pretreatment requirements and any wastewater discharge permit or order issued hereunder.
(B) Users shall allow the city ready access to all parts of the premises for the purposes of inspection, sampling, records examination and copying and the performance of any additional duties.
(1) The city shall have the right to set up on the user’s property, or require installation of, the devices as are necessary to conduct sampling and/or metering of the user’s operations.
(2) The city may require the user to install monitoring equipment as necessary. The facility’s sampling and monitoring equipment shall be maintained at all times in a safe and proper operating condition by the user at its own expense. All devices used to measure wastewater flow and quality shall be calibrated annually to ensure their accuracy.
(3) Any temporary or permanent obstruction to safe and easy access to the facility to be inspected and/or sampled shall be promptly removed by the user at the written or verbal request of the city and shall not be replaced. The costs of clearing the access shall be born by the user.
(4) Unreasonable delays in allowing the city access to the user’s premises shall be a violation of these requirements.
(Ord. 920, passed 11-7-2000)