(A) All property owners identified by the city as contributors to excessive or improper infiltration or inflow into the wastewater facilities shall be advised of their infiltration and inflow problems.
(B) All situation properties shall be provided a 60-day grace period in which to correct the infiltration and inflow problems as identified. The 60-day grace period to extend from the date of notification.
(C) By the end of the 60-day grace period, each property owner shall notify the city that corrective action has been taken or is in progress, which actions shall be specified in the notification to the city.
(D) A property owner failing to notify the city of corrective actions prior to the end of the 60-day grace period shall be subject to termination of service, without further notice, and water service, if provided by the city, shall be immediately discontinued and shut off until the violation shall have been corrected in accordance with federal, state and city regulations.
(E) In the event any instance of excessive or improper infiltration or inflow into the wastewater facilities of the city shall continue beyond the 60-day grace period, it is hereby declared that the continuing infiltration or inflow is a public nuisance, that the city shall have the right to abate the public nuisance and to enter upon any private property within the city for the purpose and shall access the cost of the abatement as a lien against the property upon which the continuing infiltration and inflow occurs and shall access the cost of the abatement to the property or properties to be assessed, together with the names of the owner(s) thereof with the City Recorder or Administrator, whereupon the City Recorder or Administrator shall forthwith enter the assessment as a lien against the property in the city lien docket of the city.
(Ord. 157, passed 6-18-1998)