(A) The Wastewater Superintendent shall have control, and general supervision, of all public sewers and service connections in the city, and shall be responsible for administering the provisions of this chapter to the end that a proper, and efficient, public sewer is maintained.
(B) The Wastewater Superintendent, bearing proper credentials and identification, shall be permitted to enter all properties for the purpose of inspection, observations, measurement, sampling, and testing pertinent to the discharges to the city’s sewer system in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. Where a user has security measures in force which would require proper identification, and clearance, before entry into their premises, the user shall make necessary arrangements with any security guards so that, upon presentation of suitable identification, the city, MPCA, and EPA will be permitted to enter, without delay, for the purposes of performing their specific responsibilities.
(C) The Wastewater Superintendent is authorized to obtain information concerning industrial processes which have a direct bearing on the type, and source, of discharge to the wastewater collection system. An industry may withhold information considered confidential; however, the industry must establish that the revelation to the public of the information in question might result in an advantage to competitors.
(D) While performing necessary work on private properties, the Wastewater Superintendent shall observe all safety rules applicable to the premises established by the company, and the company shall be held harmless for injury, or death, to the city employees, and the city shall indemnify the company against loss, or damage, to its property by city employees, and against liability claims and demands for personal injury, or property damage, asserted against the company, and growing out of the gauging, and sampling, operation, except as may be caused by negligence, or failure, of the company to maintain safe conditions, as required in § 52.06 hereof.
(E) The Wastewater Superintendent, bearing proper credentials and identification, shall be permitted to enter all private properties through which the city holds a duly negotiated easement for the purposes of, but not limited to, inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, repair, and maintenance of any portion of the wastewater treatment works lying within the easement. All entry and subsequent work, if any, on the easement shall be done in full accordance with the terms of the duly negotiated easement pertaining to the private property involved.
(Prior Code, § 3.40)