Notwithstanding any prior provisions of this chapter, industrial and commercial heavy users of the water and sanitary sewer systems for the village, said heavy users being defined as those industrial and/or commercial users discharging an average of 15,000 gallons per month of metered water into the sanitary sewer system, regardless of the source of said water, shall be permitted to dispose of water pumped from a well on their premises into the sanitary sewer system of the village, under the following terms and conditions.
(A) An annual application must be made and an annual permit must be obtained from the Village Council, for the purpose of obtaining permission to dump water from a well into the sanitary sewer system of the village. An annual permit fee shall be assessed, upon approval, which fee shall consist of a flat rate of $250 plus an additional fee calculated by taking the number of gallons pumped into the sanitary sewer system from said user in the prior year, regardless of source, times a cost factor of 50% of the current water rate usage for said user within the village per 1,000 gallons so pumped.
(B) Permits to allow the disposal of well water into the village sanitary sewer system shall only be permitted for industrial and commercial heavy users, said heavy users being defined as those industrial or commercial consumers or owners discharging an average of 15,000 gallons or more per month of metered water into the sanitary sewer system, regardless of the source of said water. Further, the permit will only be granted when the use of such water is for commercial, public or industrial purposes.
(C) If village utilities, including water and sewer, are available to the property, and would require no additional expense by the village for running said utilities to the property, the user must hook onto said utilities, and if currently hooked onto said utilities, must remain hooked onto said utilities. In addition, the user must pay any minimum monthly usage fees for said utilities not being used as a result of the permit being granted. In addition, the user must comply with all other requirements of this chapter with respect to backflow prevention devices, unlawful cross-connections and other such related matters. Said user must also comply with all applicable water and sewer construction standards as set forth in this chapter.
(D) A separate meter would be required, at the user’s expense, for reading the well water to be discarded into the sanitary sewer system. A separate minimum fee would be charged to the user for the sewer service, meaning that an additional monthly usage fee would be charged to any user dumping pumped well water into the village sanitary sewer system.
(E) All discarded water, whether pumped from the ground by the user or taken from the village water system, must comply with all state, federal and local pre-treatment requirements before being dumped into the sanitary sewer system.
(F) Any and all pumped well water must also meet all applicable EPA regulations prior to usage.
(G) Additional wells can be drilled on the premises if desired. However, each well must be the subject of a separate application and permit, and each well that will be pumping any water that will dump into the village sanitary sewer system must be metered. No accommodations will be made to require the village to determine how much water coming from a well is dumped into the sanitary sewer system and how much is not so discharged. All water coming from the well will be metered and subject to existing sanitary sewer charges.
(H) Any representative of the village, including all village employees, will be permitted to perform random, unannounced inspection of any user that is utilizing a well as set forth herein, and is having the water metered for sewer rating purposes. It shall be unlawful for any resident to by-pass a metered well pump for any reason.
(I) The well must be located on the user’s premises.
(Ord. O-31-80, passed 1-5-1981; Ord. O-5-95, passed - -1995) Penalty, see § 51.999