(a) Required. Each discharger shall provide and operate, at the discharger's own expense, a monitoring facility to allow inspection, sampling, and flow measurement of each sewer discharge to the City. Each monitoring facility shall be situated on the discharger's premises. However, where such a location would be impractical or cause undue hardship on the discharger, the City may permit the facility to be constructed in the public street or sidewalk area, provided that the facility is located so it will not be obstructed by landscaping or parked vehicles. There shall be ample room in or near such sampling facility to allow accurate sampling and preparation of samples for analysis. The facility, sampling and measuring equipment shall be maintained at all times in a safe and proper operating condition at the expense of the discharger. All monitoring facilities shall be constructed and maintained in accordance with all applicable local construction standards and specifications. Construction shall be completed within 120 days of receipt of written notice from the City directing the discharger to construct the facilities.
All sanitary sewers requiring monitoring shall have an inspection and sampling manhole or structure with an opening of not less than twenty-four inches in diameter and an internal diameter of not less than forty-eight inches, containing such flow measuring, recording and sampling equipment as may be required by the City to ensure compliance with this chapter. Such structure may be utilized by the discharger for his monitoring program if approved by the City.
(b) Inspections and Sampling. Authorized representatives of the City (including an authorized contractor as a representative of the City, hereafter "authorized representatives"), upon a showing of credentials and with the consent of the owner or operator, shall have a right of entry to, upon or through any building, structure, facility, installation or premises in which a discharge source or treatment system is located or in which records required to be kept under this chapter are located, to perform all inspection, surveillance and other monitoring procedures necessary to determine and confirm compliance or noncompliance with any applicable pretreatment standards or requirements. Furthermore, upon a showing of proper credentials, authorized representatives of the City may, at reasonable times, have access to and copy any records, inspect any monitoring equipment or method required under this chapter and sample any effluent which the owner or operator of such discharge source is required to sample. The City may set up on the discharger's property necessary devices to conduct sampling, inspection, compliance monitoring, metering operations or all of these. Results of sampling, inspection, monitoring and metering done by the City will be available to the discharger.
(Ord. 1991-230. Passed 1-21-92.)
(Ord. 1991-230. Passed 1-21-92.)