(A) General.
(1) Persons receiving wastewater service shall have installed at their expense, water meters of a type approved by the town for the purpose of measuring the volume of water being used.
(2) In the event a person is not serviced by the town’s water system, then that person shall have installed and maintain at his own expense a water meter of a type approved by the town on his well or other source of supply. Ready access to the meter shall be provided to authorized representative of the town. The meter shall be maintained by the user.
(3) Except as noted in division (B) of this section, wastewater user charges shall be based on metered water consumption.
(4) It shall be unlawful for any person to tamper with or damage any recording device necessary to determine a volume of flow required by this chapter.
(B) Industry.
(1) In the event an industry employs a process involving consumptive use of water and wastewater and discharge volume cannot be adequately measured by water usage volume, then that industry may install and maintain at its own expense a wastewater meter of a type approved by the town. In this case, wastewater user charges will be based on wastewater meter readings.
(2) The volume of flow used in computing any industrial waste surcharge shall be based upon metered water consumption records except where the industrial waste has been segregated from the wastewater discharge from sanitary conveniences located on the premises; in which case, the charge will be computed from the flow recorded by an approved measuring device located at the point of water supply to all the industrial processes which generate wastewater or located on the sewer line tributary to the town wastewater collection system. The measuring devices shall be installed and maintained at the expense of the industry.
(3) The town has the right to read all private meters as required in divisions (B)(1) and (2) of this section, and all water meters and/or wastewater flow measuring devices recording water consumed and/or wastewater discharged by industrial user.
(OC, §§ 5-2-25 and 5-2-26) (Ord. passed 3-8-88) Penalty see § 52.999