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(a) The Director and other duly authorized employees of the City bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted to enter all properties for the purpose of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling and testing pertinent to discharge to the community system in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
(Ord. 106-77. Passed 12-7-77.)
(b) The authorized employees of the City are authorized to obtain information concerning industrial or commercial process information which have a direct bearing on the kind and source of discharge to the wastewater treatment works and storm drainage system. The owner may withhold process information considered confidential. The owner must establish that the revelation to the public of the information in question might result in an advantage to competitors. (Ord. 6-2008. Passed 2-20-08.)
(c) While performing the necessary work on private properties, referred to in subsection (a) hereof, the Director or duly authorized employees of the City 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 such may be caused by negligence or failure of the company to maintain safe conditions as required in Section 929.26(n).
(Ord. 106-77. Passed 12-7-77; Ord. 48-2019. Passed 5-20-19.)
(a) The user charges shall result in the distribution of operation, maintenance and replacement costs of the treatment works within the jurisdiction of the City in proportion to such user's contribution to the total wastewater loading of the treatment works. Factors such as strength, volume and delivery flow rate characteristics shall be included to ensure a proportional distribution of the costs.
(b) The user charges shall be reviewed annually and revised periodically as required.
(c) The user charges shall derive revenue sufficient to meet all costs of operation, maintenance and replacement of the system.
(Ord. 106-77. Passed 12-7-77; Ord. 48-2019. Passed 5-20-19.)
(a) As used in this section:
(1) "Diking" means the process of constructing a wall or embankment around the area of a fuel spill to avoid the spreading of any spilled substance.
(2) "Fuel spill" means the spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying or dumping of any gasoline, petroleum, fuel oil, sludge, oil refuse or other flammable poisonous or explosive liquid or solid.
(3) "Remove" or "removal" means the removal of a fuel spill from the area or the taking of such other action as may be necessary to minimize or mitigate damage to the public health, safety or welfare.
(4) “Sorbent” means materials essentially inert and insolvable used to remove a fuel spill through a variety of absorption mechanisms including straw, sand, expanded perlite, polyurethane foam, reclaimed paper fibre and peat moss.
(b) No fuel spill shall be washed, discharged or otherwise placed into the sanitary sewer system of the Municipality.
(c) In the event of a fuel spill, the Department of Public Service-Division of Streets shall be notified and the following procedure employed:
(1) The area surrounding the fuel spill shall be diked using dirt, sand or other earthen materials which will prevent the spreading of the spill.
(2) Once contained, the fuel spill shall be thoroughly covered with a sorbent.
(3) Upon the absorption of the fuel spill by the sorbent, the sorbent shall be removed by the Division of Streets to a location determined by the Director of Public Service and be disposed of through the person, firm or corporation who has entered into a contract with the City for waste collection pursuant to the provision of Section 941.07
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(Ord. 99-84. Passed 12-17-84; Ord. 48-2019. Passed 5-20-19.)
PENALTY
(a) Whoever violates any provision of this chapter for which no other penalty is provided shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), and each day's violation shall be considered a separate offense.
(Ord. 48-2019. Passed 5-20-19.)