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(a) When required by the city, the owner of any property serviced by a building sewer carrying industrial wastes shall install a suitable structure together with such necessary meters and other appurtenances in the building sewer to facilitate observation, sampling and measurement of the wastes. Such structures, when required, shall be accessibly and safely located and shall be constructed in accordance with the plans approved by the city.
(b) The structure shall be installed by the owner at his or her expense and shall be maintained so as to be safe and accessible at all times.
(Ord. 786, passed 2-1-1977)
The city may require a user of sewer services to provide information needed to determine compliance with this article. These requirements may include:
(a) Wastewaters discharge peak rate and volume over a specified time period;
(b) Chemical analyses of wastewaters;
(c) Information on raw materials, processes and products affecting wastewater volume and quality;
(d) Quantity and disposition of specific liquid; sludge, oil, solvent or other materials important to sewer use control;
(e) A plot plan of sewers of the user’s property showing sewer and pretreatment facility location;
(f) Details of wastewater pretreatment facilities; and/or
(g) Details of systems to prevent and control the losses of materials through spills to the municipal sewer.
(Ord. 786, passed 2-1-1977)
All measurements, tests and analyses of the characteristics of waters and wastes to which reference is made in this article shall be determined in accordance with the latest edition of “Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater”, published by the American Public Health Association. Sampling methods, location, times, durations and frequencies are to be determined on an individual basis subject to approval by the city.
(Ord. 786, passed 2-1-1977)
No statement contained in this article shall be construed as preventing any special agreement or arrangement between the city and any industrial concern whereby an industrial waste of unusual strength or character may be accepted by the city for treatment.
(Ord. 786, passed 2-1-1977)
No person(s) shall maliciously, willful or negligently break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface or tamper with any structure, appurtenance or equipment which is a part of the wastewater facilities. Any person(s) violating this provision shall be subject to immediate arrest under charge of disorderly conduct.
(Ord. 786, passed 2-1-1977)
The inspector and other duly authorized employees of the city bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted to enter all properties for the purposes of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling and testing pertinent to discharge to the community system in accordance with the provisions of this article.
(Ord. 786, passed 2-1-1977)
The city is authorized to obtain information concerning industrial processes which have a direct bearing on the kind and source of discharge to the wastewater collection system. The industry may withhold information considered confidential. The industry must establish that revelation to the public of the information in question might result in an advantage to competitors.
(Ord. 786, passed 2-1-1977)
While performing the necessary work on private properties referred to in § 15-429 the inspector 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 15-424.
(Ord. 786, passed 2-1-1977)
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