(A) (1) The Superintendent may require a user of sewer services to provide information needed to determine compliance with this chapter.
(2) 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 material, 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
(g) Details of systems to prevent and control the losses of materials through spills to the municipal sewer.
(B) All measurements, tests and analyses of the characteristics of waters and wastes to which reference is made in this chapter 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, duration and frequencies are to be determined on an individual basis subject to approval by the Superintendent.
(C) (1) The size, slope, alignment, materials of construction of all sanitary sewers including building sewers, and the methods to be used in excavating, placing of the pipe, jointing, testing and backfilling the trench, shall all conform to the requirements of the Building and Plumbing Code or other applicable rules and regulations of the city. In the absence of suitable code provisions or in amplification thereof, the materials and procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the A.S.T.M. and W.P.C.F. Manual of Practice No. 9 shall apply.
(2) The Superintendent or other duly authorized employees are authorized to obtain information concerning industrial processes that 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 the revelation to the public of the information in question might result in an advantage to competitors.
(D) The Superintendent or other duly authorized employees are authorized to obtain information concerning industrial processes that 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 the revelation to the public of the information in question might result in an advantage to competitors.
(E) The Superintendent and other duly authorized employees of the city bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted to enter all private properties through which the city holds a duly negotiated easement for the purposes of, but not limited, to inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, repair and maintenance of any portion of the wastewater facilities lying within said easement. All entry and subsequent work, if any, on said easement, shall be done in full accordance with the terms of the duly negotiated easement pertaining to the private property involved.
(F) While performing the necessary work on private properties referred to in division (E) above, the Superintendent 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 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 division (A) above.
(Prior Code, § 4.04.08) (Ord. 564, passed - -; Ord. 731, passed - -)