(A) The city may inspect the facilities of all industrial users to ascertain whether the purposes of this chapter are being met and if all requirements of the chapter are being complied with. Persons or occupants of premises in which a discharge source of treatment system is located or in which records are kept shall allow the city or its representative ready access upon presentation of credentials at reasonable times to all parts of said premises for the purposes of inspection, sampling, examination, and photocopying of records required to be kept by this chapter, and in the performance of any of their duties. The city shall have the right to set up on the industrial user’s property such devices as are necessary to conduct sampling, monitoring and metering operations. Where an industrial user has security measures in force which could require suitable identification, necessary arrangements with their security guards shall be made so that upon presentation of suitable identification, personnel from the city shall be permitted to enter immediately for the purposes of performing their specific responsibilities. Such arrangements shall be made by all industrial users with their security guards within 30 days of the passage of this chapter.
(B) Industrial users and the city shall maintain records of all information resulting from any monitoring activities required by this chapter and shall include:
(1) The date, exact place, method and time of sampling and the names of the person or persons taking the samples;
(2) The dates analyses were performed;
(3) Who performed the analyses;
(4) The analytical techniques/methods used; and
(5) The results of such analyses.
(C) (1) The city and industrial users shall maintain such records for a minimum of three years.
(2) This period of retention shall be extended during the course of any unresolved litigation regarding the discharge of pollutants by the industrial user or operation of the POTW pretreatment program or when requested by the Regional Administrator or the Director of IEPA.
(Prior Code, § 51.145) (Ord. 88-9, passed 9-20-1988) Penalty, see § 51.999