14.12.150 Liquid waste disposal policy.
A. Generally liquid wastes originating within the city’s boundaries will be removed by the city’s sewerage systems, provided the wastes will not:
1. Damage structures;
2. Create nuisances such as odors;
3. Menace public health;
4. Impose unreasonable collection, treatment or disposal costs on the city;
5. Cause interference with wastewater treatment processes;
6. Cause pass through which will cause the city to violate its wastewater discharge requirements; or
7. Detrimentally affect the local environment.
B. The highest and best use of the city’s sewerage systems in the conveyance, treatment and disposal of domestic wastewater.
C. To comply with stated policies of the federal government and to permit the city to meet increasingly higher standards of treatment plant effluent quality, provisions are made in this chapter for the regulation of industrial wastewater discharges. This chapter establishes quantity and quality limitations on industrial wastewater discharges which may adversely affect the city’s sewerage systems or effluent quality. Methods of cost recovery from industrial wastewater dischargers are also established where the discharges impose inequitable collection, treatment or disposal costs to the city.
D. Optimum use of the facilities of the city may necessitate that the city engineer require that certain industrial wastewaters be discharged during periods of low flow in the sewerage systems of the city. (Ord. 4740 § 1, 2013; Ord. 3667 § 1, 1995)