Section: 15.12.060 Sewage
disposal policy generally
A. The district operates systems of trunk and collector sewers serving
homes, industries and commercial establishments. Also, the city has built and
operates wastewater treatment and disposal facilities.
B. Generally, liquid wastes originating within the district's
boundaries will be removed by the district'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.
Interfere with wastewater treatment processes;
6. Exceed quality requirements set by
regulatory government agencies; or
7.
Detrimentally affect the local environment.
C. The highest and best use of the district and city's sewerage
systems is the conveyance, treatment and disposal of domestic wastewater. The
use of the city's treatment and disposal systems for industrial wastewater
discharges is subject to further regulation by the city.
D. To comply with stated policies of the state and federal governments
and to permit the district and city to meet increasingly higher standards of
treatment‑plant effluent quality; provisions are made in Chapters 15.08
through 15.44 for the regulation of industrial wastewater discharges. These
chapters provide guidelines for establishing quantity and quality limitations,
by separate resolution, on industrial wastewater discharges which may adversely
affect the district and/or the city's effluent quality. Guidelines for cost
recovery from industrial wastewater dischargers are also established for
adoption by separate resolution. Further, these chapters provide guidelines for
establishing connection and user fees by separate resolution.
E. Optimum
use of the facilities of the district may necessitate that the district require
that certain industrial wastewaters be discharged during periods of low flow in
the sewerage systems of the district. (Ord.
77‑42 § 205, 1977.)