Every industrial waste pretreatment plant shall
be equipped with an adequate fresh water supply easily available for
diluting and flushing, and all sewer connections shall be thoroughly
flushed after discharge of each batch of industrial liquid wastes.
Every industrial waste pretreatment facility
shall be adequately maintained to accomplish its intended purpose.
Abandonment or failure to properly maintain such equipment shall be
cause for immediate revocation of the industrial connection sewer
permit and disconnection from the public sewer.
Every interceptor shall be cleaned by the operator
thereof as often as necessary to prevent objectionable materials from
entering the public sewer.
The Engineer or the Building Inspector may make
inspections at any reasonable time of all interceptors or other installations
on any premises and shall require that any such interceptor or other
installation be used and maintained as required by this chapter and
be kept in a clean and sanitary condition and may prosecute any person
managing, operating or having control of any such premises or portion
thereof for failing, refusing or neglecting to comply with the provisions
of this chapter, using the penal provisions of this chapter for any
such prosecution.
The Engineer or Building Inspector may inspect,
as often as he deems necessary, every sewage pumping plant, sewage
treatment plant, industrial liquid waste pretreatment plant, house
connection sewer, interceptor, dilution basin, neutralization basin,
backwater trap or valve or other similar appurtenances to ascertain
whether such facilities are maintained and operated in accordance
with the provisions of this chapter. All persons shall permit the
Engineer and/or Building Inspector to have access to all such facilities
at all reasonable times.
Any tree growing in any public street or sidewalk
along the line of any public sewer or house connection sewer which
endangers or which in any way may endanger the security or usefulness
of any public sewer or house connection sewer is hereby declared a
public nuisance and shall be removed.
All house connection sewers and appurtenances
thereto now existing or hereafter constructed shall be maintained
by the owner of the property served in a safe and sanitary condition,
and all devices or safeguards which are required by this chapter for
the operation shall be maintained in good working order.
A.
The requirements contained in this chapter covering
the maintenance of sanitary sewage treatment plants, sewage pumping
plants, industrial liquid waste pretreatment plants, dairy screen
chambers, interceptors or other appurtenances shall apply to all such
facilities now existing or hereafter constructed. All such facilities
shall be maintained by the owner thereof in a safe and sanitary condition,
and all devices or safeguards which are required by this chapter for
the operation of such facilities shall be maintained in good working
order.
B.
This section shall not be construed as permitting
the removal or nonmaintenance of any devices or safeguards on existing
facilities unless authorized, in writing, by the Building Inspector.
