This chapter shall be known as the "Town of Johnstown Sewer
Use Law."
The purposes of this chapter are as follows:
A. To control or condition discharges into the public sewers situated
in the Town of Johnstown, including the Gloversville-Johnstown jointly
owned wastewater treatment facility.
B. To regulate, by permit, allowable volumes and loads of industrial
or other wastes for which a fixed capacity has been designed and is
available at the Gloversville-Johnstown jointly owned wastewater treatment
facility and to enforce these permitted limits.
C. To prohibit the discharge of sewage, industrial wastes or other wastes
which may create, in any way, a poisonous, hazardous, explosive, flammable
or toxic condition in the Town of Johnstown sewer system or at the
Gloversville-Johnstown jointly owned wastewater treatment facility.
D. To assess users of the Gloversville-Johnstown jointly owned wastewater
treatment facility with charges based on the cost to treat and handle
the flow and pollutant loads of their wastewater and the cost associated
with the plant capacity for their discharge.
E. To require the treatment, before introduction into any public sewer
served by the Gloversville-Johnstown jointly owned wastewater treatment
facility, of such wastes as may otherwise impair the strength or life
of the structures appurtenant to the system, by direct or indirect
chemical, biological or physical action, interfere with the normal
treatment process, pass through the sewage treatment plant into the
receiving waters inadequately treated or be of such concentration
as may exceed established discharge limits or interfere with proper
disposal of sludge generated by the treatment plant.
F. To provide the authority and procedure for the Gloversville-Johnstown
Joint Sewer Board to promulgate rules and regulations, to investigate
and prepare findings of facts, to issue permits, to hold hearings,
to issue decisions, orders and opinions and to give notice and make
public all rules and decisions affecting substantial rights of persons
or property.
G. To provide cooperation with the New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation, New York State Department of Health, United States Environmental
Protection Agency and any other agencies which have requirements or
jurisdiction for the protection of the physical, chemical and bacteriological
quality of watercourses within or bounding the city.
H. To protect the public health and to prevent nuisances.
I. To enforce promulgated final standards and/or procedures set by the
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation or the United
States Environmental Protection Agency.