The Public Works Director shall have the right to enter the
premises of any user and have prompt and reasonable access to all
parts of the premises for the purposes of inspection, sampling, monitoring,
and copying records of the wastewater treatment and discharge to determine
compliance with any requirement of these regulations, discharge permit,
or order issued hereunder. Where a user has security measures in force,
the user shall make all necessary arrangements to insure that, upon
presentation of suitable identification, the Public Works Director
will be permitted to enter without delay. The Public Works Director
may require the user to install and maintain sampling and monitoring
equipment of the wastewater treatment and discharge.
Where the Public Works Director finds that a user has violated,
or continues to violate, any provision of these regulations, a wastewater
discharge permit or order issued hereunder, or any other pretreatment
standard or requirement, the Public Works Director may serve upon
that user a written notice of violation. Within 30 days of the receipt
of this notice, an explanation of the violation and a plan for the
satisfactory correction and prevention thereof, to include specific
actions, shall be submitted by the user to the Public Works Director.
Submission of this plan in no way shall relieve the user of liability
for any violations occurring before or after receipt of the notice
of violation. Nothing in this section shall limit the authority of
the Public Works Director to take any emergency action or other enforcement
action without first issuing a notice of violation.
Where the Public Works Director finds that a user has violated,
or may continue to violate, any provision of these regulations, a
wastewater discharge permit or order issued hereunder, or any other
pretreatment standard or requirement, the Public Works Director may
issue an order directing the user to cease and desist all such violations
and may take such appropriate remedial or preventive actions to address
a continuing or threatened violation, including by halting operations
or terminating the discharge. Issuance of a cease-and-desist order
shall not be a bar against, or a prerequisite for, taking any other
action against the user.
If any person, in defiance of a proper order or direction from
the Public Works Director, shall fail to take the remedial steps or
perform the acts required by the above sections or these regulations,
or where there is imminent threat to health or welfare, the Public
Works Director may disconnect the building sewer or otherwise act
to prevent discharge into the public sewer. The Town may collect the
cost of such disconnection or other act from the person responsible
for or willfully concerned in such violation. If the Town shall be
so required to act, such building sewer shall not again be connected
to or permitted to discharge into the public sewers until such cost
shall have been paid.
The Town, acting by the WSA, may recover reasonable attorneys' fees, court costs, the cost of any actual damages incurred by the Town and other expenses related to the enforcement of these regulations, including sampling and monitoring expenses, at the same rate and in the same manner as provided by Town Code §
195-13 and the CGS for the enforcement of real property taxes.