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.
A. 
Unpaid charges, fines, and penalties shall, after 30 calendar days, be assessed an additional penalty of 1 1/2% of the unpaid balance, and interest shall accrue thereafter at a rate of 1 1/2% per month. Such unpaid charges, fines and penalties shall constitute a lien upon the real estate against which such charge, fine or penalty was levied from the date of such levy and may be continued, recorded, released and enforced in the manner provided by the CGS for delinquent benefit assessments and delinquent use charges in accordance with Sections 7-254 and 7-258, respectively. The First Selectman or his designee is authorized to designate the Tax Collector, with respect to delinquent benefit assessments, or any other person, with respect to other charges, fines and penalties, as the collector of such charges, fines, and penalties, and such official shall have all powers of collection delegated by such Sections 7-254 and 7-258 and Town Code § 195-12 for the collection of benefit assessments and use charges.
B. 
Such fines may be appealed by written request accompanied by full payment of the fine amount within 21 days of being notified of the fine. The WSA shall convene a hearing on the matter. In the event the user's appeal is successful, the payment, together with any interest accruing thereto, shall be returned to the user. The WSA may add the costs of preparing administrative enforcement actions, such as notices and orders, to the fine.
C. 
Assessment of an administrative fine 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.
A. 
Upon the issuance of a cease-and-desist order or any order pursuant to § 690-19 above, or upon the assessment of a fine pursuant to § 690-20 above, or upon the issuance of an order of termination of discharge pursuant to § 690-19 above, the party so notified of said order or assessment shall be entitled to request a hearing before the WSA within seven days of receipt of notice of the order or assessment, by sending a written request therefor to the Chairman of the WSA. Within 14 days of receipt of said request, the Chairman shall give notice to the applicant of the time and place of the hearing not less than seven days prior to the date of said hearing.
B. 
Any person aggrieved by any action of the WSA or Public Works Director may, after exhausting the administrative appeals herein within 60 days of disposition of appeal, bring an appeal to the Superior Court, Judicial District of Danbury.
C. 
The WSA shall rule on any written request for approval of service within 65 days of such request in accordance with Section 7-246a of the CGS.