The management, operation, and control of the wastewater treatment
facilities for the Village of Blue Mounds is vested in the Village
Board. All records, minutes, and all written proceedings thereof shall
be kept by the Village Clerk/Treasurer, including all the financial
records.
The Village shall have the power to construct a wastewater treatment
facility for public use and shall have the power to lay sewer pipes
in and through the alleys, streets, and public grounds of the sewer
service area; and generally, to do all such work as may be found necessary
or convenient in the management of the wastewater treatment facility.
The Village shall have power by itself and its officers, agents, and
servants shall have power to enter upon any land for the purpose of
making examination or supervise in the performance of their duties
under this chapter, without liability therefor; and the Village shall
have power to purchase and acquire all real and personal property
that may be necessary for construction of the wastewater treatment
facility, or for any repair, remodeling, or additions thereto.
The right is hereby reserved to cut off the service at any time
for the purpose of repairs or any other necessary purpose, any permit
granted or regulations to the contrary notwithstanding. Whenever it
shall become necessary to shut off the sewer within the sewer service
area, the Village shall, if practicable, give notice to each and every
consumer within the sewer service area, of the time when such service
will be shut off. It is expressly stipulated that the Village is not
responsible for and no claim shall lie against the Village or acting
representative by reason of the breaking, clogging, stoppage, or freezing
of any service pipes; nor from any damage arising from repairing mains,
making connections or extensions, or any other work that may be deemed
necessary.
Except as provided for sanitary sewer service to State property
used for public purposes, pursuant to Wis. Stats. §§ 61.34(1)
and 66.0813, and other sanitary sewer service that may be provided
by agreement, the Village of Blue Mounds elects not to provide sanitary
sewer service outside of its municipal corporate boundaries. Neither
sanitary sewer service nor the extension of building sewers or laterals
shall be provided or installed by the Village to or on any premises
that is located outside the Village limits. Sanitary sewer service
may be provided to state property used for public purposes and located
outside Village limits but within the Village's urban service
area pursuant to a written agreement under Wis. Stats. § 66.0813(4)
if the Village Board determines that the furnishing of such services
does not unduly jeopardize continuing service to properties within
the Village and all costs of installing and extending such service
are paid by the state.
The owner shall maintain sewer service from the interceptor
to the house, including the building drain, the building sewer, and
all controls between the same, without expense to the Village except
when they are damaged by the Village directly because of the Village's
negligence. All such sewer services must be maintained free of defective
conditions, by and at the expense of the owner or occupant of the
property. If the property owner does not repair a break in the building
drain or building sewer line, allowing clear water infiltration, between
the property line and building within 24 hours, the service may be
repaired by the Village and charged back to the property owner. The
property owner shall remain responsible for any damages caused, including
the Village's cost of repair. Notwithstanding the property owner's
responsibility to repair, the Village shall remain responsible for
repairing breaks caused by the Village's acts. When any sewer
service is to be relaid and there are two or more buildings on such
service, each building shall be disconnected from such service and
a new sewer service shall be installed for each building.
The wastewater treatment facility operator or other duly authorized
employee of the Village bearing proper credentials and identification
shall be permitted to enter all properties through which the Village
holds an easement for the purposes of, but not limited to, inspection,
observation, measurement, sampling, repair, and maintenance of any
portion of the sewage facility lying within said easement or public
right-of-way in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and
state laws. The operator or other fully authorized employee of the
Village shall have authority to inquire into the kind and source of
discharge to the sewers or waterways or wastewater treatment facility.
Every user shall permit the Village or its duly authorized agent,
at all reasonable hours of the day, to enter the user's premises
or building to examine the pipes and fixtures and the manner in which
the drains and sewer connections operate; and each user must at all
times, frankly and without concealment, answer all questions put to
him or her relative to its use, all in accordance with this chapter
and the Wisconsin Statutes.
While performing the necessary work on premises referred to
in this article, the duly authorized Village employees shall observe
all state and local safety rules and regulations including those established
by the Village.
Whenever any real estate or any easement therein, or use thereof,
shall in the judgment of the Village be necessary to the wastewater
treatment facility, and whenever, for any cause, an agreement for
the purchase thereof cannot be made with the owner thereof, the Village
shall proceed with all necessary steps to take such real estate easement
or use by condemnation in accordance with the Wisconsin Statutes and
the Uniform Relocation and Real Property Acquisition Policy Act of
1970, if federal funds are used.
All property, real, personal, and mixed, acquired for the construction
of the wastewater treatment facility, and all plans, specifications,
diagrams, papers, books, and records connected therewith, and all
buildings, machinery, and fixtures pertaining thereto, shall be the
property of the Village.
