Pursuant to the requirements of Title III of the Clean Water
Act Amendments (33 U.S.C. § 1311 et seq.) and regulations
promulgated thereunder, the Code of State Regulations 10 CSR 20-6.100
General Pretreatment Regulation), the following ordinance is hereby
enacted by the Board of Aldermen of the City of Moscow Mills. (The
City of Moscow Mills is hereafter referred to as "The Publicly Owned
Treatment Works" or as "the POTW".
A.
This ordinance regulates the use of sewers, private wastewater disposal,
and the discharge of wastewater into the POTW wastewater system. The
ordinance sets forth uniform requirements for discharges into the
wastewater collection and treatment system for the POTW.
B.
The objectives of this ordinance are:
1.
To regulate private wastewater disposal systems;
2.
To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the POTW wastewater
system that will interfere with the operation of the POTW wastewater
system, including Interference with its use of disposal of municipal
sludge;
3.
To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the POTW wastewater
system which will Pass Through the treatment works or otherwise be
incompatible with such works; and
4.
To improve opportunities to recycle and reclaim municipal and industrial
wastewaters and sludges.
This ordinance shall apply to the POTW and to persons outside
the POTW who are, by contract or agreement with the POTW, users of
the POTW.
The effective date of this Ordinance shall be November 13, 2006.
The POTW reserves the right to establish by ordinance more stringent
limitations or requirements on discharges to the POTW.
If any provision, paragraph, work, section or article of this
ordinance is invalidated by any court of competent jurisdiction, the
remaining provisions, paragraphs, words, sections and chapters shall
not be affected and shall continue in full force and effect.
All other ordinances and parts of other ordinances inconsistent
or conflicting with any part of this ordinance are hereby repealed
to the extent of such inconsistency or conflict.
Except as otherwise provided herein, the Superintendent of the
POTW shall administer, implement, and enforce the provisions of this
ordinance.
