[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village
of Livonia 12-9-2020 by L.L. No. 1-2020. Amendments noted where applicable.]
A. The Village
of Livonia owns significant sanitary sewer transmission and/or treatment
improvements within the Village of Livonia that service residential
and commercial properties within the Village. Those improvements are
operated and maintained by the Livingston County Water and Sewer Authority,
which does so pursuant to a long-term agreement with the Village of
Livonia.
B. As part
of the long-term agreement with the Village, the Livingston County
Water and Sewer Authority is responsible for the full operation and
maintenance of the public sanitary sewer system serving properties
within the Village of Livonia.
A. The purpose
of these sewer use rules and regulations is to provide for efficient,
economic, environmentally safe, and legal operation of the publicly
owned sanitary sewer system serving properties within the Village
of Livonia.
B. In order
for the Livingston County Water and Sewer Authority to properly administer
its obligations under the long-term agreement, it is important that
both the Village of Livonia and the Livingston County Water and Sewer
Authority have consistent rules and regulations that apply to customer
usage of the facilities owned by the Village and operated and maintained
by the Authority.
C. Consistent
rules and regulations between the Village and the Authority will allow
the Authority to most efficiently and effectively ensure proper use
of the public sanitary sewer and treatment system and, when such rules
and regulations are violated, to seek proper enforcement against violating
users.
The specific purposes of these regulations are the following:
A. To prevent
the introduction of substances into the publicly owned sanitary sewer
system that will:
(1) Interfere
with the publicly owned sanitary sewer system in any way;
(2) Pass
through the publicly owned sanitary sewer system to the state's waters
and cause contravention of standards for those waters or cause violation
of the publicly owned sanitary sewer system's SPDES permit;
(3) Increase
the cost or otherwise hamper the disposal of publicly owned sanitary
sewer system sludge and/or residuals;
(4) Endanger
Authority or any municipal employees;
(5) Cause
air pollution, or groundwater pollution, directly or indirectly; and
(6) Cause,
directly or indirectly, any public nuisance condition.
B. To prevent
new sources of infiltration and inflow as much as possible and eliminate
existing sources of infiltration and inflow.
C. To assure
that new sewers and connections are properly constructed.
D. To provide
for equitable distribution amongst all users of the POTW of all costs,
associated with sewage transmission, treatment, and residuals disposal,
and to provide for the collection of such costs.
E. To provide
enforcement mechanisms to ensure proper usage of the POTW to further
the above purposes.
A. In order
for the Livingston County Water and Sewer Authority to properly administer
its obligations under the long-term agreement and for the benefit
of the Village of Livonia and its residents and businesses, it is
crucial that the Authority and Village have the same rules and regulations
governing the use of and discharge into the public sanitary sewer
and treatment system.
B. The Village
of Livonia hereby adopts, as its rules and regulations governing the
use of and discharge into the public sanitary sewer and treatment
system serving the Village of Livonia, the Livingston County Water
and Sewer Authority Sewer Use Rules and Regulations as most recently
adopted (as of the date of this chapter) by the Livingston County
Water and Sewer Authority on September 25, 2019, and as they may be
periodically updated by the Livingston County Water and Sewer Authority
from time to time. A copy of the most recent Livingston County Water
and Sewer Authority Sewer Use Rules and Regulations, as adopted herein
by the Village of Livonia, will be available at the office of the
Livonia Village Clerk and in the Livonia Building and Zoning Office.