The Town or other duly authorized employees and agents of the Town bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted to enter all properties for the purpose of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, inspection and copying of records and testing pertinent to discharge to the wastewater facilities, in accordance with the provision of this chapter.
The Town or other duly authorized employees and agents are authorized to obtain information concerning industrial processes which have a bearing on the kind and source of discharge to the wastewater collection system. The industrial user may request that the information in question not be made available to the public if it can establish that revelation to the public might result in an advantage to competitors. [The information in question shall be made available upon written request to governmental agencies for uses related to this chapter, the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit, or the pretreatment program.] The burden of proof that information should be held confidential rests with the industrial user. However, information about wastewater discharged by the industrial user (flow, constituents, concentrations and characteristics) shall be available to the public without restriction.
While performing the necessary work on private properties referred to in § 158-70, duly authorized employees of the Town shall observe all safety rules applicable to the premises, and the owner(s) shall be held harmless for injury or death to the Town employees, and the Town shall indemnify the owner(s) against loss or damage to its property by Town employees and against liability claims and demands for personal injury or property damage asserted against the owner(s) and growing out of the gauging and sampling operation, except as such may be caused by negligence or failure of the owner(s) to maintain safe conditions as required in Article VII, § 158-44.
Duly authorized employees and agents of the Town bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted to enter all private properties through which the Town holds a duly negotiated easement for the purposes of, but not limited to, inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, repair, and maintenance of any portion of the wastewater facilities lying within said easement. All entry and subsequent work, if any, on said easement shall be done in full accordance with the terms of the duly negotiated easement pertaining to the private property involved.