Duly authorized city employees bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted to enter all properties for the purpose of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, and testing in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. City employees shall have no authority to inquire into any manufacturing of industrial processes that does not have a direct bearing on the kind and source of wastewater discharge. While on private property, city employees shall observe all safety rules applicable to the premises or established by the owner, and the owner shall be held harmless for injury or death of city employees; and the city shall indemnify the owner against loss or damage to their property by city employees and against liability claims and demands for personal injury or property damage asserted against the owner as a result of the work done on his property, except as such may be caused by negligence or failure of the owner to maintain safe conditions as required by sec. 52.26. All entry and subsequent work by city personnel on any private property on which the city holds a duly negotiated easement shall be done in full accordance with the terms of that easement.
(Ordinance 272 adopted 10/9/87)
(A) 
If it is determined by the Approving Authority that any unauthorized wastewater discharge exists in a building sewer under the provisions of secs. 52.20 and 52.21 of this chapter, the person owning the building sewer shall be notified by certified or registered mail listing the violation and ordering corrections to be made at the owner’s expense within a specified time.
(B) 
If the corrections are not made as requested, the Approving Authority, at his discretion, may:
(1) 
With a written release from the owner, send city personnel to make the required corrections and bill the owner for the city’s expenses.
(2) 
Terminate the sewer and/or water service to the property until the owner makes the required corrections.
Penalty, see sec. 10.99
(Ordinance 272 adopted 10/9/87)
(A) 
The city shall retain the right to terminate water and/or wastewater disposal service and disconnect a person from the system:
(1) 
Where reduction or elimination of infiltration or inflow is not satisfactorily completed as required.
(2) 
Where acids or chemicals are released to the sanitary sewer that cause rapid deterioration of sewer lines or wastewater treatment processes or interfere with the proper conveyance and treatment of wastewater.
(3) 
When a person discharges industrial wastewater that is in violation of the permit issued by the Approving Authority.
(4) 
Where any governmental agency with proper jurisdiction informs the city that the effluent from the city’s wastewater treatment plant is no longer of a quality permitted for discharge, and it is found that a person is discharging wastewater to the city’s sanitary sewer system that cannot be sufficiently treated and is not normal domestic wastewater. The city shall immediately provide that person with the governmental agency’s report and all other pertinent information. The person’s water and wastewater lines will be disconnected when the city is informed that it can no longer discharge their wastewater treatment plant effluent. The person’s water and wastewater disposal service shall remain disconnected until he has removed the objectionable characteristics from his wastewater discharge.
(5) 
Where a person discharges wastewater in such a manner that it causes an imbalance in the wastewater treatment system.
(B) 
Failure to pay monthly bills for water and/or wastewater disposal services when due or repeated discharge of prohibited wastewater to the sanitary sewer shall result in disconnection of any and all service provided by the city.
(Ordinance 272 adopted 10/9/87)