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HomeMy WebLinkAbout0240_23523 i Georgetown may readily and safely measure the volume and samples of the flow prior to the admission of said industrial wastes into a sanitary sewer. C. When preliminary treatment and control facilities are provided for any water and wastes, they shall be maintained continuously in satisfactory and effect- ive operation by the owner at his expense. D. The manager and other duly authorized employees of the City of Georgetown acting as his duly authorized agent and bearing proper credentials and indent- ification, shall be permitted to gain access to such properties as may be necess- ary for the purpose of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling and testing of sewage and/or industrial wastes. SECTION 4. SURCHARGE FOR WASTES OF ABNORMAL STRENGTH. The service charge for any person, firm, owner or corporation discharging wastes into the system is twenty-five per cent (256) of the total cost of water purchased by the owner for that billing period provided that the City meter is the only source of water used by the owner and provided that the B.O.D. in the waste water or the suspended materials does not exceed the normal concentration of two hundred fifty (250) ppm. When either the B.O.D. or the suspended solids or both are found to exceed C� the stated two hundred fifty (250) ppm at the point entering the City's system, a surcharge shall be applied to the billing rate by multiplying the normal base rate by the factor obtained from dividing the actual measured B.O.D. by two hundred fifty and also by the factor obtained from dividing the actual measured suspended solids by two hundred -fifty, each such factor to be applied individually and only when greater than one. The surcharge will be made for each factor that exceeds one and shall be additive. The determination of B.O.D. and suspended materials shall be by an inde- pendent laboratory selected by the City. The time of selection of the sample shall be at the sole discretion of the City. The applicable surcharge determined by such testa shall be retro -active for two billing periods and shall continue for six (6) billing periods unless subsequent tests determine that the surcharge should be further increased. When any such test made at the discretion of the City shows that a sur- charge shall be applied, continued or increased over the base rates, which ever is applicable, then the owner shall be billed at the rate of Five Dollars (=5.00) for each test to cover the costs of sampling, mailing and handling plus the laboratory fees. When a surcharge is in effect, the test will be made at least each fifteen (15) days. When such tests made at the City reveals that the surcharge is no longer applicable, then no costs will be made to the owner for such test or tests. SECTION 5. AUTHORITY TO DISCONNECT SERVICE. The City shall retain the right to disconnect waste disposal service in the following circumstances: A. Where acids or chemicals damaging to sewer lines or treatment processes are released to the sewer causing rapid deterioration of these structures or interfering with proper treatment of sewage, the manager is authorized immediately to terminate service by such measures as are necessary to protect the facilities; B. Where any governmental agency informs the City that the effluent from the treatment plant is no longer of a standard permitted for surface runoff and it is found that the owner is delivering waste water to the City's system that cannot be sufficiently diluted by mixing with the City's waste or requires treat- ment that is not provided by the City as normal domestic treatment. In this instance, the City shall immediately supply the owner with the governmental agencies report and provide the owner with all pertinent information. The owner's waste line will then be disconnected when the City is informed that it can no longer continue to release their effluent for surface runoff. The owner's waste treatment service shall remain disconnected until such time that the owner has provided additional pretreatment facilities designed to remove the objectionable cause from owner's industrial wastes;