§ 20-102. Authority to disconnect service.

The city shall retain the right to disconnect waste disposal service in the following circumstances:

(1)

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;

(2)

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 wastewater to the city's system that cannot be sufficiently diluted by mixing with the city's waste or requires treatment 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 the owner's industrial wastes.

(3)

Where the owner delivers his wastewater at an uncontrolled, variable rate in sufficient quantity that it causes an imbalance in the sewage treating system.

(Ord. No. 7206, § 5, 12-7-72)