Article VI. Enforcement and Penalties
10.20.380 Emergency suspension of service and wastewater discharge permit.
(1) The City may, after informal notice to the industrial user (in writing, in person or by telephone), order the suspension of the wastewater treatment service and revoke the wastewater discharge permit to an industrial user when it appears to the City that an actual or threatened discharge:
(a) Presents or threatens an imminent or substantial danger to the health or welfare of persons or substantial danger to the environment; or
(b) Threatens to interfere with the operation of the POTW, or to violate any pretreatment limits imposed by this chapter.
(2) Any industrial user notified of the City’s suspension order shall immediately cease all discharges. In the event of failure of the industrial user to comply with the suspension order, the City may immediately take all necessary steps to halt or prevent any further discharge by such industrial user into the POTW.
(a) The City shall have authority to physically cap, block, or seal the industrial user’s sewer line (whether on public or private property) in order to terminate service under this section.
(b) The City shall have the right to enter upon the industrial user’s property to accomplish the capping, blocking or sealing of the industrial user’s sewer line.
(c) The City may also commence judicial proceedings immediately thereafter to compel the industrial user’s specific compliance with such order and/or to recover civil penalties.
(d) The City shall reinstate the wastewater discharge permit and/or wastewater treatment service upon clear and convincing proof by the industrial user of the elimination of the noncomplying discharge or conditions creating the threat as set forth above. (Ord. 106 § 9(1), passed 10-9-2012; Code 2014 § 52.09(A))