(1) The City of Albany has been authorized by the Oregon State Department of Environmental Quality to implement a pretreatment program through Section E of its National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit. Because there are nondomestic users located outside of Albany’s jurisdictional boundaries within the City, the City of Albany is required to enter into “joint powers agreements” with the City in order to ensure compliance by nondomestic users located in the City.

(2) The City of Albany, Oregon, and the City of Millersburg, Oregon, have entered into an agreement whereby the City of Albany will provide secondary wastewater treatment services to the City, hereafter referred to as “the Agreement.”

(3) The purpose of the Agreement is to provide secondary and/or wetlands wastewater treatment for the City by connection of a Millersburg Wastewater Sewerage Collection System to the Albany-Millersburg Water Reclamation Facility (AM-WRF) and connection of approved wastewater discharge to the Talking Water Gardens (TWG) wetlands treatment system. The City has designated the City of Albany as the agent of the City for the purposes of implementation and enforcement of the City’s Sewer Use Ordinance (SUO) contained herein. It is the intent of this SUO that it be no less stringent and as wide in scope as the Sewer Use Ordinance of the City of Albany.

(4) This chapter provides for the orderly and efficient functioning of the City publicly owned treatment works, through regulation of discharges into the wastewater treatment system by enforcement of administrative regulations. (Ord. 106 § 1, passed 10-9-2012; Code 2014 § 52.01(A – C))