Legal Documents of Bulls Gap

This wastewater discharge ordinance sets uniform requirements for discharges into the wastewater collection and treatment system and enables the Town of Bulls Gap to comply with the administrative provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972, PL 52-500, and the applicable effluent limitations, national standards of performance, toxic and pretreatment effluent standards, and any other discharge criteria which are required or authorized by state or federal law, and to derive the maximum public benefit by regulating the quality and quantity of wastewater discharged into the Lick Creek Valley Regional sanitary sewer system. This chapter provides means of determining wastewater volumes, constituents and characteristics, the setting of charges and fees, and the issuance of permits to certain users. Revenues derived from the application of this chapter shall be used to defray the "board's" cost of operating and maintaining adequate wastewater collection and treatment systems and to provide sufficient funds for capital outlay, bond service costs, capital improvements, depreciation, and provide for equitable industrial costs of recovery of EPA-administered federal grants:

1. Provide guidelines for the establishment of rates and a uniform procedure in the levying of the service and improvement charges to maintain equity in the billing throughout the area of service;
2. Prohibit and/or regulate the contribution of wastewater which may cause operational or maintenance difficulties or deteriorations in the sewers, force mains, pumping stations and other structures appurtenant to the wastewater treatment system as hereinafter defined;
3. Establish a control in the contribution of wastewater which requires greater treatment expenditures than are required for equal volumes of normal domestic waste;
4. Establish pretreatment requirements for industrial waste before discharge to public sewers as required in title 40, part 403 of the Regulations of the Environmental Protection Agency (Federal Register, vol. 43, No. 123) and any subsequent amendments thereof; and
5. Establish a uniform procedure for design, installation, inspection, operation and maintenance of private wastewater treatment and disposal systems, extensions of public sewer systems, laterals, and connections to sewer mains. (Ord. #02-16-99-1, March 1999)