Legal Documents of Newport

The sewer use ordinance sets uniform requirements for discharges into the wastewater collection system and treatment works and enables the City of Newport, Tennessee to comply with the provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972, PL92-500, the Clean Water Act of 1977 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 maximum public benefit by regulating the quality and quantity of wastewater discharged into the wastewater collection system and treatment works. This ordinance provides a means for determining wastewater volumes, constituents and characteristics, the setting of charges and fees, and the issuance of permits to certain users. The main purpose of this ordinance is to prevent the introduction of pollutants into the Publicly Owned Treatment Works (hereinafter referred to as POTW) which will interfere with the operation of the POTW or contaminate the sewage sludge; and to prevent the introduction of pollutants into the POTW which will pass through the treatment works into the receiving waters or into the atmosphere, or otherwise be incompatible with the treatment works. This ordinance provides 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 service area. The ordinance establishes pretreatment requirements for industrial waste before discharge into 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; establishes control over the contribution of wastewater which requires greater treatment expenditures than those necessary for equal volumes of normal domestic wastewater; and provides measures for the enforcement of its provisions and abatement of violations thereof. This ordinance shall supersede any other ordinances or portions thereof which are in conflict with this ordinance. (Ord. # _____, Oct. 1980)