Legal Documents of Sweetwater

This chapter sets forth uniform requirements for users of the City of Sweetwater, Tennessee, wastewater treatment system and enables the city to comply with the Federal Clean Water Act and the state Water Quality Control Act and rules adopted pursuant to these acts. The objectives of this chapter are:

1. To protect public health;
2. To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the municipal wastewater treatment facility, which will interfere with the system operation;
3. To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the wastewater treatment facility that will pass through the facility, inadequately treated, into the receiving waters, or otherwise be incompatible with the treatment facility;
4. To protect facility personnel who may be affected by wastewater and sludge in the course of their employment and the general public;
5. To promote reuse and recycling of industrial wastewater and sludge from the facility;
6. To provide for fees for the equitable distribution of the cost of operation, maintenance, and improvement of the facility; and

7. To enable the city to comply with its National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit conditions, sludge and biosolid use and disposal requirement, and any other federal or state industrial pretreatment rules to which the facility is subject.

   In meeting these objectives, this chapter provides that all persons in the service area of the City of Sweetwater must have adequate wastewater treatment either in the form of a connection to the municipal wastewater treatment system or, where the system is not available, an appropriate private disposal system.

   This chapter shall apply to all users inside or outside the city who are, by implied contract or written agreement with the city, dischargers of applicable wastewater to the wastewater treatment facility. Chapter 2 provides for the issuance of permits to system users, for monitoring, compliance, and enforcement activities; establishes administrative review procedures for industrial users or other users whose discharge can interfere with or cause violations to occur at the wastewater treatment facility. Chapter 2 details permitting requirements including the setting of fees for the full and equitable distribution of costs resulting from the operation, maintenance, and capital recovery of the wastewater treatment system and from other activities required by the enforcement and administrative program established herein. (as replaced by Ord. #883, July 2012)