§ 12.12.010. Purpose and policy.

This chapter sets forth uniform requirements for dischargers into the city of Union Gap's (City) wastewater collection and publicly owned treatment works (POTW), and enables the city to protect public health in conformity with all applicable local, state and federal laws relating thereto, including the Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.) and the General Pretreatment Regulations (40 CFR Part 403). This chapter shall apply to all users of the POTW.

The objectives of this chapter are the following:

(a)

To promote the health, safety and welfare of those persons within the city's sewer service area;

(b)

To ensure proper and safe connections to the POTW;

(c)

To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the POTW that could interfere with the normal operation of the POTW;

(d)

To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the POTW that would not receive adequate treatment in the POTW and that would pass through the POTW into receiving waters or the atmosphere or otherwise be incompatible with the POTW;

(e)

To ensure that the quality of biosolids from the POTW is maintained at a level, which allows its use and disposal in compliance with applicable statutes and regulations;

(f)

To protect POTW personnel who may be affected by wastewater and biosolids in the course of their employment and to protect the general public;

(g)

To improve the opportunity to recycle and reclaim wastewater and biosolids from the POTW; and

(h)

To enable the city to comply with the Regional WWTP NPDES permit conditions, biosolids utilization and beneficial reuse requirements and any other federal or state laws to which the POTW is subject.

This chapter provides for the regulation of discharges into the city's wastewater system through the enforcement of administrative regulations. This chapter authorizes monitoring, compliance, and enforcement activities; establishes administrative review procedures; and requires discharger reporting. This chapter does not provide for the recovery of operations, maintenance or replacement costs of the POTW or the costs associated with the construction of collection and treatment systems used by industrial dischargers, in proportion to their use of the POTW, which are the subject of separate enactments.

(Ord. 2565 § 1 (part), 2008)