§ 14.08.050. Liquid waste disposal policy—General statement.

A.

The city operates the Weed sewage facility, serving homes, industries and commercial establishments within the city limits and a certain industrial user holding a contractual right for such service within the area immediately adjacent to the city.

B.

The following basic city policies apply to regulate waste discharges within the area served and will also apply to other discharges that are tributary to the city's facilities.

C.

Generally, liquid wastes originating within the area served will be removed by the city's sewerage system provided that the wastes will not damage structures, create nuisances such as odors, menace public health, impose unreasonable collection, treatment or disposal costs on the city, interfere with wastewater treatment processes, exceed quality requirements set by regulatory government agencies, or detrimentally affect the local environment.

D.

The highest and best use of the city's sewerage system is the conveyance, treatment and disposal of domestic wastewater.

E.

To comply with the stated policies of the federal government and to permit the city to meet increasingly higher standards of treatment plant effluent quality, provisions are made in this chapter for the regulation of industrial wastewater discharges. This chapter establishes quantity and quality limitations on industrial wastewater discharges which may adversely affect the city's sewerage system or effluent quality. Methods of cost recovery from industrial wastewater dischargers are also established where the discharges impose inequitable collection, treatment or disposal costs on the city.

F.

Recovery and reuse procedures established by industrial wastewater discharges to meet the limitations set on their discharges will be preferred by the city over those procedures designed solely to meet wastewater discharge limitations. Methods providing for beneficial reuse of otherwise wasted resources shall be the approved method of industrial wastewater treatment whenever feasible.

G.

Optimum use of the facilities of the city may necessitate that the director of public works, in this chapter sometimes referred to as the director, require that certain industrial wastewaters be discharged during periods of low flow in the sewerage system of the city.

(Ord. 217-78 §103, 1978).