Section 134-13 WASTEWATER PERMIT REQUIRED; APPLICATION; APPROVAL/DENIAL; REISSUANCE
A. WASTEWASTER
PERMIT REQUIREMENT -
It shall be unlawful for any person to connect or attempt to connect
any pipe
to the Town's sewer lines without a permit, and it shall be unlawful
for any
person to discharge wastewater, whether domestic sewage or industrial
waste,
into the Town's municipal wastewater system without first obtaining a
permit.
B. WASTEWATER
PERMIT APPLICATION -
Wastewater permit applications shall be submitted to the Administrator
on forms
provided by the Town. Each permit application shall contain all
requested
information in sufficient specificity to determine compliance with
pretreatment
standards and all other provisions of this Article. Incomplete or
inaccurate applications will not be processed and will be returned to
the user
for revision. Each application shall be accompanied by the
connection fee
in accordance with schedules promulgated by the Town or by special
agreement
between the Town and the user.
C. APPLICATION
SIGNATORIES AND CERTIFICATION
1.
All industrial wastewater permit
applications and any industrial user reports must contain the following
certification statement and be signed by the owner of the premises or
an
authorized representative:
"I
certify
under penalty of law that this document and all attachments were
prepared under my direction or supervision, that only qualified
personnel have
provided the information so submitted, that I have made inquiry of said
qualified personnel as to the accuracy of the information submitted,
and to the
best of my knowledge and belief, all information contained herein is
true,
accurate, and complete."
2.
It shall be a violation of this Article to
knowingly submit inaccurate, incomplete or false information on any
wastewater
permit application. It shall further be a violation to unknowingly
submit
inaccurate, incomplete or false information on a wastewater permit
application
by reason that the applicant failed to inquire as to the accuracy
of the
submitted information.
D. PERMIT
APPROVAL DENIAL - The Administrator
will evaluate the submitted data furnished by the user and may require
additional information. Within sixty (60) days from the receipt of all
required
data, the Administrator will determine whether or not to issue a
wastewater
permit. Any application not approved within the sixty-day period
shall be
deemed denied. The Administrator may deny any application for a
wastewater
discharge permit.
E. SIGNIFICANT
INDUSTRIAL USERS - Any
significant industrial user which is discharging industrial waste into
the
municipal wastewater system prior to the effective date of this Article
shall,
within ninety (90) days after said effective date, apply to the Town
for a
wastewater permit and shall not cause or allow industrial waste
discharges into
the municipal wastewater system after one hundred eighty (180) days
from the
effective date of this Article except as may be in compliance with said
permit.
Failure to apply for a permit or to comply to the terms of a
permit within
the time required shall be a violation of this Article and, in
addition, may
result, at the discretion of the Town, in the termination of municipal
wastewater use by the significant industrial user.
F. No
sooner than six (6) months nor later than ninety
(90) days prior to the expiration of an existing wastewater permit, a
significant user seeking reissuance of a wastewater permit shall submit
a
complete permit application in accordance with the provisions of
Section
134-13B.
(Ord.
No. 4-92 Amended Entire Section 4-27-92-Effective Upon
Passage)