8794-15 Establish pilot program to remove clean water from sanitary sewer

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Section 3. Within the pilot program area, any discharge of sewage, industrial waste or other waste into the City's wastewater disposal system contrary to the provisions Chapter 913, federal or state pretreatment requirements, or any order of Council; and any discharge or the causing of any discharge of any storm water, surface water, groundwater, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, uncontaminated cooling water or unpolluted industrial process waters to any sanitary sewer constitute and are hereby declared to be public nuisances. Section 4. Owners of property included within the pilot program are required to partici- pate in the program in accordance with the authority granted to the City, and under penalty im- posed by, Chapters 901, 913 and 917 of the Codified Ordinances and all applicable code. Own- ers shall have the option to test and correct their sewer connections at their own expense using their own contractors, subject to the City's approval and inspection, and in accordance with the terms of the program, but in any event not later than December 1, 2015. For those corrections undertaken on private property by the City, the City is expected initially to bear the full cost of the corrections, and participants must repay the City 10 percent of such costs. The Director of Finance is authorized and directed to establish payment options available to those property own- ers who participate in order to lessen the financial impact of the corrections upon owners. Section 5. The pilot program established in this resolution shall not cease except upon further action by Council. Section 6. It is found and determined that all formal actions of this Council concerning and relating to the passage of this resolution were adopted in an open meeting of this Council and that all such deliberations of this Council and of any of its committees that resulted in such formal action were in meetings open to the public in compliance with all legal requirements. Section 7. This resolution is hereby declared to be an emergency measure necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health, safety and welfare in the City and for the usual daily operation of the City for the reasons set forth and defined in its preamble, and provided it receives the affirmative vote of at least five members of Council this resolution shall take effect and be in force immediately, or otherwise shall take effect and be in force after the earliest period allowed by law. x Adopted: _L A,5,,( ,-, t, I � , "2_i,I t Approve . 2`> 201J Mayor