§ 13.16.070. Inspection authority

A. When required by the public works director, the owner(s) of any property serviced by a sewer carrying industrial wastes shall install a suitable structure together with such necessary meters and other appurtenances in the building sewer to facilitate observation, sampling, and measurement of the wastes. Such structures, when required, shall be accessible and safely located, and shall be constructed in accordance with plans approved by the director of public works. The structure shall be installed by the owner at his or her expense, and shall be maintained by the owner so as to be safe and accessible at all times.

B. The director may require a user of sewer services to provide information needed to determine compliance with this chapter. These requirements may include:

1. Wastewaters discharge peak rate and volume over a specified time period;

2. Chemical analyses of wastewaters;

3. Information on raw materials, processes, and products affecting wastewater volume and quality;

4. Quality and disposition of specific liquid, sludge, oil, solvent, or other materials important to sewer use control.

C. The director of public works or other duly authorized employees are authorized to obtain information concerning industrial processes which have a direct bearing on the kind and source of discharge to the wastewater collection system. The industry may withhold information considered confidential. The industry must establish that the revelation to the public of the information in question might result in an advantage to competitors.

D. While performing the necessary work on private properties referred to in this section, the director of public works or duly authorized employees of the city shall observe all safety rules applicable to the premises established by the company, and the company shall be held harmless for injury or death to the city employees, and the city shall indemnify the company against loss or damage to its property by city employees and against liability claims and demands for personal injury or property damage asserted against the company growing out of the gauging and sampling operation, except as such may be caused by negligence or failure of the company to maintain safe conditions as required in subsection A of this section.

E. The director of public works and other duly authorized employees of the city bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted to enter all private properties through which the city holds duly negotiated easement for the purposes of, but not limited to, inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, repair, and maintenance of any portion of the wastewater facilities lying within the easement. All entry and subsequent work, if any, on the easement, shall be done in full accordance with the terms of the duly negotiated easement pertaining to the private property involved.

(Ord. 90-2 (part): prior code § X-90-26)