HomeMy WebLinkAboutS-37 Use,Rate,Industriak /Recov CITY OF CARMEL, INDIANA
Sewer Use, Rate and Industrial Cost Recovery Ordinance
Ordinance
An Ordinance regulating the connection to
and use of public and private sewers and
drains, the installation and connection of
building sewers, and the discharge of waters
and wastes into the sewerage system of the
City of Carmel, Indiana, providing for the
registration of and the metering of private
wells, providing penalties for violations
thereof and other matters pertaining thereto,
providing for the establishing of new sewer
charges, surcharges and fees for the use and
service of the sewerage works, and further
authorizing an industrial cost recovery system
from industrial users of the City of Carmel
wastewater treatment facilities.
WHEREAS, in order for the City of Carmel and its citizens, businesses
and industries not unduly to pollute any streams, or the subsurface ground
waters in Carmel and its environs, it is necessary for the City to maintain
a se%verage system and a plant for the treatment of sewage and to adopt and
to enforce regulations relating to such system and the use thereof by persons,
businesses and industries interconnected with such system, and for the City
to impose fees and cha~ges for the use of such system so as to defray the
costs and expenses thereof and to comply with applicable state and federal
regulations and laws; and
WHEREAS, Section 204 (b) (1) of the Federal Water Pollution Control
Act of 1972 mandates that the Regional Administration of Environmental Protec-
tion Agency Region V in Chicago, Illinois, require of the recipients of federal
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