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ORDINANCE # 5: Sewer
CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF WATERTOWN
CLINTON COUNTY, MICHIGAN
ORDINANCE NO. 5.8
SECTION 1. TITLE, AMENDED & ADDED SECTIONS AND SUB-SECTIONS.
SECTION 3. OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE AND CONTROL.
SECTION 4. USE OF PUBLIC SEWERS REQUIRED.
SECTION 5. PRIVATE SEWAGE DISPOSAL.
SECTION 6. BUILDING SEWERS AND CONNECTION.
SECTION 7. USE OF THE PUBLIC SEWER.
SECTION 8. SYSTEM CHARGES AND RATES.
SECTION 9. FISCAL YEAR, RECORDS AND FUNDS.
SECTION 10. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.
SECTION 11. ENFORCEMENT ‑ GENERAL PROVISIONS.
An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 5.4 of the Charter Township of Watertown known as the "Watertown Charter Township Wastewater Collection and Treatment System Ordinance", by amending section 2, by amending sub-sections 5.A., 5.B., 5.C., 5.D., 5.E., 5.F., 6.A., 6.B., 6.C., 6.D., 7.B., 7.D.,7.E, 7.F., 8.A.3, 8.A.4, 8.A.11, 8.G.2, 9.C.2, 10.A., 10.C, 10.F, section 11.A.3, 11.A.4, 11.A.5., and 11.A, and by adding sub-sections 7.H. 7.I. and 7.J.
"Watertown Charter Township Wastewater Collection and Treatment System Ordinance", which ordinance was to provide for the acquisition of a sanitary sewage disposal system by the Charter Township of Watertown, Clinton County, Michigan to provide for the operation and maintenance of the Watertown Charter Township wastewater collection system; to provide for the ownership, operation of, and mandatory connection to, said system; to regulate the discharge of water and waste into said system; to prohibit private sewage disposal systems and exceptions thereto; to provide rates and charges to be levied upon users of the system and for connection thereto; for capacity utilization, inspection and for industrial cost recovery, to establish administrative and financial procedures for the operation of the system and the discharge charge of obligations incurred in connection therewith; to define terms, establish funds and to provide remedies and penalties for the violation of said ordinance, and to provide for an effective date thereof; said amendments to add, modify and eliminate certain definitions of terms therein and to amend construction standards; to amend provisions relating to installment payments of certain sewer connection fees and intent required herein; to incorporate rules and regulations relating to abandonment of sanitary sewer and the reporting of accidental and unauthorized discharges and to eliminate reference to industrial cost recovery; to establish and amend industrial pretreatment standards, monitoring and enforcement thereof, require user reporting, and to authorize the assessment and collection of fees in connection therewith, to set forth uniform requirements for direct and indirect contributors into the wastewater collection and treatment system for the Watertown Charter Township and enable the township to comply with all applicable state and federal laws required by the Clean Water Act of 1977 and the general pretreatment regulations (40 cfr, part 403); to prevent the introduction of pollutants into the wastewater collection and treatment system which will interfere with the operation of the system or contaminate the resulting sludge, to prevent the introduction of pollutants into the wastewater collection and treatment system, inadequately treated, into receiving waters or the atmosphere or otherwise be incompatible with the system, to improve the opportunity to recycle and reclaim wastewaters and sludges from the system, and to establish remedies and penalties for the violation of this ordinance as amended and to provide for an effective date hereof.
The Charter Township of Watertown, Clinton County, Michigan, ordains: