§ 40-598. Purpose and intent.

(a)

This article regulates the use of public and private sewers and drains, disposal of holding tank wastes into public sewers, and the discharge of waters and sanitary wastes into the public sanitary sewerage systems within the utility district no. 1 (the "utility").

(b)

It provides for and explains the method used for levying and collecting sanitary sewerage and wastewater treatment service charges, sets uniform requirements for discharges into the wastewater collection and treatment system of the utility provides for annexations and connections to the sewerage system of the utility and enables the utility to comply with administrative provisions, water quality requirements, toxic and pretreatment effluent standards and other discharge criteria which are required or authorized by the Madison Metropolitan Sewage District (the "MMSD"), state and federal law.

(c)

The intent of this article is to preserve and obtain the maximum public use and benefit from utility facilities by regulating the characteristics of wastewater discharged to the sanitary sewerage system of the utility and to otherwise protect the health, safety and welfare of the inhabitants of the city.

(Comp. Ords. 2009, § 9.01(1))