13.40.010 Purpose and policy.
A. This chapter sets forth uniform requirements for industrial discharges into the city wastewater collection and treatment system (POTW) and enables the city to protect public health in conformity with all applicable local, state, and federal laws relating thereto.
B. The objectives of this chapter are:
1. To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the city’s POTW which will interfere with the normal operation of the system or contaminate the resulting sludge;
2. To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the city’s POTW which do not receive adequate treatment, and which will pass through the system into receiving waters or the atmosphere or otherwise be incompatible with the system; and
3. To improve the opportunity to recycle and reclaim wastewater and sludge from the system.
C. This chapter provides for the regulation of discharges into the POTW through the enforcement of administrative regulations.
D. This chapter shall apply to the city and to all industrial users within and outside the city who are, by contract or agreement with the city, dischargers to the Anacortes POTW. This chapter is a supplement to Ordinance No. 1150 codified in Chapter 13.08 of this code. (Ord. 1945 § 1.1, 1984)