06-13-11 Council Agenda & Packet

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shall be maintained by him so as to be safe and accessible at all times. Agents of the City, the State Water Pollution Control Agencies and the USEPA shall be permitted to enter all properties for the purpose .of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling and testing. (g)Q _ _ Testing_ Methods. All measurements, tests and analyses of the characteristics of water and wastes to which reference is made in this ordinance shall be conducted using the methods and procedures in 40 CFR Part 1:36, and shall be determined at the control manhole or monitoring location provided, or upon suitable samples taken at said control manhole or monitoring_ location, except for the application for NPDES permits and report thereof such shall be conducted in accordance with rules and regulations adopted by the USEPA, 40 CFR Part 136 and any subsequent revisions subject to approval by the City. In the event that no special manhole has been required, the control manhole shall be considered to be the nearest downstream manhole in the public sewer to the point at which the building sewer is connected. Sampling shall be carried out by customarily accepted methods to reflect the effect of constituents upon the sewage works and to determine the existence of hazards to life, limb and property. (The pai4ieular- analysis involved will deteffnine whether- a twenty four- hour- eempesite —QD and S.& analyses afe obtained ft�am peri. die grab samples.) Wastewater sampling shall be conducted in a manner that is representative of normal production and discharge practices. (r) (1) Individualized No statement contained in this article shall be construed as preventing any special agreement or arrangement between the City and any industrial concern whereby an industrial waste for unusual strength or character may be accepted by the City for treatment, subject to payment therefore, by the industrial concern, at such rates as are compatible with the rate ordinance; provided, however, that no special agreement or arrangement may be made with the City which results in the violation of National Pretreatment standards or local limits. SECTION V. Chapter 17, Division 3, Section 17 -9 of the South Bend Municipal is amended by transferring previous Section 17 -19 and 17 -19.1 of Chapter 17, Division 3, renumbering it as Section 17 -9 which follows, and by further amendment of its content. (The existing Section 17 -9 of Chapter 17, Division 3, shall be renumbered as Section 17 -19 which shall replace that former Section.) Chapter 17, Division 3, Section 17 -9 as thus amended shall read in its entirety as follows: 25