A. The city operates the Montague sewerage facility serving homes, industries and commercial establishments within the city limits of the city of Montague and within the area immediately adjacent to the city.

B. The following basic city policies apply to the regulation of waste discharges within the area served and will also apply to other discharges that are tributary to the city facilities.

C. Generally, liquid waste originating within the area served will be removed by the city's sewer system provided that the wastes will not (1) damage structures, (2) create nuisances such as odors, (3) menace public health, (4) impose unreasonable collection, treatment or disposal costs on the city, (5) interfere with wastewater treatment processes, (6) exceed quality requirements set by regulatory government agencies, or (7) detrimentally affect the local environment.

D. The highest and best use of the city's sewer system is the conveyance, treatment and disposal of domestic wastewater.

E. To comply with the stated policies of the Federal Government and to permit the city to meet increasingly higher standards of treatment plant effluent quality, provisions are made in this chapter for the regulation of industrial wastewater discharges. This chapter establishes quantity and quality limitations on industrial wastewater discharges which may adversely affect the city's sewage system or effluent quality. Methods of cost recovery from industrial wastewater dischargers are also established where the discharges impose inequitable collection, treatment or disposal costs on the city.

F. Recovery and reuse procedures established by industrial wastewater dischargers to meet the limitations set on their discharges will be preferred by the city to over those procedures designed solely to meet wastewater discharge limitations. Methods providing for beneficial reuse of otherwise wasted resources shall be the approved method of industrial wastewater treatment whenever feasible.

G. Optimum use of the facilities of the city may necessitate that the superintendent require that certain industrial wastewaters be discharged during periods of low flow in the sewer system of the city. (Ord. 142 § 103, 1976)