Each user shall provide and operate at its own expense a monitoring facility (including installation of a wastewater sample port), to allow inspection, sampling, continuous monitoring and flow measurements of each sewer discharge to the City in all commercial/industrial areas. Each monitoring facility shall be situated on the user’s premises, except, where such a location would be impractical or cause undue hardship on the user, the City may concur with the facility being constructed in the public street or sidewalk area, providing that the facility is located so that it will not be obstructed by landscaping or parked vehicles. The City may require the construction and maintenance of sampling facilities at other locations (for example, at the end of a manufacturing line or a wastewater treatment system).

There shall be ample room in or near sampling facilities to allow accurate sampling and preparation of samples for analysis. The facility, including the sampling and measuring equipment, shall be maintained at all times in a safe and proper operating condition at the user’s expense.

The City may require the user to install monitoring equipment as necessary. All monitoring facilities shall be constructed and maintained in accordance with all applicable local construction standards and specifications.

All devices used to measure wastewater flow and quality shall be calibrated to ensure their accuracy. [Ord. NS-2182, 2012]