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RESOLUTION NO. 71-03
RESOLVED, that the City Commission of the City of La Porte
hereby agrees and binds itself to pass and approve, at the
earliest possible date consistent with the business of the
Commission, an ordinance regulating industrial waste disposal,
which said ordinance shall be an enforceable industrial waste
ordinance, meeting the criteria established by the Federal Water
Pollution Control Administration, Environmental Protection
Agency, which said ordinance shall, among other things". limit
the discharge of industrial waste into the public sanitary
sewer system, to levels that will not adversely affect the
operation of the sanitary sewer system or the quality of the
waste water treatment facility effluent; shall regulate the
volume, strength and nature of the wastes to be discharged into
the sewer system; shall require pretreatment of waste by indus-
try when necessary to meet the above levels or shall prohibit
the entry of such waste; shall give specific attention to
toxic materials and heavy metals; shall prohibit the discharge
of certain heavy metals into the sys~em; shall establish a rate
schedule for sewer service that assures an equitable system of
cost recovery, to the end that industrial users shall pay for
the cost incurred by the City of La Porte in the construction,
operation and maintenance of that portion of the waste water
treatment facilities related to industrial waste, taking into
considexation the individual industrial user's contribution as
related to the total waste load taking into account the volume
and strength of all discharges, with the cost to be considered
including amortization of the cost of the City's waste treatment
facilities; operation and maintenance of the facilities; and
any additional costs which are necessary to assure adequate
treatment on a continuous basis; and providing substantial
pre-payment of the capital investment from each industry that
contributes thirty per cent (30%) or more of the total volume
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Resolution No. 71-03 - 2
or strength of the waste load to be treated by the project.
PASSED and APPROVED, this the 1st day of February,
A.D. 1971.
CITY OF LA PORTE, TEXAS
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H. Carlos Sm~th, Mayor
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