A. The Director may cause inspection and sampling of every facility involved directly or indirectly with the discharge of wastewater to the City’s wastewater system as deemed necessary. These facilities shall include, but not be limited to, sewer laterals, sewer connections, private sewers, public sewers, wastewater pumping stations, pollution control plants, all industrial processes, food establishment facilities or other facilities which may discharge grease and oil at levels which cause blockages to the sewer, industrial wastewater generation facilities, conveyance and pretreatment facilities, and all similar wastewater facilities. Inspections may be made to determine that such facilities are constructed, maintained and operated properly and are adequate to meet the provisions of this chapter.

B. Owners, users and operators of all facilities directly or indirectly connected to the City’s wastewater system, whether under construction or completed, shall give access to authorized personnel or representatives of the City at all reasonable times, including those occasioned by emergency conditions. Any permanent or temporary obstruction to easy access to the wastewater facility to be inspected shall promptly be removed by the facility owner, user or operator at the written or verbal request of the Director and shall not be replaced.

No person shall interfere with, delay, resist or refuse entrance to an authorized City inspector attempting to inspect any wastewater generation, conveyance or treatment facility connected directly or indirectly to the City’s wastewater system, and the provisions of Chapter 1.16 CVMC shall not apply.

C. The City, through its representatives or inspectors, shall have the right to inspect and copy pertinent records relating to a permittee’s wastewater discharge or pretreatment operations including inventories, chemical usage, materials, sources, hazardous materials manifests and disposal records, treatment and operations log books, and materials invoices.

D. The Director shall provide adequate identification for all inspectors and other authorized personnel, and those persons shall identify themselves when entering any property for inspection purposes or when inspecting the work of any contractor. (Ord. 2466 § 7, 1991).