Specific purposes.

The specific purposes of this chapter are the following:

A. To prevent the introduction of substances into the POTW that will:

(1) Interfere with the POTW in any way,

(2) Pass through the POTW to the receiving waters and cause contravention of standards for those waters or cause violation of the POTW's SPDES permit, or otherwise be incompatible with the POTW,

(3) Increase the cost or otherwise hamper the disposal of POTW sludge and/or residuals,

(4) Endanger the general public or POTW personnel who may be effected by wastewater and sludge in the course of their employment,

(5) Cause air pollution or groundwater pollution, directly or indirectly,

(6) Cause, directly or indirectly, any public nuisance condition.

B. To prohibit the contribution of sewage and industrial wastes, and other wastes, which cause maintenance difficulties in trunk sewers, force mains, pumping stations, sewage regulators and other structures and appurtenances to the Town-wide sewer system and public sewers tributary thereto.

C. To require the treatment before introduction into the Sewer District's sewer system, local sewer collection system and public sewers tributary thereto, of such wastes as may otherwise impair the strength and/or durability of the structures appurtenant to the system by direct or indirect chemical action, or interfere with the normal collection and treatment process.

D. To prohibit excessive volumes and/or inordinate rates of flow of sewage and wastes into the Town-wide Sewer District's sewer system and/or local sewer collection system and/or other public sewers tributary thereto.

E. To prevent new sources of infiltration and inflow and, as much as possible, eliminate existing sources of infiltration and inflow.

F. To assure that new sewers and connections are properly constructed.

G. To provide for equitable distribution to all users of the POTW of all costs associated with sewage transmission, treatment and residual disposal, and to provide for the collection of such costs.

H. To provide the authority and procedure for the Town-wide Sewer District to promulgate rules, to investigate and prepare findings and to issue licenses or permits, to hold hearings, to make decisions, orders and opinions, and to give notice and make public all rules and decisions.

I. To provide cooperation with the Monroe County Department of Health, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, the New York State Department of Health, the United States Environmental Protection Agency, and other agencies which have requirements of jurisdiction for the protection of the physical, chemical, and bacteriological quality of watercourses within or abounding the Town.

J. To protect the public health and to prevent nuisances.

K. To improve the opportunity to recycle and reclaim wastewater and sludge from the system.