HomeMy Public PortalAbout00672 O R D I N A N C E NO. 672
AN ORDINANCE amending Ordinance No. 109 adopted January
14, 1957, by repealing Section Twenty thereof and enacting in lieu
thereof a new section to be known as Section Twenty of Ordinance
No. 109, and containing an emergency clause.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE
METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT:
Section One. Ordinance No. 109, as adopted January 14,
1957, is hereby amended by repealing Section Twenty thereof and
enacting a new section in lieu thereof to be known as Section
Twenty of Ordinance No. 109 to read as follows:
"Section Twenty. All measurements, tests and analyses
of the characteristics of waters and wastes to which reference is
made in Sections Fourteen and Seventeen shall be determined in
accordance with the 11th Edition of Standard Methods for the
Examination of Water, Sewage and Industrial Wastes published
jointly by the American Public Health Association, The American
Water Works Association and the Federation of Sewerage and
Industrial wastes Association. Additional methods of making
measurements, tests or analyses of the characteristics of waters
or wastes may be provided by the Executive Director with the
approval of the Board of Trustees of The Metropolitan St. Louis
Sewer District when in the opinion of the Executive Director they
are necessary. All measurements, tests or analyses provided for
in this Section shall be determined at the control manhole
provided for in Section Nineteen, or upon suitable samples taken
at said control manhole. In the event that no special manhole has
been required, the control manhole shall be considered to be the
nearest downstream manhole in the public sewer to be the nearest
downstream manhole in the public sewer to the point at which the
building or industrial the point at which the building or
industrial connection sewer is connected."
Section Two. The necessity for establishing revised
regulatory standards for the protection of the public health
within the District constitutes an emergency within the meaning of
the Plan of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District and this
Ordinance shall take effect immediately upon its adoption.
The foregoing Ordinance was adopted December 7, 1961. -2-