CITY OF ROLAND, IOWA

PUBLIC NOTICE

SUMP PUMP OBSERVATION PROGRAM

The State of Iowa recently adopted rules which impact the City’s wastewater treatment system. These rules impose strict limits on the allowable discharge from the wastewater treatment plant. Compliance with these rules will be costly. The City is proactively working to minimize the future impacts these new rules will have on your Sewer Utility bill. The most cost effective way to comply with the new discharge mandate is to prevent rainwater & groundwater from entering the sanitary sewer system. This way the treatment plant will only have to treat sewage and not the combined sewage and clear water.

The City recently developed a plan to comply with these mandates. This first phase of this plan involves observations at each residence/business to confirm that rainwater & groundwater are not entering the sanitary sewer system. Future phases will identify and address deficiencies within the sewer system itself. The observations will check for illegal sump pump and gutter connections to the sanitary sewer. At the same time, the observers will verify that illegal connections to the water system are not present in your residence/business.

The observations have been scheduled with the City’s Engineering Consultant, MSA Professional Services, Inc., to occur in September. The available dates for observations are three Saturdays (15^th, 22^nd, 29^th) and one weekday (Tuesday the 18^th). Appropriate arrangements should be made to be present at your residence/business during one of these times. You may schedule your observation by contacting MSA Professional Services at (800) 844-4122, or the City at (515) 388-4861 no later than Friday, August 24, 2012.

You are hereby notified that the City will issue municipal infractions to the property owner for not attending (or rescheduling in advance) the property owner’s initial inspection. Subsequent inspections, due to missing the initial inspection or the discovery of violations, will be charged to the property owner at a rate of $25.00 per occurrence. The City will also issue municipal infractions for sump pumps remaining out of compliance sixty days from the first inspection or sump pumps found to be out of compliance after passing the initial inspection. Fines for out of compliance sump pumps will be at the rate of $100.00 per month, until brought into compliance.

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