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Committee amends code to allow regulated front‑of‑property sump pump discharges and clarify 'nuisance'
Summary
Committee approved an ordinance change to Germantown Municipal Code section 15.08 to allow sump pump discharge to the front of property or roadside ditches under specified conditions, clarify the definition and use of 'nuisance,' and give staff clearer enforcement authority.
The Germantown Public Works & Highway Committee voted to amend section 15.08 of the Germantown Municipal Code to clarify rules for clearwater (sump pump) discharge and to revise the ordinance’s definition and use of the term “nuisance.”
Public works and building‑inspection staff told the committee the current code made many common discharges noncompliant and created enforcement ambiguity because the ordinance’s definition of “nuisance” had been narrowly interpreted as groundwater…
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