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Montezuma ordinance updates sewer discharge limits, ordinance text enacted Jan. 14, 2025
Summary
Ordinance #399 amends sections of Montezuma’s Sewer & Sewer Use code to set numeric limits for BOD, TSS, nitrogen and phosphorus and expands language on hazardous discharges; the ordinance text is dated Jan. 14, 2025 and shows the mayor and clerk attestation.
Ordinance #399 appears in the record to amend Sections 94.279 and 94.328 of the City of Montezuma Code of Ordinances related to sewer and sewer use. The draft language adds or revises prohibited discharges and specifies numeric concentration limits, including a five‑day biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) limit of 500 mg/L, a total suspended solids (TSS) limit of 500 mg/L, a Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen (TKN) and/or ammonia (NH3‑N) limit of 30 mg/L where nitrification is required, and a phosphorus (as P) limit of 4 mg/L where phosphorus removal is required.
The ordinance text also clarifies that wastes posing fire or explosion hazards, corrosive wastes below pH 5.5 or above pH 10.0, and other materials identified as hazardous by federal, state or city authorities are prohibited from discharge into the sewer system. The act of adoption is recorded in the text with the line ‘‘SO ORDAINED, this 14th day of January, 2025,’’ followed by signature lines naming Nealie L. Johnson as mayor and Jennifer McCarthy as clerk/administrator.
The ordinance language references standard measurement units (mg/L) and cross‑references federal statutes when defining hazardous materials. The record contains the ordinance text and attestation lines; voting records or staff reports accompanying the ordinance are not part of the provided excerpt.
