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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 14-4 Measuring volume of flow.">
  <section prefix="§" num="14-4" heading="Measuring volume of flow.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="All water from City, all discharged to City system.">Where the person or establishment purchases all of its water from the City and discharges all of it as wastewater to the sewer system, the volume of water purchased shall be used as a measure of the quantity of industrial wastewater discharged.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Water purchased from City, part discharged to City system.">
      <para num="(1)">Where the person or establishment purchases its water from the City and discharges only a part of it to the sewer system:<para num="(i)">an allowance for water not put into the sewer system shall be made in computing wastewater flow; or</para>
        <para num="(ii)">flow shall be measured separately before it discharges to the sewer system.</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(2)">The person or establishment shall provide, at its own expense, metering facilities as required to indicate accurately to the satisfaction of the City:<para num="(i)">the amount of water claimed as a credit; or</para>
        <para num="(ii)">the flow discharging to the sewer system.</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(3)">The Director shall determine which method is acceptable.</para>
      <para num="(4)">Whenever a computation is used to determine credit, the industrial user shall submit the data to the Director.  Failure to submit the required data within the period specified by the Director will result in the forfeiture of the credit.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Private water supply.">Whenever a person or establishment using a private water supply discharges wastewater to the sewer system, either sanitary or (where allowed) storm, the flow will be based upon:<para num="(1)">metered use of water in the establishment or in that portion of the establishment discharging wastewater to the public sewer; or</para>
      <para num="(2)">metered flow discharged to the sewer system.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 25, §8(c)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 75-914</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 84-129</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 91-775</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
