Rules & Regulations of the State of Tennessee
Title 0400 - Environment and Conservation
Subtitle 0400-40 - Water Resources (WPC)
Chapter 0400-40-16 - Public Sewerage Systems
Section 0400-40-16-.05 - INVESTIGATIONS, REPORTS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS, STANDARDS, AND ORDERS

(1) Investigations.

The Department of Environment and Conservation will make such routine or special investigations as may be considered necessary to insure proper construction, operation and maintenance of public sewerage systems and to insure compliance with these regulations. The owners or operators of public sewerage systems shall arrange to assist the Department in making such investigations and otherwise cooperate by furnishing any pertinent data. When the Department makes written recommendations concerning the sewerage facilities, the recommendations should be followed when at all possible.

(2) Reports and Recommendations.

Reports of investigations, together with recommendations regarding needed improvements or other matters relating to any public sewerage system, shall be prepared and forwarded to the official responsible for such system as often as deemed necessary by the Director of the Division.

(3) Standards.

The Department shall prepare and disseminate such information concerning public sewerage systems as it may deem necessary or desirable to insure the proper collection and disposal of sewage. It shall prepare, adopt, or utilize such standards as necessary to evaluate results of sewage disposal through any public sewerage system in Tennessee.

(4) Special Orders.

Whenever it is the judgment of the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, based upon investigations, that a public sewerage system is an actual or potential menace to public health, because of faulty design, inadequacy, improper supervision, or inefficient operation, and that effective measures are not being carried out to correct these defects, the Department may issue an order for their correction, and such order or orders shall be complied with within the time limit specified in the order.

(5) Enforcement by Department.

Whenever in the judgment of the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation any standards, policies, general or special orders, rules, or regulations issued by it to control public sewerage systems are violated, an authorized representative of the Department may cause to be issued a warrant in the appropriate court for the violation.