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inspection. After compliance, a sticker was attached to the piping warning about fines for <br />not staying in compliance (and warning a new homeowner about the program). <br />Their penalty had teeth. If upon a random inspection a year later revealed non - compliance <br />then the homeowner would be fined retroactively from the time of the last inspection, or in <br />this case $1,200. <br />For those who had a problem with ice build up in the winter they were able to apply for a <br />special permit that allowed for pumping into the sanitary system during the cold months. <br />In that case they installed a T valve in the rigid pipe. However, they would be subject to <br />random inspections during the summer where fines would be assessed if they were <br />continuing to dump into the sanitary system. Additionally, meter readers were told to <br />watch these homes to look for a tell tale outside discharge pipe running. <br />Immediately after this program was completed the city noticed a dramatic (25 %) reduction <br />in the total gallons of waste water treatment and a 50% reduction in estimated I&I. They <br />estimated that these reductions will save the city over $120,000 per year. This savings is <br />for a city with a population of a little over 6,000. Extrapolated for a city of 55,000 such <br />as Plymouth the savings would be around $1,100,000. Based on their flow figures after <br />the program started to show positive results they were able to convince the MWCC to <br />reduce the 1994 estimates by $120,000. At the end of the year the estimates and actuals <br />matched. <br />The City of Farmington is proud of their I &I reduction program and are very willing to <br />share diagrams, information, publicity to other cities. <br />Page 106 <br />Page 13 <br />