(A) The POTW manager shall publish annually, in a newspaper of general circulation that provides meaningful public notice within the jurisdictions served by the POTW, a list of the Users which, at any time during the previous 12 months, were in significant non-compliance with applicable pretreatment standards and requirements.
(B) The term SIGNIFICANT NON-COMPLIANCE shall be applicable to all significant industrial Users (or any other industrial User that violates divisions (B)(3), (B)(4) or (B)(8) below) and shall mean:
(1) Chronic violations of wastewater discharge limits, defined here as those in which 66% or more of all the measurements taken for the same pollutant parameter taken during a six-month period exceed (by any magnitude) a numeric pretreatment standard or requirement, as defined in §§ 52.040 through 52.050 of this chapter, this includes instantaneous limits;
(2) Technical review criteria (TRC) violations, defined here as those in which 33% or more of wastewater measurements taken for the same pollutant parameter during a six-month period equals or exceeds the product of the numeric pretreatment standard or requirement, as defined by §§ 52.040 through 52.050 of this chapter, this includes instantaneous limits, multiplied by the applicable TRC criteria (TRC=1.4 for BOD, TSS, fats, oils and grease, and TRC=1.2 for all other pollutants, except pH);
(3) Any other violation of a pretreatment standard or requirement, as defined by §§ 52.040 through 52.050 of this chapter, daily maximum, long-term average, instantaneous limit or narrative standard) that the POTW manager determines has caused, alone or in combination with other discharges, interference or pass through, including endangering the health of POTW personnel or the general public;
(4) Any discharge of a pollutant that has caused imminent endangerment to the public or to the environment, or has resulted in the POTW manager’s exercise of its emergency authority to halt or prevent such a discharge;
(5) Failure to meet, within 90 days of the scheduled date, a compliance schedule milestone contained in an individual wastewater discharge permit or enforcement order for starting construction, completing construction or attaining final compliance;
(6) Failure to provide within 45 days after the due date, any required reports, including baseline monitoring reports, reports on compliance with categorical pretreatment standard deadlines, periodic self-monitoring reports and reports on compliance with compliance schedules;
(7) Failure to accurately report non-compliance; or
(8) Any other violation(s), which may include a violation of best management practices, which the POTW manager determines will adversely affect the operation or implementation of the local Pretreatment program.
(Prior Code, § 22.08.090) (Ord. 22-17, passed 8-18-2022)