(A) Abbreviations. The following abbreviations, when used in this chapter, shall have the designated meanings:
BOD. Biochemical Oxygen Demand.
C.F.R. Code of Federal Regulations.
COD. Chemical Oxygen Demand.
EPA. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
FOG.
Fats, Oils and Grease.
gpd. Gallons per day.
IAC.
Indiana Administrative Code.
IC.
Indiana Code.
IDEM.
Indiana Department of Management.
IWP.
Industrial Waste Discharge Permit.
I/I.
Inflow and Infiltration (Clear Water Flow).
mg/l. Milligrams per liter.
NAICS. North American Industry Classification System. A set of industry categories standardized between the United States and Canada.
NPDES. National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System.
POTW. Publicly owned treatment works.
RCRA. Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.
SIC. Standard Industrial Classification.
SIU.
Significant Industrial User.
SNC.
Significant Noncompliance.
TSS. Total Suspended Solids.
U.S. EPA Reg. V.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5, Chicago, Illinois.
U.S.C. United States Code.
(B) Definitions. Unless a provision explicitly states otherwise, the following terms and phrases, as used in this chapter, shall have the meanings hereinafter designated.
ACT or THE ACT. The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. §§ 1251 et seq.
APPROVAL AUTHORITY. The Indiana Department of Environmental Management is the approval agency for the Pretreatment Program in the State of Indiana.
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE USER.
(a) If the user is a corporation:
1. The president, secretary, treasurer, or a vice-president of the corporation in charge of a principal business function, or any other person who performs similar policy or decision-making functions for the corporation; or
2. The manager of one or more manufacturing, production, or operation facilities employing more than 250 persons or having gross annual sales or expenditures exceeding $25,000,000 (in second-quarter 1980 dollars), if authority to sign documents has been assigned or delegated to the manager in accordance with corporate procedures.
(b) If the user is a partnership or sole proprietorship: A general partner or proprietor, respectively.
(c) If the user is a federal, state, or local governmental facility: a director or highest official appointed or designated to oversee the operation and performance of the activities of the government facility, or their designee.
(d) The individuals described in divisions (a) through (c) above, may designate another authorized representative if the authorization is in writing, the authorization specifies the individual or position responsible for the overall operation of the facility from which the discharge originates or having overall responsibility for environmental matters for the company, and the written authorization is submitted to the city.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND or BOD. The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures for five days at 20° C, usually expressed as a concentration (for example, mg/l).
CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD OR CATEGORICAL STANDARD. Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by EPA in accordance with sections 307(b) and (c) of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 317) which apply to a specific category of users and which appear in 40 C.F.R. chapter I, subchapter N, parts 405-471.
CITY. The City of Columbia City.
COMPOSITE SAMPLE.
Method of sampling which corresponds sample volume with discharge flow rate.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY or EPA. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or, where appropriate, the Regional Water Management Division Director, or other duly authorized official of the agency.
EXISTING SOURCE. Any source of discharge, the construction or operation of which commenced prior to the publication by EPA of proposed categorical pretreatment standards, which will be applicable to such source if the standard is thereafter promulgated in accordance with Section 307 of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 317).
FOG
or
FATS, OILS AND GREASE.
Non-polar oily wastes, oils from organic sources.
GRAB SAMPLE. A sample which is taken from a waste stream without regard to the flow in the waste stream and over a period of time not to exceed 15 minutes.
INDIRECT DISCHARGE OR DISCHARGE. The introduction of pollutants into the POTW from any non domestic source regulated under Section 307(b), (c), or (d) of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 317).
INSTANTANEOUS MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE DISCHARGE LIMIT. The maximum concentration of a pollutant allowed to be discharged at any time, determined from the analysis of any discrete or composited sample collected, independent of the industrial flow rate and the duration of the sampling event.
INTERFERENCE. A discharge, which alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, inhibits or disrupts the POTW, its treatment processes or operations or its sludge processes, use or disposal; and therefore, is a cause of a violation of the city's NPDES permit or of the prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal in compliance with any of the following statutory/ regulatory provisions or permits issued thereunder, or any more stringent state or local regulations: section 405 of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1345); the Solid Waste Disposal Act, including title II commonly referred to as the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) (42 U.S.C. §§ 6901 et seq.); any state regulations contained in any state sludge management plan prepared pursuant to Subtitle D of the Solid Waste Disposal Act; the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. §§ 7401 et seq.); the Toxic Substances Control Act (15 U.S.C. §§ 2601 et seq.); and the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act (16 U.S.C. §§ 1431 et seq. and 33 U.S.C. §§ 1401 et seq.).
MEDICAL WASTE. Isolation wastes, infectious agents, human blood and blood products, pathological wastes, sharps, body parts, contaminated bedding, surgical wastes, potentially contaminated laboratory wastes, and dialysis wastes.
NEW SOURCE.
(a) Any building, structure, facility, or installation from which there is (or may be) a discharge or pollutants, the construction of which commenced after the publication of proposed pretreatment standards under section 307(c) of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 317) which will be applicable to such source if such standards are thereafter promulgated in accordance with that section, provided that:
1. The building, structure, facility, or installation is constructed at a site at which no other source is located;
2. The building, structure, facility, or installation totally replaces the process or production equipment that causes the discharge of pollutants at an existing source; or
3. The production or wastewater generating processes of the building, structure, facility, or installation are substantially independent of an existing source at the same site. In determining whether these are substantially independent, factors such as the extent to which the new facility is integrated with an existing plant, and the extent to which the new facility is engaged in the same general type of activity as the existing source, should be considered.
(b) Construction on a site at which an existing source is located results in a modification rather than a new source if the construction does not create a new building, structure, facility, or installation meeting the criteria of division (a)2. of this definition but otherwise alters, replaces, or adds to existing process or production equipment.
(c) Construction of a new source as defined under this division has commenced if the owner or operator has:
1. Begun, or caused to begin, as part of a continuous on site construction program:
a. Any placement, assembly, or installation of facilities or equipment; or
b. Significant site preparation work including clearing, excavation, or removal of existing buildings, structures, or facilities which is necessary for the placement, assembly, or installation of new source facilities or equipment.
2. Entered into a binding contractual obligation for the purchase of facilities or equipment which are intended to be used in its operation within a reasonable time. Options to purchase or contracts which can be terminated or modified without substantial loss, and contracts for feasibility, engineering, and design studies do not constitute a contractual obligation under this division.
NONCONTACT COOLING WATER. Water used for cooling which does not come into direct contact with any raw material, intermediate product, waste product, or finished product.
PASS THROUGH. A discharge which exits the POTW into waters of the United States in quantities or concentrations which alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the city's NPDES permit, including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation.
PERSON. Any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company, corporation, association, joint stock company, trust, estate, governmental entity, or any other legal entity; or their legal representatives, agents, or assigns. This definition includes all federal, state, and local governmental entities.
pH. A measure of the acidity or alkalinity of a solution, expressed in standard units.
PHARMACEUTICAL WASTE. A prescription drug, or a nonprescription or proprietary medicine, which is no longer suitable for its intended purpose or is otherwise being discarded. PHARMACEUTICAL WASTE includes expired, unused, spilt, and contaminated pharmaceutical products, drugs, vaccines, and sera that are no longer required and need to be disposed of appropriately. The category also includes discarded items used in the handling of pharmaceuticals, such safe management of wastes from health-care activities such as bottles or boxes with residues, gloves, masks, connecting tubing, and drug vials.
POLLUTANT. Dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, filter backwash, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, medical wastes, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, municipal, agricultural and industrial wastes, and certain characteristics of wastewater (for example, pH, temperature, TSS, turbidity, color, BOD, COD, toxicity, or odor).
PRETREATMENT. The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater prior to, or in lieu of, introducing such pollutants into the POTW. This reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical, or biological processes; by process changes; or by other means, except by diluting the concentration of the pollutants unless allowed by an applicable pretreatment standard.
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS. Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment imposed on a user, other than a pretreatment standard.
PRETREATMENT STANDARDS OR STANDARDS. Pretreatment standards shall mean prohibited discharge standards, categorical pretreatment standards, and local limits.
PROHIBITED DISCHARGE STANDARDS OR PROHIBITED DISCHARGES. Absolute prohibitions against the discharge of certain substances; these prohibitions appear in § 55.020.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS or POTW. A “treatment works” as defined by section 212 of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1292) which is owned by the city. This definition includes any devices or systems used in the collection, storage, treatment, recycling, and reclamation of sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid nature and any conveyances which convey wastewater to a treatment plant.
SEPTIC TANK WASTE. Any sewage from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets, campers, trailers, and septic tanks.
SEWAGE. Human excrement and gray water (household showers, dishwashing operations, and the like).
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER.
(a) A user subject to categorical pretreatment standards;
(b) A user that:
1. Discharges an average of 25,000 gpd or more of process wastewater to the POTW (excluding sanitary, noncontact cooling, and boiler blowdown wastewater);
2. Contributes a process waste stream which makes up 5% or more of the average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the POTW treatment plant; or
3. Is designated as such by the city on the basis that it has a reasonable potential for adversely affecting the POTW's operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement.
(c) Upon a finding that a user meeting the criteria in division (b) has no reasonable potential for adversely affecting the POTW's operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement, the city may at any time, on its own initiative or in response to a petition received from a user, and in accordance with procedures in 40 C.F.R. 403.8(f)(6), determine that such user should not be considered a significant industrial user.
SLUG LOAD OR SLUG. Any discharge at a flow rate or concentration which could cause a violation of the prohibited discharge standards in § 55.020.
SNC
or
SIGNIFICANT NONCOMPLIANCE.
For compliance provisions of this chapter,
(SNC) SIGNIFICANT NONCOMPLIANCE
is defined as follows:
(a) Violations of wastewater discharge limits.
1. Chronic violations. 66% or more of the measurements exceed the same daily maximum limit or the same average limit in a six month period.
2. Technical review criteria (TRC). 33% or more of the measurements exceed the same daily maximum limit or the same average limit by more than the TRC in a six month period.
There are two groups of TRC's:
a. Group I for conventional pollutants such as BODs, COD, TSS, Fats, Oil and Grease (FOG). TRC= 1.4 (40%).
b. Group II for all other pollutants. TRC= 1.2 (20%).
3. Any other violation(s) of an effluent limit (average or daily maximum) that the Superintendent believes has caused, along or in combination with other discharges, interference (e.g., slug loads) or pass-through, or endangered the health of the POTW personnel or the public.
4. Any discharge of a pollutant which has caused imminent endangerment to human health/welfare or to the environment and resulted in the POTW's exercise of this emergency authority to halt or prevent such a discharge.
(b) Violation of compliance schedule milestones, contained in a local control mechanism or enforcement code, for starting construction, completing construction, and attaining final compliance by 90 days or more after schedule date.
(c) Failure to provide reports for compliance schedules, self-monitoring data, or categorical standards (baseline monitoring reports, 90-day compliance reports, and periodic reports) within 30 days from due date.
(d) Failure to accurately report non-compliance.
(e) Any other violation or group of violations which the Superintendent considers to be significant.
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (SIC) CODE. A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification Manual issued by the United States Office of Management and Budget.
STORM WATER. Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural precipitation, and resulting from such precipitation, including snow melt.
SUPERINTENDENT. The person designated by the city to supervise the operation of the POTW, and who is charged with certain duties and responsibilities by this chapter, or a duly authorized representative.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS. The total suspended matter that floats on the surface of, or is suspended in, water, wastewater, or other liquid, and which is removable by laboratory filtering.
TEMPORARY DISCHARGE PERMIT. A general permit for temporary discharge covering activities associated with construction activities such as construction dewatering, disinfection of potable water lines, and/or hydrostatic testing of pipes, tanks, or other similar vessels. This general permit contains discharge requirements and limits that are based on technology and water quality considerations, prohibitions, best management practices (BMPs), and other conditions applicable to temporary discharges.
USER OR INDUSTRIAL USER. A source of indirect discharge.
WASTEWATER. Liquid and water- carried industrial wastes and sewage from residential dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial and manufacturing facilities, and institutions, whether treated or untreated, which are contributed to the POTW.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT OR TREATMENT PLANT. That portion of the POTW which is designated to provide treatment of municipal sewage and industrial waste.
(1980 Code, § 55.003) (Ord. 1996-40, passed 11-12-1996; Am. Ord. 2003-10, passed 4-29-2003; Am. Ord. 2008-10, passed 7-22-2008; Am. Ord. 2015-29, passed 10-27-2015; Am. Ord. 2017-5, passed 5-9-17)