(A) This chapter sets forth uniform requirements for direct and indirect industrial dischargers into the wastewater collection and treatment system for the City and enables the City to comply with a POTW Pretreatment Program mandated by A.R.S. § 49-255.02, the aquifer protection permit issued by ADEQ (Arizona Department of Environmental Quality) for the City POTW, and all applicable state and federal laws required by the Clean Water Act of 1977 as amended by the Water Quality Act of 1987, and the general pretreatment regulations (40 C.F.R. Part 403).
(B) The objectives of this chapter are:
(1) To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the City wastewater system which will interfere with the operation of the system or contaminate the resulting sludge;
(2) To protect the City’s sewerage system, groundwater resources, effluent receiving waterways, and to prevent the introduction of pollutants into the City wastewater system which will pass through the system, inadequately treated, into receiving waters, groundwater resources, or the atmosphere;
(3) To improve the opportunity to recycle and reclaim wastewater and sludge from the system;
(4) To provide for equitable distribution of the cost of the City wastewater system; and
(5) To protect both the publicly owned treatment works personnel who may be affected by wastewater and sludge in the course of their employment and the general public.
(C) This subchapter incorporates by this reference the Technical Based Local Limits Reports: “Defining and Justifying Local Discharge Limits Under EPA’s Pretreatment Program, Volume One and Two”.
(D) This chapter provides for the regulation of discharges to the City wastewater system through the issuance of permits to certain non-domestic users and through enforcement of general requirements for the other users, authorizes monitoring and enforcement activities, requires user reporting, assumes that existing customer’s capacity will not be preempted, and provides for the setting of fees for the equitable distribution of costs resulting from the program as established herein.
(E) This chapter shall apply to the City and to persons outside the City who are, by contract or agreement with the City, users of the City POTW. Except as otherwise provided herein, the Public Works Director, as the control authority, shall administer, implement, and enforce the provisions of this chapter.
(Prior Code, § 12-8-1) (Ord. 13-05, passed 3-25-2013)