(a) Where pretreatment facilities are required by the POTW, plans, specifications and any other pertinent information relating to proposed preliminary treatment, including a semi-annual report of progress regarding compliance with pretreatment standards, shall be submitted for approval by the Superintendent and no construction of such facility shall be commenced until such approvals are obtained in writing.
(b) Where pretreatment facilities are provided for any waters or waste, they shall be maintained in satisfactory and effective operation at all times by the owner, at the owner's sole expense.
(c) The owner shall regularly submit a waste treatment report to the POTW as often as required by the permit. Such report shall include all measurements, tests and analyses of the characteristics of waters and waste as referred to in this section and any other pertinent information as may be required. The owner shall be required to install a flow meter for continued monitoring.
(d) All measurements, tests and analyses of the characteristics of waters and wastes to which reference is made in this chapter shall be determined in accordance with Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater and the Federal guidelines establishing the procedures for the analysis of pollutants, and shall be determined at the control manhole provided for in Section 1040.25 or upon suitable samples taken at such control manhole. In the event that no special manhole is available, sampling shall be at the nearest downstream manhole in the public sewer to the point at which the building sewer is connected.
(e) Every industrial or commercial entity operating a pretreatment or control facility which discharges liquid wastes into the public sewer (sanitary, combined or storm) shall have the waste treatment or control facilities under the specific supervision and control of a person who has been certified by the State of Michigan, Department of Environmental Quality, as being properly qualified to operate the facilities under the requirements as set forth in Act 245 of the Public Acts of 1929, as amended, being Section 323.2 of the Compiled Laws of 1948, and under the Water Resources Commission Rules entitled Part 10 Treatment Plant Operators.
(Ord. 97-4. Passed 9-8-97.)