(A) Significant users.
(1) Permit requirements. All significant users now connected or proposing to connect to, or now contributing or proposing to contribute to, the POTW shall obtain a wastewater contribution permit before connecting to or contributing to the POTW. All existing significant users presently connected to or contributing to the POTW shall obtain a wastewater contribution permit within ninety (90) days after the effective date of this chapter.
(2) Permit application. Users required to obtain a wastewater contribution permit shall complete and file with the city, an application in the form prescribed by the city, and accompanied by a permit fee. Existing users shall apply for a wastewater contribution permit within thirty (30) days after the effective date of this chapter, and proposed new users shall apply for a wastewater contribution permit at least ninety (90) days prior to connecting to or contributing to the POTW. In support of the application, the user shall submit, in units and terms appropriate for evaluation, the following information:
(a) Name, address, and location, if different from the address;
(b) SIC numbers according to the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, United States Bureau of the Budget, 1972, as amended;
(c) Wastewater constituents and characteristics as determined by an analytical laboratory acceptable to the city; sampling and analysis shall be performed in accordance with procedures established by the EPA pursuant to Section 304 (g) of the Act and contained in 40 CFR, Part 136, as amended; or if a new user not engaged in similar activities elsewhere an estimate of such constituents and characteristics based upon similar processing by other firms;
(d) Time and duration of contribution;
(e) Average daily and thirty (30)-minute peak wastewater flow rates, including daily, monthly, and seasonal variation, if any;
(f) Site plans, floor plans, mechanical, and plumbing plans and details to show all sewers, sewer connections, and appurtenances by the size, location, and elevation;
(g) Description of activities, facilities, and plant processes on the premises, including all materials which are or could be discharged;
(h) Where known, the nature and concentration of any pollutants in the discharge which are limited by city, state, or federal pretreatment standards, and a statement regarding whether or not the pretreatment standards are being or will be met a consistent basis and if not, whether additional pretreatment is required for the user to meet applicable pretreatment standards;
(I) If additional pretreatment will be required to meet the pretreatment standards, the shortest schedule by which the user will provide such additional pretreatment. The completion date of this schedule shall not be later than the compliance date established for the applicable pretreatment standard. The following conditions shall apply to this schedule:
(I) The schedule must be acceptable to the city;
(ii) The schedule shall contain increments of progress in the form of dates of the commencement and completion of major events leading to the construction and operation of additional pretreatment required for the user to meet the applicable pretreatment standards; and
(iii) Not later than fourteen (14) days following each date in the schedule and the final date for compliance, the user shall submit a progress report to the Superintendent including, as a minimum, whether or not it complied with the increment of progress to be met on such date and, if not, the date on which it expects to comply with this increment of progress, the reason for delay, and the steps being taken by the user to return the construction to the schedule established;
(j) Each product produced by type, amount, process or processes, and rate of production;
(k) Type and amount of raw materials processed (average and maximum per day);
(l) Number of employees and hours of operation of plant and proposed or actual hours of operation of pretreatment system;
(m) A copy of the industry’s written environmental control program, comparable document, or policy; and
(n) Any other information as may be deemed by the city to be necessary to evaluate the permit application.
(3) Issuance. The city shall evaluate the date furnished by the user and may require additional information. After evaluation and acceptance of the data furnished, the city may issue a wastewater contribution permit subject to terms and conditions provided herein.
(B) Nonresidential users.
(1) No nonresidential user of the city’s municipal sewer system shall use or discharge any manner of wastewater or effluent into the sewer system until such nonresidential user has been issued a wastewater contribution permit.
(2) Permit Application.
(a) The City Clerk shall provide the ‘Application for Issuance of a Wastewater Contribution Permit’ forms for use by the nonresidential user applicant.
(b) All current nonresidential users of the city’s municipal sewer system shall, in the month of January of each calendar-year, make and complete an application for the issuance of a wastewater contribution permit.
(c) All future nonresidential users of the city’s municipal sewer system shall, in the calendar-month the nonresidential user begins to use the sewer system, make and complete an application for the issuance of a wastewater contribution permit.
(d) All wastewater contribution permits shall be issued for a term of one (1) calendar-year beginning on January 1, and through and ending on the 31st day of December of such calendar-year, or shorter term, if the permit is issued other than in the month of January of a calendar-year.
(3) General requirements:
(a) Nonresidential user’s records relating to water consumption and to wastewater discharges shall be maintained and retained by the nonresidential user for a minimum of three (3) years and shall be made available to the city for review and inspection, on request, at any time during such three year period.
(b) A permittee shall notify the city in writing, of the introduction of any new wastewater constituents or any changes in the volume or character of wastewater constituents being introduced into the city’s sewer system, at least thirty (30) days prior to commencement of any such discharge.
(c) A permittee shall immediately notify the city of any slug discharges into the city’s sewer system.
(d) Certain effluent discharge constituents may require pretreatment by the user-permittee, which pretreatment schedule, the permittee must complete and continue in order to continue its wastewater contribution permit.
(4) Inspections, monitoring and right of entry:
(a) The city shall be provided access and entry to a permittee’s premises and facilities for purposes of inspections and actions related to the operation and maintenance of the city’s sewer system at all reasonable times and immediately in cases of emergency.
(b) The city shall have access to and shall have the right to copy any of the permittee’s records required to be maintained by the permittee as a term and condition of its wastewater contribution permit.
(c) The city shall have the right of entry and access to a permittee’s premises and facilities to inspect any monitoring equipment or monitoring methods required under its wastewater contribution permit and to split samples or sample and discharge of effluents or constituents thereof discharged into the city’s sewer system.
(5) Excessive strength surcharge: In the event that a user-permittee discharges wastes into the city’s sewer system having an average BOD content in excess to two hundred (200) mg/l, or an average Suspended Solids content in excess of two hundred (200) mg/l, or an average of Ammonia-nitrogen content in excess of thirty (30) mg/l, then in such event, the user-permittee shall pay a surcharge based upon the excess strength of said users-permittee’s wastes as follows:
(a) BOD $0.400 per pound;
(b) Suspended Solids $0.600 per pound;
(c) Ammonia-nitrogen $1.700 per pound
The costs of treatment for each pound of BOD, Suspended Solids, and Ammonia-nitrogen removed, shall be reviewed at the time of and in conjunction with the user charge. Surcharge rates shall be reviewed where necessary to approximate current treatment costs.
(6) Revocation of permit: Revocation of the nonresidential user’s wastewater contribution permit will be issued for any of the following:
(a) Permittee’s violation of any requirement, term or condition of its issued wastewater contribution permit.
(b) Permittee’s violation or noncompliance with any applicable or controlling Federal, State or Local regulation or rule.
(c) Permittee’s failure to factually report wastewater constituents or characteristics of user discharge or treatment.
(d) Permittee’s failure to report significant changes in its operations or wastewater constituents or characteristics.
(e) Permittee’s failure to afford reasonable access or entry to its premises or facilities for purposes of inspections or monitoring; or
(f) Permittee’s failure to report the discharge of slug into the city’s sewer system.
Cross reference:
See Chapter 51 Appendix A for Wastewater Contribution Permit
(Ord. 408-1986, passed 9-25-86; Am. Ord. 570-1998, passed 1-5-98; Am. Ord. 625-2002, passed 3-4-02)