(A) (1) If any waters or wastes that are discharged or are proposed to be discharged into the public sewers contain the substances or possess the characteristics enumerated in § 52.075(B) above, and, in the judgment of the superintendent, may have a deleterious effect upon the sewage works, processes, equipment, or receiving waters or otherwise create a hazard to life or constitute a public nuisance, the superintendent may:
(a) Require new industries or industries with significant increase in discharges to submit information on wastewater characteristics and obtain prior approval for discharges;
(b) Reject the wastes in whole or in part for any reason deemed appropriate by the town;
(c) Require pretreatment of those wastes to within the limits of normal sewage as defined;
(d) Require control or flow equaliza- tion of those wastes so as to avoid any slug loads or excessive loads that may be harmful to the treatment works; or
(e) Require payment of a surcharge on any excessive flows or loading discharged into the treatment works to cover the additional costs of having capacity for and treating those wastes.
(2) If the superintendent permits the pretreatment or equalization of waste flows, the design and installation of the plant and equipment shall be subject to the review and approval of the superintendent and subject to the requirements of all applicable codes, ordinances, and laws.
(B) Where preliminary treatment or flow- equalizing facilities are provided for any waters or wastes, they shall be maintained continuously in satisfactory and effective operation by the owner at his or her expense.
(C) When required by the superintendent, the owner of any property serviced by a building sewer carrying industrial wastes shall install a suitable control manhole together with necessary meters and other appurtenances in the building sewer to facilitate observation, sampling, and measurement of the wastes. The manhole, when required, shall be accessibly and safely located and shall be constructed in accordance with plans approved by the superintendent. The manhole shall be installed by the owner at his or her expense and shall be maintained by him or her so as to be safe and accessible at all times.
(D) Agents of the town, the State Water Pollution Control Agencies, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency shall be permitted to enter all properties for the purpose of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, and testing.
(E) 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 the latest edition of Standard Methods of the Examination of Water and Wastewater, published by the American Public Health Association, and shall be determined at the control manhole provided or upon suitable samples taken at the control manhole, except for applications for NPDES permits and reports thereof, which shall be conducted in accordance with the rules and regulations adopted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and published in the Federal Register on October 16, 1973 (40 C.F.R. 136.1 et seq.) and any subsequent revisions, subject to approval by the town.
(F) In the event that no special manhole has been required, the control manhole shall be considered to be the downstream manhole in the public sewer nearest to the point at which the building sewer is connected. Sampling shall be carried out by customarily accepted methods to reflect the effect of constituents upon the sewage works and to determine the existence of hazards to life, limb, and property. (The particular analyses involved will determine whether a 24-hour composite of all outfalls of the premises is appropriate or whether a grab sample or samples should be taken. Normally, but not always, BOD and suspended solids analyses are obtained from 24-hour composites of all outfalls, whereas pHs are determined from periodic grab samples.)
(G) No statement contained in this section shall be construed as preventing any special agreement or arrangement between the town and any industrial concern whereby an industrial waste of unusual strength or character may be accepted by the town for treatment, subject to payment therefor by the industrial concern at rates as are compatible with §§ 52.110et seq. and the appendices to this chapter.
(1985 Code, § 350-35) (Ord. 81-1, passed 5-18-1981)