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No person, firm or corporation, wheresoever located inside or outside the City, shall connect with, or discharge into, or cause or permit any discharge into, the sanitary sewer system of the City without first securing permission from the Director, which permission shall be conditioned upon determinations that such connection or discharge will not overload the waste water treatment facilities of the City or cause the City to be in violation of the City's NPDES permit, and upon the obligation and agreement to pay all sewer service charges and fees established therefor by ordinance. The provisions of this chapter and this section of these Codified Ordinances shall be applicable and enforceable by civil or other actions within any territory served by the City's sewerage systems, treatment works or disposal systems regardless of whether the territory served is within the territorial boundaries of the City, as provided by Ohio R.C. 6111.032(B).
(Ord. 180-1992. Passed 6-29-92.)
An extra loading surcharge (“ELS”) shall be paid by each industrial user discharging wastes into the City's sanitary sewer system having loadings of suspended solids (“SS”), biochemical oxygen demand material (“BOD”), phosphorus (“P”) and/or oil and grease (“O&G”) in excess of the ordinary household wastes (“OW”) loadings for which the plant was designed, that being OW having concentrations not in excess of 250 mg/l of SS, 185 mg/l of BOD, nine mg/l of P, and fifty mg/l of O&G. The ELS may be established by ordinance, but shall be equal at least to the cost of treatment of all poundage in excess of OW loadings at the per pound treatment costs for SS, BOD, P and/or O&G as determined by the Service Director.
The extent to which such loadings are in excess of the stated OW loadings shall be determined by the Director from the samples taken by or under the direction of the Director and from the samples taken by the respective users for reporting in the self-monitoring reports. In cases where the data collected are insufficient, in the opinion of the Director, or disputed by the user, the Director may order special sampling requirements or order that the effluent of the user shall be metered by a sewer meter approved by the Director and to be installed with such sampling requirements as the Director shall order and approve therewith, all at the expense of the user. The Director's determination of loadings in excess of OW loadings and orders requiring meter installation and sampling shall be final.
Any ELS or ELS adjustment billed pursuant to this section shall be payable within thirty days. If not paid within such time, the permittee shall be considered in default of permit obligations which shall be a ground for revocation or suspension of the permit.
(Ord. 180-1992. Passed 6-29-92.)
(a) No industrial waste shall be deposited or drained into any storm or sanitary sewer or any waterway of the City unless the person served by the connection to the sewer system obtains a permit as herein provided. Application for such permit shall be made to the Director on forms he or she prescribes and the application shall contain the following information:
(1) Such information as is required by Section 923.02 and regulations adopted pursuant thereto;
(2) Such other information as the Director may reasonably require.
(b) No industrial waste shall be deposited or drained onto ground level whereby natural drainage would result in the flow of such material into the sewer system of the City.
(c) The fees and charges to be paid by industrial users for discharge permits may be as established by ordinance, but shall be charged and apportioned by the Service Director so as to recover the costs of administration, regulation, monitoring and testing under the pretreatment program of the City, which shall include at a minimum:
(1) A fee of one hundred dollars ($100.00) to be paid with each application as a condition of the issuance of the permit as and for processing, administration and general monitoring costs; and
(2) The actual costs incurred for monitoring and testing mandated or required by the pretreatment program under the ordinances and regulations of the City and the Federal and Ohio Environmental Protection Agency statutes and regulations pertaining thereto.
Any monitoring and testing charges billed to an industrial discharge permittee shall be payable within thirty days and, if not paid within such time, the permittee shall be considered in default of permit obligations which shall be a ground for revocation or suspension of the permit.
(Ord. 180-1992. Passed 6-29-92.)
The Director has power to revoke or suspend any permit issued for industrial waste sewage where he or she finds that:
(a) The permittee has violated any of the ordinances of the City and rules and regulations pertaining to the operation and maintenance of the sewer system.
(b) Any material statement in the application is untrue.
(c) The industrial wastes are injurious to the sewer system, or the sewer system cannot adequately and without damage carry away such industrial waste.
(d) For such other and further reasons provided in Section 923.02 and regulations adopted pursuant thereto.
The Director may revoke any permit or make its continuance subject to administrative orders whenever he or she finds it necessary for the protection of the public health and welfare.
The Director shall keep a record of all applications and of all orders pertaining thereto.
(Ord. 180-1992. Passed 6-29-92.)
The penalty provided in Section 923.99 for violations of this chapter shall be in addition to any damages to be recovered in a civil action brought in the name of the City.
(Ord. 180-1992. Passed 6-29-92.)
(a) Any person or legal entity required by any applicable state and/or Federal laws and/or regulations to report the composition, quantities and concentrations of hazardous wastes to be stored, treated or disposed of shall supply similar information to the Director of Service or his or her designee within sixty days of materially ceasing operations.
(b) Any person or legal entity materially ceasing operations at a location at which hazardous waste is or has been stored, treated or disposed of shall, within ninety days of such cessation, submit to the Director of Service a plan for the removal of all such waste within one calendar year.
(c) For purposes of this section, the definition of “hazardous waste” as it is set forth in Ohio R.C. 3734.01(J) is adopted.
(Ord. 183-1993. Passed 10-4-93.)
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