(A) Enactment: Pursuant to the requirements of the clean water act amendments 106 and regulations promulgated thereunder, the Illinois environmental protection act of 1970, as amended 107 , and in accordance with 65 Illinois Compiled Statutes 5/11-139-1 et seq., this chapter is hereby enacted by the city council. The city council is hereafter referred to as "the publicly owned treatment works" or as "the POTW".
(B) Purpose And Policy: This chapter regulates the use of sewers, private wastewater disposal, and the discharge of wastewater into the POTW wastewater system. This chapter sets forth uniform requirements for discharges into the wastewater collection and treatment system for the POTW. The objectives of this chapter are to:
1. Regulate private wastewater disposal systems;
2. Prevent the introduction of pollutants into the POTW wastewater system that will interfere with the operation of the POTW wastewater system, including interference with its use or disposal of municipal sludge;
3. Prevent the introduction of pollutants into the POTW wastewater system which will pass through the treatment works or otherwise be incompatible with such works; and
4. Improve opportunities to recycle and reclaim municipal and industrial wastewaters and sludges.
(C) Jurisdiction: This chapter shall apply to the POTW and to persons outside the POTW who are, by contract or agreement with the POTW, users of the POTW.
(D) Right Of Revision: The POTW reserves the right to establish by ordinance more stringent limitations or requirements on discharges to the POTW.
(E) Administration: Except as otherwise provided herein, the superintendent of the POTW shall administer, implement and enforce the provisions of this chapter. (Ord. 85-715, 6-17-1985)
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| 106 | 33 USC 1311 et seq. |
| 107 | 415 ILCS 5/1 et seq. |
(A) Abbreviations: The following abbreviations shall have the designated meanings:
BOD Biochemical oxygen demand
CFR Code of federal regulations
COD Chemical oxygen demand
FOG Fats, oils and grease
IEPA Illinois environmental protection agency
mg/l Milligrams per liter
NCPS National categorical pretreatment standards
NPDES National pollutant discharge elimination system
POTW Publicly owned treatment works
PSES Pretreatment standards for existing sources
PSNS Pretreatment standards for new sources
RCRA Resource conservation and recovery act
SIC Standard industrial classification
SWDA Solid waste disposal act 108
TSS Total suspended solids
TTO Total toxic organics
USC United States code
USEPA United States environmental protection agency
A: As in "cyanide-A" means amenable to alkaline chlorination.
ACT: The federal water pollution control act, also known as the clean water act, as amended 109 .
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF INDUSTRIAL USER: 1. Either:
(a) A principal executive officer of at least the level of vice president, if the industrial user is a corporation.
(b) A general partner or proprietor if the industrial user is a partnership or proprietorship, respectively.
(c) A duly authorized representative of the individual designated above.
2. A person is a duly authorized representative only if the authorization is made in writing to the POTW by a person described above.
BASELINE REPORT: That report required by 40 CFR section 403.12(b)(1-7).
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD): The quantity of oxygen, expressed in mg/l, utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures as described in "Standard Methods".
CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (COD): The quantity of oxygen consumed from a chemical oxidant (standard potassium dichromate solution) under standard laboratory procedures as described in "Standard Methods".
COMBINED WASTE STREAM FORMULA: The formula as found in 40 CFR section 406.6(e).
COMPATIBLE POLLUTANT: Biochemical oxygen demand, chemical oxygen demand, FOG, suspended solids, pH and fecal coliform bacteria.
COMPOSITE SAMPLE: A sample of wastewater based on a flow proportional or time proportional method.
CONSISTENT POTW TREATMENT WORKS REMOVAL, POLLUTANT REMOVAL OR REMOVAL: Reduction in the amount of a pollutant or alteration of the nature or concentration of a pollutant in the influent of the POTW to a less incompatible or concentrated state in the effluent. Consistent POTW removal efficiency shall be the difference between the average concentration of the pollutant in the influent of the treatment plant and the average concentration of the pollutant in the effluent of the treatment plant divided by the average concentration of the pollutant in the influent.
COOLING WATER: The water discharged from any use such as air conditioning, cooling or refrigeration, to which the only pollutant added is heat.
DIRECTOR: The director of IEPA.
EXISTING SOURCE: Any building, structure, facility or installation from which there is or may be a discharge, which is not a new source.
FATS, OIL OR GREASE (FOG): Any hydrocarbons, fatty acids, soaps, fats, waxes and any other material that is extracted by trichlorotrifluoroethane solvent.
FECAL COLIFORM: Any number of organisms common to intestinal tract of man and animals whose presence in sanitary sewage is an indicator of pollution.
FLOW: Volume of wastewater per unit of time.
GARBAGE: Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the commercial handling, storage and sale of produce.
GRAB SAMPLE: A sample which is taken from a waste stream on a one time basis without regard to the flow in the waste stream and without consideration of time.
INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANT: All pollutants other than compatible pollutants as defined in this section.
INDIRECT DISCHARGE OR DISCHARGE: The introduction of pollutants into the POTW from any nondomestic source regulated under section 307(b), (c) or (d) of the act.
INDUSTRIAL USER: A source of indirect discharge, including, but not limited to, manufacturing, commercial or process facility or other facility engaged in the purchase or sale of goods, transaction of business or who otherwise renders services to the public.
INTERFERENCE: An inhibition or disruption of the POTW, its treatment processes or operations, or its sludge processes, use or disposal which is a cause of or significantly contributes to either a violation of any requirement of the POTW's NPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation) or to the prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal by the POTW in accordance with the following statutory provisions and regulations or permits issued thereunder (or more stringent state or local regulations: section 405 of the clean water act, the solid waste disposal act (SWDA) (including title II, more commonly referred to as the "Resource Conservation and Recovery Act" [RCRA] and including state regulations contained in any state sludge management plan prepared pursuant to subtitle D of the SWDA), the clean air act, and the toxic substances control act.
An industrial user significantly contributes to such a permit violation or prevention of sludge use or disposal in accordance with above cited authorities whenever such user:
1. Discharges a daily pollutant loading in excess of that allowed by permit with the POTW or by federal, state or local law;
2. Discharges wastewater which substantially differs in nature or constituents from the user's average discharge; or
3. Knows or has reason to know that its discharge, alone or in conjunction with discharges from other sources, would result in a POTW permit violation or prevent sewage sludge use or disposal in accordance with the above cited authorities as they apply to the POTW's selected method of sludge management.
NATIONAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD: Any pretreatment standard specifying quantities or concentrations of pollutants which may be discharged to a POTW by industrial users in specific industrial subcategories as established in regulations promulgated from time to time by the USEPA in 40 CFR chapter I, subchapter N.
NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM PERMIT (NPDES PERMIT): A permit issued under the national pollutant discharge elimination system for discharge of wastewaters to the navigable waters of the United States pursuant to the act.
NEW SOURCE: Any building, structure, facility or installation from which there is or may be a discharge of pollutants, the construction of which commenced after the publication of proposed pretreatment standards under section 307(c) of the act which will be applicable to such source if such standards are thereafter promulgated in accordance with that section.
If national categorical pretreatment standards are not applicable, "new source" shall mean any building, structure, facility or installation from which there is or may be a discharge of pollutants, the remodeling (if that remodeling could result in the assigning by the POTW of a new standard industrial classification code) or the construction of which commences after the effective date of this chapter.
POTW TREATMENT PLANT: That portion of the POTW which is designed to provide treatment (including recycling and reclamation) of municipal sewage and industrial waste.
PASS THROUGH: The discharge of pollutants through the POTW into navigable waters in quantities or concentrations which are a cause of or significantly contribute to a violation of any requirement of the POTW's NPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation). An industrial user significantly contributes to such permit violation where it:
1. Discharges a daily pollutant loading in excess of that allowed by permit and with the POTW or by federal, state or local law;
2. Discharges wastewater which substantially differs in nature and constituents from the user's average discharge;
3. Knows or has reason to know that its discharge, alone or in conjunction with discharges from other sources, would result in a permit violation; or
4. Knows or has reason to know that the POTW is, for any reason, violating its final effluent limitations in its permit and that such industrial user's discharge either alone or in conjunction with discharges from other sources, increases the magnitude or duration of the POTW's violations.
PERMITTED WASTEWATER HAULER VEHICLE: A vehicle used for hauling wastewater, which has been granted a permit under the requirements of this chapter.
PERSON: Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
pH: The intensity of the acid or base condition of a solution, calculated by taking the logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen ion concentration.
POLLUTANT: Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discharged equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt or industrial, municipal and agricultural waste discharged into water.
PRETREATMENT: The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of the pollutant properties in wastewater to a less harmful state prior to or in lieu of discharging or otherwise introducing such pollutants into the POTW.
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS: Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment, other than a pretreatment standard, imposed on an industrial user.
PRETREATMENT STANDARDS: For any specified pollutant, prohibitive discharge standards as set forth in section 300.15, specific limitations on discharge as set forth in section 300.110, the state pretreatment standards or the applicable national categorical pretreatment standards, whichever standard is most stringent.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW): A treatment works as defined by section 212 of the act, owned by the city. This definition includes any devices and systems used in the storage, treatment, recycling and reclamation of municipal sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid nature that convey wastewater to the POTW treatment plant regardless of ownership, but does not include sewers, pipes and other conveyances not connected to the POTW treatment plant. The term also means city of Flora, which has jurisdiction over the indirect discharges to and the discharges from such a treatment works.
SANITARY SEWER: A sewer which is designed to carry sanitary and industrial wastewater and to which storm, surface and ground water are not intentionally admitted.
SHALL AND MAY: "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER: Any industrial user of the POTW's wastewater disposal system who:
1. Has a discharge flow of two thousand (2,000) gallons or more per average workday; or
2. Has a discharge flow greater than three-tenths of a percent (0.3%) of the flow in the POTW's wastewater treatment system; or
3. Has in its wastewater incompatible pollutants as defined pursuant to section 307 of the act or by state statutes, or by applicable federal or state rules and regulations; or
4. Is found by the POTW, IEPA or USEPA to have significant impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on the wastewater treatment system, the quality of sludge, the system's effluent quality or air emissions generated by the system; or
5. Is subject to any national categorical pretreatment standard.
SIGNIFICANT VIOLATION: A violation of this chapter which remains uncorrected forty five (45) days after notification of such noncompliance; which is part of a pattern of noncompliance over a twelve (12) month period; which involves failure to accurately report noncompliance; or which resulted in the POTW exercising its emergency authority under sections 500.115, 500.120 or 500.130.
SLUDGE: The settleable solids separated from the liquids during the wastewater treatment processes.
SLUG: Any discharge of water or wastewater which, in concentration of any given pollutant, as measured by a grab sample, exceeds more than five (5) times the allowable concentrations as set forth in section 7-5-3 of this chapter or any pollutant, including oxygen demanding pollutants (BOD, etc.) released in a discharge at a flow rate and/or pollutant concentration which will cause interference with the POTW.
SUPERINTENDENT: The chief administrator of the POTW treatment works.
T: As in "cyanide-T" means total.
TOTAL SOLIDS: The sum of suspended and dissolved solids.
TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS (TSS): Total suspended matter, expressed in milligrams per liter, that either floats on the surface of, or is in suspension in water, wastewater and other liquids and is removable by laboratory filtration using a Reeve angel type 934A or 984H glass fiber filter disc as prescribed in "Standard Methods".
TOTAL TOXIC ORGANICS: The summation of all quantified values greater than one one-hundredth milligram per liter (0.01 mg/l) for the toxic organics as specified in the applicable regulation.
UNPOLLUTED WATER: Water of quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria set forth in 35 Illinois administrative code part 304 or water that would not cause violation of receiving water quality standards set forth in 35 Illinois administrative code parts 302 and 303 and would not be benefited by discharge to the sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
UPSET: An exceptional incident in which there is unintentional and temporary noncompliance with categorical pretreatment standards because of factors beyond the reasonable control of the industrial user. An upset does not include noncompliance to the extent caused by operational error, improperly designed treatment facilities, inadequate treatment facilities, lack of preventive maintenance or careless or improper operation.
USER: Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution of wastewater into the POTW treatment plant.
WASTEWATER: The combination of the liquid and water carrying wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions, including polluted cooling water.
Sanitary Wastewater: The combination of liquid and water carried wastes discharged from toilet and other sanitary plumbing facilities.
Industrial Wastewater: A combination of liquid and water carried waste, discharged from any industrial user including the wastewater from pretreatment facilities and polluted cooling water.
WASTEWATER DISCHARGE PERMIT: The document or documents allowing discharge to the POTW issued to a user by the POTW in accordance with the terms of this chapter.
WASTEWATER HAULER: Any person, partnership or corporation engaged in transporting sanitary wastewater as a commercial venture.
WATERS OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS: All streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems, drainage systems and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface or underground, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained within, flow through or border upon the state or any portion thereof. (Ord. 85-715, 6-17-1985)
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| 108 | 42 USC 6901 et seq. |
| 109 | 33 USC 1251 et seq. |
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