(a) All nondomestic users which discharge into the POTW shall be grouped according to the following definitions:
(1) Group I significant industrial users;
(2) Group II commercial facilities and non-significant industrial users (NSIU). Those commercial facilities and industrial users which are not included in Group I. Examples include, but are not limited to, automotive service shops, car washes, small food processors and photographic developing shops;
(3) Group III classed high strength users. Restaurants or other businesses which can be classed according to any average strength or abnormal strength of their wastewater;
(4) Group IV wastewater haulers. Septage and chemical toilet waste haulers desiring to discharge into the POTW. Waste must be generated within the city’s service area;
(5) Group V ground water remediation dischargers. Dischargers who are retrieving contaminated underground water, pretreating such water, and then discharging into the POTW; and
(6) Group VI non-significant categorical industrial user (NSCIU). Facility that never discharges categorical wastewater even though categorical process(es) are located on-site.
(b) No Group I, Group IV or Group V or Group VI user shall discharge wastewater into the POTW without first obtaining a wastewater discharge permit from the director.
(c) The director may require any Group II or Group III user to obtain a wastewater discharge permit. Within 30 days after being notified by the director that a wastewater discharge permit is required, the user shall submit a completed application in compliance with this article. After 60 days from the date a Group II or Group III user is notified by the director that a permit is required, the user shall cease discharge to the POTW without a wastewater discharge permit.
(d) Any violation of the terms and/or conditions of a wastewater discharge permit shall be deemed a violation of this article and subjects the wastewater discharge permittee to the sanctions set out in this chapter. Obtaining a wastewater discharge permit does not relieve a permittee of its obligation to comply with all federal and state pretreatment standards or requirements or with any other requirements of federal, state and local law.
(Ord. 12274, § 1, passed 11-28-1995; Ord. 15496, § 11, passed 3-25-2003; Ord. 20043-01-2012, § 9, passed 1-10-2012)