(a) There shall be no materials and wastes discharged in concentrations or quantities that will either harm the sewers or POTW; or, have an adverse affect on the receiving stream of POTW; or, will endanger lives, limb, property, or constitute a nuisance.
(b) No person or entity shall discharge, or cause to be discharged, any of the following described waters or wastes to any public sewers or treatment works that can adversely affect the POTW or violate pretreatment requirements:
(1) Any gasoline, benzine, naphtha, fuel oil or other flammable or explosive liquid, solid or gas.
(2) Any waters or wastes having a pH lower than 6.0 or higher than 9.0, or having any other corrosive property capable of causing damage or hazard to the structures, equipment or personnel of the wastewater works.
(3) Solid or viscous substance discharges in quantities or of such size capable of causing obstruction to the flow in sewers or other interferences with the proper operation of the wastewater facilities, such as, but not limited to, ashes, bones, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags, feathers, tar, plastic, wood, unground garbage, whole blood, paunch manure, hair and fleshings, entrails and paper dishes, cups, milk containers, etc., either whole or ground by garbage grinders.
(4) A discharge that may allow pollutants to pass through the treatment system and violate the POTW's NPDES permit or Ohio WQS regulations.
(5) A discharge that poses fire or explosive hazards to POTW.
(6) Wastewater having a temperature higher than 150 degrees Fahrenheit; and/or, a discharge that may inhibit POTW biological activity due to POTW influent temperature reaching 104 degrees Fahrenheit or higher.
(7) Wastewater containing more than twenty milligrams per liter (20 mg/l) of petroleum oil, nonbiodegradable cutting oils, products of mineral oil origin or floatable oils, fat, wax or grease.
(8) Any garbage that has not been properly shredded. Garbage grinders may be connected to sanitary sewer from homes, hotels, institutions, restaurants, hospitals, catering establishments or similar places where garbage originates from the preparation of food in kitchens for the purpose of consumption on the premises or when served by caterers.
(9) A discharge of unacceptable industrial wastewater into the collection system which, directly or indirectly, is prohibited. With the exceptions of the O.D.R.C prisons, the SIU businesses with indirect discharge permits, and their associated compliance limits, the following current concentrations shall not be exceeded in any wastes discharged to the Village:
A. Total cyanide (CN): 0.5 mg/l (milligrams SSSS per liter);
B. Hexavalent chromium: 300 ug/l (micrograms per liter);
C. Copper: 500 ug/l;
D. Zinc: 500 ug/l;
E. Cadmium: 200 ug/l;
F. Nickel: 500 ug/l;
G. Phenols: 0.2 mg/l;
H. Lead: 500 ug/l;
I. Mercury: 75 ng/l (nanograms per liter);
J. Silver 200 ug/l;
K. Arsenic: 200 ug/l;
L. Benzene, Toluene, Ethyl benzene, and xylene: 10 ug/l;
M. Molybdenum: 500 ug/l;
N. Selenium: 200 ug/l;
These maximum concentrations may be changed as necessary by the Superintendent or State regulatory agencies, based on new information concerning inhibitory substances or to protect treatment plant processes. Industrial dischargers covered by Federal pretreatment requirements shall meet those limitations specified under the effluent guidelines published under Section 304(b) and 307(b) of the Act or the above concentrations, whichever is more stringent. Any business possessing an IDP may have effluent compliance concentrations different than the aforementioned; and, it would be required to meet its limits. The O.D.R.C. prisons also have compliance limits that they are to meet - greater or lesser than ordinance values.
(10) Any waters or wastewaters containing solids, liquids, or gasses in sufficient quantity to constitute a hazard to humans, or to change or interfere with the wastewater process.
(11) Any waters or wastes containing odor-producing substances exceeding limits which may be established by the Superintendent or any local or State regulatory agencies.
(12) Any radioactive wastes or isotopes of such half-life or concentration as may exceed limits in compliance with applicable State or Federal regulations.
(13) Quantities of flow or concentrations, or both, which constitute a "slug" as previously defined.
(14) Waters or wastes containing substances which are not amenable to treatment or reduction by the wastewater treatment processing employed, or which are amenable only to such a degree that the wastewater treatment plant effluent cannot meet the requirements of other agencies having jurisdiction over discharge to the receiving waters; or substances that would result in a violation of the NPDES permit.
(15) Any water or wastes which, by interaction with other water or wastes in the public sewer system, release obnoxious gases, form suspended solids which interfere with the collection system, or create a condition deleterious to structures and treatment processes.
(16) Any wastes with objectionable color not removable by the treatment process.
(17) A discharge that poses acute worker health and safety concerns due to toxic gases, vapors, or fumes.
(18) A discharge of any trucked or hauled pollutants except at approved designated locations specified by POTW.
(19) A discharge that contains fats, oils, or grease of animal or vegetable origin in concentrations greater than 20 mg/l.
(20) A discharge containing a toxic or poisonous substance in sufficient quantities to injure or interfere with a POTW process, create a hazard to living things, or cause a hazard in the effluent leaving the POTW.
(21) A discharge which is capable of creating a noxious or malodorous smell creating a public nuisance.
(c) All testing to identify any of the above-mentioned pollutants, waters or wastes shall be in accordance with the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater; or by methods indicated in POTW’s permit requirements.
(d) The Superintendent may set compliance levels lower if, in his opinion, more stringent values are necessary to meet the POTW’s objectives.
(e) Deliberate dilution with unpolluted water to meet compliance levels shall not be acceptable.
(Ord. 13-032. Passed 11-5-13.)