(A) Pursuant to the requirements imposed on publicly owned wastewater treatment works by the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 and later amendments, all pretreatment standards promulgated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for new and existing industrial dischargers to public sewer systems are hereby made a part of this article. Any industrial waste discharge which violates these EPA Pretreatment Standards shall be in violation of this article.
(B) Where pretreatment or flow equalizing facilities are provided or required for any waters or wastes, they shall be maintained continuously in satisfactory and effective operation by the owner or owners at his expense.
(C) (1) Any person who transports septic tank, seepage pit, or cesspool contents, liquid industrial waste, or other batch liquid waste and wishes to discharge that waste to the public sewer system shall first obtain written permission for the discharge from the Superintendent. All persons receiving the permission shall abide by all applicable provisions of this article, and any other special provisions that may be established by the Superintendent as necessary for the proper operation and maintenance of the sewerage system.
(2) In addition, any person holding a valid permit and wishing to discharge to the wastewater treatment plant must submit, to the Superintendent, a sample of each load prior to discharge. A fee and payment schedule shall be established in the permit to cover the cost of the required analyses.
(3) Waste haulers who have been granted permission to discharge to the public sewer system shall pay fees for the discharge in accordance with a fee schedule established by the Superintendent and approved by the city.
(4) It shall be illegal to discharge any batch liquid waste into any manhole or other part of the public sewer system, or any building sewer or other facility that discharges to the public sewer system, except at designated points of discharge specified by the city for those purposes.
(5) Any liquid waste hauler caught illegally discharging to the public sewer system shall be subject to immediate revocation of discharge privileges (if granted) and further subject to the penalties prescribed in § 30.999.
(6) Nothing in this article shall relieve waste haulers of the responsibility for compliance with County Health Department, state or federal regulations.
(D) (1) The industrial user shall notify the POTW , the EPA Regional Waste Management Division Director, and state hazardous waste authorities, in writing, of any discharge into the POTW of a substance, which, if otherwise disposed of, would be a hazardous waste under 40 CFR part 261.
(a) The notification must include the name of the hazardous waste as set forth in 40 CFR part 261, the EPA hazardous waste number, and the type of discharge (continuous, batch, or other).
(b) If the industrial user discharges more than one hundred (100) kilograms of such waste per calendar month to the POTW, the notification shall also containing the following information to the extent the information is known and readily available to the industrial user:
1. An identification of the hazardous constituents contained in the wastes;
2. An estimation of the mass and concentration of the constituents in the wastestream discharged during that calendar month; and
3. An estimation of the mass of constituents in the wastestream expected to be discharged during the following twelve (12) months.
(c) All notifications must take place within one hundred eighty (180) days after the discharge of the listed or characteristic hazardous waste.
(d) Any notification under this subparagraph need by submitted only once for each hazardous waste discharged. However, notifications of changed discharges must be submitted under 40 CFR 403.12(j).
(e) The notification requirement in this section does not apply to pollutants already reported under the self-monitoring requirements of 40 CFR 403.12(b), (d), and (e).
(2) Dischargers are exempt from the requirements stated in subparagraph (1) above, during a calendar month in which they discharge no more than fifteen (15) kilograms of hazardous wastes, unless the wastes are acute hazardous wastes as specified in 40 CFR 261.30(d) and 261.33(e). Discharge of more than fifteen (15) kilograms of non-acute hazardous wastes in a calendar month, or of any quantity of acute hazardous wastes as specified in 40 CFR 261.30(d) and 261.33(e), requires a one-time notification.
(3) Subsequent months during which the industrial user discharges more than such quantities of any hazardous waste do not require additional notification.
(4) In the case of any new regulations under Section 3001 of RCRA, identifying additional characteristics of hazardous waste or listing any additional substance as a hazardous waste, the industrial user must notify the POTW, the EPA Regional Waste Management Division Director and state hazardous waste authorities of the discharge of such substance within ninety (90) days of the effective date of such regulations.
(5) In the case of any notification made under this provision, the industrial user shall certify that it has a program in place to reduce the volume and toxicity of hazardous wastes generated to the degree it has determined to be economically practical.
(Ord. 5-1996, passed 2-12-96)
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Cross reference:
Penalty for violation, see § 30.999