(A) Pursuant to the requirements imposed on publicly owned waste water 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 chapter. Any industrial waste discharge which violates these EPA Pretreatment Standards shall be in violation of this chapter.
(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(s) at his or her expense.
(C) Any person who transports septic tank, seepage pit or cesspool contents, liquid industrial waste or other batch liquid waste and wishes to discharge the waste to the public sewer system shall first obtain permission for the discharge from the Manager. All persons receiving the permission shall abide by all applicable provisions of this chapter, and any other special provisions that may be established by the Manager as necessary for the proper operation and maintenance of the sewerage system.
(1) In addition, any person holding a valid permit and wishing to discharge to the waste water treatment plant must submit, to the Manager, 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.
(2) 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 discharge specified by the Manager for such purposes.
(3) Waste haulers who have been granted permission to discharge to the public sewer system shall pay fees for such discharge in accordance with a fee schedule established by the Manager 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 by the city for such purposes.
(6) Nothing in this chapter shall relieve waste haulers of the responsibility for compliance with county's Health Department, state or federal regulations.
(7) All grease waste haulers must comply with the requirements in the Hopkinsville Water Environment Authority's Regulation # 09-2016: HWEA Fats, Oils and Grease (FOG) Management Program.
(D) 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 C.F.R. part 261. The notification must include the name of the hazardous waste as set forth in 40 C.F.R. part 261, the EPA hazardous waste number and the type of discharge (continuous, batch or other). If the industrial user discharges more than 100 kilograms of the waste per calendar month to the POTW, the notification shall also contain 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 12 months.
(E) All notifications must take place within 180 days of the effective date of this rule. Industrial users who commence discharging after the effective date of this rule shall provide the notification no later than 180 days after the discharge of the listed or characteristic hazardous waste. Any notification under this division need be submitted only once for hazardous waste discharged. However, notifications of changed discharges must be submitted under 40 C.F.R. § 403.12(j). The notification requirements in this section does not apply to pollutants already reported under the self-monitoring requirements of 40 C.F.R. § 403.12(b), (d) and (e).
(F) Dischargers are exempt from the requirements stated in division (E) of this section during a calendar month in which they discharge no more than 15 kilograms of hazardous wastes, unless the wastes are acute hazardous wastes as specified in 40 C.F.R. §§ 261.30(d) and 261.33(e). Discharge of more than 15 kilograms of nonacute hazardous wastes in a calendar month, or any quantity of acute hazardous wastes as specified in 40 C.F.R. §§ 261.30(d) and 261.33(e), requires a one-time notification.
(G) Subsequent months during which the industrial user discharges more than such quantities of any hazardous waste do not require additional notification.
(H) In case of any new regulations under § 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 Waste Division Director and state hazardous waste authorities of the discharge of the substance within 90 days of the effective date of the regulations. 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. 7-92, passed 2-4-1992; Ord. 26-2019, passed 12-17-2019) Penalty, see § 52.999