915.001 Method of using references.
915.002 Introduction, findings, and declaration of policy.
915.003 Applicability.
915.004 Purpose and policy.
915.005 Conflicts.
GENERAL
915.010 Definitions.
REGULATIONS
915.100 General discharge prohibitions.
915.101 Categorical pretreatment standards.
915.102 Dilution.
915.103 Supplementary limitations.
915.104 Oil and grease prohibition.
915.105 Prohibition of acid and plating wastes.
915.106 Mass limitations.
915.107 Pretreatment of waste.
FEES
915.200 Purpose.
915.201 Sample collection.
915.202 Sample analysis.
915.203 Other charges and fees.
915.204 Reserved for future legislation.
ADMINISTRATION
915.300 Accidental discharges.
915.301 Wastewater discharge permits.
915.302 Baseline report.
915.303 Standards modification.
915.304 Compliance date report.
915.305 Periodic compliance reports.
915.306 Monitoring and sampling analysis.
915.307 Signatory requirements.
915.308 Inspections and sampling.
915.309 Construction of sampling manhole and equipment.
915.310 Confidential information.
915.311 Bypass.
915.312 Notification of change in discharge characteristics.
915.313 Precast sampling and metering manhole detail.
915.314 Notice of violation/repeat sampling and reporting.
ENFORCEMENT
915.400 Emergency suspension of service and discharge permits.
915.401 Revocation of permit and/or termination of treatment services.
915.402 Notification of violation.
915.403 Show cause hearing.
915.404 Judicial proceedings.
915.405 Enforcement actions; annual publication.
915.406 Users request for a hearing before the Water Pollution Control Board.
915.407 Right to appeal.
915.408 Operating upsets or other conditions resulting in noncompliance.
PENALTIES, COSTS AND DAMAGES
915.500 Administrative fees.
915.501 Recovery of costs incurred by City.
915.502 Falsifying information.
915.503 Civil penalties.
915.504 Criminal penalties.
915.505 Payment of fees, costs or penalties.
915.506 Remedies nonexclusive.
MISCELLANEOUS
915.600 Right of revision.
915.601 Records retention.
915.602 Removal credits.
915.603 Net/gross calculations.
915.604 Reserved for future legislation.
915.605 Inconsistency.
SURCHARGE COMPUTATIONS
915.700 Wastes subject to surcharge computation.
915.701 Establishing sewer surcharge.
915.702 Average multiple outlets.
915.703 Determination of flow rate.
915.704 Charges applied when analyses are absent.
915.705 Surcharge formula.
915.706 Use of BOD and COD analyses.
915.707 Annual review of strength surcharge and industrial waste surveillance charges.
915.708 Power to determine surcharge for special wastes.
GREASE TRAP INSPECTION
915.800 Oil and grease prohibition.
915.801 Maintenance.
915.802 Inspection and sampling.
915.803 Manifest and record retention.
915.804 Falsifying information.
915.805 Administrative fees.
915.806 Recovery of costs incurred by City.
915.807 Payments of fees, costs, or penalties.
CROSS REFERENCES
Environmental Protection Agency; regulations - see Ohio R.C. Ch. 3745
Water pollution control - see Ohio R.C. Ch. 6111
Municipal authority - see Ohio R.C. 6111.032
Sewer rules and regulations - see S.U. & P.S. Ch. 913
PREAMBLE
The adoption of rules and regulations is not for the purpose of imposing unnecessary or burdensome regulations upon the use of the sewerage system or wastewater treatment plants of the City of Lorain, Ohio by industrial users, but only to provide for the orderly conduct of the business of the City Utilities Department, in order to prevent the pollution of our natural waterways and the protection of our publicly owned treatment words and our environment.
(Ord. 30-14. Passed 3-3-14.)
In order to establish a format which shall enable persons to read and interpret this chapter easily, references have been inserted. References shall be made both to specific Sections and to whole groups of titled Sections which shall be called Sub-Chapters.
Whenever a reference is made to a specific Sub-Chapter, for example 915.300, the whole group of Sections within the titled Sub-Chapter shall be considered and any pertinent Sections shall apply.
Whenever a reference is made to a specific Section, for example 915.308, only that Section referred to is pertinent. (Ord. 30-14. Passed 3-3-14.)
The City Division of Water Pollution Control, hereby finds that the requirements for the issuance of federal grants and the acceptance of such grants by the Division of Water Pollution Control, under Title II of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972, as amended (Public Law 92-500, as amended) and the regulations of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, for the construction of waste treatment works to improve the quality of effluent discharges from the City Publicly Owned Treatment Works ("POTW") establish the necessity for direct and indirect contributors into the wastewater POTW to develop an industrial pretreatment program, pursuant to 40 CFR, Part 403, and MCD 43.
(Ord. 30-14. Passed 3-3-14.)
The pretreatment regulations are applicable to all industrial users discharging to the POTW whether the industry is classified as a categorical, or a noncategorical industrial user.
(Ord. 30-14. Passed 3-3-14.)
(a) These regulations set forth uniform requirements for discharges into the POTW, and enables the City to protect public health in conformity with all applicable, local, State and Federal laws relating thereto.
(b) The object of these regulations are:
(1) To satisfy the State and Federal requirements that the Sewer District develop and implement an industrial waste control program in compliance with the Clean Water Act of 1977 and General Pretreatment Regulations for New and Existing Sources 40 CFR, Part 403;
(2) To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the POTW which will interfere with the normal operation of the POTW or contaminate the resulting municipal sludge;
(3) To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the POTW which do not receive adequate treatment in the POTW, and which will pass through the POTW into receiving waters or the atmosphere or otherwise be incompatible with the system;
(4) To improve the opportunity to recycle and reclaim wastewater and sludge from the POTW;
(5) To enforce the City pretreatment program as described in the final pretreatment program submitted to Ohio EPA as amended;
(6) To protect both POTW personnel who may be affected by wastewater and sludge in the course of their employment and the general public;
(7) To enable the City to comply with its National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit conditions, sludge use and disposal requirements, and any other Federal or State laws to which the POTW is subjected.
(c) The Water Pollution Control Board may amend these regulations as necessary to comply with all applicable local, State and Federal laws.
(Ord. 30-14. Passed 3-3-14.)
These regulations provide for the regulation of discharges into the POTW and shall be effective to the extent not in conflict with the Codified Ordinance of the City of Lorain. When the regulation of this Code conflicts with other administrative regulations, the more stringent of the regulations shall be controlling. (Ord. 30-14. Passed 3-3-14.)
GENERAL
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