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When necessary, by contract or ordinance, to establish additional rates to be charged for specific types of wastes not covered in the surcharge computation, the Director shall determine a method by which to establish such a rate.
(Ord. 30-14. Passed 3-3-14.)
GREASE TRAP INSPECTION
Discharges of petroleum oil, nondegradeable cutting oil or products of mineral-oil origin are now prohibited if discharged in amounts that cause pass through or cause interference. At no time shall any water or waste be discharged containing fats, was or grease (whether emulsified or not), in excess of eighty (80) mg/l ether soluble or containing substances which may solidify or become viscous at temperatures between thirty-two degrees Fahrenheit (32oF) or zero degrees Centigrade (0oC) and 140 degrees Fahrenheit (140oF) or sixty degrees Centigrade (60oC).
(Ord. 30-14. Passed 3-3-14.)
Where installed, all grease traps shall be maintained by the owner, at his expense, in continuously efficient operation at all times:
(a) Grease traps must be skimmed of grease at least once per week and maintain a log with time, date, and who did the skimming.
(b) Skimming the grease can be accomplished with a tool specifically made to remove solidified grease, or you can contact the City of Lorain's Health Department for recommendations.
(c) At no time shall any vendor add enzymes or any biological or chemical additives to meet these requirements. (Ord. 30-14. Passed 3-3-14.)
Designated Inspectors shall inspect the facilities and the process and operation records of any user to determine compliance with the requirements of these regulations. The user shall allow the Inspector or its representatives, upon presentation of credentials of identification, access to all process and operation documents and to enter upon the premises of the user at all reasonable hours for the purposes of inspection, sampling, or records examination. Reasonable hours, at a minimum, shall include any time an industrial user has employees on the premises. The Inspector shall have the right to set up on the user's property such devices as are necessary to conduct sampling, inspection, compliance, monitoring and/or metering operations. The Inspector shall at all times, have free access to the premises, process and operation records of any user, and free access to the premises and process operation records of any person reasonably believed by the Inspector to be a user or possible user, for the purpose of inspecting, sampling or testing the discharge emanating therefrom, or any discharge which may emanate therefrom in order to determine whether such discharges, or potential discharge, is acceptable or unacceptable to the City. (Ord. 30-14. Passed 3-3-14.)
All vendors subject to these rules and regulations shall retain and preserve for no less than three (3) years any records, books, documents, memoranda, reports, correspondence and any and all summaries thereof, relating to monitoring, sampling and chemical analyses made by or in behalf of an industrial user in connection with its discharge. All records which pertain to matters which are brought by the City pursuant hereto shall be retained and preserved by the industrial user until all enforcement activities have concluded and all periods of limitation with respect to any and all appeals have expired.
(Ord. 30-14. Passed 3-3-14.)
Any person who knowingly makes any false statement, representation or certification in any application, record, plan or other document filed or required to be maintained pursuant to these rules and regulations, or who falsifies, tampers with, or knowingly renders inaccurate any monitoring device or method required under these rules and regulations, shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a first degree misdemeanor. (Ord. 30-14. Passed 3-3-14.)
(a) Any vendor who fails to comply with any provision of this chapter shall be subject to a maximum administrative fee as follows:
2014 Fee | |
First violation within a six-month period | $100.00 per violation |
Second violation within a six-month period | $250.00 per violation |
The Water Pollution Control Board may periodically review and amend fees as necessary. | |
(b) Such notice shall be delivered to the vendor personally or by certified mail, return receipt requested, as part of a proposed enforcement action pursuant to Section 915.402 or Section 915.403. For purposes of these administrative fines, each day on which a violation shall occur or continue shall be deemed a separate and distinct offense. The industrial user shall appeal any fees or fines imposed to the Water Pollution Control Board as described in Section 915.406 within thirty days. Upon receipt of said appeal, the Board shall hold a hearing consistent with Section 915.403. (Ord. 30-14. Passed 3-3-14.)
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