(a) No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any storm water, surface water, ground water, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, uncontaminated cooling water or unpolluted industrial process waters to any sanitary sewer.
(b) Storm water, surface drainage, subsurface drainage, ground water, roof runoff, uncontaminated cooling water and all other unpolluted drainage shall be discharged to such sewers as are specifically designated as combined sewers or storm sewers or to a natural outlet approved by the Service Director. Industrial cooling water or unpolluted processed waters may be discharged to a storm sewer or natural outlet in accordance with State and Federal regulations and on approval of the Service Director.
(c) Anyone proposing to discharge any pollutant, including non-contact cooling water, to the waters of the State must submit an NPDES permit application to the Ohio EPA no later than 180 days prior to any discharge.
(d) No person shall be permitted to connect to, or discharge wastewater to, the sewage system, unless it has been determined by the Authority that there is sufficient capacity in the system to collect, convey, and treat the proposed wastewater discharge of such person.
(e) No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged, directly or indirectly any pollutant or wastewater which will interfere with the operation or performance of the POTW. These general prohibitions apply to all users of the POTW whether or not the user is subject to National Categorical Pretreatment Standards (40 CFR Part 403) or any other Federal, State or local pretreatment standards or requirements.
(f) No person sha1i discharge or cause to be discharged any of the following described substances, materials, waters or wastes into any public sewers:
(1) Any wastewater having a temperature which will inhibit biological activity in the POTW resulting in interference, but in no case wastewater with a temperature at the introduction into the POTW which exceeds 150 degrees Fahrenheit or which causes the temperature of the wastewater at the treatment facility to exceed 104 degrees Fahrenheit.
(2) Any liquids, solids or gases which, by reason of their nature or quantity, are or may be sufficient, either alone or by interaction, to cause fire or explosion, including, but not limited to, waste streams with a closed-cup flashpoint of less than 140 degrees Fahrenheit or sixty degrees Centigrade, using the test method specified in 40 CFR 261.21, or be injurious in any other way to the operation of the POTW.
(3) Any water or wastes containing fats, waxes, free oils, emulsified oils and grease exceeding an average of 100 parts per million or in sufficient amounts to pass through or cause interference in the POTW. Any wastewater containing oil, grease or other ether-soluble matter or containing substances which may solidify or become viscous at temperatures between thirty-two degrees Fahrenheit and 150 degrees Fahrenheit.
(4) Any waters or wastes containing toxic or poisonous solids, liquids or gases in sufficient quantity, either singly or by interaction with other wastes, to injure or interfere with any sewage treatment process, to constitute a hazard to humans or animals, to create a public nuisance or to create any hazard in the receiving waters of the sewage treatment plant.
(5) Any garbage that has not been properly shredded to a degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions of the sewer and with no particle greater than one-half inch in any direction. The installation and operation of any garbage grinder with a motor of three-fourths horsepower or larger shall be subject to the approval of the Authority.
(6) Any ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags, feathers, tar, plastics, wood, paunch manure, hair and fleshings, entrails, lime slurry, lime residues, chemical residues, paint residues, cannery waste, bulk solids or any other solid or viscous substance capable of causing an obstruction to the flow in the sewers or other interference with proper operation of the sewage works.
(7) Any substance which may cause the POTW's effluent or treatment residues, sludges or scums to be unsuitable for reclamation and reuse or to interfere with the reclamation process. In no case shall a substance discharged to the POTW cause noncompliance with sludge use or disposal criteria, guidelines or regulations developed under Section 405 of the Act, or with any criteria, guidelines or regulations affecting sludge use or disposal developed pursuant to the Solid Waste Disposal Act, the Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substance Control Act, the Resource Conservation Recovery Act or State standards applicable to the sludge management method being used.
(8) Any noxious or malodorous liquids, gases or solids which, either singly or by interaction, are capable of creating a public nuisance or hazard to life, or are sufficient to prevent entry into the sewers for their maintenance and repair.
(9) Any waters or wastes containing strong acid iron pickling wastes or concentrated plating solutions, whether neutralized or not.
(10) Any waters or wastes containing substances which may cause the treatment plant to exceed NPDES permit limitations.
(11) Any radioactive wastes or isotopes of such half-life or concentration as may exceed limits established by the Authority in compliance with applicable State or Federal regulations.
(12) Any waters or wastes having a pH of less than 5.5 or in excess of 9.0 or having any other corrosive property capable of causing damage or hazard to structures, equipment or personnel of the sewage system.
(13) Materials which cause excessive discoloration such as, but not limited to, dye wastes and vegetable tanning solutions.
(14) Unusual volume of flow or concentration of wastes constituting "slugs," as defined in Section 921.02(74).
(15) Any unpolluted water, including, but not limited to, non-contact cooling water, which is used to dilute process wastewater, or any unpolluted water which is used in any other way as an attempt to dilute a discharge as a partial or complete substitute for adequate treatment, so as to achieve compliance with a pretreatment standard or requirement (40 CFR 403.6(d)), except that such water may be discharged to a sewer which is designated to carry storm water.
(16) Any holding tank discharges or hauled wastes, without prior approval of the Service Director. Any accidental spills or slug discharges to the sewer system should be reported to the Wastewater Superintendent. Such notification should be followed by a written report to the Service Director within five working days describing the materials involved, the cause of the spill or discharge and the preventive measures being taken to correct the cause of such discharge.
(Ord. 21-94. Passed 6-28-94.)
(Ord. 21-94. Passed 6-28-94.)
(17) Detergents, surface-active agents or other pollutants that might cause excessive foaming in the POTW or receiving waters.
(18) Unusual Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD), Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) or Total Suspended Solids (TSS) in quantities as to constitute a significant additional load on the POTW.
(19) Wastewater containing pollutants which are not amenable to transport, treatment or reduction in concentration by the POTW and POTW Treatment Plant processes employed, or are amenable to treatment only to such a degree that the POTW Treatment Plant effluent cannot meet the requirements of regulatory agencies having jurisdiction over discharge of effluent to the receiving waters.
(20) Wastewater which, by interaction with other wastewater in the POTW, releases obnoxious gases, forms suspended solids which interfere with the collection system or creates a condition deleterious to structures and treatment processes.
(21) Wastewater causing two readings on an explosion hazard meter at the point of discharge into the POTW, or at any point in the POTW of more than five percent (5%) or any single reading over ten percent (10%) of the lower explosive limit of the meter.
(22) Liquid wastes from chemical toilets, trailers, campers or other recreational vehicles which have been collected or held in tanks or other containers shall not be discharged into the POTW except at locations authorized by the authority to collect such wastes.
(23) Pollutants, substances or wastewater prohibited by this subsection shall not be processed or stored in such a manner that they could be discharged to the POTW. (Ord. 16-21. Passed 4-27-21.)