(a) If any water or wastes are discharged or are proposed to be discharged to the public sewers, which water or wastes contain the substances or possess the characteristics enumerated in Section 1040.08(a), 1043.08(c) and (d), and which, in the judgment of the Superintendent, may have a deleterious effect upon the wastewater facilities, processes, equipment or receiving waters, including a violation of applicable water quality standards, or which otherwise create a hazard to life or constitute a public nuisance, the Superintendent may:
(1) Reject the waste;
(2) Require pretreatment to an acceptable condition for discharge to the public sewers;
(3) Require control over the quantities and rates of discharge; and/or
(4) Require payment to cover the added cost of handling and treating the wastes.
(b) All industrial wastes discharged to the public sewers by major contributing industries shall as a minimum meet the national pretreatment standards or best practical control technology currently available for incompatible pollutants as published in Title 40 CFR Part 128, unless the City is committed, in its NPDES permit, to remove a specified percentage of the incompatible pollutant. In those instances the applicable pretreatment standards may be correspondingly reduced to levels determined by the Superintendent, or his duly authorized representative, or State regulatory agencies.
(c) If the Superintendent requires pretreatment or equalization of waste flow, the design and installation of the plants and equipment shall be subject to the review and approval of the Superintendent and State regulatory agencies and subject to the requirements of all applicable codes, ordinances and laws.
(d) 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.
(e) The City reserves the right to prohibit future connections to the sanitary sewer if sufficient capacity is not available at the receiving sewers or downstream sewers in the collection system or at the wastewater treatment facility, and if, in the judgment of the Superintendent, exceeding the capacity would have a deleterious effect on the collection system and/or the treatment works and its ability to maintain compliance with the NPDES permit.
(Ord. 09-119. Passed 11-17-09.)