(a) Permit Required. No person shall discharge industrial wastes to the City of Oberlin WEPF without first making application for and complying with requirements stipulated in a wastewater discharge permit issued by the City.
(b) Application. All significant industrial users, and other users as may be required by the City, shall submit an application for a wastewater discharge permit at least ninety calendar days prior to connecting to or discharging to the City of Oberlin WEPF. All existing significant industrial users connected to or discharging to the WEPF, and which have not previously applied for a wastewater discharge permit, shall make application for a discharge permit within ninety calendar days of the effective date of this chapter. New sources shall give estimates of the information requested in paragraphs (b)(4) through (7) hereof. Each application shall include:
(1) The name and address of the applicant;
(2) A list of any environmental control permits held by the facility;
(3) A description of operations, including the nature, rate of production and Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) of the operation(s). This description shall include a schematic process diagram which indicates the point(s) of discharge to the WEPF.
(4) Measured average daily and maximum flows of regulated process wastestreams and other nonregulated wastestreams;
(5) Results of sampling and analysis of regulated pollutants from each regulated process. For pH, cyanide, total phenols, oil and grease, sulfide and volatile organics a minimum of four grab samples must be analyzed. For all other pollutants, a minimum of one twenty-four hour flow proportional composite sample must be obtained. Samples should be taken immediately downstream of pretreatment facilities if such exist or immediately downstream of regulated processes if no pretreatment facilities exist. The samples shall be representative of the daily operations.
(6) Raw materials utilized and their amounts;
(7) The type and amount of product produced. For industrial users subject to equivalent mass or concentration limits established by the City, this report shall include a reasonable measure of the industrial user's long- term production rate. For industrial users subject to production based standards, this report shall include the industrial user's actual production during the appropriate sampling period.
(8) Where additional pretreatment and/or operation and maintenance activities will be required to comply with this chapter, the industrial user shall provide a declaration of the shortest schedule by which the industrial user will provide such additional pretreatment according to the conditions set forth in Section 915.23 ("Compliance Schedules").
(9) The certification statement signed by an authorized representative as required in Section 915.22(e) ("Certification").
(Ord. 95-20AC. Passed 4-3-95.)