933.01 Definitions.
933.02 Private sewage disposal.
933.03 Prohibited discharges.
933.04 Limitations on wastewater strength.
933.05 Accidental discharges.
933.06 Wastewater dischargers.
933.07 Enforcement.
CROSS REFERENCES
Untreated sewerage - see Ohio R.C. 3701.59
Household sewage disposal system - see OAC Ch. 3701-29
Sewers - see S. U. & P. S. Ch. 925
Sewer rates - see S. U. & P. S. Ch. 929
(a) Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
(1) "Authorized representative of industrial user" means an authorized representative of an industrial user who may be: a principal executive officer of at least the level of vice-president, if the industrial user is a corporation; a general partner or proprietor if the industrial user is a partnership or proprietorship, respectively; a duly authorized representative of the individual designated above if such representative is responsible for the overall operation of the facilities from which the indirect discharge originates.
(2) "B.O.D." (denoting biochemical oxygen demand) means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at twenty degrees Centigrade, expressed in milligrams per liter by weight.
(3) "Building drain" means that part of the lowest horizonal piping of drainage system which reveives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning three feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
(4) "Building sewer" means the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal, also called"house connections."
(5) "Categorical pretreatment standards" means the national pretreatment standards specifying quantities or concentrations of pollutants or pollutant properties which may be discharged or introduced into a POTW by specific industrial discharges.
(6) "City" means the City of Mansfield, County of Richaland, State of Ohio.
(7) "City Engineer" means the City Engineer, assistant engineers or designated representatives.
(8) "Combined sewer" means a sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
(9) "Composite sample" means a sample that should contain a minimum of eight discrete samples taken at equal time intervals over the compositing period or proportional to the flow rate over the compositing period. More than the minimum number of discrete samples will be required where the wastewater loading is highly variable.
(10) "Discharger" means any industrial user who discharges an effluent into a POTW by means of pipes, conduits, pumping stations, force mains, constructed drainage ditches, surface water intercepting ditches, intercepting ditches, and all constructed devices and appliances appurtenant thereto.
(11) "Explosivity" shall mean any liquids solids or gases which by reason of their nature or quantity are, or may be, sufficient either alone or by interaction with other substances to cause fire or explosion or be injurious or hazardous in any other way to the POTW or to the operation of the POTW. Materials that are included, but not limited to this definition, are gasoline, kerosene, naphtha, benzene, toluene, xylene, ethers, alcohols, ketones, aldehydes, peroxides, cholorates, percholorates, bromates, polycholorinated biphenyls, polybrominated biphenyls, carbides, hyrides, stoddard solvents and sulfides.
(12) "Federal Act" or "Act" means the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972, Public Law 92-500 , and Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.) and any amendments thereto; as well as any guidelines, limitations and standards promulgated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to the Act.
(13) "Garbage" means solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
(14) "Grab sample" means a sample which is taken from a waste stream on a one-time basis with no regard to the flow in the waste stream and without consideration of time.
(15) "Indirect discharge" means the discharge or the introduction of nondomestic pollutants from a source regulated under Section 307(b) or (c) of the Act, into a POTW.
(16) "Industrial user" or "industry" means any owner who discharges into the POTW liquid, solid or gaseous wastes resulting from industrial, manufacturing, trade or business process or from the development, recovering or processing, by physical or chemical transformation of natural resources.
(17) "Industrial waste" means the liquid and water-carried wastes from industries as defined herein.
(18) "Intercepting sewer" means a sewer intended to receive flows from both combined sewers and sanitary sewers; or a sewer whose primary purpose is to transport wastewater from collector (local) sewers to a sewage treatment plant.
(19) "Interference" means an inhibition or disruption of the sewage treatment processes or operations which contributes to a violation of any requirement of the City's NPDES permit. The term includes prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal by the treatment plant in accordance with Section 405 of the Act (33 U.S.C. 1345) or any criteria, guidelines or regulations developed pursuant to the Solid Waste Disposal Act, the Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substance Control Act, or more stringent state criteria (including those contained in any state sludge management plan prepared pursuant to Title IV or the Solid Waste Disposal Act) applicable to the method of disposal or use employed by the City.
(20) "Natural Outlet" means any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
(21) "National Pretreatment Standard" or "pretreatment standards" or "standard" shall mean any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by the EPA in accordance with Section 307(b) and (c) of the Act, which applies to Industrial Users. This term includes prohibitive discharge limits established in Section 403.5.
(22) "New discharger" shall mean any owner that becomes an industrial user of the POTW after the effective date of this chapter.
(23) "NPDES permit" means the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit, issued under the permit program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or such lawful permit, document, regulation or requirement under which the POTW is operated.
(24) "O and M" means operation and maintenance.
(25) "Oil and grease" shall mean any hydrocarbons, fatty acids, soaps, fats, waxes, oils and any other material that is extracted by freon solvent.
(26) "Other wastes" means decayed wood, sawdust, shavings, bark, lime, refuse, ashes, garbage, offal, oil, tar, chemicals and all other substances except sewage and industrial wastes.
(27) "Owner" or "person" means any individual, firm, company, partnership, association, society, corporation or group.
(28) "Pass through" means a discharge of waters or wastes containing substances which are not amenable to treatment or reduction by the wastewater treatment process employed, or are amenable only to such degree that the wastewater treatment plant effluent cannot meet the requirement of other agencies having jurisdiction over discharge to the receiving waters.
(29) "pH" means the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
(30) "Plumbing Inspector" means the Plumbing Inspector of the City Board of Health.
(31) "Pollutant" means any substance discharged into a POTW or its collection system, listed in Appendix A of this chapter.
(32) "POTW" means any sewage treatment works and the sewers and conveyance appurtenances discharging thereto, owned and operated by the City.
(33) "Pretreatment" means the reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater to a less harmful state prior to or in lieu of discharging or otherwise introducing such pollutants into a POTW.
(34) "Pretreatment requirements" means any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment, other than a National Pretreatment Standard, imposed on an industrial user.
(35) "Private sewer" means a sewer constructed and serving individual owners or persons under private ownership. "Semi-private sewer" means a sewer constructed and serving an industrial complex, trailer park or other similar entity situated on private property in which all occupants on the property have equal rights.
(36) "Properly shredded garbage" means the wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of foods that have been shredded to such degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in the POTW, with no particle greater than one-half inch in any dimension.
(37) "Public sewer" means a sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and which is controlled by public authority.
(38) "Risk" means a significant possibility, as contrasted with a remote possibility, that a certain result may occur or that certain circumstances may exist.
(39) "Sanitary sewer" means a sewer which carries sewage and wastes and to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
(40) "Septic tank wastes" means the waste from water closets, urinals, lavatories, sinks, garbage disposers, bath tubs, showers, privies, privy vaults, septic tanks, cesspools or household laundries resulting from an owner not having an authorized tap into the sanitary sewer system of the City and includes any waste removed from any private sewage system.
(41) "Service Director" means the Service Director of the City of Mansfield or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
(42) "Sewage" means water-carried human wastes or a combination of water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, together with such ground, surface and storm waters as may be present.
(43) "Sewage works" means all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
(44) "Sewage treatment plant" means any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
(45) "Sewer" means a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
(46) "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
(47) "Sludge" means any solid, semisolid or liquid waste generated by a municipal, commercial or industrial wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility, or any other waste having similar characteristics and effects as defined in standards issued under Sections 402, 405 of the Act and in the applicable requirements under Sections 3001, 3004 and 4004 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act (PL 94-580).
(48) "Slug" or "slugload" means any pollutant, including oxygen-demanding pollutants (BOD, etc.) which in concentration of any given consituent or in quantity of flow exceeds for any period of duration longer than fifteen minutes or more than five times the average twenty-four hour concentration or flows during normal operation or of such volume or strength as to cause interference to the POTW.
(49) "Source" means the total discharge from a plant, commercial business or residential location.
(50) "Standard methods" means the laboratory procedures set forth in the 1980 edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water, Sewage, and Industrial Wastes," published jointly by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association, and the Federation of Sewage and Industrial Wastes Association.
(51) "Storm sewer" or "storm drain" means a sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage, excluding sewage.
(52) "Surcharge" means the assessment in addition to the service charge which is levied on those persons whose wastes are greater in strength than the concentration values established as representative of normal sewage.
(53) "Suspended solids" means total suspended matter that either floats on the surface of, or is in suspension in water, sewage or other liquids, and which is removable by laboratory filtering as prescribed in "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater" and referred to as nonfilterable residue.
(54) "Toxic pollutants" means those substances capable of producing toxic effects on living organisms and shall include but not be limited to those substances listed in Appendix A of this chapter.
(55) "Unpolluted drainage" means water of quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria in effect or water that would not cause violation of the receiving water quality standards and would not be benefited by discharge to the sanitary sewers and sewage works provided.
(56) "Upset" means an exceptional incident which results in a discharger unintentionally and temporarily being in a state of noncompliance with the standards set forth in this chapter or which results in the introduction of biological demand material or suspended solids in concentrations which cause damage or interference to the POTW due to factors beyond the reasonable control of the discharger, and excluding noncompliance to the extent caused by operation error, improperly designed treatment facilities, inadequate treatment facilities, lack of preventive maintenance or careless or improper operation thereof.
(57) "City" means the City of Ontario, Richland County, Ohio.
(58) "Service-Safety Director" means the Service-Safety Director of the City of Ontario, Ohio or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
(59) "Watercourse" means a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(60) "Wastewater" means industrial waste, or sewage or any other waste including that which may be combined with any ground water, surface water or storm water, that may be discharged to the POTW.
(Ord. 84-6 Passed 2-2-84.)
(a) Where a public sanitary sewer is not available, the building sewer shall be connected to a private sewage disposal system complying with the provisions of this chapter.
(b) Before commencement of construction of a private sewage disposal system the owner shall first obtain a written permit signed by the Service-Safety Director. The application for such a permit shall be made on a form furnished by the City, which the applicant shall supplement by any plans, specifications and other information as are deemed necessary by the Director. A permit and inspection fee shall be paid to the Treasurer at the time the application is filed.
(c) A permit for a private sewage disposal system shall not become effective until the installation is completed to the satisfaction of the Director. He shall be allowed to inspect the work at any stage of construction and, in any event, the applicant for the permit shall notify the Director when the work is ready for final inspection, and before any underground portions are covered. The inspection shall be made within forty-eight hours of the receipt of notice by the Director.
(d) The type, capacities, location and layout of a private sewage disposal system shall comply with all recommendations of the Department of Public Health of the State. No permit shall be issued for any private sewage disposal system employing subsurface soil absorption facilities where the area of the lot is less than 15,000 square feet. No septic tank or cesspool shall be permitted to discharge to any public sewer or natural outlet.
(e) The owner shall operate and maintain the private sewage disposal facilities in a sanitary manner at all times, at no expense to the City.
(f) No person shall dump or dispose of tank wastes at any location or by any means, other than at the designated location therefor at the City sewage treatment plant.
(g) Persons desiring to dump or dispose of septic tank wastes at the designated location at the sewage treatment plant shall register the hauling vehicle with the plant operator, providing him such information as may be required. Such dumping or disposal shall be subject to the provisions of Section 933.03.
(h) At such time as a public sewer becomes available to a property served by a private sewage disposal system, a direct connection shall be made to the public sewer in compliance with this chapter, and any septic tanks, cesspools and similar private sewage disposal facilities shall be abandoned and filled with suitable material.
(i) No statement contained in this section shall be construed to interfere with any additional requirements that may be imposed by the Mansfield-Richland County Health Board.
(Ord. 84-6. Passed 2-2-84.)
No discharger shall contribute or cause to be discharged, directly or indirectly, any of the following described substances into the wastewater disposal system or otherwise to the facilities of the City:
(a) Any liquids, solids or gases which by reason of their nature or quantity are, or may be, sufficient either alone or by interaction with other substances that exhibit characteristics of explosivity. At no time shall two successive readings on a meter capable of reading L.E.L (lower explosive limit) at a point at the nearest accessible point to the POTW in a sanitary sewer, at the point of discharge into the POTW, or at any point in the POTW be more than five percent (5%) nor any single reading greater than ten percent (10%).
(b) Solids or viscous substances such as, but not limited to, straw, metal fragments, glass, rags, plastics, garbage that has not been properly shredded and other wastes which obstruct the flow in a sewer or the risk thereof or cause interference to the operation of the POTW or the risk thereto.
(c) Any wastewater having pH less than 5.0 or higher than 11.0 or having a corrosive property that causes damage or hazard to structures, equipment or personnel of the system or the risk thereto.
(d) Any wastewater containing toxic pollutants that either singly or by interaction cause damage or interference with any wastewater treatment process or the risk thereto, or constitute a hazard to humans or animals or a risk thereto, or exceed the limits established by the City in compliance with applicable State and Federal regulations.
(e) Any noxious or malodorous liquid, gas or solid that either singly or by interaction creates damage or prejudice to others or the public or hazard to life or the risk thereof or is sufficient to prevent entry into the sewers for their maintenance and repair.
(f) Any substance which shall cause the POTW's effluent or treatment residues, sludges or scums to interfere with the City's goals for reclamation and reuse or to be unsuitable for reclamation and reuse or to interfere with the reclamation process.
(g) Any substance which will cause the POTW to violate it NPDES and/or other disposal system permits or the risk thereof.
(h) Any substance with such color not removed in the treatment process, such as but limited to dye wastes and vegetable tanning solutions, which place the City of Mansfield in violation of its NPDES permit.
(i) Heat in amounts which will inhibit biological activity in the POTW, but in no case heat in such quantities that the temperature at the POTW exceeds 40 degrees C (104 degrees F) unless the Approval Authority, upon request of the POTW, approves alternate temperature limits.
(j) Any slugload.
(k) Any unpolluted water including but not limited to non-contract cooling water.
(l) Any wastewater containing any radioisotopes of such half-life or concentration as exceed limits established by the City of Mansfield.
(m) Sewage containing more than fifty milligrams per liter of grease and oil.
(n) Biochemical oxygen demand, chemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, or nitrogen in concentrations which cause damage or interference to the POTW or the risk thereto.
(o) Flows of magnitude of variation which cause damage or interference to the POTW or the risk thereto.
(p) Any "pass through" of the wastewater treatment plant.
(q) Waters or wastes containing substances which are not amenable to treatment or reduction by the wastewater treatment processes employed, or are amenable only to such degree that the wastewater treatment plant effuent cannot meet the requirements of other agencies having jurisdiction over discharge to the receiving waters.
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