A. Notification of a Slug Load or Accidental Discharge or Accidental Spill. It is the responsibility of all industrial users to immediately telephone and notify the city police. department of any slug load or accidental discharge as described in Sections 13.05.030 and 13.05.130 of this chapter. Notification shall include location of discharge, type of waste, concentration and volume, and corrective actions.
1. Written Notice. Within five days following the accidental discharge or slug load, the user shall submit to the plant superintendent a detailed written report describing the cause of the incident and the measures to be taken by the user to prevent similar future occurrences. Such notification shall not relieve the user of any expense, loss, damage to person or property or other liability which may be incurred as a result of damage to city facilities, fish kills, or any other damage to person or property, nor shall notification relieve the user of any fines, penalties, or other liability which may be imposed by this chapter or other applicable law.
2. Notice to Employees. Users who are employers shall ensure that all their employees know whom to call in the event of such a discharge. All the employees who may cause or suffer such discharge to occur are advised of the emergency notification procedure.
B. Prior Notification of Change in Volume or Character of Wastewater. All users shall promptly notify the city in writing (except in emergencies, where telephone notification is
acceptable) prior to: (1) any new or increased discharge or any change in nature of their discharge, which does not meet pretreatment standards or requirements or has the reasonable potential to cause the city to violate its NPDES permit or cause problems to the city wastewater system; (2) any substantial change in volume or character of pollutants in their discharge.
C. Baseline Report. All Class I and II industrial users, subject to National Categorical Pretreatment Standards, shall submit to the city a baseline report within one hundred eighty days of the effective date of adoption of a National Categorical Pretreatment Standard or one hundred eighty days after final decision on a category determination by EPA specified in 40 CFR 403.12(b).
D. Compliance Report. Any new user upon commencing use of city facilities or an existing user who has met the final compliance schedule date, for applicable pretreatment standards, shall submit to the city, within ninety days, a report, indicating the nature and concentration of all pollutants in the discharge from the regulated process which are limited by pretreatment standards or requirements, the average and maximum daily flow for these process units, and the actual average production rate for these process units. The report shall state whether the applicable pretreatment standards or requirement are being met on a consistent basis and, if not, what additional operational and maintenance changes and/or pretreatment is necessary to bring the user into compliance with the applicable pretreatment standards or requirements. This statement shall be signed by an authorized representative of the industrial user and a certified qualified professional. Filing of this compliance report cannot relieve the user of any fines, civil penalties, or other liability which may be imposed by this chapter or other applicable law or failure to meet the applicable pretreatment standards or requirements subsequent to the date for final compliance with such applicable standards.
E. Periodic Compliance Reports.
1. Class I and II industrial users shall submit a report to the city twice a year, or more frequently as specified in the permit or permit contract. The compliance report shall at a minimum contain the following:
a. The nature and concentration of pollutants which are limited by pretreatment standards or requirements or which are specified in the permit for each regulated waste stream;
b. A record of average daily flow for the reporting period for each regulated waste stream;
c. Methods utilized by the user in collecting the wastewater sample for analysis, sampling device used, the sampling period, the amount of each sample collected, sample handling and preservation techniques used, and date of sample delivery to the laboratory for analysis;
d. In the event a sample from a periodic compliance report indicates that a constituent is in violation of the allowable concentration levels as set forth in the users permit, the user shall inform the plant superintendent within the next business day, repeat the sampling and pollutant analysis for the parameter in violation, and submit in writing within thirty days of the discovery of the first violation. The sampling and analysis report will also state the causes of the violation, the remedial actions taken to date in response to the violation, and the scheduled additional actions which will be implemented to prevent a reoccurrence. (Ord. 01-102 § 2 (part), 2001).