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The owner of all houses, buildings or premises used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purpose, situated within the city and abutting on any street, alley, easement or right-of-way in which there is or may, in the future, be located a public sewer, is required, at his or her expense, to install suitable toilet facilities therein, connected directly with the proper public sewer, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter within 90 days after date of official notice of a violation of § 51.03(A) and (C), provided that the public sewer is within 200 feet of the property line.
(‘97 Code, § 51.05) (Ord. 35-84, passed 8-20-84; Am. Ord. 9-85, passed 3-18-85; Am. Ord. 21-12, passed 10-16-12; Am. Ord. 10-22, passed 11-1-22)
(A) (1) No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged, any storm water, surface water, groundwater, roof runoff, downspouts, subfoundation building drainage, unpolluted cooling water or unpolluted industrial process water to any sanitary sewer.
(2) Subfoundation building drains connected to sanitary sewers before the effective date of these regulations shall be removed if it is established by the engineer that the connections are detrimental to the satisfactory operation of the wastewater system and that removal is cost-effective. The connections shall be prohibited after the effective date of these regulations and shall be considered illegal.
(‘97 Code, § 51.06)
(B) Storm water and all other unpolluted drainage shall be discharged to sewers specifically designated as storm sewers, or to a natural outlet approved by the engineer. Unpolluted industrial cooling water or unpolluted process waters may be discharged, upon approval by the engineer, to a storm sewer or natural outlet.
(‘97 Code, § 51.07) (Ord. 35-84, passed 8-20-84; Am. Ord. 21-12, passed 10-16-12; Am. Ord. 10-22, passed 11-1-22) Penalty, see § 51.99
(A) Prohibitions. No person shall discharge, or cause to be discharged, any of the following described water or wastes to any public sewer:
(1) Any liquid or vapor which causes the influent temperature at the treatment plant to exceed 104°F (40°C), or which will inhibit biological activity in the treatment plant resulting in interference, but in no case wastewater which causes the temperature at the introduction into the treatment plant to exceed 104°F (40°C).
(2) Any water, wastes, discharges of petroleum oil, nonbiodegradable cutting oil or products of mineral oil origin, if discharged in amounts that can cause passthrough or interference, or which may contain more than 100 mg/l of fat, oil or grease.
(3) Any gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil, or other flammable or explosive liquid, solid or gas.
(4) Any garbage that has not been shredded to a degree that all particles will be carried freely under normal flow conditions prevailing in the public sewer.
(5) Any water or wastes containing substances that will solidify or become discernibly viscous at temperatures between 30 and 150°F, including but not limited to ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags, feathers, tar, plastics, wood, paunch manure or any other solid or viscous substance capable of causing obstruction to the flow in sewers or other interference with the operation of the wastewater system.
(6) Any water or wastes having a pH lower than 5.5 or higher than 11.0, or having any other corrosive property capable of causing damage or hazard to structures, equipment and department personnel.
(7) Any water or wastes containing toxic pollutants in sufficient quantity to injure or interfere with any wastewater treatment process, constitute a hazard to humans or animals, or create any hazard in the receiving waters of the wastewater treatment plant.
(8) Any water or wastes containing suspended solids of such character and quantity that unusual attention or expense is required to handle the materials at the wastewater treatment plant.
(9) Pollutants which result in the presence of toxic gases, vapors, or fumes within the POTW in a quantity that may cause acute worker health and safety problems, or capable of creating a public nuisance, hazard to life, or sufficient to prevent entry into the sewers for maintenance and repair.
(10) Any water or wastes which cause unsuitable sludge reclamation.
(11) Any water or wastes which cause a detrimental environmental impact or a nuisance in the waters of the state, cause a condition unacceptable to any public authority having regulatory jurisdiction over the wastewater system, or cause the quality of the wastewater treatment plant effluent to violate the NPDES permit limitations.
(12) Any water or wastes which cause discoloration, such that receiving water quality requirements, established by law, cannot be met.
(13) Any radioactive waste, except when the person is authorized to use radioactive materials by the State Department of Health or other governmental agency empowered to regulate the use of radioactive materials.
(14) Wastewater containing concentrations for cadmium, cyanide, nickel, copper, lead, zinc, chromium, and mercury in excess of current local limits on record in the Industrial Pretreatment Program Local Limits Document available at the Wastewater Treatment Plant and in the office of the City Engineer. The city has the right to develop local limits, with technical justification, to enforce compliance. The local limits for pollutants are established to protect against pass-through and interference.
(15) Any water or wastes containing in excess of 0.02 mg/l total identifiable chlorinated hydrocarbons.
(16) Any water or wastes containing in excess of 1.0 mg/l phenolic compounds.
(17) Pollutants which create a fire or explosion hazard to the POTW, including, but not limited to, waste streams with a closed cup flashpoint of less that 140°F or 60°C using the test method specified in 40 CFR 261.21.
(18) Any trucked or hauled pollutants, including industrial and or septic wastes, into any location of the sewer systems or POTW at any time.
(19) At the approval of the City Manager and Utilities Director, licensed haulers of septic waste may be allowed to dump septic wastes at the POTW in accordance with all other city ordinances and fees.
(B) National categorical pretreatment standards.
(1) National categorical pretreatment standards, as promulgated by the U.S. EPA, pursuant to the Federal Act, as amended, are hereby adopted and shall be met by industrial users regulated by such standards. Where categorical pretreatment standards promulgated by the U.S. EPA, pursuant to the Federal Act, as amended, are more stringent than those specified in these regulations, the regulations shall be amended to adopt the more stringent standards. All users regulated by the more stringent standards shall be notified of any proposed regulation change prior to the effective date. Any change or new provision in these regulations shall include a reasonable time schedule for compliance.
(2) All users regulated by categorical standards shall be notified of any proposed regulation change prior to the effective date. Any change or new provision in these regulations shall include a reasonable time schedule for compliance.
(3) Where an industrial user subject to categorical pretreatment standards has not submitted a discharge report as required in § 51.48, he or she shall file a completed discharge report within six months after the promulgation of the applicable categorical pretreatment standards. Where the user has submitted an acceptable discharge report, he or she shall submit to the department any additional information required by the categorical pretreatment standards.
(C) Dilution. No user shall increase the use of potable or process water in anyway, nor mix separate waste streams for the purpose of diluting a discharge as a partial or complete substitute for adequate treatment to achieve compliance with the standards set forth in these regulations.
(D) Right of revision. The city reserves the right to amend these regulations to provide for more or less stringent limitations or requirements on discharges to the wastewater system where deemed necessary to comply with the objectives set forth in § 51.01 of this chapter.
(E) Review. These regulations shall be reviewed annually by the engineer. If, in his or her opinion, changes or additions are required, he or she shall submit them to the City Manager for approval. Upon approval, the amendments shall be submitted to the City Commission for ratification as part of the codified ordinances of the city. There shall be a public notice of any proposed changes in these regulations.
(‘97 Code, § 51.08) (Ord. 35-84, passed 8-20-84; Am. Ord. 54-91, passed 11-18-91; Am. Ord. 9-93, passed 2-15-93; Am. Ord. 3-98, passed 2-2-98; Am. Ord. 21-12, passed 10-16-12; Am. Ord. 3-19, passed 6-4-19; Am. Ord. 3-22, passed 4-5-22; Am. Ord. 10-22, passed 11-1-22)
(A) Discontinuation of service. When an actual or threatened discharge presents a substantial danger to the health of persons or the environment, interferes with the operation of the wastewater system or violates any provision of these regulations, the department may discontinue wastewater treatment service or take any other lawful means to effect the abatement of any danger.
(B) Notification of violation. Whenever the department finds that any user has violated any provision of these regulations, the engineer shall notify the user stating the nature of the alleged violation. If a user who has been notified to cease wastewater discharges fails to comply within the time specified by the engineer, the department shall discontinue wastewater treatment service by suspending water service or other appropriate means.
(C) Show cause hearing. After receipt of notification to cease wastewater discharges or to abate any substantial danger to the health of persons or the environment, the user has the right to request a hearing before the department. If a hearing is requested, the department shall serve the user with a written notice specifying the time and place of the hearing.
(D) Right of appeal.
(1) Any decision rendered by the department can be appealed in writing within 15 days to the Health Officer. The written request shall state the reasons for the appeal and specify what remedies are sought.
(2) The Health Officer shall, within ten days after receipt of the written appeal notice, hold a hearing and decide the question. The hearing shall include testimony from all concerned persons. The Health Officer shall render a written decision within five days after completion of the hearing.
(3) Within 15 days of receipt of the Health Officer's decision, the user may appeal to the Board of Health of the city. The written appeal notice shall be directed to the Health Officer who shall promptly transmit the appeal to the Board of Health. Upon giving not less than five business days' written notice to the appellant, a hearing shall be held before the Board of Health. After the hearing, the Board may, by a majority vote, affirm, reject or modify the decision of the Health Officer. The decision of the Board shall be made in writing within seven business days after the hearing and shall be final, except that further recourse may be had through statutory procedures.
(E) Reinstatement of service. Prior to reinstatement of wastewater treatment service, all cost and expense incident to the city's discontinuation of service shall be borne by the user. The department shall reinstate service upon proof acceptable to the city that the noncomplying discharge condition has been eliminated.
(F) Termination of service. The department may terminate wastewater treatment service to any user who fails to do the following:
(1) Report the wastewater constituents and characteristics of his or her discharge requested by the engineer.
(2) Permit reasonable access to his or her premises by department personnel for the purpose of inspection or monitoring.
(3) Comply with any provision of these regulations.
(4) Comply with the conditions of any order issued by city, state or federal officials with respect to these regulations.
(G) Annual publication. Annually the engineer shall publish a list of all dischargers or significant industrial users which at any time during the previous 12 months were in significant noncompliance with applicable pretreatment requirements. For the purpose of this provision, an industrial user is in significant noncompliance if its violations meet one or more of the following criteria.
(1) Chronic violations of wastewater discharge limits, defined here as those in which 66% or more of all of the measurements taken during a six-month period exceed (by any magnitude) the daily maximum limit or the average limit for the same pollutant parameter.
(2) Technical Review Criteria (TRC) violations, defined here as those in which 33% or more of all the measurements for each pollutant parameter taken during a six-month period equal or exceed the product of the daily maximum limit or the average limit multiplied by the applicable TRC (TRC=1.4 for BOD, TSS, fats, oil and grease and 1.2 for all other pollutants except pH). Chronic and technical review criteria apply to SIUs but other SNC criteria can be grounds for finding a non-SIU in SNC. The chronic and technical review criteria are clarified as being applicable to each of an SIU’s permitted monitoring points. The chronic and technical review criteria apply to violations of instantaneous limits. Violations of instantaneous limits or narrative standards that cause pass-through or interference are SNC. SNC criterion for violations that adversely affect the operation or iimplementation of the pretreatemtn program include violations of BMPs.
(3) Any other violations of a pretreatment effluent limit (daily maximum or longer term average) that the engineer determines has caused, alone or in combination with other discharges, interference or passthrough (including endangering the health of POTW personnel or the general public).
(4) Any discharge of a pollutant that has caused imminent endangerment of human health, welfare or to the environment or has resulted in the POTW's exercise of emergency authority to halt or prevent such a discharge.
(5) Failure to meet, within 90 days after the schedule data, a compliance schedule milestone contained in a wastewater discharge permit or enforcement order for starting construction, completing construction, or attaining final compliance.
(6) Failure to provide, within 45 days after the due date, required reports such as Baseline Monitoring Reports, 90-day Compliance Reports, Periodic Self-monitoring Reports and reports on compliance with compliance schedules.
(7) Failure to report noncompliance.
(8) Any other violation or group of violations which the engineer determines will or has adversely affected the operation or implementation of the city's pretreatment program.
(H) Schedules of compliance. When, in the opinion of the Superintendent, it is necessary for industrial users to install technology or provide additional operation and maintenance (O and M) to meet any condition of this chapter, the Superintendent shall require the development of the shortest schedule by which the industrial user will provide this additional technology or O and M.
(1) The schedule shall contain increments of progress in the form of dates for the commencement and completion of major events. Under no circumstances shall any increment exceed nine months.
(2) Not later than 14 days following each date in the schedule and the final date for compliance, the industrial user shall submit a progress report to the engineer including, at a minimum, whether or not it complied with the increment of progress to be met on that date and, if not, the date on which it expects to comply with the increment of progress, the reason for delay and the steps being taken by the industrial user to return to the schedule established.
(I) Remedies non-exclusive. The remedies provided for in this chapter are not exclusive. The Superintendent may take any, all, or any combination of these actions against a noncompliant user. The city is authorized to develop and implement an enforcement response plan, which is titled “City of Piqua Industrial Pretreatment Enforcement Procedures,” which is available at the wastewater treatment plant. Enforcement of pretreatment violations will generally be in accordance with the city’s enforcement response plan. However, the Superintendent may take other action against any user when the circumstances warrant. Further, the Superintendent is empowered to take more than one enforcement action against any noncompliant user.
(‘97 Code, § 51.18) (Ord. 35-84, passed 8-20-84; Am. Ord. 5-90, passed 1-15-90; Am. Ord. 54-91, passed 11-18-91; Am. Ord. 9-93, passed 2-15-93; Am. Ord. 4-09, passed 4-20-09; Am. Ord. 21-12, passed 10-16-12; Am. Ord. 3-19, passed 6-4-19; Am. Ord. 10-22, passed 11-1-22)
PRIVATE SEWAGE SYSTEMS
Where a public sanitary sewer is not available under the provisions of § 51.15, the building sewer shall be connected to a private wastewater disposal system complying with the provisions of this subchapter.
(‘97 Code, § 51.10) (Ord. 35-84, passed 8-20-84; Am. Ord. 21-12, passed 10-16-12; Am. Ord. 10-22, passed 11-1-22) Penalty, see § 51.99.
(A) Before beginning construction of a private wastewater disposal system, the owner shall first obtain a written permit signed by the Health Officer.
(B) The application for the permit shall be made on a form furnished by the city, which the applicant shall supplement by any plans, specifications and other information deemed necessary by the Health Officer.
(‘97 Code, § 51.11) (Ord. 35-84, passed 8-20-84; Am. Ord. 21-12, passed 10-16-12; Am. Ord. 10-22, passed 11-1-22) Penalty, see § 51.99
A permit for a private wastewater disposal system shall not become effective until the installation is completed to the satisfaction of the Health Officer. He or she shall be allowed to inspect the work at any state of construction, and, in any event, the applicant for the permit shall notify the Health Officer when the work is ready for final inspection, and before any underground portions are covered. The inspection shall be made within 48 hours of the receipt of notice by the Health Officer.
(‘97 Code, § 51.12) (Ord. 35-84, passed 8-20-84; Am. Ord. 21-12, passed 10-16-12; Am. Ord. 10-22, passed 11-1-22) Penalty, see § 51.99
The type, capacities, location and layout of a private wastewater disposal system shall comply with all recommendations of the Department of Public Health of the State of Ohio.
(A) Minimum lot area. No permit shall be issued for any private wastewater disposal system employing subsurface soil absorption facilities where the lot area is less than 1.5 acres. The foregoing area requirement may be altered by the Health Officer granting the permit when, in his or her judgment, the absorption characteristics of the soil on the lot justify such action. No septic tank or cesspool shall be permitted to discharge to any public sewer or natural outlet unless there is in connection therewith a proper leaching bed.
(B) Holding tank wastes. No person shall discharge holding tank, septic tank or cesspool wastes into a sanitary sewer unless a permit is secured from the Health Officer. This permit shall state the specific location of discharge, the time of day the discharge is to occur, the volume of the discharge and the wastewater constituents. If a permit is granted for discharge of waste into a sanitary sewer, the person shall pay the applicable user charges and fees and shall meet any other conditions required by the Health Officer.
(Ord. 35-84, passed 8-20-84; Am. Ord. 4-92, passed 2-3-92)
(C) Sewer design. The size, slope, alignment, construction materials, trench, excavation and backfill methods, pipe placement, jointing and testing methods used in the construction and installation of a building sewer shall conform to the building and plumbing code or other applicable requirements of the city. In the absence of code provisions or in amplification thereof, the materials and procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the ASTM and WPCF shall apply.
(‘97 Code, § 51.13) (Am. Ord. 9-95, passed 2-20-95; Am. Ord. 21-12, passed 10-16-12; Am. Ord. 10-22, passed 11-1-22)
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