This chapter sets forth uniform requirements for direct and indirect discharges of pollutants from nondomestic sources into the publicly owned treatment works (POTW), including wastewater collection and treatment system, hauled septage waste and stormwater drainage system; and enables the city to comply with the administrative provisions of the clean water act (33 USC 1251 et seq.), as amended, the general pretreatment regulations (40 CFR 403), and the applicable effluent limitations, national standards and any other discharge criteria which are required or authorized by state or federal law. The objectives of this chapter are:
A. To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the POTW which will interfere with the operation of the POTW;
B. To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the POTW which will pass through the POTW, inadequately treated, into receiving waters or otherwise be incompatible with the POTW;
C. To ensure that the quality of the wastewater treatment plant sludge is maintained at a level which allows the use and disposal in compliance with applicable statutes and regulations;
D. To protect POTW personnel who may be affected by wastewater and sludge in the course of their employment and to protect the general public;
E. To preserve the hydraulic capacity of the POTW;
F. To improve the opportunity to recycle and reclaim wastewater and sludge from the POTW.
This chapter shall apply to all users of the POTW. This chapter provides for the regulation of direct and indirect discharge to the POTW through the issuance of discharge permits to certain nondomestic users and through enforcement of general requirements for other users, authorizes monitoring and enforcement activities, establishes administrative review procedures, requires user reporting, and provides for the setting of fees for the equitable distribution of costs resulting from the program established herein. (Ord. 2837 § 1, 2008)