(a) If any waters or wastes are discharged or are proposed to be discharged to the public sewers, which waters or wastes contain the substances or possess the characteristics enumerated in Section 1050.06, and which waters and wastes, in the judgment of the Superintendent, may have a deleterious effect upon the sewage works, processes, equipment or receiving waters, or otherwise create a hazard to life or constitute a public nuisance, the Superintendent may:
(1) Reject the wastes;
(2) Require pretreatment to an acceptable condition in accordance with guidelines adopted in this chapter for discharge into the public sewers;
(3) Require control over quantities and rates of discharge; and/or
(4) Require payment to cover the added cost of handling and treatment of the wastes not covered by existing taxes or sewer charges under Section 1050.12.
(b) If the Superintendent permits the pretreatment or equalization of waste flows, the design and installation of the plants and equipment shall be subject to the review and approval of the Superintendent and subject to the requirements of all applicable codes, ordinances and laws.
(c) In connection with any pretreatment or equalization that the Superintendent permits under subsection (b) hereof, the Superintendent may convert production based mass limits to equivalent mass and concentration limits in accordance with the procedures in 40 C.F.R. 403.6(c). If the Superintendent applies the equivalent limits, industrial users will be required to comply with such equivalent limits in lieu of the underlying national categorical pretreatment standards. Where equivalent limits are established, the Superintendent may request that the production data to be included in the reports required by Section 1050.20(a) and (b) shall be based on the same measure as the production rate used by the Superintendent in establishing the equivalent limits. Industrial users subject to equivalent mass and concentration limits must notify the Superintendent within two business days after the industrial user has a reasonable basis to know that either their long term production or flow rate will change significantly (being a change in production or flow rate greater than twenty percent (20%) of the long term average rate) within the next calendar month.
(Ord. 1991-230. Passed 1-21-92.)
(Ord. 1991-230. Passed 1-21-92.)