(a) This chapter sets forth uniform requirements for discharges into the City's treatment works, and enables the City to protect the public health.
(b) The objectives of this chapter are:
(1) To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the City's treatment works which will damage or interfere with the normal operation of the treatment works;
(2) To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the City's treatment works which do not receive adequate treatment and which will pass through the treatment works into receiving waters or the atmosphere or otherwise be incompatible with the treatment works;
(3) To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the City's treatment works that will interfere with sludge management options;
(4) To improve the opportunity to recycle and reclaim wastewater and sludge from the City's treatment works;
(5) To protect both POTW personnel who may be affected by wastewater and sludge in the course of their employment and the general public;
(6) To enable the City of Toledo to comply with its National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit conditions, sludge use and disposal requirements, and any other Federal or State laws to which the POTW is subject.
(Ord. 565-08. Passed 9-9-08.)
(c) This chapter provides for the regulation of discharges to the City's treatment works through the enforcement of the provisions of this chapter and rules, regulations and standards and binding agreements. The Director of Public Utilities shall be responsible for the administration and enforcement of provisions of this chapter. "Director", as used in this chapter, means the Director of Public Utilities.
(d) This chapter provides for the incorporation, by reference of the National Categorical Standards that are promulgated by U.S.E.P.A.
(e) This chapter provides for the incorporation, by reference, of any applicable statutes, ordinances or regulations of the State and any other political subdivisions which discharge into the treatment works, to the extent that those statutes, ordinances or regulations are more stringent than the City's.
(Ord. 883-85. Passed 12-31-85.)