(A) Required survey data. Any person desiring to make a connection to the sewer system through which industrial wastes shall be discharged into the sewer system shall file with the borough an industrial wastes report, which shall supply pertinent data, including estimated quantity of flow and chemical and bacteriological analyses, to the borough with respect to industrial wastes proposed to be discharged into the sewer system.
(B) Screening and holding tanks.
(1) Industrial establishments shall install fine screens to remove husks, hulls, vegetable skins, peelings, threads, lint, grease and other such non-settleable and floating solids, or other organic or inorganic substances, determined by the borough to overload, impair the efficiency of or cause difficulties in operation of the sewage treatment plant used to treat and dispose of the wastes or in maintaining required quality of the sewage treatment plant effluent.
(2) Any improved property discharging 20,000 gallons or more of sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes per day into the sewer system and having large variations in the rate of discharge of such within a 24-hour period shall install suitable holding tanks for equalizing the rate of discharge uniformly over the entire 24-hour period. The average rate of discharge during any 24-hour period shall not be exceeded by more than 50% at any time during such 24-hour period.
(C) Control manholes.
(1) Any person who shall discharge industrial wastes into the sewer system, when required by the borough, shall construct and thereafter properly shall maintain, at his or her own expense, a suitable control manhole to facilitate observation, measurement and sampling by the borough.
(2) Any such control manhole, when required by the borough, shall be constructed at an accessible, safe, suitable and satisfactory location in accordance with plans approved by the borough prior to commencement of construction.
(D) Sewage sampling. Industrial wastes being discharged into the sewer system shall be subject to periodic sampling, inspection and determination of character and concentration. Such sampling, inspection and determination shall be made by the borough as frequently as may be deemed necessary. Representative samples for a full working day shall be obtained by taking hourly samples and compositing them in accordance with the flow at the time of sampling. Sewage sampling facilities shall be accessible to the borough at all times. Due care shall be exercised in the collection and preservation of all samples to ensure preservation thereof in as nearly the natural state as possible, including refrigeration of all samples which are intended for analysis by biochemical methods.
(E) Analysis.
(1) The borough shall be responsible for analysis of samples of industrial wastes, at such intervals as the borough shall determine or at the request and expense of the industrial establishment.
(2) Laboratory methods used in the analysis of samples of industrial wastes shall be those set forth in the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Sewage as published by the American Public Health Association; provided, however, that alternate methods for the analysis of industrial wastes may be used, subject to mutual agreement between the borough and the person discharging such industrial wastes into the sewer system.
(F) Changes in type of wastes. Any owner of an improved property who is discharging or permitting to be discharged industrial wastes into the sewer system and who contemplates a change in the method of operation which will alter the type of industrial wastes at the time being discharged into the sewer system shall notify the borough, in writing, at least ten days prior to consummation of such change.
(Ord. 329, passed 8-27-1962)