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Editor's Note: The provisions of this chapter are to be construed
in addition to the regulations of the Town of Haverstraw sewer district and
the Joint Regional Sewer Board.
A.
This chapter sets forth uniform requirements for direct
and indirect contributors into the wastewater collection and treatment system
for the Village of Haverstraw (Joint Regional Sewerage Board POTW) and enables
the municipality to comply with all applicable state and federal laws required
by the Clean Water Act of 1977, the General Pretreatment Regulations (40 CFR
403) and the rules and regulations of the JRSB as the same exist at the present
time or will be amended in the future.
B.
The objectives of this chapter are to:
(1)
Prevent the introduction of pollutants into the municipal
wastewater system which will interfere with the operations of the system or
contaminate the resulting sludge.
(2)
Prevent the introduction of pollutants into the municipal
wastewater system which will pass through the system, inadequately treated,
into receiving waters or the atmosphere or otherwise be incompatible with
the system.
(3)
Improve the opportunity to recycle and reclaim wastewaters
and sludges from the system.
(4)
Provide for equitable distribution of the cost of the
municipal wastewater system.
C.
This chapter provides for the regulation of direct and
indirect contributors to the municipal wastewater system through the issuance
of permits to certain nondomestic users and through enforcement of general
requirements for the other users, authorizes monitoring, assumes that existing
customer's capacity will not be preempted, and provides for the setting
of fees for the equitable distribution of costs resulting from the program
established herein.
D.
This chapter shall apply to the Village of Haverstraw
and to persons outside the municipality who are, by contract or agreement
with the Joint Regional Sewerage Board, users of the JRSB's POTW. Except
as otherwise provided herein, the Executive Director and counsel of the JRSB
shall administer, implement and enforce the provisions of this chapter.
A.
ACT OR THE ACT
APPROVAL AUTHORITY
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF INDUSTRIAL USER
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the following terms and phrases, as used in this chapter, shall have the meanings
hereinafter designated:
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the "Clean
Water Act," as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.
The Director in an NPDES state with an approved state pretreatment
program and the Administrator of the EPA in a non-NPDES state or NPDES state
without an approved state pretreatment program.
May be:
(1)
A principal executive officer of at least the level of
vice president if the industrial user is a corporation.
(2)
A general partner or proprietor if the industrial user
is a partnership or proprietorship, respectively.
(3)
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD)
BUILDING SEWER
CATEGORICAL STANDARD
CONTROL AUTHORITY
COOLING WATER
DIRECT DISCHARGE
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY OR EPA
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
GRAB SAMPLE
HOLDING TANK WASTE
INDIRECT DISCHARGE
INDUSTRIAL USER
INTERFERENCE
JRSB
MUNICIPALITY
NATIONAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD OR PRETREATMENT STANDARD
NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM OR NPDES PERMIT
NATIONAL PROHIBITIVE DISCHARGE STANDARD OR PROHIBITIVE DISCHARGE STANDARD
NEW SOURCE
PERSON
PH
POLLUTANT
POLLUTION
POTW TREATMENT PLANT
PRETREATMENT OR TREATMENT
PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (SIC)
STATE
STORMWATER
SUPERINTENDENT
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
TOXIC POLLUTANT
USER
WASTEWATER
WASTEWATER CONTRIBUTION PERMIT
WATERS OF THE STATE
A duly authorized representative of the individual designated
above if such representative is responsible for the overall operation of the
facilities from which the indirect discharge originates.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic
matter under standard laboratory procedure, five days at 20° C., expressed
in terms of weight and concentration [milligrams per liter (mg/l)].
A sewer conveying wastewater from the premises of a user to the POTW.
National Categorical Pretreatment Standard or pretreatment standard.
Refers to the "approval authority," defined hereinabove; or the Executive
Director if the municipality has an approved pretreatment program under the
provisions of 40 CFR 403.11 of the Joint Regional Sewerage Board.
The water discharged from any use such as air conditioning, cooling
or refrigeration, or to which the only pollutant added is heat.
The discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly to the
waters of the State of New York.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency, or, where appropriate,
the term may also be used as a designation for the Administrator or other
duly authorized official of said agency.
Same as "Superintendent."
A sample which is taken from a waste stream on a one-time basis with
no regard to the flow in the waste stream and without consideration of time.
Any waste from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets, campers,
trailers, septic tanks and vacuum-pump tank trucks.
The discharge or the introduction of nondomestic pollutants from
any source regulated under § 307(b) or (c) of the Act (33 U.S.C.
§ 1317) into the POTW (including holding tank waste discharged into
the system).
A source of indirect discharge which does not constitute discharge
of pollutants under regulations issued pursuant to § 402 of the
Act (33 U.S.C. § 1342).
The inhibition or disruption of the POTW treatment processes or operations
which contributes to a violation of any requirement of the JRSB NPDES permit.
The term includes prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal by the POTW
in accordance with § 405 of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1345)
or any criteria, guidelines or regulations developed pursuant to the Solid
Waste Disposal Act (SWDA), the Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substances Control
Act or more stringent state criteria, including those contained in any state
sludge management plan prepared pursuant to Title IV of the SWDA, applicable
to the method of disposal or use employed by the POTW.
The Joint Regional Sewerage Board of the Town of Haverstraw and the
Incorporated Village of West Haverstraw. JRSB is the operator of the publicly
owned treatment works.
Any municipality named or any municipality legally authorized to
contribute wastewaters to the JRSB's POTW.
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated
by the EPA in accordance with § 307(b) and (c) of the Act (33 U.S.C.
§ 1347) which applies to a specific category of industrial users.
[Amended 8-11-1997 by L.L. No. 4-1997]
A permit issued pursuant to § 402 of the Act (33 U.S.C.
§ 1342).
Any regulation developed under the authority of § 307(b)
of the Act and 40 CFR 403.5.
Any building, structure, facility or installation from which there
is or may be a discharge of pollutants, the construction of which commenced
after the publication of proposed pretreatment standards under § 307(c)
of the Act which will be applicable to such source if such standards are thereafter
promulgated in accordance with that section.
Any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company, corporation,
association, joint-stock company, trust, estate, governmental entity or any
other legal entity, or the legal representative, agents or assigns.
[Amended 8-11-1997 by L.L. No. 4-1997]
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the concentration of
hydrogen ions expressed in grams per liter of solution.
Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage,
sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive
materials, heat, wrecked or discharged equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt
and industrial, municipal and agricultural waste discharged into water.
The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical,
biological and radiological integrity of water.
That portion of the POTW designated to provide treatment to wastewater.
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants
or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater to a
less harmful state prior to or in lieu of discharging or otherwise introducing
such pollutants into a POTW. The reduction or alteration can be obtained by
physical, chemical or biological processes or process changes or by other
means, except as prohibited by 40 CFR 403.6(d).
Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment,
other than a National Pretreatment Standard imposed on an industrial user.
A treatment works as defined by § 212 of the Act (33 U.S.C.
§ 1292), which is owned in this instance by the municipality. This
definition includes any sewers that convey wastewater to the POTW treatment
plant but are not connected to a facility providing treatment. For the purposes
of this chapter, "POTW" shall also include any sewers that convey wastewaters
to the POTW from persons outside the municipality who are, by contract or
agreement with the JRSB, users of the JRSB's POTW.
Any industrial user of the municipalities' wastewater disposal
system who has a discharge flow of 25,000 gallons or more per average workday,
or has a flow greater than 5% of the flow in the municipalities' wastewater
treatment system, or has in his or her wastes toxic pollutants as defined
pursuant to § 307 of the Act or New York statutes and rules, or
is found by the municipality (State Control Agency) or the United States Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) to have significant impact, either singly or in combination
with other contributing industries, on the wastewater treatment system, the
quality of sludge, the system's effluent quality or air emissions generated
by the system.
A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of Management
and Budget 1972.
The State of New York.
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural precipitation
and resulting therefrom.
The person designated by the JRSB to supervise the operation of the
publicly owned treatment works and who is charged with certain duties and
responsibilities by this chapter or his or her duly authorized representative.
The total suspended matter that floats on the surface of, or is suspended
in, water, wastewater or other liquids and which is removable by laboratory
filtering.
Any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic in regulations
promulgated by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under
the provisions of the Clean Water Act, § 307(a), or other Acts.
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution of
wastewater into the JRSB's POTW.
The liquid- and water-carried industrial or domestic wastes from
dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities and institutions, together
with any groundwater, surface water, stormwater or drainage that may be present,
whether treated or untreated, which is contributed into or permitted to enter
the POTW.
As set forth in § 240-15 of this chapter.
All streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells,
springs, reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems, drainage systems and all
other bodies or accumulations of water, surface or underground, natural or
artificial, public or private, which are contained within, flow through or
border upon the state or any portion thereof.
B.
Word Use.
(1)
The words "Executive Director" and "Superintendent" may
be read as being synonymous if it is necessary to validate this chapter or
any of its parts.
(2)
The masculine gender shall include the feminine, and
the singular shall include the plural where indicated in the context.
(3)
"Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
[Amended 8-11-1997 by L.L. No. 4-1997]
The following abbreviations shall have the designated meanings:
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BOD - Biochemical oxygen demand
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CFR - Code of Federal Regulations
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COD - Chemical oxygen demand
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EPA - Environmental Protection Agency
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l - Liter
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mg - Milligrams
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mg/l - Milligrams per liter
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NPDES - National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
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NYSDEC - New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
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POTW - Publicly owned treatment works
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SIC - Standard industrial classification
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SWDA - Solid Waste Disposal Act, 42 U.S.C. § 6901 et seq.
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U.S.C. - United States Code
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TSS - Total suspended solids
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