No person shall discharge or provide a connection for discharging
or draining into any public sanitary sewer or tributary sewer thereto
any stormwater, surface water, groundwater, roof runoff, subsurface
drainage, or other unpolluted water, nor drain any catch basin, lake,
swamp, or pond, except with the permission of the Director of Public
Works evidenced by a properly issued permit or if such connection
or drainage is into a designated combined sewer or storm sewer. Cooling
water discharges to the waters of the state require SPDES permits
and are subject to state and federal regulations.
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged the following
described substances, materials, waters or wastes or any wastes listed
within the rules and regulations found to harm the sewerage system
structures, the sewage treatment process or would endanger life, limb,
public property or constitute a nuisance. The criteria used in forming
these rules and regulations include such factors as the quantities
of said wastes in relation to flows and velocities in the sewers,
materials or construction of the sewers, nature of the sewage treatment
process, the capability of the sewage treatment facilities and the
likelihood of harm, injury or nuisance. The characteristics of the
effluent subject to review will be determined from the sampled wastewater
collected at a control manhole prior to entering the public sewers.
The substances, materials or wastes prohibited in the first instance,
but subject to review by the Director of Public Works are:
A. Any garbage that has not been properly shredded or triturated.
B. Any water or wastes containing phenols or other taste- or odor-producing
substances, in such concentrations exceeding limits which shall be
established in the rules and regulations to meet the requirements
of the state, federal or other public agencies of jurisdiction for
such discharge to the receiving waters.
C. Materials which contain or cause:
(1) Unusual concentrations of inert suspended solids (such as, but not
limited to Fuller's earth, lime slurries, and lime residues)
or of dissolved solids (such as, but not limited to, sodium chloride
and sodium sulfate).
(2) Except as provided for under Article
X, unusual biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), chemical oxygen demand (COD), or chlorine requirements in such quantities as to constitute a significant additional load on the sewage treatment works.
D. Pretreatment standards. All users of the City's POTW will comply
with all standards and requirements of the Act and standards and requirements
promulgated pursuant to the Act, including but not limited to 40 CFR
Chapter I, Subchapter N.
The Director of Public Works, after a hearing, shall either
prevent the discharge of unacceptable water and wastes or issue a
permit and compliance schedule which is properly conditioned upon
findings and the standards of safety prescribed by this chapter and
rules and regulations. This chapter and rules and regulations shall
include surcharges, pretreatment requirements, control over quantities
or rates of discharge, time of discharge and holding facilities, and
any measure or combination of measures which are necessary to preserve
the sewerage system, its structures and equipment, and the health,
safety and well-being of the employees, the community and the biota
of the receiving waters.
The Director of Public Works shall take any temporary action
necessary to protect the public health, safety or welfare without
a prior hearing in the event of any discharge which, in the belief
of the Director of Public Works, will cause serious, imminent harm,
injury or adversely affect the sewerage system structures, equipment,
any person, or the biota of the receiving waters. If possible, under
the circumstances of the emergency, the Director of Public Works will
give informal notice of his emergency action to the affected party.
Review of any emergency action by a hearing will be accomplished without
delay to determine what, if any, permanent restriction is necessary.
The Director of Public Works, acting upon the belief that an emergency
exists, shall be indemnified against any personal liability that may
arise in the performance of his duties to protect the public health,
safety, welfare or property of the City of Canandaigua.