[R.O. 2009 §13.16.010]
A.
This
Article sets forth uniform requirements for discharges into the City's
wastewater system and enables the City to protect public health and
the environment and to conform to applicable State and Federal laws.
B.
The objectives
of this Article are:
1.
To prevent
the introduction of pollutants into the wastewater system which may
damage or interfere with the operation of the system.
2.
To prevent
the introduction of pollutants into the wastewater system which may
interfere with the wastewater treatment processes.
3.
To prevent
the introduction of pollutants into the wastewater system which will
pass through the system inadequately treated into the receiving waters
or the atmosphere or otherwise be incompatible with the system.
4.
To prevent
the introduction of pollutants into the wastewater system which will
interfere with sludge management options.
[R.O. 2009 §13.16.020]
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the following
terms and phrases, as used in this Article, 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.
An authorized representative of an industrial user may be:
A principal executive officer of at least the level of Vice
President, if the industrial user is a corporation;
A general partner or proprietor if the industrial user is a
partnership or proprietorship, respectively;
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 conditions in five (5)
days at twenty degrees centigrade (20°C), expressed in parts per
million by weight. Hereinafter referred to as BOD.
That part of the lowest piping of a drainage system which
receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside
the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer beginning
five (5) feet outside the building wall.
The extension from the building drain to the City sewer or
other place of disposal.
National Categorical Pretreatment Standards or Pretreatment
Standard.
The City of Sikeston or the City Council of Sikeston.
A sewer which is part of the sewer system of the City of
Sikeston, Missouri. Also called "public sewer".
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the chemical oxidation
of organic and inorganic matter as determined by standard methods
and expressed in milligrams per liter.
A sewer receiving both surface runoff and wastewater.
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance discharged, permitted
to flow or escaping from any industrial, manufacturing, commercial
or business establishment or process or from the development, recovery
or processing of any natural resource as distinct from sanitary sewer.
Refers to the "approval authority" defined hereinabove or
the Director of Utilities if the City has an approved pretreatment
program under the provisions of 40 CFR 403.11.
A structure located on a site from which industrial wastes
are discharged. Where feasible, the manhole shall have an interior
drop. The purpose of a "control manhole" is to provide access for
the City of Sikeston representative to sample and/or measure discharges.
The water discharged from any system of condensation, air-conditioning,
cooling, refrigeration or other to which the only pollutant is heat.
The discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly
to the waters of the State of Missouri.
The Director of Utilities of the Board of Municipal Utilities
of the City of Sikeston, Missouri, or his/her authorized agent or
representative.
The U.S. 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.
Solid food wastes from the preparation, cooking and disposing
of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
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.
Water pertaining to, formed or occurring underneath the surface
of the earth.
Any waste from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets,
campers, trailers, septic tanks and vacuum pump trucks.
The discharge or the introduction of non-domestic pollutants
from any source regulated under Section 307(b) or (c) of the Act (33
U.S.C. 1317) into the POTW (including holding tank waste discharged
into the system).
Any treatment facility used or intended to be used for the
specific treatment of industrial waste in which other waste may or
may not be present and which discharges to the City's wastewater system.
A source of indirect discharge which does not constitute
a "discharge of pollutants" under regulations issued pursuant to Section
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 City's NPDES permit. The term includes prevention of use or
interference with disposal of sludge by the POTW in accordance with
Section 405 of the Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. 1345) or any criteria,
guidelines or regulations developed pursuant to the Solid Waste Disposal
Act (SWDA), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) or more
stringent State criteria (including those contained in any State sludge
management plan prepared pursuant to Title IV of SWDA) applicable
to the method of disposal or use employed by the POTW. Pollutants
in the discharge from an industrial user shall not be considered to
cause interference where the industrial user is in compliance with
specific prohibitions or standards developed by Federal, State or
local governments.
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated
by the EPA in accordance with Section 306 (b) and (c) of the Act (33
U.S.C. 1347) which applies to a specific category of industrial users.
A permit issued pursuant to section 402 of the Act (33 U.S.C.
1342).
Any regulation developed under the authority of 307 (b) of
the Act and 40 CFR Section 403.5.
Any source, the construction of which is commenced after
the publication of proposed regulations prescribing a Section 307
(c) (33 U.S.C. 1317) Categorical Pretreatment Standard which will
be applicable to such source, if such standard is thereafter promulgated
within one hundred twenty (120) days after proposal. A new source
means any source, the construction of which commenced after the date
of promulgation of the standard.
Sewage which contains not over three hundred (300) parts
per million of BOD and not over three hundred fifty (350) parts per
million of total suspended solids.
The discharge of pollutants through the POTW into navigable
waters in quantities or concentrations which are a cause or significantly
contribute to a violation of any requirement of the POTW's NPDES permit
(including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation).
A user significantly contributes to such permit violation where it:
Discharges a daily pollutant loading in excess of that allowed
by contract with the POTW or by Federal, State or local law;
Discharges wastewater which substantially differs in nature
and constituents from the user's average discharge;
Knows or has reason to know that its discharge, alone or in
conjunction with discharge from other sources, would result in a permit
violation; or
Knows or has reason to know that the POTW is, for any reason,
violating its final effluent limitations in its permit and that such
user's discharge, either alone or in conjunction with discharges from
other sources, increases the magnitude or duration of the POTW's violations.
Any individual, firm, company, industry, society, corporation,
group or plant owner.
The logarithm to the base ten (10) of the reciprocal of the
hydrogen-ion concentration.
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.
That portion of the POTW designed to provide treatment of
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 to a POTW.
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of
food that have been shredded to such a degree that all particles will
be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in
public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half (½) inch
in any dimension.
A treatment works as defined by Section 212 of the Act (33
U.S.C. 1292) which is owned in this instance by the City. This definition
includes any sewers that convey wastewater to the POTW treatment plant,
but does not include pipes, sewers or other conveyances not connected
to a facility providing treatment. For the purposes of this ordinance,
"POTW" shall also include any sewers that convey wastewaters to the
POTW from persons outside the (City) who are, by contract or agreement
with the (City), users of the (City's) POTW.
Those wastes which are comparable to wastes which originate
in residential units and contain only human excrement and wastes from
kitchen, laundry, bathing and other household facilities.
A sewer that conveys sewage or industrial wastes or a combination
of both and into which storm, surface and ground waters or unpolluted
industrial wastes are not intentionally admitted.
Also known as and interchangeable with "wastewater" see below.
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business
buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with
such ground, surface and stormwaters as may be present.
An arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater,
industrial wastes and sludge. Also called "wastewater treatment works".
The structures, equipment and processes required to collect,
carry away and treat domestic and industrial wastes and transport
effluent to a watercourse. Also called "wastewater facilities".
A pipe or conduit for conveying sewage or any other waste
liquids, including storm, surface and ground water drainage.
The system of sewers and appurtenances for the collection,
transportation and pumping of sewage.
Is mandatory. MAY: Is permissive, subject
to approval by the Director of Utilities.
Any industrial user of the City's wastewater disposal system
who:
Is subject to categorical pretreatment standards under 40 CFR 403.6 and 40 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter N; and/or
Discharges an average of twenty-five thousand (25,000) gallons
per day or more of process wastewater to the POTW (excluding sanitary,
non-contact cooling and boiler blowdown wastewater);
Contributes a process wastestream which makes up five percent
(5%) or more of the average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity
of the POTW treatment plant; or
Is designated as such by the control authority on the basis
that the industrial user has the reasonable potential, either singly
or in combination with other contributing industries, for adversely
affecting the POTW's operation, the quality of sludge, the system's
effluent quality, air emissions generated by the system or for violating
any pretreatment standard or requirement (in accordance with 40 CFR
403.8(f)(6)).
Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which
in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds
for any period of duration longer than fifteen (15) minutes more than
five (5) times the average twenty-four (24) hour concentration or
flows during normal operation.
The latest edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination
of Water and Wastewater" as published jointly by the American Public
Health Association, the American Water Works Association and the Water
Pollution Control Federation.
The State of Missouri.
A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage,
but which is not to carry sanitary sewage and polluted industrial
wastes.
Any water resulting from precipitation which may or may not
be mixed with an accumulation of dirt, soil and other debris or substances
collected from the surfaces on which such precipitation falls or flows.
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 person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution
of wastewater into the City's POTW.
I.e., City utility, also known as the Board of Municipal
Utilities.
Any material other than water which is accidentally or purposely
discarded into the wastewater system.
The spent water of a community. From this standpoint, of
course, it may be a combination of the liquid and water-carried wastes
from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions,
together with any ground water, surface water and stormwater that
may be present.
See "SEWAGE WORKS".
See "SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT".
A natural or manmade surface drainage channel or body of
water in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
[R.O. 2009 §13.16.030]
The following abbreviations shall have the designated meanings:
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BOD
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Biochemical oxygen demand
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CFR
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Code of Federal Regulations
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COD
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Chemical oxygen demand
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EPA
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Environmental Protection Agency
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l
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Liter
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mg
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Milligrams
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mg/l
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Milligrams per liter
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NPDES
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National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
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POTW
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Publicly owned treatment works
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ppm
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Parts per million
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SIC
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Standard Industrial Classification
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SWDA
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Solid Waste Disposal Act, 42 U.S.C. 6901, et seq.
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USC
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United States Code
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TSS
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Total suspended solids
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