The Board of Selectmen is authorized and empowered to enter into agreements,
issue permits or make other arrangements for handling and treating industrial
wastes which, in its opinion, are amenable to treatment in the town's
POTW. The Board of Selectmen also reserves the right to establish in these
rules and regulations general local limits for industrial wastewater discharges.
The Board may also establish individual user limitations which may be expressed
either as concentration-based limits or mass-based limits. The Board may also
develop discharge limitations and other permit requirements applicable to
generators and transporters of holding wastes or other hauled wastes discharged
to the POTW. Such limits shall not be developed without public notification
and shall be developed using methods acceptable to the EPA and DEP.
The Board of Selectmen shall limit any specific pollutant discharges where such limitation is considered in the best interests of the town in properly maintaining and operating the POTW. Upon the promulgation of the Federal Categorical Pretreatment Standards for a particular industrial subcategory, the federal standard, if more stringent than limitations imposed under these rules and regulations for sources in that subcategory, shall immediately supersede the limitations imposed under these rules and regulations. National Categorical Standards found in 40 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter N, Parts 405 through 471, are hereby incorporated into these rules and regulations. All users subject to Federal Categorical Pretreatment Standards will be required to obtain an industrial wastewater discharge permit as per Article
V, §
256-32 of these rules and regulations. The Board of Selectmen shall notify all affected users of the applicable reporting requirements under 40 CFR 403.12.
No user shall increase the use of process water in an attempt to dilute
a discharge as a partial or complete substitute for adequate treatment to
achieve compliance with the limitations contained in any pretreatment standard
or in any other pollutant-specific limitation developed by the town or state,
unless expressly authorized to do so by the applicable standard or limitation.
Users shall provide necessary wastewater treatment as required to comply
with these rules and regulations and any applicable pretreatment standards.
Users shall achieve compliance with all Federal Categorical Pretreatment Standards
within the time limitations as specified by the federal pretreatment regulations.
Any facilities required to pretreat wastewater to a level acceptable to the
Board of Selectmen shall be provided, operated and maintained at the user's
expense. Detailed plans showing the pretreatment facilities and operating
procedures shall be submitted to the Board of Selectmen for review and shall
be approved by the Board before construction of the facility. The review of
such plans and operating procedures will in no way relieve the user from the
responsibility of modifying the facility as necessary to produce an effluent
acceptable to the Board under the provisions of these rules and regulations.
Any subsequent changes in the pretreatment facilities or method of operation
shall be reported to and be acceptable to the Board prior to the user's
initiation of the changes.