So far as is practicable, industrial waste may be discharged
into the Towns sewer system with complete pretreatment, provided that
the consent of the Town is first obtained and the rules, regulations
and standards hereinafter prescribed are complied with, in the judgment
of the Town.
Written approval by the Town is required for all new discharges
of industrial wastes after the effective date of this chapter. These
shall include all wastes in which the quantity, temperature or chemical
characteristics are altered in operation procedures and equipment
changes.
The owner of all houses, buildings or property used for human
occupancy, employment, recreation or other similar purposes, situated
within the Town and abutting on any street, alley or right-of-way,
in which there is now located or may in the future be located a public
sewer of the Town, is hereby required, at his expense, to install
suitable toilets and facilities therein and to connect such facilities
directly with the proper public sewer in accordance with the provisions
of this chapter within 90 days after the date of official notice to
do so, provided that said public sewer is within 1,000 feet of the
property line.
The owners of property being developed as a subdivision having
plot sizes of less than one acre per dwelling unit shall construct
such sewers and appurtenances thereto as are shown on the map or plot
and the plans, profiles and drawings accompanying said plot, approved
by the Dutchess County Health Department and the Superintendent and
filed in the office of the Planning Board of the Town of Fishkill.
Such sewers shall be constructed in accordance with the specifications
contained in or referred to in the rules and regulations of said Planning
Board, the Dutchess County Health Department and the Town. The plans,
drawings and design shall be approved by the Superintendent.
The owners of property being developed into multiple dwellings,
commercial installations, industrial sites, public gathering places,
schools and offices shall construct such building drains and building
sewers as shown on the map or plat, approved by the Dutchess County
Health Department and the Superintendent and conforming to the requirements
and specifications of the Town.
Stormwater and all other unpolluted drainage shall be safely
discharged to such storm sewers specifically designated or to a natural
outlet approved by the Town and in a manner prescribed by the Town.
Industrial cooling water or unpolluted process water may be
discharged, upon approval from the Town, to a storm sewer or a natural
outlet.
The Town Board may, at any time in its discretion, stop and
prevent the discharge into the sewers of any substance deemed by it
liable to injure the sewers or to interfere with their normal operation
or to obstruct the flow or to hinder any process of sewage purification
and it may, at any time in its discretion, sever the connection and
cause the removal of any tributary sewer or drain through which such
detrimental substances are discharged. All costs involved will be
charged to the person, corporation or individual listed as the record
owner of the real property from which the substance originates.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to:
A. Place, deposit or permit to be placed or deposited in an unsanitary
manner upon public or private property within the Town of Fishkill
or in any area under the jurisdiction of said Town any human or animal
excrement, garbage or other objectionable waste, except as hereinafter
provided, except where special permission of the Town Board is given.
B. Discharge to any natural outlet or storm sewer within the Town of
Fishkill or in any area under the jurisdiction of said Town any sanitary
sewage, industrial wastes or other polluted waters, except where suitable
treatment has been provided in accordance with the subsequent provisions
of this chapter, the public health law and regulations of the New
York State Department of Health, the Dutchess County Health Department
and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
C. Discharge industrial cooling water to the Town's sewer system except
by specific written approval from the Town.
D. Uncover any portion of the municipal sewers or connections thereto
or to open any manhole or appurtenance of the sewerage system, except
under permit signed by the Superintendent, in accordance with the
regulations as established by the Town.
E. Open any highway or public ground for the purpose of making any connection or to make or cause to be made any connection with the municipal sewer, except under a permit signed by the Superintendent and under the supervision of the Sewer Inspector. Refer to Article
VI.
F. Break or to cut or to remove any pipe of the municipal sewer system
or to make or cause to be made any connection to said sewers, except
through the connection branches provided for that purpose. The location
of said connection branches will be designated by the Sewer Inspector.
G. Discharge or cause to be discharged into any municipal sewer, either
directly or indirectly, any overflow or drainage from manure pits,
cesspools or other receptacles storing or constructed to store organic
waste.
H. Connect or cause to be connected with any municipal sewer, either
directly or indirectly, any sediment traps or any pipes carrying or
constructed to carry hot circulating water, acid, germicide, grease,
brewery or distilled washwater, gasoline, naphtha, benzene or similar
liquid, oil or other industrial or trade waste or any other substance
detrimental to or deemed by the Superintendent detrimental to the
municipal sewers or to the operation of the sewerage system or the
sewage treatment works, unless adequate and proper preliminary treatment
appurtenances and apparatus are installed and maintained at the owner's
expense so that the spent water delivered to the municipal sewers
will be neutral in character, as determined by the standard acid-alkalinity
tests, and will be free from excess suspended matter or excess bactericidal
agents, as may be approved by the Town Board. Steam engine exhaust
or blowoff from boilers shall not be connected to the municipal sewers.
I. Drain from washstands of public or private garages, automobile washing
stations, cleaning or dyeing works, laundries or similar establishments
where gasoline, oils or any flammable materials are used or stored,
unless equipped with an oil separator of size and design approval
by the Town.
J. Throw or deposit or cause or allow to be thrown or deposited in any
fixture, vessel, receptacle, inlet or opening connected directly with
any public sewer any ground or shredded table garbage having any dimension
larger than 1/2 inch. The use of mechanical garbage grinders producing
a finely divided mass, properly flushed with an ample amount of water,
is permitted under this article and any rules and regulations issued
pursuant hereto. Additionally, the installation of any garbage grinder
of larger than three-fourths-horsepower capacity shall require prior
approval of the Superintendent.
K. Allow any building sewer connected with the public sewer to be also
connected with any privy vault, septic tank, cesspool or underground
drain and with any channel conveying water or filth, except such soil
pipes and other plumbing works as shall have been duly inspected and
approved by the Sewer Inspector.
L. Throw or deposit or cause or allow to be thrown or deposited in any fixture, vessel, receptacle, inlet or opening connected directly with any public sewer any ashes, cinders, rags or similar waste materials or dead animals or waste materials of any kind or character other than feces, urine, necessary toilet paper, liquid house slops or properly ground table garbage as defined in Article
I.
Except as hereinafter provided, no person, firm, corporation
or industry shall discharge or cause to be discharged any of the following
waters or wastes to any public sewer:
A. Any gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil or other flammable or explosive
liquid, solid or gas in concentrations which may produce flammable
or explosive gases in the sewer.
B. Any stormwater, surface water, groundwater, roof runoff, subsurface
drainage, uncontaminated cooling water, pressure sand-filter-backwash
water, water-softener-backwash water, swimming pool discharges, boiler-blowdown
water or other unpolluted waters, as defined herein.
C. Solid or viscous substances in quantities or of a size capable of
causing obstruction to the flow in sewers or other interference with
the proper operation of the sewage treatment works, such as but not
limited to ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass,
rubber, rags, feathers, tar, plastics, wood, flushings, entrails,
lime slurry, lime residues, beer or distillery slops, chemicals or
residues, paint residues, cannery waste bulk solids, unground garbage
or paper dishes, cups, milk containers, etc., either whole or ground
by garbage grinders.
D. Any residues or sludges resulting from purification of wastes.
E. Any mineral or other oil emulsions thereof measured such that a settled
sample after acidification to pH two and standing for one hour must
not develop a separate layer of mineral or other oil of measurable
depth.
F. Any water or wastes which contain more than two parts per million
of the following; hydrogen sulfide, sulfur dioxide or oxides of nitrogen.
G. Any waters or wastes, acid or alkaline in reaction, and having corrosive
properties capable of causing damage or hazards to structures, equipment
or personnel of the sewage works. Free acids and alkali of such wastes
must be neutralized at all times within a permissible range of pH
between 6.5 and 9.0.
H. Any cyanides in excess of two parts per million by weight as CN in
the wastes from any outlet into the public sewers.
I. Any water or wastes containing the discharge of strong acid, iron
pickling wastes or concentrated plating solutions, whether neutralized
or not.
J. Any waters containing suspended solids of such character and quantity
that unusual provision, attention or expense is required to handle
such materials at the sewage treatment plant.
K. Any noxious or malodorous gas or substance which, either singly or
by interaction with any waste, is capable of creating a hazard or
menace to life or property or of preventing entry into sewers for
their maintenance and repair.
L. Any waters or wastes that, for a duration of 15 minutes, have a concentration
greater than five times that of normal sewage as measured by suspended
solids and BOD.
M. Any waters or wastes which, by interaction with other water or wastes
in the public sewer system, release obnoxious gases or develop color
of undesirable intensity or form suspended solids in objectionable
concentration or create any other condition deleterious to structures
and treatment processes.
A. Specific restrictions. Users shall not discharge to the municipal
sewer an effluent containing greater than the following concentrations
of the stated substances:
|
|
Concentration
|
---|
|
Constituent
|
Maximum
(mg/l)
|
Average
(mg/l)
|
---|
|
BOD
|
300
|
200
|
|
COD
|
900
|
750
|
|
Total suspended matter (suspended solids)
|
300
|
200
|
|
Boron (as B)
|
3.00
|
2.00
|
|
Cadmium (as Cd)
|
0.10
|
0.08
|
|
Chromium (hexavalent, as Cr)
|
3.00
|
2.00
|
|
Copper (as Cu)
|
2.00
|
1.00
|
|
Cresols (C6H5CH3OH)
|
25.00
|
10.00
|
|
Cyanide (as CN, free titratable)
|
0.50
|
0.20
|
|
Iron (as Fe)
|
5.0
|
5.0
|
|
Lead (as Pb)
|
0.50
|
0.20
|
|
Mercuric chloride (as Hg)
|
0.10
|
0.04
|
|
Nickel (as Ni)
|
2.00
|
1.00
|
|
Phenols (as C6H5OH)
|
25.00
|
10.00
|
|
Toluene
|
107.00
|
85.00
|
|
Zinc (as Zn)
|
3.00
|
2.00
|
B. Restrictions. Users shall not discharge to the sewer the following
described substances, materials, waters or wastes if it appears likely,
in the opinion of the Superintendent, that such wastes can harm either
the sewers or the sewage treatment process or equipment or can have
an adverse effect on the receiving stream or can otherwise endanger
life, limb or public property or constitute a nuisance. In forming
his opinion as to the acceptability of these wastes, the Superintendent
will give consideration to such factors as the quantities of subject
wastes in relation to flows and velocities in the sewers, materials
of construction of the sewage treatment plant and other pertinent
factors. In no case will approval be granted to discharge wastewater
containing pollutants that exceed the limitations set forth in any
categorical pretreatment standard. Any pretreatment facility installed
must conform to all state and federal regulations, and installation
of such facilities will be subject to review and approval by the New
York State Department of Environmental Conservation and the United
States Environmental Protection Agency and inspection by the same
personnel.
(1) Any liquid or vapor having a temperature higher than 150° F.
(65° C.) or any discharge causing the influent at the treatment
plant to be higher than 104° F. (40° C.).
(2) Any water or waste containing fats, wax, grease or oils, whether
emulsified or not, in excess of 50 milligrams per liter of soluble
materials or containing substances which may solidify or become viscous
at temperatures between 32° F. and 150° F. (0° C. and
65° C.).
(3) Any water or wastes containing iron, trivalent chromium, aluminum,
sulfates, silicates, formaldehyde and similar objectionable or toxic
substances to such degree that any such materials received in the
composite sewage at the sewage treatment works exceed the limits established
by the Superintendent for such materials.
(4) Any waters or wastes containing phenols or other taste- or odor-producing
substances in such concentrations as may exceed limits established
by the Superintendent as necessary, after treatment of the composite
sewage, to meet the requirements of the state, federal or other public
agencies for such discharge to the receiving waters.
(5) Any radioactive wastes or isotopes of such half-life or concentration
as may exceed limits established by the Superintendent in compliance
with applicable state or federal regulations.
(6) Materials which exert or cause:
(a)
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, calcium
chloride and sodium sulfate.
(b)
Excessive discoloration, such as dye wastes or spent tanning
solutions, such that the effluent after treatment may exceed limits
established by the Superintendent in compliance with applicable state
or federal regulations.
(c)
Unusual volume of flow or concentration of wastes constituting
slugs as defined herein.
(d)
Unusual chlorine requirements in such quantities as to constitute
a significant load on the sewage treatment works.
(7) Water or wastes containing substances which are not amenable to treatment
or reduction by the sewage treatment process employed or are amenable
to treatment only to such a degree that the sewage treatment plant
effluent cannot meet the requirements of other agencies having jurisdiction
over discharge to the receiving waters.
C. All industries that are subject to categorical pretreatment standards
must comply with any limitations imposed by this standard. Any state
or local standards which are more stringent will supersede the federal
pretreatment standards. The Superintendent will update affected industries
on any relevant changes in the categorical standards.
Notwithstanding the provisions herein, any discharge into the
public sewer of wastes whose concentration of suspended solids, BOD
or grease causes at the sewage works a monthly increase in the average
daily analysis of any of these constituents in excess of 2% of the
annual daily average for the previous year is prohibited.
A. Grease, oil and sand interceptors (traps) shall be provided when,
in the opinion of the Superintendent, they are necessary for the proper
handling of liquid wastes containing grease in excessive amounts or
any flammable wastes, sand and other harmful ingredients; except that
such interceptors shall not be required for private living quarters
or dwelling units. Such interceptors should not be preceded by garbage
grinder or disposal units. All interceptors shall be of the type and
capacity and approved by the Superintendent and shall be located as
to be readily and easily accessible for cleaning and inspection. Grease
and oil interceptors shall be constructed of impervious materials
capable of withstanding abrupt and extreme changes in temperature.
They shall be of substantial construction, watertight and equipped
with removable covers which, when mounted in place, shall be gastight
and watertight.
B. All grease, oil and sand interceptors shall be maintained by the
owner at his expense in continuous, efficient operation at all times.
A. Where necessary, in the opinion of the Superintendent, the owner
shall provide, at his expense, such pretreatment as may be necessary
to reduce objectionable characteristics or constituents to within
the maximum limits which are provided for herein.
B. Plans, specifications and any other pertinent information related
to the proposed pretreatment facilities shall be submitted for approval
by the Superintendent and the City of Beacon for flows being conveyed
to the city's treatment facilities. No construction of such facilities
shall be commenced until said approvals are obtained in writing.
Where pretreatment facilities are provided for any waters or
wastes, they shall be maintained continuously in satisfactory and
effective operation by the owner, at his expense, and shall be subject
to the periodic inspection by the Superintendent. They shall be the
type and capacity approved by the Superintendent and must produce
an effluent conforming to the provisions of this chapter. The owner
shall maintain operating records and shall submit to the Superintendent
a report of the character of the influent and effluent as may be prescribed
by the Superintendent to show satisfactory performance of the treatment
facilities.
Any approval of the Superintendent of a type, kind or capacity
of an installation shall not relieve the owner of the responsibility
of revamping, enlarging or otherwise modifying an installation if
it is found inadequate to accomplish the intended purpose.
All measures, tests and analyses of the characteristics of waters
and wastes to which reference is made herein shall be determined in
accordance with the Standard Methods for the Examination of Water
and Sewage and shall be determined at a control manhole provided for
herein upon suitable samples taken at said control manhole. In the
event that no manhole has been required, the control manhole shall
be considered to be the nearest downstream manhole in the public sewer
to the point at which the building sewer is connected.
When required by the Superintendent, the owner of any property
served by a building sewer carrying industrial wastes shall install
a suitable control manhole in the building sewer to facilitate observations,
sampling and measurement of the wastes. Such manhole, when constructed,
shall be accessibly located and shall be constructed in accordance
with plans approved by the Superintendent. The manhole shall be installed
by the owner at his expense and shall be maintained by him so as to
be safe and accessible at all times.
No statement contained in this article shall be construed as
preventing any special agreement or arrangement between the Town and
any industrial concern whereby an industrial waste of unusual strength
or character may be accepted by the Town for treatment subject to
payment therefor by the industrial concern.
No portion of this article shall be construed to interfere with
or modify the requirements of design, inspection and approval which
are imposed by the appropriate health officials and the State and
County Health Departments and the New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation.