Stormwater and all other unpolluted drainage
shall be discharged to such storm sewers as are specifically designated
as stormwater or to a natural outlet approved by the Town Highway
Superintendent and/or Highway Committee.
No person(s) shall discharge or cause to be
discharged any of the following described waters or wastes to any
public sewers:
A.
Any gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil, motor oil
or other flammable or explosive liquid, solid or gas.
B.
Any waters containing toxic or poisonous solids, liquids
or gases in sufficient quantity, either singly or by interaction with
other wastes, to injure or interfere with any waste treatment process,
constitute a hazard to humans or animals, create a public nuisance
or create any hazard in the receiving waters of the wastewater treatment
plant.
C.
Any waters or wastes having a pH lower than 5.5 or
having any other corrosive property capable of causing damage or hazard
to structures, equipment and/or personnel of the wastewater works.
D.
Solid or viscous substances in quantities or of such
size capable of causing obstruction to the flow in sewers or other
interference with the proper operation of the wastewater facilities,
such as but not limited to ashes, bones, cinders, sand, mud, straw,
shavings, metal, glass, rags, feathers, tar, plastics, wood, unground
garbage, whole blood, paunch manure, hair and fleshings, entrails,
paper dishes, cups, milk containers, etc., either whole or ground
by garbage grinders.
E.
Wastewater having a temperature higher than 150',
F. (65' C). or in such quantities that the temperature at the treatment
works influent exceeds 104' F. (40' C.).
A.
The following described substances, materials, water
or wastes shall be limited in discharges to municipal systems to concentrations
or quantities which will not harm either the sewers, wastewater treatment
process or equipment, will not have an adverse effect on the receiving
stream or will not otherwise endanger lives, limb, public property
or constitute a nuisance.
B.
The Sewer Inspector and/or Deputy Sewer Inspector
may set limitations lower than the limitation established in the regulations
below if, in his opinion, such more severe limitations are necessary
to meet the above objectives. In forming his opinion as to the acceptability,
the Sewer Inspector and/or Deputy Sewer Inspector will give consideration
to such factors as the quantity of subject waste in relation to flows
and velocities in the sewers, materials of construction of the sewers,
the wastewater treatment process employed, the capacity of the wastewater
treatment plant and other pertinent factors.
C.
The limitations or restrictions on materials or characteristics
of waste or wastewaters discharged to the sanitary sewer which shall
not be violated without approval of the Sewer Inspector and/or Deputy
Sewer Inspectors are as follows:
(1)
Wastewater containing more than 25 milligrams per
liter of petroleum oil or product of mineral oil origin.
(2)
Wastewater from industrial plants containing floatable
oils, fat or grease.
(3)
Any garbage that has not been properly shredded. Garbage
grinders may be connected to sanitary sewers from homes, hotels, institutions,
restaurants, hospitals, catering establishments or similar places
where garbage originates from the preparation of food kitchens for
the purpose of consumption on the premises or when served by caterers.
Garbage grinders shall not be used for disposal of plastics, paper
products, inert materials or garden refuse.
(4)
Any waters or wastes containing iron, chromium, copper,
zinc and similar objectionable or toxic substances to such degree
that any such material received in the composite wastewater at the
wastewater treatment works exceeds the limit established by the Sewer
Inspector and/or Deputy Sewer Inspector for such materials.
(5)
Any waters or wastes containing odor-producing substances
exceeding limits which may be established by the Sewer Inspector and/or
Deputy Sewer Inspector.
(6)
Any radioactive wastes or isotopes of such half-life
or concentration as may exceed limits established by the Sewer Inspector
and/or Deputy Sewer Inspector in compliance with applicable state
or federal regulations.
(7)
Quantities of flow, concentrations or both which constitute
a slug as defined herein. The user causing any such discharge shall
immediately notify the POTW of the discharge.
(8)
Waters or wastes containing substances which are not
amenable to treatment or reduction by the wastewater treatment processes
employed or are amenable to treatment only to such degree that the
wastewater treatment plant effluent cannot meet the requirements of
other agencies having jurisdiction over discharge to the receiving
waters.
(9)
Any water or wastes which, by interaction with other
water or wastes in the public sewer system, release obnoxious gases,
form suspended solids which interfere with the collection system or
create a condition deleterious to structures and treatment processes.
(10)
Any discoloration, such as but not limited to
dyes, inks and vegetable tanning solution or any other condition in
the quality of treatment works effluent in such a manner that receiving
quality requirements established by law cannot be met.
D.
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged
any waters or wastes containing a toxic or poisonous substance, a
high chlorine demand or suspended solids in sufficient quantity to
injure or interfere with any sewage treatment process, constitute
a hazard to humans or animals or create any hazard in the receiving
waters or the effluent of the district sewage treatment plant or to
exceed the limitation set forth in the categorical pretreatment standard.
Such toxic substances shall be limited to the average concentrations
listed hereinafter in the sewage and include but are not limited to
any pollutant identified pursuant to Section 307(a) of the Federal
Clean Water Act, as revised up to 1977. If concentrations listed are
exceeded, individual establishments will be subject to control in
volume and concentration by the Director of the Rensselaer County
Sewer District No. 1.
E.
Limits of toxic substances in sewage shall be as follows:
|
Effluent Concentration Limits(mg/1)
| ||
|---|---|---|
|
Parameter
|
24-Hour
Average
|
30-Day
Average
|
|
Arsenic
|
.4
|
0.2
|
|
Available chlorine
|
50.0
|
50.0
|
|
Barium
|
8.0
|
4.0
|
|
Cadmium
|
.8
|
0.4
|
|
Copper
|
1.6
|
0.8
|
|
Cyanide, complex
|
3.2
|
1.6
|
|
Cyanide, free
|
.8
|
0.4
|
|
Fluorides, to freshwater
|
8.0
|
4.0*
|
|
Gold
|
.4
|
0.2
|
|
Hex. chromium
|
.4
|
0.2
|
|
Lead
|
.4
|
0.2
|
|
Manganese
|
8.0
|
4.0
|
|
Mercury
|
.4
|
0.2
|
|
Nickel
|
8.0
|
4.0
|
|
Phenol
|
8.0
|
4.0
|
|
Selenium
|
.4
|
0.2
|
|
Silver
|
.4
|
0.2
|
|
Sulfide
|
12.0
|
6.0
|
|
Total chromium
|
8.0
|
4.0
|
|
Zinc
|
2.4
|
1.2
|
|
*NOTE: May be multiplied by a factor of one
and five-tenths (1.5) if the municipal water supply is not fluoridated.
| ||
If any waters or wastes are discharged or are proposed to be discharged to public sewers, which waters contain the substances or possess the characteristics enumerated in § 151-22 of this article or which, in the judgment of the Sewer Inspector and/or Deputy Sewer Inspector, may have a deleterious effect upon wastewater facilities, processes, equipment or receiving waters or which otherwise create a hazard to life or constitute a public nuisance, the Sewer Inspector and/or Deputy Sewer Inspector shall contact the Administrative Director of Rensselaer County Sewer District No. 1, which has promulgated rules and regulations governing the discharge of wastewaters into the Rensselaer County sewerage systems and all sewer tributaries thereto. Alternative solutions may include:
Grease, oil and sand interceptors shall be provided
when, in the opinion of the Town Sewer Inspector and/or Deputy Sewer
Inspector, they are necessary for the proper handling of liquid wastes
containing floatable grease in excessive amounts or any flammable
wastes, sand or other harmful ingredients, except that such interceptors
shall not be required for private living quarters or dwelling units.
All restaurants within the sewer districts are required to install
grease traps. All interceptors shall be of a type and capacity approved
by the Sewer Inspector and/or Deputy Sewer Inspector and shall be
located so as to be readily and easily accessible for cleaning and
inspection. In the maintaining of these interceptors, the owner(s)
shall be responsible for the proper removal and disposal by appropriate
means of the captured material and shall maintain records of the date
and means of disposal, which are subject to review by the Sewer Inspector
and/ or Deputy Sewer Inspector. Any removal and hauling of the collected
materials not performed by the personnel of the owner(s) must be performed
by currently licensed waste disposal firms.
Where pretreatment or flow-equalizing facilities
are provided or required for any waters or wastes, they shall be maintained
continuously in satisfactory and effective operation by the owner(s)
at his expense.
The Sewer Inspector and/or Deputy Sewer Inspector
may require a user of sewer service to provide information needed
to determine compliance with this chapter.
