As a means of determining compliance with this Part 2, with applicable SPDES permit conditions and with applicable state and federal law, each industrial user shall be required to notify the Superintendent of any new or existing discharges to the POTW by submitting a completed Industrial Chemical Survey (ICS) form and a completed Industrial Wastewater Survey (IWS) form to the Superintendent. The Superintendent may require any user discharging wastewater into the POTW to file wastewater discharge reports and to supplement such reports as the Superintendent deems necessary. All information shall be furnished by the user in complete cooperation with the Superintendent.
Each industrial user shall be required to comply with all applicable pretreatment standards and other applicable requirements under Section 204(b) and Section 405 of the Clean Water Act[1] and Subtitles C and D of RCRA[2] and all other federal and state laws, rules and regulations pertaining to wastewater discharges to the Town's sewage system.
[1]
Editor's Note: See 33 U.S.C. §§ 1284(b) and 1345.
[2]
Editor's Note: See 42 U.S.C. § 6901 et seq.
A. 
No significant industrial user shall discharge wastewater to the POTW without having a valid wastewater discharge permit, issued by the Superintendent. Significant industrial users shall comply fully with the terms and conditions of their permits in addition to the provisions of this Part 2. Violation of a permit term or condition is deemed a violation of this Part 2.
B. 
All significant industrial users proposing to connect to or to discharge to the POTW shall obtain a wastewater discharge permit before connecting to or discharging to the POTW. Existing significant industrial users shall make application for a wastewater discharge permit within 30 days after the effective date of this Part 2 and shall obtain such a permit within 90 days after making application.
C. 
The Superintendent may issue wastewater discharge permits to other industrial users of the POTW.
D. 
The Town does not have the authority to issue permits for the discharge of any wastewater to a storm sewer. This authority rests with the NYSDEC.
A. 
Industrial users required to obtain a wastewater discharge permit shall complete and file with the Superintendent an application in the form prescribed by the Town, and the application shall be accompanied by a fee, as may be established by resolution of the Town Board. In support of any application, the industrial user shall submit, in units and terms appropriate for evaluation, the following information:
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(1) 
Name, address and location (if different from the address).
(2) 
SIC code of both the industry and any categorical processes.
(3) 
Wastewater constituents and characteristics, including but not limited to those mentioned in Article X of this Part 2 and which are limited in the appropriate categorical standard, as determined by a reliable analytical laboratory approved by the New York State Department of Health. Sampling and analysis shall be performed in accordance with standard methods.
(4) 
Time and duration of the discharge.
(5) 
Average daily peak wastewater flow rates, including daily, monthly and seasonal variations, if any.
(6) 
Site plans, floor plans, mechanical and plumbing plans and details to show all sewers, sewer connections and appurtenances.
(7) 
Description of activities, facilities and plant processes on the premises, including all materials which are or could be discharged to the POTW.
(8) 
Each product produced, by type, amount, process or processes and rate of production.
(9) 
Type and amount of raw materials processed (average and maximum per day).
(10) 
Number and type of employees and hours of operation and proposed or actual hours of operation of the pretreatment system.
(11) 
The nature and concentration of any pollutants in the discharge which are limited by any county, state or federal standards and a statement whether or not the standards are being met on a consistent basis and, if not, whether additional operation and maintenance (O&M) and/or additional pretreatment is required for the user to meet all applicable standards.
(12) 
If additional pretreatment and/or O&M will be required to meet the standards, then the industrial user shall provide the shortest schedule to accomplish such additional treatment and/or O&M. The completion date in this schedule shall not be longer than the compliance date established for the applicable pretreatment standard. The following conditions shall apply to this schedule:
(a) 
The schedule shall contain progress increments in the form of dates for the commencement and completion of major events leading to the construction and operation of additional pretreatment required for the user to meet the applicable pretreatment standards. (Such events include hiring an engineer, completing preliminary plans, completing final plans, executing contracts for major components, commencing construction, completing construction, beginning operation and beginning routine operation).
(b) 
No increment referred to in Subsection A(12)(a) above shall exceed nine months nor shall the total compliance period exceed 18 months.
(c) 
No later than 14 calendar days following each date in the schedule and the final date for compliance, the user shall submit a progress report to the Superintendent, including, as a minimum, whether or not it complied with the increment of progress, the reason for delay and the steps being taken by the user to return to the established schedule. In no event shall more than nine months elapse between such progress reports to the Superintendent.
(13) 
Any other information as may be deemed by the Superintendent to be necessary to evaluate the permit application.
B. 
The Superintendent will evaluate the data furnished by the industrial user and may require additional information. After evaluation and acceptance of the data furnished, the Town may issue a wastewater discharge permit subject to terms and conditions provided herein.
A. 
Wastewater discharge permits may be modified by the Town Board upon recommendation by the Superintendent, upon 30 days' notice to the permittee, for just cause. Just cause shall include but not be limited to:
(1) 
Promulgation of an applicable national categorical pretreatment standard;
(2) 
Revision of or a grant of a variance from such categorical standards pursuant to 40 CFR 403.13;
(3) 
Changes in general discharge prohibitions and local limits as per § 139-78 of this Part 2;
(4) 
Changes in processes used by the permittee or changes in discharge volume or character;
(5) 
Changes in design or capability of any part of the POTW;
(6) 
Discovery that the permitted discharge causes or contributes to pass-through or interference; and
(7) 
Changes in the nature and character of the sewage in the POTW as a result of other permitted discharges.
B. 
Any changes or new conditions in the permit shall include a reasonable time schedule for compliance as set forth in § 139-87A(12)(a).
Wastewater discharge permits shall be expressly subject to all the provisions of this Part 2 and all other applicable regulations, user charges and fees established by the Town. Permits may contain the following:
A. 
Limits on the average and maximum rate and time of discharge or requirements for flow regulation and equalization.
B. 
Limits on the average and maximum wastewater constituents and characteristics, including concentration or mass discharge limits.
C. 
The unit charge or schedule of user charges and fees for the management of the wastewater discharged to the POTW.
D. 
Requirements for installation and maintenance (in safe condition) of inspection and sampling facilities.
E. 
Specifications for monitoring programs which may include sampling locations, frequency of sampling, number, types and standards for tests and reporting schedules.
F. 
Compliance schedules.
G. 
Requirements for submission of technical reports or discharge reports.
H. 
Requirements for maintaining and retaining plant records relating to wastewater discharge, as specified by the Town, and affording the Superintendent access thereto.
I. 
Requirements for notification of the Town of any new introduction of wastewater constituents or of any substantial change in the volume or character of the wastewater constituents being introduced into the POTW.
J. 
Requirements for the notification of the Town of any change in the manufacturing and/or pretreatment process used by the permittee.
K. 
Requirements for notification of excessive, accidental or slug discharges.
L. 
Other conditions as deemed appropriate by the Town to ensure compliance with this Part 2 and state and federal laws, rules and regulations.
Permits shall be issued for a specified time period, not to exceed five years. A permit may be issued for a period less than five years.
The user shall apply for permit reissuance a minimum of 180 days prior to the expiration of the user's existing permit. The terms and conditions of the permit may be subject to modification, by the Superintendent, during the term of the permit, as limitations or requirements, as identified in § 139-88, or other just cause exists. The user shall be informed of any proposed changes in his or her permit at least 30 days prior to the effective date of the change. Any changes or new conditions in the reissued permit shall include a reasonable time schedule for compliance as set forth in § 139-87A(12)(a).
Wastewater discharge permits are issued to a specific user for a specific operation or discharge at a specific location. A wastewater discharge permit shall not be reassigned, transferred or sold to a new owner, new user, different premises or a new or changed operation.
Wastewater discharge permits may be revoked for the following reasons: falsifying self-monitoring reports, tampering with monitoring equipment, refusing to allow the Superintendent timely access to the industrial premises, failure to meet effluent limitations, failure to pay fines, failure to pay user charges and failure to meet compliance schedules.
A. 
Base line monitoring report. Within 180 days after promulgation of an applicable federal categorical pretreatment standard, a user subject to that standard shall submit, to the Superintendent, the information required by § 139-87A(8) and (9).
B. 
Ninety-day compliance report. Within 90 days following the date for the final compliance with applicable pretreatment standards or, in the case of a new source, following commencement of the introduction of wastewater into the POTW, any user subject to pretreatment standards and requirements shall submit to the Superintendent a report indicating the nature and concentration of all pollutants in the discharge from the regulated process which are limited by pretreatment standards and requirements and the average and maximum daily flow for these process units in the user's facility which are limited by such pretreatment standards and requirements. The report shall state whether the applicable pretreatment standards and requirements are being met on a consistent basis and, if not, what additional O&M and/or pretreatment is necessary to bring the user into compliance with the applicable pretreatment standards or requirements. This statement shall be signed by an authorized representative of the industrial user and certified to by a qualified professional.
C. 
Periodic compliance reports.
(1) 
Any user subject to a pretreatment standard, after the compliance date of such pretreatment standard or, in the case of a new source, after commencement of the discharge into the POTW, shall submit to the Superintendent monthly, unless required more frequently in the pretreatment standard or by the Superintendent, a report indicating the nature and concentration of pollutants in the effluent which are limited by such pretreatment standards. In addition, this report shall include a record of all daily flows which, during the reporting period, exceeded the average daily flow reported in § 139-87. At the discretion of the Superintendent and in consideration of such factors as local high or low flow rates, holidays, budget cycles, etc., the Superintendent may agree to alter the months during which the above reports are to be submitted; however, no fewer than two reports shall be submitted per year.
(2) 
The Superintendent may impose mass limitations on users which are using dilution to meet applicable pretreatment standards or requirements or in other cases where the imposition of mass limitations are appropriate. In such cases, the report required by Subsection C(1) shall indicate the mass of pollutants regulated by pretreatment standards in the effluent of the user. These reports shall contain the results of discharge sampling and analysis, including the flow and the nature and concentration, or production and mass, where requested by the Superintendent, or pollutants contained therein, which are limited by the applicable pretreatment standard. All analyses shall be performed in accordance with standard methods by a laboratory certified by the New York State Department of Health to perform the analyses.
D. 
Other reports. The Superintendent may impose reporting requirements equivalent to the requirements imposed by Subsection C for users not subject to pretreatment standards.
No person shall cause the discharge of slugs to the POTW. Each person discharging into the POTW greater than 25,000 gallons per day or greater than 5% of the average daily flow in the POTW, whichever is lesser, shall install and maintain, on his or her property and at his or her expense, a suitable storage and flow control facility to ensure equalization of flow over a twenty-four-hour period. The facility shall have a capacity for at least 50% of the daily discharge volume and shall be equipped with alarms and a rate of discharge controller, the regulation of which shall be directed by the Superintendent. A wastewater discharge permit may be issued solely for flow equalization.
A. 
All significant industrial users and other industrial users whose industrial waste discharge has caused or may cause interference or pass-through shall install and maintain a suitable monitoring station on their premises, at their expense, to facilitate the observation, sampling and measurement of their industrial wastewater discharge.
B. 
If there is more than one street lateral serving an industrial user, the Superintendent may require the installation of a control manhole on each lateral.
C. 
The Superintendent may require that such monitoring station(s) include equipment for the continuous measurement and recording of wastewater flow rate and for the sampling of the wastewater. The monitoring station may, upon approval by the Town, include a storage facility with a locked valved discharge pipe. All wastes shall be monitored, at the expense of the industrial user, prior to release. No release may be effected by the industrial user from the locked valved discharge pipe unless authorized by the Superintendent. Such station(s) shall be accessible and safely located, and the industrial user shall allow immediate access, without prior notice, to the station by the Superintendent or his or her designated representative.
Preliminary treatment and flow equalization facilities or monitoring stations, if provided, for any wastewater shall be constructed and maintained continuously clean, safe and continuously operational by the owner at his or her expense. Where an industrial user has such treatment, equalization or monitoring facilities at the time this Part 2 is enacted, the Superintendent may approve or disapprove the adequacy of such facilities. Where the Superintendent disapproves of such facilities and construction of new or upgraded facilities for treatment, equalization or monitoring are required, plans and specifications for such facilities shall be prepared by a licensed professional engineer and submitted to the Superintendent. Construction of new or upgraded facilities shall not commence until written approval of the Superintendent has been obtained.
No unauthorized person shall maliciously, willfully or negligently break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface, tamper with, prevent access to or render inaccurate or cause or permit the malicious, willful or negligent breaking, damaging, destroying, uncovering, defacing, tampering with, preventing access to or rendering inaccurate of:
A. 
Any structure, appurtenance or equipment which is a part of the Town POTW; or
B. 
Any measuring, sampling and/or testing device or mechanism installed pursuant to any requirement under this Part 2.
All measurements, tests and analyses of the characteristics of waters and wastes required in any section of this Part 2 shall be carried out in accordance with standard methods by a laboratory certified by the New York State Department of Health to perform the analyses. Such samples shall be taken at the approved monitoring stations described in § 139-96, if such a station exists. If an approved monitoring station is not required, then samples shall be taken from another location on the industrial sewer lateral before discharge to the public sewer. Unless specifically requested otherwise or unless specifically not allowed in federal regulation, samples shall be gathered as composite samples made up of individual samples taken not less than once per hour for the period of time equal to the duration of industrial wastewater discharge during daily operations (including any cleanup shift).
A. 
Each user shall provide for protection from accidental discharges or prohibited materials or of materials in volume or concentration exceeding limitations of this Part 2 or of an industrial wastewater discharge permit. When required by the Superintendent, detailed plans and procedures to provide for this protection shall be submitted to the Superintendent for approval. This plan shall be called a spill prevention, control and countermeasure (SPCC) plan. Users shall immediately notify the Superintendent of the discharge of wastes in violation of this Part 2 or any permit. Such discharges may result from:
(1) 
Breakdown of pretreatment equipment.
(2) 
Accidents caused by mechanical failure or negligence.
(3) 
Other causes.
B. 
Where possible, such immediate notification shall allow the Superintendent to initiate appropriate countermeasure action at the POTW. The user shall prepare a detailed written statement, which describes the causes of the discharge and the measures being taken to prevent future occurrences, within five days of the occurrence, and the Superintendent shall receive a copy of such report no later than the fifth calendar day following the occurrence. Analytical results and their interpretation may be appended to the report at a date not exceeding 45 calendar days after the occurrence.
In order that the industrial user's employees be informed of the Town requirements, a notice shall be permanently posted on appropriate bulletin boards within the user's facility advising employees of the Town's requirements and who to call in case of an accidental discharge in violation of this Part 2.
When so requested in advance by an industrial user and when taking a sample of industrial wastewater, the Town's representative(s) shall gather sufficient volume of sample so that the sample can be split into two nearly equal volumes, each of size adequate for the anticipated analytical protocols. One of the volumes shall be given to the industry whose wastewater was sampled, and the other shall be retained by the Town for its own analysis. When the industrial user samples wastewater discharge for the purpose of monitoring discharge as required herein, the industrial user shall split the sample taken so that the Town is provided with an equivalent volume of sample suitable for the anticipated testing protocols.
A. 
When requested, the Superintendent shall make available to the public for inspection and/or copying information and data on industrial users obtained from reports, questionnaires, permit applications, permit and monitor programs and inspections, unless the industrial user specifically requests and is able to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Superintendent that such information, if made public, would divulge processes or methods of production entitled to protection as trade secrets of the user. Wastewater constituents and characteristics and reports of accidental discharges shall not be recognized as confidential.
B. 
Confidential information shall not be made available for inspection and/or copying by the public but shall be disclosed, upon written request, to governmental agencies for uses related to this Part 2 or the SPDES permit, provided that the governmental agency making the request agrees to hold the information confidential, in accordance with state or federal laws, rules and regulations. The Superintendent shall provide written notice to the industrial user of any disclosure of confidential information to another governmental agency.
The Superintendent and other authorized representatives of the Town, representatives of EPA, NYSDEC, New York State Department of Health and/or the Town's county Health Department, bearing proper credentials and identification, shall be permitted to enter upon all nonresidential properties at all reasonable times for the purpose of inspection, observation, sampling, flow measurement and testing to ascertain a user's compliance with applicable provisions of federal and state law governing use of the Town POTW and with the provisions of this Part 2. Inspections of residential properties shall be performed in proper observance of the resident's civil rights. Such representative(s) shall have the right to set up, on the user's property or property rented/leased by the user, such devices as are necessary to conduct sampling or flow measurement. Guard dogs shall be under proper control of the user while the representatives are on the user's property or property rented/leased by the user. Such representative(s) shall additionally have access to and may copy any records the user is required to maintain under this Part 2. Where a user has security measures in force which would require proper identification and clearance before entry into the premises, the user shall make necessary arrangements so that, upon presentation of suitable identification, inspecting personnel will be permitted to enter, without delay, for the purpose of performing their specific responsibilities.
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The Superintendent, bearing proper credentials and identification, shall be permitted to enter all private premises through which the Town holds an easement for the purpose of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, repair and maintenance of any portion of the Town public sewer system lying within the easement. All entry and subsequent work on the easement shall be done in accordance with the terms of the easement pertaining to the private premises involved.
During the performance, on private premises, of inspections, sampling or other similar operations referred to in §§ 139-104 and 139-105, the inspectors shall observe all applicable safety rules established by the owner or occupant of the premises. The owner and/or occupant shall be held harmless for personal injury or death of the inspector and the loss of or damage to the inspector's supplies and/or equipment; and the inspector shall indemnify the owner and/or occupant against loss or damage to property of the owner or occupant by the inspector and against liability claims asserted against the owner or occupant for personal injury or death of the inspector or for loss of or damage to the inspector's supplies or equipment arising from inspection and sampling operations, except as such may be caused by negligence or failure of the owner or occupant to maintain safe conditions.
A. 
Nothing in this article shall be construed as preventing any special agreement or arrangement between the Town and any user of the POTW whereby wastewater of unusual strength or character is accepted into the POTW and specially treated, subject to any payments or user charges, as may be applicable. In entering into such a special agreement, the Town Board shall consider whether the wastewater will:
(1) 
Pass through or cause interference.
(2) 
Endanger the public municipal employees.
(3) 
Cause violation of the SPDES permit.
(4) 
Interfere with any purpose stated in § 139-12A.
(5) 
Prevent the equitable compensation to the Town for wastewater conveyance and treatment and sludge management and disposal.
B. 
No discharge which violates the federal pretreatment standards will be allowed under the terms of such special agreements.