No wastes will be accepted or be allowed to
be introduced into facilities of the Authority that are listed in
the EPA regulations identifying and listing hazardous wastes under
Section 3001 of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, or any
substance listed as hazardous in this chapter.
The Borough may require that any owner proposing
to discharge nondomestic sewage shall provide an appropriate monitoring
manhole approved by the Borough, which will be accessible to the Borough
at all times.
An owner proposing to discharge nondomestic
sewage to the Borough sewer system that contributes sewage having
a five-day CBOD greater than 300 ppm, a suspended solids contents
greater than 300 ppm, a pH less than 6.0 or higher than 9.0, shall
provide at its expense, facilities, as necessary, to modify the wastes
to meet these criteria. All costs of these facilities shall be borne
by the property owner. The property owner shall install a monitoring
manhole to allow samples to be taken of his/her sewage. The property
owner shall sample waste on a frequency approved by the Borough. The
property owner shall pay for all sampling and testing of sewage.
Any gas station, garage, car wash or other establishment
that could discharge oil and/or petroleum by-products to the sewer
system may be required to install an oil interceptor of a type acceptable
to the Borough at an approved location.
Restaurants and other commercial or industrial
establishments shall provide grease interceptors or grease traps of
a type and size required by the Borough.
The owner of a property with any interceptor
or special facility required by the Borough shall cause said interceptor
or special facility to be cleaned, maintained and effectively operated,
as determined by the Borough at the owner's expense.
No slugs of water or waste may be discharged
to the sewer system. The Borough/Authority may require, without limitation,
at any time, the construction of flow equalization facilities to assure
a uniform rate of discharge.
Any owner of an improved property discharging
a waste into the sewer system who contemplates a change in the method
of operation which will alter the quality or quantity of the waste
currently being discharged shall apply to the Borough, in writing,
for approval of each change. The Borough reserves the right to refuse
waste from users who violate this chapter.