All persons discharging industrial process wastes accepted into
the Town's wastewater collection system shall comply with applicable
requirements of federal and state industrial pretreatment regulations
(as amended), in addition to the requirements of this article.
When, in a specific case, different provisions of this chapter
shall conflict with other ordinances or state or federal laws, the
most restrictive requirements shall govern.
The Board of Selectmen or its agent shall be responsible for
the enforcement of this chapter. The Greater Lawrence Sanitary District,
in its capacity as POTW treatment works for the Town of Salem, shall
have equal and severable responsibility for the enforcement of this
chapter.
Any person, firm, partnership or corporation violating any of
the provisions of this chapter shall become liable to the Town of
Salem for any expense, loss, or damage occasioned by the Town by reason
of such violation.
The Town, pursuant to 40 CFR 403.8(f)(2)(viii), shall comply
with the public participation requirements of 40 CFR Part 25, including
provisions for at least annually providing public notification of
industrial users which, during the previous 12 months, were significantly
violating applicable pretreatment standards or other pretreatment
requirements. For the purpose of this section, a significant violation
is a violation which remains uncorrected 45 days after notification
of noncompliance, which is part of a pattern of noncompliance over
a twelve-month period, which involves a failure to accurate report
noncompliance, or which resulted in the POTW exercising its emergency
authority under 40 CFR 403.8(f)(1)(vi)(B).