Town of Lewiston, NY Use of Public Sewer System

There shall be two classes of building sewer permits:

For normal-type wastewater service, which excludes any service having abnormal wastewater or any of those other types of discharge prescribed in § 270-10A and B herein, the owner or his agent shall make application to the Administrator on a special form furnished by the Administrator.

For any other wastewater service, the owner or his agent shall make application to the Town Board on a special form furnished by the Administrator.

The permit application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications or other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the Administrator or the Town Board and shall be accompanied by an application fee, as hereinafter established by resolution of the Town Board. Upon payment of the application fee and approval by the Administrator or Town Board, as provided for above, a permit shall be issued, allowing for the commencement of the installation and connection of the building sewer.

All costs and expenses incidental to the installation, connection, maintenance and, where necessary, pumping of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner or owners. The owner shall indemnify the Town for any loss or damage to the Town sanitary sewer system or other municipal property, which may directly or indirectly have been occasioned by the installation, connection and maintenance of the building sewer.

A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided for every building. However, in the situation where one building stands at the rear of another on an interior lot and no building sewer is available or can be constructed to the rear building through an adjoining alley, yard or driveway, the building sewer from the front building may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered as one building sewer. Where building sewers are to serve multiple dwelling structures, there shall be provided at least one separate building sewer for each group of four living units.

Old building sewers may be used in connection with old or new buildings only when they are found, upon examination and testing by the Administrator, to meet all requirements of this chapter.

In order to prevent groundwater from entering the Town sanitary sewer system, all wyes and clean-out connections shall have an approved joint restraint. This approved joint restraint shall serve as protection from frost and other forces which may separate any section of pipe or piping from a riser, wye or clean-out connection. All riser sections of pipe or piping from the wye or clean-out connection shall extend not less than four inches above the average finished grade and shall be sealed with an approved cap. The average finished grade shall be determined by measurements from a radius of five feet from the riser of said wye and/or clean-out connections. Final determination of the riser elevation shall occur after all construction activity regarding the building sewer has been completed and the lawn or yard established. All wyes installed in the Town sanitary sewer system in front of each building shall have a six-inch outlet. Private laterals connected thereto may have either a six-inch or a four-inch inside diameter and must consist of one of the following: ductile iron pipe (DIP), polyvinyl chloride plastic pipe (PVC) SDR35 or solid-wall acrylonitrile/butadiene/styrene plastic pipe (ABS). Pipe shall be laid in a granular bed in accordance with the Town's typical building sewer detail. Standard Town construction details are referenced in the Code of the Town of Lewiston, New York, Chapter 256, Public Improvements.

[Amended 3-22-2004 by L.L. No. 2-2004]

All building sewers shall be installed in accordance with all the applicable requirements of the Town of Lewiston Building Code, general specifications, this chapter and any other rules and regulations of the Town or promulgated by the Administrator.

Building sewers shall use gravity to carry wastewater from the building to the Town sanitary sewer system. The slope of such building sewers must not be less than 1/8 inch per foot of a six-inch building sewer, and not less than 1/4 inch per foot of a four-inch building sewer. In some situations, due to buildings being constructed below road level or constructed some distance from the road, gravity will not be sufficient in providing momentum for carrying wastewater from the subject building to the Town sanitary sewer system, thus necessitating some form of pumping. Such pumping shall be by a method and utilize equipment previously approved by the Administrator.

Whenever possible, a building sewer shall be brought to the building at an elevation below the basement floor. No building sewer shall be laid parallel to or within three feet of any bearing wall, which might thereby be weakened. The depth of the building sewer shall be sufficient to afford protection from frost and shall be laid at a uniform grade. There shall be an accessible cleanout on the building drain near its junction with the building sewer outside the building or a wye-branch fitting or building tap immediately inside the building. Changes in direction greater than 45° shall be provided with cleanouts that are accessible for cleaning or with manholes when approved by the Administrator.

The connection of the building sewer to the public sewer shall conform to the requirements of the Building Code and other applicable rules and regulations of the Town of Lewiston and/or the procedures set forth in the appropriate specifications of the American Society for Testing Materials and the Water Pollution Control Federation Manual of Practice No. 9. All such connections shall be made gastight and watertight. Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials must be approved by the Administrator before installation.

Sump pumps.

No person shall make any connection of roof downspouts, sump pumps, exterior foundation drains, areaway drains, yard drains, footing drains, floor drains, drain tile or other sources of surface runoff or groundwater to a building sewer, to a building drain which in turn is connected directly or indirectly to a public sewer or directly to the public sewer. Anyone informed by the Administrator to disconnect an illegal storm connection shall promptly undertake disconnecting the connection within a time frame set by the Administrator or be subject to penalties under this chapter. Anyone subsequently reconnecting sump pumps, downspouts, footer drains or any other source of stormwater drainage to the sanitary sewer shall be immediately fined $250.

Any home inspected and found not to have made provision for the drainage discharge from foundation drains, floor drains or other surface runoff of groundwater from a building must install a sump pump, unless the elevation is such that this drainage can run by gravity to a drainage ditch or storm sewer.

All distribution boxes, septic tanks, leach beds and other prior methods of wastewater disposal must be physically and permanently disconnected from the building sewer and private sewer, removed or properly filled according to current Niagara County Health Department requirements, except that, where the septic tank is between the building and street lateral, the Administrator may approve other suitable arrangements.

The person who has previously secured a building sewer permit shall notify the Administrator when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection shall be supervised by the Administrator or his designated representative, and no trenches shall be backfilled nor any part of the building sewer covered unless they conform with the requirements of Appendix A[1] and until the entire building sewer is inspected and approved by the Administrator.

[1]

Editor's Note: Appendix A is on file in the Town Clerk's office.

Upon completion, testing and acceptance of the necessary street laterals by the Town, all owners of buildings which are subject to the dictates of this chapter shall be duly notified of the date or dates the building sewers can be installed and connected. Said notification shall be in letter form and shall specify that all building sewers must be installed, connected, tested and operational within 90 of the date of postmark of the aforesaid letter, and said letter shall also state said date which coincides with such deadline. However, if said eight-inch lateral is located more than 100 feet from the property line in residential and commercial areas and more than 500 feet from the property line in industrial areas, extended time limitations shall be determined by the Administrator.

The Town Clerk shall also cause a similar notice to be published in the official Town newspaper for three consecutive days, with the first day of such publication coinciding with the postmark of the aforementioned letters. Said notice shall reiterate the contents of said letters, including the date of the deadline by which all building sewers must be installed, connected, tested and operational.

On or after the date of mandatory sewer connection, the Sewer Administrator shall take a reading of the water meter or effect whatever is necessary in order to determine the amount of water being used by a property owner, and each owner of property which is subject to the mandatory use of the sewer system shall be liable for sewer rents from the date of mandatory sewer connection, regardless of whether said property owner has actually connected to the sewer system, unless such connection has been precluded by some action of the Town.

All excavations for building sewers shall be adequately guarded with barricades and lights to protect the public from danger. Streets, sidewalks, parkways or other public property disturbed in the course of the work shall be restored in a manner satisfactory to the Town. When any building sewer is to serve a school, hospital or similar institutional or public buildings, or is to serve a complex of industrial or commercial buildings, or which, in the opinion of the Administrator, will receive sewage or industrial wastes of such volume or character that frequent maintenance of said building sewer is anticipated, then such sewer shall be connected to the public sewer through a manhole. The Administrator shall determine if and where this type of connection to the public sewer is required and recommend procedures for its installation. The new manhole shall then be installed in the public sewer at the owner's expense and the building sewer connection made thereto under the supervision of the Administrator or his representative.

The Administrator shall determine when and if existing service connections and/or fixtures need replacing and shall then notify the owner. Owners of buildings connected to the Town sanitary sewer system by building sewers shall be required to keep such building sewers and connections in proper operating order and shall make all necessary repairs, including the replacement of existing service connections and/or fixtures with acceptable materials as determined by the Administrator, within 48 hours of official notice of any defect, leak, stoppage or other malfunction.

Out-of-district-customers.

After having received permission from the Town of Lewiston to tie into our system, the customer must pay to have the contractor retained by the Town of Lewiston for sewer taps, or provide the Town with the required insurance and bond as specified by the Town Attorney, and shall pay:

One-time access fee charge. The customer shall be responsible for payment of a one-time access fee charge and an inspection fee charge, as set from time to time by resolution of the Town Board of the Town of Lewiston. All required fees must be paid in advance.

[Amended 8-27-2018 by L.L. No. 4-2018]

Annual charge in lieu of taxes. A unit charge, as set from time to time by resolution of the Town Board of the Town of Lewiston, shall be paid annually.

[Amended 8-27-2018 by L.L. No. 4-2018]

Operation and maintenance charge. This is based on the water consumption as set by the sewer district. The Sewer Department must make arrangements to obtain the water meter readings to correspond to the Town of Lewiston billing periods.

If wastewater is accepted from sewage works owned and operated by outside interests or municipalities, then the subscribers receiving waste treatment services from the Town shall have adopted an appropriate user charge system consistent with the requirements referenced in this chapter. Such user charge systems shall be incorporated in the appropriate municipal legislation enactments or other appropriate authority.

§ 270-8 Discharge of water into public sewers.

No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any stormwater, groundwater, roof runoff, subsurface drainage or drainage from downspouts, yard drains, sump pumps, yard foundations and ponds or lawn sprays into any sanitary sewer, except as provided by the rules and regulations. Dechlorinated water from swimming pools or industrial process water from such sources as water drains and blowoff pipes, or cooling water from various equipment, shall not be discharged into sanitary sewers if a closed storm sewer is available; however, in accordance with Article IX of this chapter, no such industrial process water or cooling water shall be discharged into the MS4 if such water contains pollutants, as defined in § 270-36 of this chapter. If a closed storm sewer is not available, such water may, upon approval of the Administrator, be discharged into the sanitary sewer by indirect connection whereby such discharge is cooled, if required, and whereby such water flows into the sanitary sewer at a rate not in excess of five gallons per minute, provided that the water does not contain materials or substances in suspension or solution in violation of the limits prescribed by this chapter.

[Amended 12-27-2007 by L.L. No. 4-2007]

Stormwater and all other drainage containing no pollutants, as defined in § 270-36 of this chapter, shall be discharged into such sewers which are specifically designated as storm sewers or into a natural outlet approved by the Administrator. Industrial cooling water or industrial process waters may be discharged, on approval of the Administrator, into a storm sewer, combined sewer or natural outlet. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any such industrial cooling water or industrial process water which contains pollutants, as defined in § 270-36 of this chapter, shall not be discharged into the MS4, except as provided in Article IX of this chapter. Discharge to the waters of the State of New York may require a State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (SPDES) Permit issued by NYSDEC.

[Amended 12-27-2007 by L.L. No. 4-2007]

Every user of a public sewer system who has any storm, surface or foundation drainage, or any waters from a sump pump, already entering or part of an existing private sewage system, which is to be connected to a public sewer system, shall disconnect such pipes, spouts and/or drains so as to preclude all such waters from entering the public sewer system and shall thereafter provide other means to remove such waters away from their buildings.

Wastewater from outside the wastewater facilities service area; intermunicipal agreements. The Town Board, on the recommendation of the Administrator, shall have the authority to enter into agreements to accept sewage and other wastes, including industrial wastes, generated by or discharged from persons outside the service area of the wastewater facilities. If the person is a municipality, that municipality shall have enacted a sewer use law as restrictive on the discharge of sewage and other wastes as the restrictions contained in this chapter. If the person is not a municipality, the acceptance shall be made only with the expressed written consent of the Administrator (the issuance of a permit) setting forth the terms and conditions of such an acceptance.

§ 270-9 Industrial use of public sewers.

Ninety days after the effective date hereof, it shall be unlawful for any person to deposit or discharge industrial waste into any public sewer in the Town of Lewiston without having first obtained an industrial waste permit from the Town of Lewiston and without having first complied with all of the applicable provisions hereof. Within 90 days of the effective date hereof, any person desiring to deposit or discharge or who is now depositing or discharging industrial waste into any public sewer in the Town of Lewiston shall make application to the Administrator for a permit accompanied by an application fee payable to the Town of Lewiston. Application forms will be furnished by the Administrator on request. The Administrator shall review all applications for approval or disapproval. The Administrator, upon approval of such applications, will grant an industrial waste permit only when the evidence submitted by the applicant demonstrates that the waste or wastewater to be deposited by the applicant in the public sewer will comply with all the regulations of this chapter.

Within 180 days after the effective date hereof, any person discharging industrial waste into a public sewer in the Town of Lewiston shall construct a suitable control manhole downstream from any treatment or storage tanks, or other approved works utilized by such person for pretreatment, wherever required by the Administrator. Such control manhole shall be for the purpose of facilitating observations, measurements and sampling of all waste created and discharged by such person. The control manhole shall be constructed at a location and in a manner approved by the Administrator and shall be constructed and installed at the expense of the person discharging the waste. Said person shall be responsible for the maintenance of said control manhole so that at all times it is in a safe, acceptable and proper operating condition. The industrial waste permit may also stipulate that the person discharging the waste shall reimburse the Town costs to independently sample and analyze the quantity and quality of the significant user's waste stream as frequently as weekly.

If any person depositing or discharging industrial waste into the public sewer fails to secure an industrial waste permit within the time prescribed herein, or if any person allows or causes waste of unacceptable quality under the requirements of this section of this chapter to be discharged into any public sewer in the Town of Lewiston, the Administrator is authorized, if such person is using Town of Lewiston water, to disconnect such person's service line from the Town of Lewiston water system an/or the public sewer system, and the same shall only be reconnected at the owner's expense. If such a person does not use Town of Lewiston water, the Administrator is authorized to disconnect such person's service line from the sewer system, and the same shall only be reconnected at the owner's expense. The Administrator shall notify the occupant or user of the premises wherein the waste is generated 48 hours before disconnecting either service line. No disconnected sewer or water connection shall be reconnected until the condition causing such disconnection has been corrected. The occupant or user shall also submit a detailed written statement describing the causes of the harmful contribution and the measures taken to prevent any future occurrence. This statement shall be submitted to the Administrator within 15 days of the date of the occurrence.

The inspectors, agents or representatives of the Town of Lewiston charged with the enforcement of this section of this chapter shall be deemed to be performing a governmental function for the benefit of the general public, and neither the Town of Lewiston, the Administrator nor the individual inspector, agent or representative shall be held liable for any loss or damage, whether real or asserted, caused or alleged to have been caused as a result of the performance of such governmental function. The owners or occupants of premises where industrial wastes are created or discharged into the sewer shall allow the Administrator bearing credentials and identification free access at all reasonable times to all parts of such premises for the purpose of inspection, observation, measurement, testing and/or sampling, or for the performance of any of their duties hereunder, and the failure or refusal of such owners or occupants to comply with this provision shall constitute grounds for the disconnection of water and/or sewer service. Any information requested by the Administrator shall be provided at the owner's expense. If the results of the aforementioned monitoring efforts indicate that a person has committed a violation, the Town shall reserve the right to hire an independent laboratory, certified and/or approved by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and/or the United States Environmental Protection Agency, to secure and analyze samples of the wastewater. The samples shall be secured and analyzed for the purpose of confirming or negating the violation. If the results of the analyses substantiate a violation, the costs shall be borne by the violator; if, however, results indicate that a violation has not occurred, the costs shall be borne by the Town.

Each industrial waste permit shall be accompanied by a permit map drawn to a scale sufficient to show the locations of all sewers, pipes and drains which collect and convey wastewater, industrial wastes and/or cooling waters from their point of origin to the public sewers. Each pipe or sewer shall be labeled and noted as to the substance it is conveying. Each inlet or entrance point into the sewer system shall be shown on the map, and each point shall be labeled with all substances or wastes which can enter the system at that point.

Industrial users shall submit reports yearly, signed by an authorized representative, or more often if deemed necessary by the Administrator, indicating the volume of flow measurements and characteristics and concentrations for each waste entering public sewers and/or watercourses for their particular facility. These reports shall be signed by an authorized representative of the industrial user setting forth adequate data upon which the acceptability of the wastewater may be determined. All tests and reports shall be performed and prepared at the expense of the person discharging the waste. Each report, test, measurement and analysis shall be identified by the appropriate Town industrial permit number, control manhole location and point of discharge into the public sewer or watercourse. The Town will officially respond to a complete application for a discharge permit within 30 days.

Permit not transferable; discharging of wastes.

An industrial waste permit shall not be reassigned, transferred or sold to a new owner, new user, different premises or a new or changed operation. (The initial permit was issued to a specific user for a specific operation.)

Any substance which may cause the treatment works' effluent or any other product of the treatment works, such as residues, sludge or scums, to be unsuitable for reclamation and reuse or to interfere with the reclamation process where the treatment works is pursuing a reuse and reclamation program shall not be discharged to the treatment works. In no case shall a substance discharged to the treatment works cause the treatment works to be in noncompliance with sludge use or disposal criteria, guidelines or regulations developed under Section 405 of the Clean Water Act and criteria, guidelines or regulations affecting sludge or disposal development pursuant to the Solid Waste Disposal Act, the Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substance Control Act or state criteria applicable to the sludge management method being used.

(3)

Any person accidentally discharging wastes in violation of this chapter shall notify the Town immediately. This notification shall be followed within 15 days of the date of occurrence, by a detailed written statement describing the causes of the accidental discharge and the measures being taken to prevent future occurrence. Such notification will not relieve users of any expense, loss or damage to the sewer system, treatment plant or treatment process or for any fines imposed on the Town under applicable state and federal regulations. Persons discharging industrial waste are to post a notice advising their employees to call the Water Pollution Control Center in case of an accidental discharge in violation of the chapter and to provide copies of this chapter for their information. The Town, in it sole discretion, shall determine the duration of the permit, and shall determine the duration of permit and shall specify the time of expiration. Under no circumstances shall a permit be issued for any period of time in excess of five years from the date of issuance. The permit may be reissued, provided that such application be made at least 90 days prior to the expiration of the existing permit. The terms and conditions of the permit may be subject to modification by the Town during the term of the permit as limitations or requirements are modified or other just cause exists. The industrial user shall be informed of any proposed changes in his permit in writing at least 30 days prior to the effective date of change. Any changes or new conditions in the permit shall include a reasonable time schedule for compliance.

(4)

No statement contained in this article shall be construed as preventing any special agreement or arrangement between the Town and an industrial concern for treatment of unusual waste at the expense of the industrial concern, provided that the agreement or arrangement in no way violates Article V of this chapter, the Federal Categorical Pretreatment Standards or National Pretreatment Standards as listed in 40 CFR 403.5(a) and (b).

§ 270-10 Prohibited discharges; other requirements.

Certain waters and wastes prohibited.

No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any of the following described waters or wastes into any public sewer:

Any gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil or other flammable or explosive liquid, solid or gas.

Any waters or wastes 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 wastewater 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, including but not limited to cyanides in excess of two milligrams per liter as CN in the wastes as discharged to the public sewers.

Any waters or wastes having a pH lower than 5.5 or higher than 9.5 or having any other corrosive property capable of causing damage or hazard to buildings, equipment and personnel of the wastewater facilities.

Solid or viscous substances in such quantities or of such size so as to be capable of causing obstruction to the flow in sewers or of causing other interference with the proper operation of the wastewater facilities. Such solid or viscous substances include but are not limited to ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags, feathers, tar, paint, plastics, wood, unground garbage, whole blood, paunch, manure, hair and fleshing, entrails and paper dishes, cups, milk containers, etc., either whole or ground by garbage grinders.

(e)

Any noxious or malodorous substances capable of forming a gas which, either singly or by interaction with other substances, is capable of causing objectionable odors or hazards to life, or of forming solids in concentrations exceeding the limits established in this chapter, or of creating any other condition deleterious to structures or treatment processes or which requires unusual provisions, attention or expense to handle.

(f)

Cooling water, unless it is unpolluted and below 150° F. (65° C.) or in such quantities that the temperature at the treatment works' influent exceeds 104° F. (40 C.) or even below a lesser temperature ceiling.

If, in the opinion of the Administrator, such wastes could harm the sewers, sewage treatment process or equipment; have an adverse effect on the receiving stream; or otherwise endanger life, limb, public property; or constitute a nuisance, the Administrator may prohibit such discharges.

No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged into the public sewer the following described substances or materials if, in the opinion of the Administrator, such substances or materials could harm the sewers, sewage treatment process or equipment; have an adverse effect on the receiving stream; or otherwise endanger life, limb, public property; or constitute a nuisance. In forming his opinion as to the acceptability of these substances or materials, the Administrator shall give consideration to such factors as the quantities of the subject substances or materials in relation to flows and velocities in the sewers, the materials of construction of the sewers, the nature of the wastewater treatment process, the capacity of the wastewater treatment plant, the degree of treatability of wastes in the wastewater treatment plant and other pertinent factors. The substances or materials prohibited are:

Any liquid or vapor having a temperature higher than 150° F. (65 C.).

Any water or waste containing fats, wax, grease or oils, whether emulsified or not, in excess of 25 milligrams per liter or containing substances which may solidify or become viscous at temperatures between 32° F. (0° C.) and 150° F. (65° C.).

(3)

Any garbage that has not been properly shredded. The installation and operation of any garbage grinder equipped with a motor of 3/4 horsepower (0.76 horsepower metric) or greater shall be subject to the review and approval of the Administrator.

(4)

Any waters or wastes containing strong acid iron pickling wastes or concentrated plating solutions, whether neutralized or not.

(5)

Any waters or wastes containing iron, chromium, copper, zinc and other similar objectionable or toxic substances, or wastes exerting an excessive chlorine requirement, to such a degree that any such material received in the composite wastewater at the wastewater treatment plant exceeds the concentrations prescribed herein or exceeds the limits established by the Administrator for such materials.

(6)

Water containing heavy metals.

Any waters or water containing heavy metals and similar objectionable or toxic substances to such degree that any such material received in the composite sewage at the point of discharge exceeds the limits established below:

	Effluent Concentration Limits (twenty-four-hour average)
	Substance	Milligrams (per liter)
	Cadmium	0.4
	Hex. chromium	0.2
	Total chromium	4.0
	Copper	0.8
	Lead	0.2
	Mercury	0.2
	Nickel	4.0
	Zinc	1.2
	Arsenic	0.2
	Available chloride	50.0
	Cyanide-free	0.4
	Cyanide-complex	1.6
	Selenium	0.2
	Sulfide	6.0
	Barium	4.0
	Manganese	4.0
	Gold	0.2
	Silver	0.2
	Fluorides
	To fresh water	4.0*
	To saline water	36.0
	Phenol	4.0

NOTE: May be multiplied by a factor of 1.5 if the municipal water supply is not fluoridated.

Any other element which will, in the opinion of the Administrator, damage collection facilities or be detrimental to the treatment processes.

Amendment of limits.

[Amended 11-10-2003 by L.L. No. 5-2003]

[1]

The Administrator of the Water Pollution Control Center may amend the limits set forth in any section of the Lewiston Sewer Code should the same be necessary to protect any of the following:

[a]

The physical plant or facilities of the Water Pollution Control Center.

[b]

Life.

[c]

Health.

[d]

Permit acceptance of a point source discharge as determined on a case-by-case basis.

[2]

Such amendment of limits shall be only based on federal pretreatment standards for an acceptable headworks loading to the treatment facilities. The calculation of an acceptable headworks loading rate must follow federal pretreatment standards guidelines in addition to the Town Code of the Town of Lewiston regarding industrial use of public sewers. If the Administrator finds the discharge to be acceptable, a discharge permit will be issued for that particular discharge specifying the means and conditions that such discharge will take place. Such permit as well as the calculations and other documentation providing the basis for the Administrator's acceptance of such discharge shall remain on file with such discharge permit.

[3]

In no event will an amended limit be allowed far any parameter that results in the violation of any local, state or federal regulation, or exceeds the State Pollution Discharge Elimination System (SPDES) permit parameter or which is likely to cause an adverse impact to the treatment facilities.

Upon the promulgation of the Federal Categorical Pretreatment Standards for a particular industrial subcategory, the federal standard, if more stringent than limitations imposed under this chapter for sources in that subcategory, shall immediately supersede the limitations imposed under this chapter. The Administrator shall notify all affected users of the applicable reporting requirements under 40 CFR § 403.12.

(7)

Any waters or wastes containing phenols in excess of 0.5 mg/l or other taste- or odor-producing substances in concentrations exceeding limits which may be established by the Administrator as necessary, after treatment of the composite wastewater, to meet the requirements of the state, federal or other public agencies having jurisdiction over such discharge into the receiving waters.

(8)

Any radioactive wastes or isotopes of such a half-life or concentration as may exceed limits established by the Administrator in compliance with applicable state or federal regulations.

(9)

Any waters or wastes having pH in excess of 9.5 or less than 5.0.

(10)

For purposes of this chapter, any concentrations exceeding the following limits shall be considered unusual. All other determinations of unusual concentrations, if not specified in this chapter, shall be at the Administrator's discretion.

Total solids: 900 mg/l.

Total dissolved solids: 600 mg/l.

Total suspended solids: 300 mg/l.

Settleable solids: 200 mg/l.

(e)

BOD: 300 mg/l.

(f)

Chemical oxygen demand: 700 mg/l.

(11)

No person shall increase the use of process water, or in any way attempt to dilute a discharge, as a partial or complete substitute for adequate treatment to achieve compliance with the limitations contained in the Federal Categorical Pretreatment Standards or in any other pollutant-specific limitation developed by the Town, USEPA, NYSDEC or other regulatory body unless specifically approved in writing by the responsible agency.

(12)

Any water or waste that contains more than 10 parts per million of the following gases: hydrogen sulfide, sulfur dioxide or nitrous oxide.

Drains receiving acid waste (pH of 5.5 to 7.0) shall be constructed of acid-resisting material. Such drains located outside a building shall be constructed of vitrified clay or earthenware pipe or other approved acid-resisting material. Joints shall be watertight and made of acid-resistant material. In no case shall corrosive waste be discharged into a drain, sanitary sewer, storm sewer or soil or waste pipe without first being diluted or neutralized in such a manner as to render said waste noncorrosive. Such waste shall be treated by passage through a properly trapped dilution or neutralizing catch basin which shall function automatically.

Methods of handling hazardous discharges.

If any waters or wastes are discharged, or are proposed to be discharged, into the public sewers, which said waters or wastes contain the substances or materials or possess the characteristics enumerated in Subsection B of this section and which, in the judgment of the Administrator, may have a deleterious effect upon the wastewater facilities, processes, equipment or receiving waters or which may otherwise create a hazard to life or constitute a public nuisance, the Administrator may:

Reject the wastes;

Require pretreatment to achieve an acceptable condition before discharge to the public sewers;

Require control over the quantities and rates of discharge;

Require surcharge payment to cover the added cost of handling and treating the wastes not covered by existing taxes or sewer charges under the provisions of Subsections I and J of this section; and/or

(e)

Require surveillance and/or monitoring necessary to determine the extent of noncompliance with appropriate documentation.