[Ord. 156, 4/26/1994, § 1.0]
1.
The objectives of this Part are:
A.
To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the East Rockhill
Township wastewater collection and PWTA treatment system that will
interfere with its operation, contaminate the biosolids generated
at the PWTA wastewater treatment plant or will otherwise be incompatible
with the system.
B.
To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the Township's
wastewater collection and the PWTA treatment system that will be inadequately
treated and thus will pass through the system into the receiving waters
or the atmosphere.
C.
To protect the environment, the general public, Township and PWTA
personnel against the hazards associated with discharges of toxic
or otherwise incompatible pollutants into the sewer system.
D.
To improve the opportunity to recycle and reclaim industrial wastewaters
and biosolids from the wastewater treatment system.
E.
To provide for equitable distribution of the cost for the development
and implementation of the PWTA's Industrial Pretreatment Program
and other improvements to the wastewater collection and treatment
system.
F.
To help assure the PWTA's compliance with its National Pollutant
Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit, biosolids use and disposal
requirements, the Clean Water Act, the General Pretreatment Regulations
and any other state or federal laws which with the Township or PWTA
must comply.
2.
The provisions of this Part will be implemented and enforced by the
Township and the PWTA Manager through issuance of wastewater contribution
permits to those industrial/commercial users meeting the EPA's
definition of a significant industrial user (SIU) through monitoring,
reporting and enforcement of this Part with these significant industrial
users and all other users. This Part also assumes that the capacity
of the sewer system allocated to existing customers will not be preempted
and provides for the setting of fees for the equitable distribution
of costs resulting from development and implementation of the program
established herein.
3.
Except as otherwise provided herein, the provisions of this Part
shall be administered, implemented and enforced by the PWTA Manager
and by the Township.
[Ord. 156, 4/266/1994, § 1.2; as amended by Ord.
192, 4/18/2000; and by Ord. 264, 8/16/2011]
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the following
terms and phrases as used in this Part shall have the meanings hereinafter
designated:
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
A principal executive officer of at least the level of vice
president, if the user is a corporation;
A general partner or proprietor, if the user is a partnership
or proprietorship, respectively;
A director or highest official appointed or designated to oversee
operations and performance, if the user is a federal, state or local
governmental facility.
The manager of one or more manufacturing, production or operating
facilities, provided the manager is authorized to make management
decisions which govern the operation of the regulated facility, including
having the explicit or implicit duty of making major capital investment
recommendations; and initiate and direct other comprehensive measures
to assure long-term environmental compliance with environmental laws
and regulations; can ensure that the necessary systems are established
or actions taken to gather complete and accurate information for control
mechanism requirements; and where authority to sign documents has
been assigned or delegated to the manager in accordance with corporate
procedures.
A duly authorized representative of the individual identified in Subsections (1) through (4) above, if such representative is responsible for the overall operation of the facilities from which the indirect discharge originates and a written request for designation of an alternate representative is approved by the PWTA.
Schedules of activities, prohibition of practices, maintenance procedures and other management practices to implement the prohibitions listed in 40 CFR 403.5(a)(1) and (b) and § 18-211 of this Part. BMPs also include treatment requirements, operating procedures and practices to control plant site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge or waste disposal or drainage from raw materials storage.
The quantity of oxygen consumed in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under the standard five-day laboratory procedure
at 20° C., expressed in terms of weight and concentration [milligrams
per liter (mg/l)].
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limitations promulgated by the EPA in accordance with § 307(b) and (c) of the Act and appearing in 40 CFR, Chapter 1, Subchapter N, Parts 401-471.
A pollutant which the PWTA wastewater treatment plant was
specifically designed to treat and remove, such as biochemical oxygen
demand (BOD5), total suspended solids (TSS),
ammonia nitrogen (NH3-N), total phosphorus
(P) and to a lesser degree oil and grease.
The PWTA Wastewater Treatment Plant Manager, since the PWTA
has an approved pretreatment program under the provisions of 40 CFR
403.11.
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection,
or, where appropriate, the term may also be used as a designation
for the Administrator or other duly authorized official of said agency.
A plan developed for the Township by the PWTA which details
the responses that will be taken by the PWTA for various violations
of these rules and regulations, a categorical pretreatment standard
or any other pretreatment requirement. The ERP is a supplement to
this Part and is available through the Township or PWTA Manager.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency, or, where
appropriate, the term may also be used as a designation for the Water
Management Division Director or other duly authorized official of
said agency.
Any source of wastewater into the Township's sewer system
which has the following typical wastewater characteristics:
Any source of discharge, the construction or operation of
which commenced prior to the publication by the EPA of proposed categorical
standards which will be applicable to such source if the standard
is thereafter promulgated in accordance with Section 307 of the Act.
A sample that is taken from a waste stream on a one-time
basis over a period of time not to exceed 15 minutes, with no regard
to the flow in the waste stream. To fulfill EPA's general pretreatment
regulations, all grab samples taken pursuant to this Part shall consist
of a minimum of four samples taken individually and flow composited
in the laboratory, or analyzed separately and averaged.
The discharge or the introduction of pollutants into the
collection system, including holding tank waste discharged into the
system as outlined in 40 CFR 403.31(g) and § 307(b),(c)
and (d) of the Act.
Any nondomestic source of indirect discharge to the Township's
sewer system.
A discharge which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge
or discharges form other sources, inhibits or disrupts the wastewater
collection and treatment system treatment processes, operations, or
its biosolids processes, use or disposal; and therefore is a cause
of a violation of any requirement of the PWTA NPDES permit. The term
includes prevention of biosolids use, processing and disposal by the
receiving treatment facility in accordance with § 405 of
the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1345), or any criteria, guidelines
or regulations developed pursuant to the Solid Waste Disposal Act
(SWDA), the Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act or more-stringent
state criteria, including those contained in any state biosolids management
plan prepared pursuant to Title IV of SWDA and applicable to the method
of disposal or use employed by the receiving treatment facility.
The person designated by the PWTA to supervise the operation
of the treatment system and who is charged with certain duties and
responsibilities by this Part, or his duly authorized representative.
A permit issued pursuant to § 402 of the Act (33
U.S.C. § 1342).
Any building, structure, facility, or installation from which
there is or may be a discharge of pollutants, the construction of
which commenced after the publication of proposed pretreatment standards
under Section 307(c) of the Act which will be applicable to such source
if such standards are thereafter promulgated in accordance with that
section, provided that:
The building, structure, facility or installation is constructed
at a site at which no other source is located;
The building, structure, facility or installation totally replaces
the process or production equipment that causes the discharge of pollutants
at an existing source; or
The production or wastewater-generating processes of the building,
structure, facility or installation are substantially independent
of an existing source at the same site. In determining whether these
are substantially independent, factors such as the extent to which
the new facility is integrated with the existing plant and the extent
to which the new facility is engaged in the same general type of activity
as the existing source should be considered.
Water used for cooling purposes which does not come into
direct contact with any raw material, intermediate product, waste
product or finished product.
A discharge that exits the PWTA treatment plant into waters
of the United States in quantities or concentrations which, alone
or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources,
is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the PWTA NPDES permit
(including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation).
A measure of the acidity or alkalinity of a solution expressed
in standard units.
Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage,
garbage, biosolids, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials,
radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discharged equipment, rock,
sand, cellar dirt, and industrial, municipal and agricultural waste
discharged into the Township's sewer system.
The reduction of the quantity of pollutants, the elimination
of pollutants, the alteration of the nature of pollutants or the alteration
of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater to a less-harmful
state prior to, or in lieu of, discharging or otherwise introducing
such pollutants into the Township's wastewater collection and/or
PWTA treatment system. The reduction or alteration can be obtained
by physical, chemical, or biological processes, or by process changes
or by other means, except as prohibited 40 CFR 403.6(d).
Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment,
including those promulgated by the EPA under the Act and those established
by the PWTA.
Any prohibited discharge standards, categorical pretreatment
standards or local limits.
Any nondomestic user of the Township's wastewater collection
and treatment system who:
Is subject to categorical pretreatment standards.
Discharges an average of 25,000 gallons per day of process wastewater
to the Township's collection and/or PWTA treatment system.
Contributes a process waste stream that makes up 5% or more
of the average dry-weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the PWTA
treatment plant.
Is designated as such by the Township on the basis that the
user has a reasonable potential for adversely affecting the operation
of the treatment plant, the quality of the biosolids generated at
the PWTA WWTP or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement.
A permit issued by the PWTA to an industrial/commercial user in accordance with § 18-234 of this Part.
An industrial user or user is in significant noncompliance
if its violation meets one or more of the specific criteria set forth
in 40 CFR 403.8(f)(2)(viii). For purposes of this definition, a user
is in significant noncompliance if its violations meet one or more
of the following criteria:
Chronic violations of wastewater discharge limits, defined here
as those in which 66% or more of wastewater measurements taken during
a six-month period exceed (by any magnitude) a numeric pretreatment
standard or requirement, including instantaneous limits, as defined
by 40 CFR 403.3(1);
Technical review criteria (TRC) violations, defined here as
those in which 33% or more of wastewater measurements taken for each
pollutant parameter during a six-month period equal or exceed the
product of the numeric pretreatment standard or requirement, including
instantaneous limits, as defined by 40 CFR 403.3(1), multiplied by
the applicable criterion (1.4 for BOD, CBOD, TSS, fats, oils and grease,
and 1.2 for all other pollutants except pH);
Any other violation of a pretreatment standard or requirement
as defined by 40 CFR 403.3(1) (daily maximum, long-term average, instantaneous
limit or narrative standard) that the PWTA determines has caused,
alone or in combination with other discharges, interference or pass
through (including endangering the health of municipal personnel or
the general public);
Any discharge of pollutants that has caused imminent endangerment
to the public health and welfare or to the environment, or has resulted
in the PWTA's exercise of its emergency authority to halt or
prevent such a discharge;
Failure to meet, within 90 days of the scheduled date, a compliance
schedule milestone contained in a wastewater contribution permit or
enforcement order for starting construction, completing construction,
or attaining final compliance;
Failure to provide within 45 days after the due date, any required
reports, including baseline monitoring reports, reports on compliance
with categorical pretreatment standard deadlines, periodic self-monitoring
reports, and reports on compliance with compliance schedules;
Failure to accurately report noncompliance; or
Any other violation(s), which may include violation of best
management practices, which the PWTA determines will adversely affect
the operation or implementation of the local pretreatment program.
Any pollutant released in a discharge at a flow rate or concentration which will cause a violation of the specific discharge prohibitions in 40 CFR 403.5(b) or § 18-211 of this Part and/or any discharge of a nonroutine nature or an episodic nature, including but not limited to accidental spills or noncustomary batch discharges, which has a reasonable potential to cause interference or pass-through or in any other way violate the PWTA's prohibited discharge standards, local limits, NPDES permit conditions or any other condition of its rules and regulations.
A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of
Management and Budget, 1972.
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural
precipitation and resulting exclusively therefrom.
The total suspended matter that floats on the surface or
is suspended in water, wastewater, or other liquids and which is measured
by laboratory filtering.
The Township of East Rockhill, Bucks County.
Any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic
in regulations promulgated by the administrator of the EPA under the
Clean Water Act, or other acts promulgated by the federal or state
government.
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution
of wastewater into the Township's collection and/or PWTA treatment
system.
The liquid and water-carried industrial or domestic wastes
from dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities, and institutions,
together with any groundwater, surface water, and stormwater that
may be present, whether treated or untreated, which is contributed
into or permitted to enter the collection system.
All streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways,
wells, springs, reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems, drainage
systems, and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface or
underground, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained
within, flow through, or border upon the state or any portion thereof.
[Ord. 156, 4/26/1994, § 1.3; as amended by Ord.
192, 4/18/2000]
The following abbreviations shall have the designated meanings:
Biochemical oxygen demand
Code of Federal Regulations
Chemical oxygen demand
Clean Water Act
Department of Environmental Protection
United States Environmental Protection Agency
Milligrams per liter
Ammonia nitrogen, as N
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
Operation and maintenance
Pennridge Wastewater Treatment Authority
Standard Industrial Classification
Solid Waste Disposal Act, 42 U.S.C. § 6901 et seq.
Total Kjeldahl nitrogen
East Rockhill Township
Total suspended solids
United States Code
