[Ord. 468, 5/20/1996]
1. 
While the Borough does initially rely upon the Federal Categorical Pretreatment Standards of § 18-254 to protect wastewater facilities or receiving waters, if any wastewater which contains substances or possesses characteristics shown to have harmful effect upon the wastewater facilities, processes, equipment or receiving waters, or constitutes a public nuisance or hazard, is discharged or is proposed for discharge to the wastewater sewers, the Borough may:
A. 
Require pretreatment to a condition acceptable for discharge to the wastewater sewers.
B. 
Require control over the quantities and rates of discharge.
C. 
Require payment to cover added cost of handling and treating the wastewaters not covered by existing fees or charges.
D. 
Require the development of compliance schedules to meet any applicable pretreatment requirements.
E. 
Require the submission of reports necessary to assure compliance with applicable pretreatment requirements.
F. 
Carry out all inspection, surveillance and monitoring necessary to determine compliance with applicable pretreatment requirements.
G. 
Obtain remedies for noncompliance by any user. Such remedies may include injunctive relief, the civil penalties, penalties specified in Part 2A or appropriate criminal penalties.
H. 
Reject the wastewater, if scientific evidence discloses that discharge will create unreasonable hazards or have unreasonable deleterious effects on the wastewater facilities.
2. 
When considering the above alternatives, the Borough shall assure that conditions of the Borough's NPDES permit(s) are met. The Borough shall also take into consideration cost effectiveness and the economic impact of the alternatives on the discharger. If the Borough allows the pretreatment or equalization of wastewater flows, the installation of the necessary facilities shall be subject to review. The Borough shall review and recommend any appropriate changes to the program, within 60 days of submittal.
3. 
Any facilities required to pretreat wastewater to a level acceptable to the Borough shall be provided, operated and maintained at the user's expense.
[Ord. 468, 5/20/1996; as amended by Ord. 545, 2/26/2007, § 18-199.2]
1. 
Persons required to pretreat wastewater in accordance with § 18-271 above shall provide a statement, reviewed by an authorized representative of the user and certified to by a qualified person indicating whether applicable pretreatment requirements are being met on a consistent basis and, if not, describing the additional operation and maintenance or additional pretreatment required for the user to meet the pretreatment requirements. Detailed plans showing the pretreatment facilities and operating procedures shall be submitted to the Borough for review, and shall be acceptable to the Borough before construction of the facility. The review of such plans and operating procedures will in no way relieve the user from the responsibility of modifying the facility as necessary to produce an effluent acceptable to the Borough under the provisions of this Part. Any subsequent changes in the pretreatment facilities or method of operation shall be reported to and be acceptable to the Borough prior to the user's initiation of the changes. If additional pretreatment or operation and maintenance will be required to meet the pretreatment requirements, the user shall submit a plan (including schedules) to the Borough. The plan (including schedules) shall be consistent with applicable conditions of the Borough's NPDES permit(s) or other state or federal laws.
2. 
The Borough shall annually publish in the local paper a list of the users which were not in compliance with any pretreatment requirements or standards at least once during the 12 previous months. The notification shall also summarize any enforcement actions taken against the user(s) during the same 12 months.
3. 
All records relating to compliance with pretreatment standards shall be made available to officials of the EPA or the Borough upon request.
[Ord. 468, 5/20/1996]
Discharges of wastewater to the Borough's wastewater facilities from the facilities utilizing pretreatment facilities shall be monitored in accordance with the provisions of §§ 18-265 and 18-266 of this Part. Control manhole and associated meters and other appurtenances shall be provided at owner(s) expense.
[Ord. 468, 5/20/1996; as added by Ord. 545, 2/26/2007, § 18-199.4]
1. 
Sampling shall be performed so that a representative portion of the wastewater is obtained for analysis.
2. 
All measurements, tests and analyses of the characteristics of waters and wastes required in any section of this Part shall be carried out in accordance with standard methods, by a laboratory certified to perform the analyses. Such samples shall be taken at the approved monitoring stations described in §§ 18-265 and 18-266, 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 flow proportioned (where feasible) 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). All equipment used for sampling and analysis must be routinely calibrated and inspected and maintained to ensure its accuracy.
[Ord. 468, 5/20/1996; as added by Ord. 545, 2/26/2007, § 18-199.5]
When so requested in advance by an industrial user, and when taking a sample of industrial wastewater, the Borough 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 including any quality control (QC) procedures. One of the portions shall be given to the representative of the industrial user whose wastewater was sampled, and the other portion shall be retained by the Borough for its own analysis.
[Ord. 468, 5/20/1996]
In the event that the federal government promulgates a regulation for a given new or existing user in a specific industrial subcategory that established pretreatment standards or establishes that such a user is exempt from pretreatment standards, such federal regulations shall immediately supersede § 18-271, Subsection 1, of this Part.
[Ord. 468, 5/20/1996]
1. 
Information and data on a user obtained from reports, questionnaires, permit application, permits and monitoring programs and from inspections shall be available to the public or other governmental agency without restriction unless the user specifically requests and is able to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Borough that the release of such information would divulge information, processes or methods of production entitled to protection as trade secrets of the user.
2. 
When requested by the person furnishing a report, the portions of a report which might disclose trade secrets or secret processes shall not be made available for inspection by the public but shall be made available upon written request to government agencies for users related to this Part, the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit, state disposal system permit/or the pretreatment programs; provided, however, that such portions of a report shall be available for use by the state or any state agency in judicial review or enforcement proceedings involving the person furnishing the report. Wastewater constituents and characteristics will not be recognized as confidential information.
3. 
Information accepted by the Borough as confidential, shall not be transmitted to any governmental agency or to the general public by the Borough until and unless a ten-day notification is given to the user.