A.
This Part sets forth uniform requirements for discharge of wastewater
from residential, commercial, industrial and institutional sources
to the Village of Cayuga Heights publicly owned treatment works (POTW).
B.
The objectives of this Part are:
(1)
To prevent the discharge of wastewater-containing pollutants which
will interfere with the operation or performance of the Cayuga Heights
POTW or which will contaminate the resulting wastewater treatment
sludge;
(2)
To prevent the discharge of wastewater-containing pollutants which
will pass through the Cayuga Heights POTW, inadequately treated, or
which will otherwise be incompatible with the wastewater treatment
system;
(3)
To provide opportunities for recycle and reclamation of wastewaters
and sludges; and
(4)
To provide for equitable distribution of the cost of wastewater conveyance
and treatment as determined by the Village Board.
C.
This Part provides for the regulation of wastewater discharges to
the Village of Cayuga Heights POTW through the issuance of wastewater
discharge permits to significant industrial users and through enforcement
of general requirements for all users. This Part authorizes monitoring
and enforcement activities, establishes reporting requirements for
sewer users, ensures that wastewater treatment capacity provided to
existing users will not be preempted, and provides for the setting
of fees for the equitable distribution of costs associated with the
municipal wastewater collection and treatment system.
D.
This Part shall apply to all owners of property located within the
Village of Cayuga Heights and also to the owners of property located
outside the Village who, by contract or agreement with the Village,
discharge wastewater to the Cayuga Heights POTW.
E.
Except as provided herein, the Village Engineer shall administer,
implement and enforce the provisions of this Part.
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.
An authorized representative of an industrial user may be:
A principal executive officer of at least the level of vice
president, if the industrial user is a corporation;
A general partner or proprietor if the industrial user is a
partnership or proprietorship;
The managing member, manager, or other designated chief executive
officer if the industrial user is a limited liability company.
[Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions,
Art. I)]
A duly authorized representative of the individual designated
above if such representative is responsible for the overall operation
of the facilities from which the wastewater discharge originates.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure (five days at
20° C.) expressed in terms of concentration (mg/l).
A sewer conveying wastewater from the premises of a user
to the POTW.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure expressed in
terms of concentration (mg/l).
The difference between the amount of chlorine added to the
water, sewage or industrial wastes and the amount or residual chlorine
remaining at the end of a fifteen-minute contact period under standard
laboratory procedure expressed in terms of concentration (mg/l).
The water discharged from any use such as air conditioning,
cooling or refrigeration, or to which the only pollutant added is
heat.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or, where appropriate,
the term may also be used as a designation for the Administrator or
other duly authorized official of said agency.
Any waste from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets,
campers, trailers, septic tanks, and vacuum-pump tank trucks.
Any liquid, gaseous or solid substance, or combination thereof,
resulting from any process of industry, manufacturing, trade or business
which is discharged to the public sewer system.
A wastewater discharge which, alone or in combination with
other wastewaters, causes or contributes to inhibition or disruption
of the POTW treatment processes or operations resulting in a violation
of any requirement of the Village's SPDES permit. The term includes
prevention of the sewage sludge use or disposal by the POTW in accordance
with Section 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
sludge management plan prepared pursuant to Title IV of SWDA) applicable
to the method of sludge disposal or use employed by the POTW.
Any regulation promulgated by the USEPA under the authority
of Section 307(b) of the Act [33 U.S.C. § 1317(b)] and 40
CFR 403.5.
Any regulation promulgated by the USEPA under the authority
of Section 307(b) of the Act [33 U.S.C. § 1317(b)] and 40
CFR 403.5.
The discharge of pollutants through the POTW in quantities
or concentrations which, alone or in combination with discharges from
other sources, causes violation of any requirement of the POTW's SPDES
permit (including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation).
Any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, limited
liability company, corporation, association, joint stock company,
trust, estate, governmental entity or any other legal entity, or their
legal representatives, agents or assigns. The masculine gender shall
include the feminine, the singular shall include the plural where
indicated by the context.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the concentration
of hydrogen ions expressed in grams per liter of solution.
Any man-made or man-induced solid, liquid or gaseous substance
which alters the chemical, physical, biological or radiological purity
of water.
The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical,
biological, and radiological purity of water.
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination
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 a POTW. The reduction
or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical or biological
processes, or by manufacturing process changes or by other means,
except as prohibited by 40 CFR 403.6(d).
Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment,
other than a national pretreatment standard imposed on an industrial
user.
A treatment works as defined by Section 212 of the Act (33
U.S.C. § 1292), which is owned in this instance by the Village
of Cayuga Heights. This definition includes any sewers that convey
wastewater to the POTW treatment plant, but does not include pipes,
sewers or other conveyances not connected to a facility providing
treatment. For the purposes of this Part, "POTW" shall also include
any public sewers used to convey wastewaters to the Village of Cayuga
Heights Wastewater Treatment Plant from persons located outside the
Village.
May is permissive.
Any industrial user of the Village POTW who:
Has a discharge flow of 25,000 gallons or more per average workday;
or
Has a flow greater than 5% of the flow in the Village's wastewater
treatment system; or
Has in his wastes toxic pollutants as defined pursuant to Section
307 of the Act;[1] or
Is found by the Village, state or EPA to have a significant
impact, either singly or in combination with other wastewater discharges,
on the Village POTW, including the quality of the POTW effluent, or
air emissions.
Refers to a short-term wastewater discharge of high volume
and/or pollutant concentration resulting from manufacturing and/or
pretreatment process upsets.
A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of
Management and Budget, 1972.
State of New York.
A permit issued pursuant to Title 8 of Article 17 of the
Environmental Conservation Law of New York State and in compliance
with the Clean Water Act, as amended (33 U.S.C. § 1251 et
seq.).
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural
precipitation and resulting therefrom.
The total suspended matter that floats on the surface of,
or is suspended in, water, wastewater or other liquids, and which
is removable by laboratory filtering.
Any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic
in regulations promulgated by the Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency under the provisions of Section 307(a) of the Clean
Water Act or other Acts.
Any person who causes or permits the discharge of wastewater
to the Village POTW.
The Village of Cayuga Heights.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
The Cayuga Heights Village Board of Trustees.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
That portion of the POTW designed to provide treatment of
wastewater.
The liquid and water-carried wastes from residential dwellings,
commercial buildings, industrial facilities, and institutions, whether
treated or untreated, together with such groundwater, surface water
or stormwater as cannot be avoided, which are discharged to or permitted
to enter the POTW.
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.
[1]
Editor's Note: See 33 U.S.C. § 1317.
