A.
This chapter sets forth uniform requirements for indirect contributors
into the wastewater collection and treatment system for the City of
Geneva and enables the City to comply with all applicable state and
federal laws.
B.
The objectives of this chapter are:
(1)
To prevent the introduction into the municipal wastewater system
of pollutants which will interfere with the operation of the system
or contaminate the resulting sludge;
(2)
To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the municipal wastewater
system which will pass through the system, inadequately treated, into
receiving waters or the atmosphere or otherwise be incompatible with
the system;
(3)
To improve the opportunity to recycle and reclaim wastewaters and
sludges from the system; and
(4)
To provide for equitable distribution of the cost of the municipal
wastewater system.
C.
This chapter provides for the regulation of indirect contributors
to the municipal wastewater system through the issuance of permits
to certain nondomestic users and through enforcement of general requirements
for the other users, authorizes monitoring and enforcement activities,
requires user reporting, assumes that existing customers' capacity
will not be preempted, and provides for the setting of fees for the
equitable distribution of costs resulting from the program established
herein.
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
The Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the Clean
Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.
The Commissioner of the New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation if New York State has an approved state pretreatment
program and the Administrator of the EPA in a non-NPDES state or NPDES
state without an approved state pretreatment program.
An authorized representative of an industrial user shall
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 it is a partnership or proprietorship,
respectively.
A duly authorized representative of the individual designated
above if such representative is responsible for the overall operation
of the facilities from which the indirect discharge originates.
Schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance
procedures, and other management practices to implement the prohibitions
listed in 40 CFR 403.5(a)(1) and (b). 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 utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days
at 20° C., expressed in milligrams per liter.
Any person, persons or corporation who undertakes to construct,
either under contract or for resale within two years, any habitable
building.
The part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system
which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes
inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer,
beginning five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
The City of Geneva, New York.
The professional engineer retained as City Engineer for the
City of Geneva, or his authorized deputy or agent.
A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
The approval authority, defined hereinabove; or the Director
if the City has an approved pretreatment program under the provisions
of 40 CFR 403.11.
The water discharged from any use, such as air conditioning,
cooling or refrigeration, or to which the only pollutant added is
heat.
Any person, persons or corporation who undertakes to construct
simultaneously more than one housing unit on a given tract or land
subdivision.
The discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly
to the waters of the State of New York.
The United States 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.
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and
sale of produce.
A sample which is taken from a waste stream on a one-time
basis with no regard to the flow in the waste stream and without consideration
of time.
Any waste from holding tanks, such as vessels, chemical toilets,
campers, trailers, septic tanks and vacuum-pump tank trucks.
The introduction of pollutants into a POTW from any nondomestic
source regulated under Section 307(b), (c) or (d) of the Act.
A source of indirect discharge.
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes,
trade or business, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
The inhibition or disruption of the POTW treatment processes
or operations which contribute to a violation of any requirement of
the City's NPDES permit. The term includes prevention of 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 disposal or use employed by the POTW.
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated
by the EPA in accordance with Section 307(b) and (c) of the Act (33
U.S.C. § 1317), which applies to a specific category of
industrial users.
A permit issued pursuant to Section 402 of the Act (33 U.S.C.
§ 1342).
Any regulation developed under the authority of Section 307(b)
of the Act and 40 CFR 403.5.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface water or groundwater.
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.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
or duly authorized official of said Department.
The discharge of pollutants through the POTW into the receiving
waters in quantities or concentrations which are a cause of, or significantly
contribute to, a violation of any requirement of the POTW treatment
plant SPDES permit, including an increase in the magnitude or duration
of a violation.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
Any substance not normally present or present in concentrations
not normally found in aquatic systems, or that may be potentially
toxic or otherwise objectionable.
The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical,
biological and radiological integrity of water.
That portion of the POTW designed to provide treatment to
wastewater.
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 process changes 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.
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of
food that have been shredded to such a degree that all particles will
be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in
public sewers with no particle greater than 1/2 inch (1.27 centimeters)
in any dimension.
A sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal
rights and which is controlled by public authority.
A treatment works as defined by Section 212 of the Act (33
U.S.C. § 1292), which is owned in this instance by the City.
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 chapter, "POTW" shall also include any sewers that
convey wastewaters to the POTW from persons outside the City, who
are, by contract or agreement with the City, users of the City's
POTW.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which stormwaters, surface
waters and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together
with such groundwaters, surface waters and stormwaters as may be present.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
"Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
Any discharger subject to a categorical pretreatment standard;
Any other industrial user that discharges an average of at least
25,000 GPD of process wastewater (excluding sanitary, noncontact cooling
and boiler blow down wastewaters) to the publicly owned treatment
works;
An industrial user that contributes process waste stream which
is at least 5% of the average dry weather hydraulic capacity or organic
capacity of the publicly owned treatment works; or
Any industrial user so designated by the publicly owned treatment
works due to the reasonable potential for adversely affecting the
publicly owned treatment works' operation or violating a pretreatment
standard.
Any violation that meets one or more of the following criteria:
Chronic violations of wastewater discharge limits, defined here
as those in which 66% or more of all of the measurements taken for
the same pollutant parameter during a six-month period exceed (by
any magnitude) a numeric pretreatment standard or requirement, including
instantaneous limits;
Technical review criteria (TRC) violations, defined here as
those in which 33% or more of all of the measurements taken for the
same pollutant parameter during a six-month period equal or exceed
the product of the numeric pretreatment standard or requirement, including
instantaneous limits, multiplied by the applicable TRC (TRC=1.4 for
BOD, TSS, fats, oil, and grease, and 1.2 for all other pollutants
except pH);
Any other violation of a pretreatment standard or requirement
(daily maximum, long-term average, instantaneous limit, or narrative
standard) that the POTW determines has caused, alone or in combination
with other discharges, interference or pass-through (including endangering
the health of POTW personnel or the general public);
Any discharge of a pollutant that has caused imminent endangerment
to human health, welfare or to the environment or has resulted in
the POTW's exercise of its emergency authority to halt or prevent
such a discharge;
Failure to meet, within 90 days after the scheduled date, a
compliance schedule milestone contained in a local control mechanism
or enforcement order for starting construction, completing construction,
or attaining final compliance;
Failure to provide, within 30 days after the due date, required
reports such as baseline monitoring reports, ninety-day compliance
reports, periodic self-monitoring reports, and reports on compliance
with compliance schedules;
Failure to accurately report noncompliance;
Any other violation or group of violations, which may include
a violation of best management practices, which the POTW determines
will adversely affect the operation or implementation of the local
pretreatment program.
State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System.
A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of
Management and Budget, 1972, or its most recent edition.
State of New York.
A sewer which carries stormwaters and surface waters and
drainage but excludes sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted
cooling water.
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural
precipitation and resulting therefrom.
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension
in water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory
filtering.
Any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic
in regulations promulgated by the Administrator of the United States
Environmental Protection Agency under the provisions of Section 307(a)
of the Clean Water Act, or other acts.
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution
of wastewater into the City's POTW.
As set forth in § 277-47 of this chapter.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs either continuously
or intermittently.
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.
Wastewater treatment facility or wastewater treatment plant.
