A. 
No person may place, deposit or permit to be deposited any human or animal excrement, garbage or other objectionable waste on public or private property within the City in a manner deemed unsanitary by the Control Authority.
B. 
No person may discharge any sewage, industrial waste or other polluted water into any storm sewer or watercourse within the City or in any area under the jurisdiction of the City, except as provided by this regulation or applicable state or federal regulations.
C. 
No person may construct and maintain any privy, privy vault or cesspool. Where no public sewer exists, these facilities shall be abandoned and replaced with a septic tank system or other disposal system permitted by the Department of Environmental Protection and approved by the Control Authority within 60 days of notice to do so. Properties presently served by privies, privy vaults, cesspools and septic tank systems and other subsurface disposal facilities, and which are reasonably accessible to existing public sewers, shall abandon such facilities and connect to the available sanitary sewer system within 60 days after receipt of notice from the Control Authority.
(1) 
The owner or developer of an improved property may be required to extend public sewerage facilities to the improved property or development and connect the property or development to those facilities. All sewerage extension costs shall be borne by the property owner or developer.
(2) 
The Control Authority shall be the sole arbiter of whether public sewers are reasonably accessible, and that decision shall be binding and conclusive.
D. 
Sanitary facilities.
(1) 
The owner of any improved property is hereby required, at his/her expense, to install complete sanitary facilities, including a flush toilet, lavatory and bathtub or shower.
(2) 
In cases constituting premises accessible to the sewerage system, such sanitary facilities shall be connected directly with the public sewerage system in accordance with the provisions of this part within 90 days after the date of official notice to do so. If any owner, after notified as provided herein, refuses or neglects to connect such premises with the sewerage system, the City may cause the connection to be made at the owner's expense.
E. 
No person shall uncover, make any connections with or opening into, use, alter or disturb any public sewer or appurtenances thereof without first obtaining a written permit from the Control Authority.
F. 
A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided for each improved property. Each common wall structure having a solid vertical partition wall shall be considered an individual property requiring separate building sewers, except as otherwise approved by the Control Authority. Where premises consist of multiple buildings under single ownership, concession to allow combined building sewers may be made at the discretion of the Control Authority.
G. 
Where existing building sewers connected to a public sewer or public storm sewer are to be abandoned by reason of demolition of buildings and structures or for any other reason, they shall be disconnected and permanently sealed at the public sewer as directed by the Control Authority. Existing building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found after examination and testing by the Building Inspector to meet all requirements of this part.
H. 
The size, slope, alignment and materials of construction of a building sewer and the methods to be used in excavating, placing of the pipe, joining, testing and backfilling the trench shall all conform to the requirements of the Building Code and other applicable rules and regulations of the City.
I. 
Whenever possible, the building sewer shall be brought to the building at a depth below the basement floor. In all buildings in which any drain line is too low to permit gravity flow to the public sewer, sewage carried by such drain line shall be lifted by an approved means conforming to the Building Code and discharged to the building sewer. Exceptions to this requirement shall be requested, in writing, and approved by the Plumbing Inspector.
J. 
No person shall make connection of roof downspouts, exterior foundation drains, areaway drains or other sources of surface runoff or groundwater to a building sewer which in turn is connected directly or indirectly to a public sanitary sewer.
K. 
The connections between the building sewer and public sewer shall conform to the requirements of the Building Code and other applicable rules and regulations of the City. All such connections shall be made gastight and watertight and shall not be made except in the presence of and under the supervision of the Plumbing Inspector. Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials shall be approved, in writing, by the Control Authority before installation.
(1) 
The owner of any improved property shall maintain and repair the lateral at his/her own expense and shall remove all trees, tree roots and other obstructions to the lateral. Where such maintenance or repairs are neglected by the owner, the City may, 10 days after mailing written notice pursuant to § 249-13, herein, to the owner, take or cause to be made such maintenance or repairs as may be necessary and charge the owner of such improved property for the cost thereof.
L. 
Inspection of building sewers and sewerage. The City, by its agents and employees, shall have the right at all reasonable times to enter any premises connected with or about to be connected with the City's sewer system to inspect building sewers, sources and nature of sewerage and all fixtures and facilities from which sanitary sewerage may be discharged into the City sewer system in order to enforce compliance with the rules and regulations. In connection with any such inspections, the City, by its agents and employees, shall have the right at all reasonable times, to utilize video photography and dye testing in and about the sewer connections, including the sewer laterals, for purposes of inspecting any and all such building sewers, sources and nature of sewerage and fixtures and facilities from which sanitary sewerage or stormwater may be discharged into the City sewer system.
A. 
All sewage and authorized industrial waste may be discharged to the sewerage system, except those which are deemed harmful to the system by the Control Authority or are specifically prohibited by this part.
B. 
If any proposed or present discharge of waste to the sewerage system containing the substances or possessing the characteristics enumerated in this section which, in the judgment of the Control Authority, may have a deleterious effect upon the sewerage system, receiving waters or sludge management practices or which otherwise creates a hazard to life or constitutes a public nuisance, the Control Authority may, upon giving notice to the discharger as established in § 249-18:
(1) 
Reject the waste.
(2) 
Require pretreatment to reduce characteristics to maximum limits permitted by these regulations.
(3) 
Require control over the quantities and rates of discharge.
(4) 
Require immediate discontinuance of the waste discharge until such time as it meets the requirements of these regulations.
C. 
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any stormwater, surface water, groundwater, artesian well water, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, uncontaminated cooling water or unpolluted industrial process waters, swimming pool drainage, condensate, deionized water, noncontact cooling water, and unpolluted wastewater to any sanitary sewer, unless specifically authorized by the Director. Where existing surface water or roof drains are connected to the sanitary sewers, they shall be removed within six months of receipt of notice from the City to remove such connection. In the event that such connection is not removed, the City shall cause it to be removed at the owner's expense. Groundwater from site contamination cleanup may be authorized by the Control Authority subject to the sewer system regulations as industrial waste.
D. 
General prohibitions. Except as hereinafter provided, no person shall introduce or cause or permit to be introduced into the sewerage system (including any sanitary sewer, storm sewer or combined sewer) any pollutant or wastewater which causes pass through or interference. These general prohibitions apply to all users of the POTW whether or not they are subject to categorical pretreatment standards or any other national, state, or local pretreatment standards or requirements.
E. 
Specific prohibitions. Pollutants, substances, or wastewater prohibited by this section shall not be processed or stored in such a manner that they could be discharged to the POTW. No user shall introduce or cause to be introduced into the POTW the following pollutants, substances, or wastewater:
(1) 
Has a temperature higher than 150° F. (65.5° C.) or less than 32° F. (0° C.), or contains heat in amounts which will inhibit biological activity in the sewer treatment plant resulting in interference, but in no case heat in such quantities that the temperature of the influent to the sewage treatment plant exceeds 104° F. (40° C.) or inhibits the biological activity of the sewage treatment plant.
(2) 
Contains more than 300 mg/l of oil and grease, of which no more than 100 mg/l of oil and grease, if the oil and grease is of unknown or petroleum origin, or more than 200 mg/l of oil or grease, if the oil and grease is determined to be of an animal or vegetable origin. The differentiation between oil and grease of animal or vegetable origin and those of petroleum origin shall be made by the Control Authority according to approved procedures outlined in 40 CFR Part 136.
(3) 
Contains any petroleum oil, nonbiodegradable cutting oil, or products of mineral oil origin, including but not limited to gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil, paint products, acid or other inflammable or explosive liquids, solids or gases in amounts that will cause interference or pass through.
(4) 
Pollutants which create a fire or explosive hazard in the POTW, including, but not limited to, waste streams with a closed cup flashpoint of less than 140° F. (60° C.) as determined by a method listed under 40 CFR Part 261.21. At no time shall two successive readings on an explosion hazard meter at the point of discharge into the system (or at any point in the system) be more than 5%, nor any single reading over 10%, of the lower explosive limit (LEL) of the meter.
(5) 
Contains unground garbage; solid or viscous substances, including but not limited to ashes, cinders, sand, clay, mud, straw, shavings, metals, glass, rags, feathers, tar, plastics, wood, whole blood, entrails, manure, lye, building materials, rubber, hair, bones, leather, porcelain, china, or ceramic wastes, in amounts which will cause obstruction of the flow in the POTW resulting in interference.
(6) 
Has a pH, stabilized, lower than 5.5 or higher than 10.0 or has any other corrosive or scale-forming property capable of causing damage or hazard to structures, equipment, bacterial action or personnel involved with the sewerage facility.
(7) 
Contains any pollutant or oxygen demand (biological or chemical) discharged at such a flow rate that could cause interference or pass-through.
(8) 
Pollutants, including oxygen-demanding pollutants (BOD, etc.), released in a discharge at a flow rate and/or pollutant concentration which, either singly or by interaction with other pollutants, will cause interference with the POTW.
(9) 
Pollutants which result in the presence of toxic gases, vapors, or fumes within the POTW in a quantity that may cause acute worker health and safety problems.
(10) 
Trucked or hauled pollutants, except at discharge points designated by the Director in accordance with § 249-17.
(11) 
Contains total solids, nonfilterable residue or BOD of such character or quantity that unusual attention or expense is required to handle such materials in the sewerage system except as may be authorized by the Control Authority; may require analytical characterization to define the nature of the total solids.
(12) 
Contains any noxious or malodorous liquids, gases, solids, or other wastewater which, alone or by interaction with other wastes, is capable of creating a public nuisance or hazard to life or preventing entry into sewers for their maintenance and repair. The discharge of wastes that result in gases, vapors or fumes in quantities that could cause worker health or safety problems at the sewer treatment plant is specifically prohibited.
(13) 
Wastewater which imparts color which cannot be removed by the treatment process, such as, but not limited to, dye wastes and vegetable tanning solutions, which consequently imparts color to the treatment plant's effluent, thereby violating the City's NPDES permit.
(14) 
Contains radioactive substances and/or isotopes of such half-life or concentration as may exceed limits in compliance with applicable state or federal regulations.
(15) 
Has a chlorine demand in excess of 12 mg/l.
(16) 
Is prohibited by any permit issued by the Department of Environmental Protection or the Environmental Protection Agency.
(17) 
Contains wastes which are not amenable to biological treatment or reduction in existing treatment facilities, specifically nonbiodegradable complex carbon compounds.
(18) 
Constitutes a slug discharge as defined in § 249-4 or violates § 249-8.
(19) 
Contains any substance which may cause the sewage treatment plant sludges or other residues to be unsuitable for reclamation, reuse or disposal by land application for agricultural utilization in normal farming operations in accordance with sludge use or disposal criteria, guidelines or regulations as are currently in effect (or any future updates or additions thereto) and are applied to or imposed upon the City by the DEP and/or EPA and applicable to such land application of sludge or such other sludge management method being used by the City.
(20) 
Local limits:
(a) 
The Control Authority is authorized to establish local limits pursuant to 40 CFR 403.5(c).
(b) 
The following pollutant limits are established to protect against pass through and interference. No person shall discharge wastewater containing in excess of the following daily maximum limit:
Parameter
Maximum Daily Limit
(mg/l)
Arsenic
0.3
Cadmium
0.2
Chromium
2.6
Copper
4.8
Cyanide
0.6
Lead
1.2
Mercury
0.002
Molybdenum
0.9
Nickel
3.1
Fats, oil and/or grease (polar)
200
Oil and grease (petroleum or unknown origin)
100
Selenium
0.4
Silver
2.1
Zinc
4.7
The above limits apply at the point where the wastewater is discharged to the POTW. All concentrations for metallic substances are for total metal unless indicated otherwise. The Director may impose mass limitations in addition to the concentration-based limitations above.
(c) 
The Director may develop best management practices (BMPs), by ordinance or in individual wastewater discharge permits, to implement local limits and the requirements of § 249-6.
(21) 
Contains any substance that will cause the sewage treatment plant's effluent to violate the NPDES permit under which it operates or the water quality standards established for the Conestoga River.
F. 
Categorical pretreatment standards. Users must comply with the categorical pretreatment standards found at 40 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter N, Parts 405 to 471. Industrial waste may be subject to categorical pretreatment standards specifying quantities or concentrations of pollutants or pollutant properties which may be discharged to the sewerage system by existing or new industrial users in specific industrial subcategories. These categorical standards, established in separate regulations under 40 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter N, Parts 405 to 471, are hereby incorporated into these regulations and shall be in addition to any pretreatment standards and requirements stated explicitly in this regulation. The Control Authority may apply the following provisions where appropriate to modify the manner in which the categorical pretreatment standards are applied.
(1) 
Categorical pretreatment standards expressed only in terms of either mass or concentration of a pollutant in waste may be converted to equivalent concentration or mass limits in accordance with the provisions in Subsection F(5) of this section [40 CFR Part 403.6(c)].
(a) 
Where a categorical pretreatment standard is expressed only in terms of either the mass or the concentration of a pollutant in wastewater, the Director may impose equivalent concentration or mass limits in accordance with this section.
(b) 
When the limits in a categorical pretreatment standard are expressed only in terms of mass of pollutant per unit of production, the Director may convert the limits to equivalent limitations expressed either as mass of pollutant discharged per day or effluent concentration for purposes of calculating effluent limitations applicable to individual industrial users.
(2) 
When wastewater subject to a categorical pretreatment standard is mixed with wastewater not regulated by the same standard, the Director shall impose an alternate limit in accordance with 40 CFR Part 403.6(e).
(3) 
Variance from categorical pretreatment standards may be obtained in cases of fundamentally different factors regarding limits developed by EPA, if proven by the user in accordance with 40 CFR Part 403.13. Such variance may only be granted by the EPA and the user must submit its request to EPA.
(4) 
An industrial user may obtain a net/gross adjustment to a categorical pretreatment standard in accordance with the following:
(a) 
Categorical pretreatment standards may be adjusted to reflect the presence of pollutants in the industrial user's intake water in accordance with this section. Any industrial user wishing to obtain credit for intake pollutants must make application to the City. Upon request of the industrial user, the applicable standard will be calculated on a "net" basis (i.e., adjusted to reflect credit for pollutants in the intake water) if the requirements of Subsection F(4)(b) of this section are met.
(b) 
Criteria.
[1] 
Either the applicable categorical pretreatment standards contained in 40 CFR Subchapter N specifically provide that they shall be applied on a net basis; or the industrial user demonstrates that the control system it proposes or uses to meet applicable categorical pretreatment standards would, if properly installed and operated, meet the standards in the absence of pollutants in the intake waters.
[2] 
Credit for generic pollutants such as biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), total suspended solids (TSS), and oil and grease should not be granted unless the industrial user demonstrates that the constituents of the generic measure in the user's effluent are substantially similar to the constituents of the generic measure in the intake water or unless appropriate additional limits are placed on process water pollutants either at the outfall or elsewhere.
[3] 
Credit shall be granted only to the extent necessary to meet the applicable categorical pretreatment standard(s), up to a maximum value equal to the influent value. Additional monitoring may be necessary to determine eligibility for credits and compliance with standard(s) adjusted under this section.
[4] 
Credit shall be granted only if the user demonstrates that the intake water is drawn from the same body of water as that into which the POTW discharges. The City may waive this requirement if it finds that no environmental degradation will result.
(5) 
When the limits in a categorical pretreatment standard are expressed only in terms of pollutant concentrations, an industrial user may request that the Control Authority convert the limits to equivalent mass limits. The determination to convert concentration limits to mass limits is within the discretion of the Control Authority. The Control Authority may establish equivalent mass limits only if the industrial user meets all the following conditions in Subsection F(5)(a)[1] through [5] of this section.
(a) 
To be eligible for equivalent mass limits, the industrial user must:
[1] 
Employ, or demonstrate that it will employ, water conservation methods and technologies that substantially reduce water use during the term of its control mechanism;
[2] 
Currently use control and treatment technologies adequate to achieve compliance with the applicable categorical pretreatment standard, and not have used dilution as a substitute for treatment;
[3] 
Provide sufficient information to establish the facility's actual average daily flow rate for all waste streams, based on data from a continuous effluent flow monitoring device, as well as the facility's long-term average production rate. Both the actual average daily flow rate and long-term average production rate must be representative of current operating conditions;
[4] 
Not have daily flow rates, production levels, or pollutant levels that vary so significantly that equivalent mass limits are not appropriate to control the discharge; and
[5] 
Have consistently complied with all applicable categorical pretreatment standards during the period prior to the industrial user's request for equivalent mass limits.
(b) 
An industrial user subject to equivalent mass limits must:
[1] 
Maintain and effectively operate control and treatment technologies adequate to achieve compliance with the equivalent mass limits;
[2] 
Continue to record the facility's flow rates using a continuous effluent flow monitoring device;
[3] 
Continue to record the facility's production rates and notify the Control Authority whenever production rates are expected to vary by more than 20% from its baseline production rates determined in Subsection F(5)(a)[3] of this section. Upon notification of a revised production rate, the Control Authority must reassess the equivalent mass limit and revise the limit as necessary to reflect changed conditions at the facility; and
[4] 
Continue to employ the same or comparable water conservation methods and technologies as those implemented pursuant to Subsection F(5)(a)[1] of this section so long as it discharges under an equivalent mass limit.
(c) 
A Control Authority which chooses to establish equivalent mass limits:
[1] 
Must calculate the equivalent mass limit by multiplying the actual average daily flow rate of the regulated process(es) of the industrial user by the concentration-based daily maximum and monthly average standard for the applicable categorical pretreatment standard and the appropriate unit conversion factor;
[2] 
Upon notification of a revised production rate, must reassess the equivalent mass limit and recalculate the limit as necessary to reflect changed conditions at the facility; and
[3] 
May retain the same equivalent mass limit in subsequent control mechanism terms if the industrial user's actual average daily flow rate was reduced solely as a result of the implementation of water conservation methods and technologies, and the actual average daily flow rates used in the original calculation of the equivalent mass limit were not based on the use of dilution as a substitute for treatment pursuant to § 249-7E of this chapter.
(d) 
The Control Authority may not express limits in terms of mass for pollutants such as pH, temperature, radiation, or other pollutants which cannot appropriately be expressed as mass.
(6) 
The Control Authority may convert the mass limits of the categorical pretreatment standards of 40 CFR Parts 414, 419, and 455 to concentration limits for purposes of calculating limitations applicable to individual industrial users. The conversion is at the discretion of the Control Authority.
G. 
City's right of revision. The City reserves the right to establish, by ordinance or in individual wastewater discharge permits, more stringent standards or requirements on discharges to the POTW consistent with the purpose of this chapter.