A.Â
This chapter sets forth uniform requirements for users of the publicly
owned treatment works for the City of Crystal Lake and enables the
City to comply with all applicable state and federal laws, including
the Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.) and the General
Pretreatment Regulations (40 CFR Part 403).
B.Â
The objectives of this chapter are:
(1)Â
To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the publicly owned
treatment works that will interfere with its operation;
(2)Â
To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the publicly owned
treatment works that will pass through the publicly owned treatment
works, inadequately treated, into receiving waters, or otherwise be
incompatible with the publicly owned treatment works;
(3)Â
To protect both publicly owned treatment works personnel who may
be affected by wastewater and sludge in the course of their employment
and the general public;
(4)Â
To promote reuse and recycling of industrial wastewater and sludge
from the publicly owned treatment works;
(5)Â
To provide for fees for the equitable distribution of the cost of
operation, maintenance, and improvement of the publicly owned treatment
works; and
(6)Â
To enable the City of Crystal Lake to comply with its National Pollutant
Discharge Elimination System permit conditions, sludge use and disposal
requirements, and any other federal or state laws to which the publicly
owned treatment works is subject.
C.Â
This chapter shall apply to all users of the publicly owned treatment
works. The chapter authorizes the issuance of wastewater discharge
permits; provides for monitoring, compliance, and enforcement activities;
establishes administrative review procedures; requires user reporting;
and provides for the setting of fees for the equitable distribution
of costs resulting from the program established herein.
Except as otherwise provided herein, the Director of Public
Works or his/her designee, the Superintendent, shall administer, implement,
and enforce the provisions of this chapter. Any powers granted to
or duties imposed upon the Superintendent may be delegated by the
Superintendent to other City personnel.
The following abbreviations, when used in this chapter, shall
have the designated meanings:
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BOD
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Biochemical oxygen demand
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BMP
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Best management practice
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BMR
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Baseline monitoring report
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CFR
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Code of Federal Regulations
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CIU
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Categorical industrial user
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COD
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Chemical oxygen demand
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EPA
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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FSE
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Food service establishment
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FOG
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Fats, oils and grease
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gpd
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gallons per day
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IU
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Industrial user
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MAIL
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Maximum allowable industrial loading
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mg/l
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milligrams per liter
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NAICS
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North American Industry Classification System
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NPDES
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National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
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NSCIU
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Non-significant categorical industrial user
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POTW
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Publicly owned treatment works
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RCRA
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Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
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SIU
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Significant industrial user
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SNC
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Significant noncompliance
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SIC
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Standard Industrial Classification
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TSS
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Total suspended solids
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U.S.C
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United States Code
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Unless a provision explicitly states otherwise, the following
terms and phrases, as used in this chapter, 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.
Any wastewater generated and discharged by a dental discharger
through the practice of dentistry that may contain dental amalgam.
A collection device designed to capture and remove dental
amalgam from the amalgam process wastewater of a dental facility.
The Director of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
or the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
If the user is a corporation:
The president, secretary, treasurer, or a vice-president of
the corporation in charge of a principal business function, or any
other person who performs similar policy- or decision-making functions
for the corporation; or
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 assure 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.
If the user is a partnership or sole proprietorship: a general
partner or proprietor, respectively.
If the user is a federal, state, or local governmental facility:
a director or highest official appointed or designated to oversee
the operation and performance of the activities of the government
facility, or his/her designee.
The individuals described in Subsections A through C, above, may designate another authorized representative if the authorization is in writing, the authorization specifies the individual or position responsible for the overall operation of the facility from which the discharge originates or having overall responsibility for environmental matters for the company, and the written authorization is submitted to the City of Crystal Lake.
The schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices to implement the prohibitions listed in Article II, §§ 435-5 and 435-6 [40 CFR 403.5(a)(1) and (b)]. BMPs 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. BMPs also include alternative means (i.e., management plans) of complying with, or in place of certain established categorical pretreatment standards and effluent limits. BMPs may also be used in lieu of numerical local limits.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures for five days
at 20° C., usually expressed as a concentration (e.g., mg/l).
An industrial user subject to a categorical pretreatment
standard or categorical standard.
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated
by the EPA in accordance with Sections 307(b) and (c) of the Act (33
U.S.C. § 1317) which apply to a specific category of users
and which appear in 40 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter N, Parts 405 through
471.
A measure of the oxygen required to oxidize all compounds,
both organic and inorganic, in water.
The City of Crystal Lake or the Mayor and City Council of
the City of Crystal Lake.
The City of Crystal Lake
The arithmetic average of all effluent samples for a pollutant
collected during a calendar day.
The maximum allowable discharge limit of a pollutant during
a calendar day. Where daily maximum limits are expressed in terms
of a concentration, the daily discharge is the arithmetic average
measurement of the pollutant concentration derived from all measurements
taken that day. Where daily maximum limits are expressed in units
of mass, the daily discharge is the total mass discharged over the
course of the day.
An alloy of elemental mercury and other metal(s) that is
used in the practice of dentistry.
A facility where the practice of dentistry is performed,
including, but not limited to, institutions, permanent or temporary
offices, clinics, home offices, and facilities owned and operated
by federal, state or local governments, that discharges wastewater
to a publicly owned treatment works (POTW).
A specialized mobile self-contained van, trailer, or equipment
used in providing dentistry services at multiple locations.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
A dental discharger that is not a new source.
Any source of discharge, the construction or operation of
which commenced prior to the publication by the EPA of proposed categorical
pretreatment standards, which will be applicable to such source if
the standard is thereafter promulgated in accordance with Section
307 of the Act.
Any user engaged in the activities of manufacturing, preparing,
serving, or otherwise making available for consumption foodstuffs
that use one or more of the following preparation activities: blending,
cooking by frying (all methods), baking (all methods), grilling, sauteing,
rotisserie cooking, broiling (all methods), boiling, blanching, roasting,
toasting, or poaching and infrared heating, searing, barbecuing, and
any other food preparation or servicing activity that produces a consumable
food product in or on a receptacle requiring washing to be reused.
A limited food preparation establishment is not considered to be a
FSE when only engaged in reheating, hot holding or assembly of ready-to-eat
food products and, as a result, there is no wastewater discharge containing
significant amounts of FOG.
A sample which is taken from a waste stream without regard
to the flow in the waste stream and over a period of time not to exceed
15 minutes.
The introduction of pollutants into the POTW from any nondomestic
source regulated under Section 307(b), (c), or (d) of the Act.
The maximum concentration of a pollutant allowed to be discharged
at any time, determined from the analysis of any discrete (grab) or
composited sample collected, independent of the industrial flow rate
and the duration of the sampling event.
A discharge which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge
or discharges from other sources, inhibits or disrupts the POTW, its
treatment processes or operations or its sludge processes, use or
disposal; and, therefore, is a cause of a violation of POTW's NPDES
permit or of the prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal in compliance
with any of the following statutory/regulatory provisions or permits
issued thereunder, or any more stringent state or local regulations:
Section 405 of the Act; the Solid Waste Disposal Act, including Title
II, commonly referred to as the "Resource Conservation and Recovery
Act (RCRA)"; any state regulations contained in any state sludge management
plan prepared pursuant to Subtitle D of the Solid Waste Disposal Act;
the Clean Air Act; the Toxic Substances Control Act; and the Marine
Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act.
A dental discharger that does not place dental amalgam, and
does not remove dental amalgam except in limited emergency or unplanned,
unanticipated circumstances. A "new limited dental discharge source"
means a limited dental discharger whose first discharge to a POTW
occurs after July 14, 2017. An "existing limited dental discharge
source" means a limited dental discharger that is not a new source.
Specific discharge limits developed and enforced by the City
of Crystal Lake upon industrial or commercial facilities to implement
the general and specific discharge prohibitions listed in 40 CFR 403.5(a)(1)
and (b).
Isolation wastes, infectious agents, human blood and blood
products, pathological wastes, sharps, body parts, contaminated bedding,
surgical wastes, potentially contaminated laboratory wastes, and dialysis
wastes.
The sum of all daily discharges measured during a calendar
month divided by the number of daily discharges measured during that
month.
The highest allowable average of daily discharges over a
calendar month, calculated as the sum of all daily discharges measured
during a calendar month divided by the number daily discharges measured
during that month.
A dental discharger whose first discharge to a POTW occurs
after July 14, 2017.
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; or
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 installations 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.
Construction on a site at which an existing source is located results in a modification rather than a new source if the construction does not create a new building, structure, facility, or installation meeting the criteria of Subsection A(2) or (3) above but otherwise alters, replaces, or adds to existing process or production equipment.
Construction of a new source as defined under this definition
has commenced if the owner or operator has:
Begun, or caused to begin, as part of a continuous on-site construction
program:
Any placement, assembly, or installation of facilities or equipment;
or
Significant site preparation work, including clearing, excavation,
or removal of existing buildings, structures, or facilities which
is necessary for the placement, assembly, or installation of new source
facilities or equipment; or
Entered into a binding contractual obligation for the purchase
of facilities or equipment which is intended to be used in its operation
within a reasonable time. Options to purchase or contracts which can
be terminated or modified without substantial loss, and contracts
for feasibility, engineering, and design studies do not constitute
a contractual obligation under this subsection.
Water used for cooling which does not come into direct contact
with any raw material, intermediate product, waste product, or finished
product.
A discharge which exits the POTW 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 POTW's NPDES permit, including an
increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation.
Any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company,
corporation, association, joint-stock company, trust, estate, governmental
entity, or any other legal entity; or its legal representatives, agents,
or assigns. This definition includes all federal, state, and local
governmental entities.
A measure of the acidity or alkalinity of a solution, expressed
in standard units.
Dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, filter backwash,
sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, medical wastes, chemical
wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked
or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, municipal, agricultural
and industrial wastes, and certain characteristics of wastewater (e.g.,
pH, temperature, TSS, turbidity, color, BOD, COD, toxicity, or odor).
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination
of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties
in wastewater prior to, or in lieu of, introducing such pollutants
into the POTW. This reduction or alteration can be attained by physical,
chemical, or biological processes; by process changes; or by other
means, except by diluting the concentration of the pollutants unless
allowed by an applicable pretreatment standard.
Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment
imposed on a user, other than a pretreatment standard.
Prohibited discharge standards, categorical pretreatment
standards, and local limits. As documented in § 307(b) and
(c) of the Clean Water Act.
Absolute prohibitions against the discharge of certain substances; these prohibitions appear in § 435-5 of this chapter.
A treatment works, as defined by Section 212 of the Act (33
U.S.C. § 1292), which is owned by the City of Crystal Lake.
This definition includes any devices or systems used in the collection,
storage, treatment, recycling, and reclamation of sewage or industrial
wastes of a liquid nature and any conveyances which convey wastewater
to a treatment plant.
Any sewage from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets,
campers, trailers, and septic tanks.
Human excrement and gray water (household showers, dishwashing
operations, etc.).
Subject to categorical pretreatment standards; or
That:
Discharges an average of 25,000 gpd or more of process wastewater
to the POTW (excluding sanitary, noncontact cooling, and boiler blow-down
wastewater);
Contributes a process waste-stream which makes up 5% or more
of the average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the POTW
treatment plant; or
Is designated as such by the City on the basis that it has a
reasonable potential to adversely affect the POTW's operation or to
violate any pretreatment standard or requirement.
The City of Crystal Lake may determine that an industrial user
subject to categorical pretreatment standards is a non-significant
categorical industrial user rather than a significant industrial user
on a finding that the industrial user never discharges more than 100
gallons per day (gpd) of total categorical wastewater (excluding sanitary,
non-contact cooling and boiler blow-down wastewater, unless specifically
included in the pretreatment standard) and the following conditions
are met:
Upon a finding that a user meeting the criteria in Subsection B(2) of this definition has no reasonable potential for adversely affecting the POTW's operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement, the City of Crystal Lake may at any time, on its own initiative or in response to a petition received from an industrial user, and in accordance with procedures in 40 CFR 403.8(f)(6), determine that such user should not be considered a significant industrial user (SIU).
Any discharge at a flow rate or concentration which could cause a violation of the prohibited discharge standards in § 435-5 of this chapter. A slug discharge is any discharge of a non-routine, episodic nature, including but not limited to an accidental spill or a non-customary batch discharge, which has a reasonable potential to cause interference or pass through, or in any other way violate the POTW's regulations, local limits or permit conditions.
A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual issued by the United States Office of Management and Budget.
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural
precipitation, and resulting from such precipitation, including snowmelt.
The person designated by the Director of Public Works to
supervise the operation of the POTW, and who is charged with certain
duties and responsibilities by this chapter, or a duly authorized
representative.
The total suspended matter that floats on the surface of,
or is suspended in, water, wastewater, or other liquid, and which
is removable by laboratory filtering.
A source of indirect discharge.
Liquid and water-carried industrial wastes and sewage from
residential dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial and manufacturing
facilities, and institutions, whether treated or untreated, that are
discharged into the POTW.
That portion of the POTW which is designed to provide treatment
of municipal sewage and industrial waste.
