Each customer shall comply with this Article to collection, treatment and disposal processes are not damaged.
The following terms are defined for the purposes of this Article unless otherwise apparent from context:
(a) 
"Act" means the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the Clean Water Act, as amended, 38 U.S.C. Sections 1251 et seq.
(b) 
"Administrator" or "Regional Administrator" means the appropriate Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator.
(c) 
"Interference" means inhibition or disruption of the District's sewer system, treatment process or operations which contributes to a violation of any requirement of its National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit. The term includes prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal by the District's facilities in accordance with Section 405 of the Act, or any criteria guidelines or regulations developed pursuant to the Solid Waste Disposal Act, the Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substance Control Act, or more stringent state criteria (including those contained in any state sludge management plan prepared pursuant to Title IV of the Solid Waste Disposal Act) applicable to the method of disposal or use employed by the District's treatment facilities.
(d) 
"Indirect Discharge" means the discharge or introduction of non-domestic pollutants from any source regulated under Section 307(b) or (c) of the Act, into the District's treatment facilities.
(e) 
"New Source" means any source, the construction of which is commenced after the publication of proposed regulations prescribing a Section 307(c) categorical Pretreatment Standard which will be applicable to such source, if such Standard is thereafter promulgated within one hundred twenty (120) days of the proposal in the Federal Register. Where the Standard is promulgated later than 120 days after the proposal, New Source means any source, the construction of which is commenced after the date of promulgation of the Standard.
(f) 
"Publicly Owned Treatment Works" or "POTW" means a treatment works as defined by Section 212 of the act, which is owned by a state or municipality (as defined by Section 502(4) of the Act). This definition includes any sewers that convey waste water to such a treatment works, but does not include pipes, sewers or other conveyances not connected to a facility providing treatment. The term also means the municipality as defined in Section 502(4) of the act, which has jurisdiction over the indirect discharges to and the discharges from such treatment works.
Upon promulgation of the Categorical Pre-treatment Standards for a particular industry sub-category, the Federal Standard, if more stringent than the limitations imposed under this ordinance for sources in that sub-category, shall immediately supersede the limitations imposed under this ordinance. The Director of Operations shall notify all effected Users of the applicable requirements under the General Pretreatment Regulations, Solid Waste Disposal Act, and the Act.
If additional pretreatment and/or operation and maintenance will be required to meet the Pretreatment Standards, the shortest schedule by which the user will provide such additional pretreatment shall be utilized. The completion date in this schedule shall not be later than the compliance date established for the applicable Pretreatment Standard.
The following conditions shall apply to the schedule:
(a) 
The schedule shall contain increments of progress in the form of dates for the commencement and completion of major events leading to the construction and operation of additional pretreatment required for the User to meet the applicable Pretreatment Standards e.g., hiring an engineer, completing preliminary plans, completing final plans, executing contract for major components, commencing construction, completing construction, and so forth.
(b) 
No increment referred to in Paragraph 1 shall exceed nine (9) months.
(c) 
Not later than fourteen (14) days following each date in the schedule and the final date for compliance, the user shall submit a progress report to the Director of Operations including, as a minimum, whether or not it complied with the increment of progress to be met on such date and, if not, the date on which it expects to comply with this increment of progress, the reason for the delay, and the steps being taken by the user to return the construction to the schedule established. In no event shall more than nine (9) months elapse between such progress reports to the Director of Operations.
(a) 
Compliance, Date of Report.
Within ninety (90) days following the date for final compliance with applicable Pretreatment Standards or, in the case of a New Source, following commencement of the introduction of waste water into POTW, any user subject to pretreatment Standards and Requirements shall submit to the Director of Operations a report indicating the nature and concentration of all pollutants in the discharge from the regulated process which are limited by Pretreatment Standards and Requirements and the average and minimum daily flow for those process units in the user facility which are limited by such Pretreatment Standards or Requirements. The report shall state whether the applicable Pretreatment Standards or Requirements are being met on a consistent basis and, if not, what additional operation and maintenance and/or Pretreatment is necessary to bring the user into compliance with the applicable Pretreatment Standards or Requirements. This statement shall be signed by an authorized representative of the user, and certified to by a qualified professional.
(b) 
Periodic Compliance Reports.
(1) 
Any user subject to a Pretreatment Standard, after the compliance date of such Pretreatment Standard, or, in the case of a New Source, after commencement of the discharge into the POTW, shall submit to the Manager of Water Reclamation Operations during the month of June and December, unless required more frequently in the Pretreatment Standard or by the Director of Operations, the report indicating the nature and concentration of pollutants in the effluent which are limited by such Pretreatment Standards. In addition, this report shall include a report of all daily flows which during the reported period exceeded the average daily flow reported in the paragraph above. At the discretion of the Director of Operations and in consideration of such factors as local high or low flow rates, holidays, budget cycles and so forth, the Director of Operations may agree to alter the monitoring which the above reports are to be submitted.
(2) 
The Director of Operations may impose mass limitations on users which are using dilution to meet applicable Pretreatment Standards or Requirements, or in other cases where the imposition of mass limitations is appropriate. In such cases, the report required by subparagraph (a) of this paragraph shall indicate the mass of pollutants regulated by Pretreatment Standards in the effluent by the users. These reports shall contain the results of sampling and analysis of the discharge, including the flow and nature and concentration, or production and, where requested by the Director of Operations, mass of pollutants contained therein which are limited by the applicable Pretreatment Standards. The frequency of monitoring shall be prescribed in the applicable Pretreatment Standards. All analysis shall be performed in accordance with the procedures established by the Administrator pursuant to Section 304(g) of Act and contained in 40 CFR, Part 136 amendments thereto or with any other test procedures approved by the Administrator. Samplings shall be performed in accordance with the techniques approved by the Administrator.
The District shall annually publish, in the largest daily newspaper within the jurisdiction, a list of users which are not in compliance with any Pretreatment Requirements or Standards at least once during the twelve (12) previous months. The notification shall also summarize any enforcement action taken against the user during the same twelve (12) months.
State requirements and limitations on discharges apply in any case where they are more stringent than Categorical Standards or this ordinance provided such requirements are adopted as set forth herein.
The District may establish more stringent limitations or requirements on discharges to the waste water disposal system if necessary to comply with the objectives as set forth in this ordinance.