As a means of determining compliance with this chapter, with applicable
SPDES permit conditions and applicable state and federal law, each industrial
user shall be required to notify the Superintendent of any new or existing
discharges to the POTW by submitting a completed industrial chemical survey
(ICS) form and a completed industrial wastewater survey (IWS) form to the
Superintendent. The Superintendent may require any user discharging wastewater
into the POTW to file wastewater discharge reports and to supplement such
reports as the Superintendent deems necessary. All information shall be furnished
by the user in complete cooperation with the Superintendent.
No significant industrial user shall discharge wastewater to the POTW
without having filed an application for and obtained a valid wastewater discharge
permit, issued by the Superintendent. Significant industrial users shall comply
fully with the terms and conditions of their permits in addition to the provisions
of this chapter. Violation of a permit term or condition is deemed a violation
of this chapter.
Wastewater discharge permits may be revoked by the Superintendent for
the following reasons:
A. Falsifying self-monitoring reports.
B. Tampering with monitoring equipment.
C. Refusing to allow the Superintendent timely access to the industrial premises pursuant to §
471-41 of this chapter.
D. Failure to meet effluent limitations.
F. Failure to pay user charges.
G. Failure to meet compliance schedules.
No person shall cause the discharge of slugs to the POTW. Each person
discharging into the POTW greater than 100,000 gallons per day or greater
than 5% of the average daily flow in the POTW, whichever is less, shall install
and maintain, on his property and at his expense, a suitable storage and flow
control facility to ensure equalization of flow over a twenty-four-hour period.
The facility shall have a capacity for at least 50% of the daily discharge
volume and shall be equipped with alarms and a rate-of-discharge controller,
the regulation of which shall be directed by the Superintendent. A wastewater
discharge permit may be issued solely for flow equalization.
Preliminary treatment and flow equalization facilities or monitoring
stations, if provided for any wastewater, shall be constructed and maintained
in a continuous clean and safe manner, and shall be operated on a continuous
basis by the owner at his expense. Where an industrial user has said treatment,
equalization or monitoring facilities at the time this chapter is enacted,
the Superintendent may approve or disapprove the adequacy of such facilities.
Where the Superintendent disapproves of such facilities and construction of
new or upgraded facilities for treatment, equalization or monitoring are required,
plans and specifications for such facilities shall be prepared by a licensed
professional engineer and submitted to the Superintendent. Construction of
new or upgraded facilities shall not commence until written approval of the
Superintendent has been obtained.
The Superintendent and other authorized representatives of the Village,
representatives of the EPA, NYSDEC, NYSDOH and/or Nassau County Health Department,
bearing proper credentials and identification, shall be permitted to enter
upon all nonresidential properties at all times for the purpose of inspection,
observation, sampling, flow measurement and testing to ascertain a user's
compliance with applicable provisions of federal and state law governing use
of the Village POTW and with the provisions of this chapter. Inspections of
residential properties shall be performed in proper observance of the resident's
civil rights. Such representative(s) shall have the right to set up, on the
user's property or property rented or leased by the user, such devices as
are necessary to conduct sampling or flow measurement. Guard dogs shall be
under proper control of the user while the representatives are on the user's
property or property rented or leased by the user. Such representative(s)
shall additionally have access to and may copy any records the user is required
to maintain under this chapter. Where a user has security measures, in force
which would require proper identification and clearance before entry into
the premises, the user shall make necessary arrangements so that upon presentation
of suitable identification, inspecting personnel will be permitted to enter,
without delay, for the purpose of performing their specific responsibilities.