[Adopted 1-9-1989 by Ord. No. A-869]
A. 
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
ABNORMAL WASTES
Any waste having a suspended solids content or BOD in excess of that normally found in municipal sewage. For the purpose of this article, a waste containing more than 250 mg/l of suspended solids, or having a BOD in excess of 250 mg/l, shall be considered abnormal waste.
ACT or THE ACT
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the "Clean Water Act," as amended.
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF INDUSTRIAL USER
An authorized representative of industrial user may be:
(1) 
A principal executive officer of at least the level of vice president if the industrial user is a corporation;
(2) 
A general partner or proprietor if the industrial user is a partnership or proprietorship, respectively; or
(3) 
A duly authorized representative of the individual designated above if such representative is responsible for the overall operation of the facilities from which the discharge originates.
BIOCHEMICAL OXIDATION DEMAND (BOD)
The quantity of the oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure after five days at 20º C., expressed in milligrams per liter (mg/l).
BOROUGH
The Borough of Kane, County of McKean, Kane, Pennsylvania.
BOROUGH ENGINEER
The firm of Hill Engineering, Inc., of North East Pennsylvania, or such other engineering firm or engineer as may at the time be duly appointed by the borough.
BUILDING SEWER
The private sewer between a point five feet outside the exterior wall of an occupied building and the service tap provided at the public sanitary sewer and all private extensions thereof.
CATEGORICAL STANDARDS or NATIONAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARDS
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by the EPA in accordance with § 307(b) and (c) of the Act which applies to a specific category of industrial users.
CONTAMINATE
To change the characteristics of the waste to the extent that normal POTW effluent, sludge, and/or gaseous emissions qualities are no longer acceptable for discharge or cause interference with normal POTW processes or performance.
COUNCIL
The Borough Council of the Borough of Kane.
DISCHARGE
The introduction of nondomestic pollutants from any source into the POTW.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, or, where appropriate, the term may also be used as a designation for the administrator of said agency.
EQUALIZATION
The on-site storage of wastewaters and the controlled rate of discharge of the same to the public system.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage, and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL USER
A source of discharge to the POTW.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
The liquid waste streams from industrial manufacturing, trade, or commercial business processes as distinct from sanitary sewage.
INTERFERENCE
The inhibition or disruption of the POTW treatment processes or operations which causes or significantly contributes to a violation of a requirement of the borough's NPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation). The term includes prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal by the POTW in accordance with § 450 of the Act, 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 applicable to the method of disposal or use employed by the POTW.
MANAGER
The chief administrative officer of the borough responsible for local administration of Council regulations.
NATIONAL POLLUTION DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM or NPDES PERMIT
A permit issued pursuant to § 402 of the Act.
OCCUPIED BUILDING
Any structure erected and intended for continuous or intermittent habitation, occupancy or use by human beings or animals and from which structure, as a result of such occupancy, sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes may be discharged.
PERMIT
Any contract or agreement between the borough and the user of the POTW which establishes allowable limits and source specific regulations developed from the general requirements defined herein.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company, corporation, association, or their legal representatives, agents or assigns. The masculine gender shall include the feminine and the singular shall include the plural where indicated by the context.
pH
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen ions expressed in equivalent moles per liter of solution.
POLLUTANT
Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, garbage, sewage sludge, chemical wastes, biological materials, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, and industrial, municipal and agricultural waste discharged to the POTW.
POLLUTION
The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical, biological, and radiological integrity of water.
POTW PRETREATMENT PROGRAM
That program described in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's General Pretreatment Regulations (40 CFR 403).
PRETREATMENT or TREATMENT
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 discharging to the POTW.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
A treatment works as defined by § 212 of the Act, which is owned and/or operated by the borough. This definition includes any publicly owned sewers that convey wastewater to the POTW treatment plant, but does not include pipes, sewers or other conveyances not connected to the facility providing treatment. For the purposes of this article, "POTW" shall also include publicly owned sewers that convey wastewaters to the POTW from persons outside the Borough of Kane who are by contract, or agreement, users of the POTW.
SLUG
Any discharge of water, sewage, industrial waste, or combination thereof, which in concentration of any given constituent or quantity of flow exceeds, for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes, more than five times the average strength or flow rate during normal operations.
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (SIC)
A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget 1972.
STATE
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
STORMWATER
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural precipitation and resulting therefrom.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
The suspended matter that floats on the surface of, or is suspended in, water, wastewater, or other liquids, and which is removable by laboratory filtering according to standard approved methods.
UPSET
An exceptional incident in which a user unintentionally and temporarily is in a state of noncompliance with the standards set forth hereto due to factors beyond the reasonable control of the user, and excluding noncompliance to the extent caused by operational error, improperly designed treatment facilities, inadequate treatment facilities, lack of preventive maintenance, or careless or improper operation thereof.
USER
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution of wastewater into the borough's POTW.
WASTEWATER
The liquid and water-carried industrial or domestic wastes from dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities, and institutions, together with any groundwater, surface water and stormwater which is permitted to enter the POTW.
WATERS OF THE STATE
All streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, 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.
TOWNSHIP
The Township of Wetmore, Pennsylvania, agencies thereof or other municipal jurisdictions on a regional basis who utilize public sewer/treatment facilities of the borough, now or in the future, are required to adopt, administer and enforce general sewer use regulations and industrial waste regulations comparable to those now or hereinafter in effect in the borough.
B. 
Shall is mandatory; may is permissive.
A. 
Application. Subject to the availability of reserve POTW capacities for industrial waste use, proposals to discharge industrial wastes to the public sewers at Kane shall be reviewed pursuant to the provisions of these industrial waste rules and regulations hereinafter referred to as the "regulation." The potential benefits of treating certain compatible industrial wastes in combination with domestic wastes are well documented. The borough's public sewer system customer base is primarily residential, however, and no industrial wastes are to be discharged to the public sewers on and after the effective date of this regulation without due process. Such processes and procedures prerequisite to discharge of any industrial waste or abnormal waste, as distinct, involve service of written notice of request to discharge to the POTW by the industrial user to the borough. On receipt of such written notice, the borough shall advise the authorized representative of the industrial user of data required to facilitate municipal review of the potential to receive such industrial wastes with or without pretreatment and/or equalization by the industrial user and the impacts to result therefrom. All such data required by the borough including, but not necessarily limited to, Standard Industrial Classification (SIC), description of the process(es) producing the industrial waste, quantification of the volume of wastes involved, and independent laboratory analyses to confirm quantitative chemical composition of the industrial waste stream, shall be acquired by and at the sole expense of the industry proposing to discharge and filed with subsequent application for permit to discharge.
(1) 
On and after the effective date of this regulation, a special industrial waste discharge permit is required for all industrial establishments discharging or proposing to discharge industrial process wastewaters to the public sanitary sewer system. No industrial waste may be discharged to the public sewer system unless an industrial waste discharge permit has been duly issued by the borough. Specifically, no industrial establishment shall discharge industrial wastes to the public system of sanitary sewers until written application for a permit to discharge industrial wastes has been filed with and duly approved by the Borough Council and permit/conditional discharge agreement has been issued and duly executed between the borough and the industrial user's authorized representative.
(2) 
Applications for an industrial waste discharge permit shall be in typewritten form and shall contain the following information as a minimum:
(a) 
Name of owner.
(b) 
Name and address of industrial facility producing the wastes and SIC designation(s).
(c) 
Description of process(es) producing the waste stream.
(d) 
Plot plan to scaled dimensions showing on-site plumbing in relation to process facilities and proposed connection to public sanitary sewer system.
(e) 
Volume, constituents, and chemical characteristics of the proposed waste including average daily volume and peak rates of flow to the public system. All wastewater characteristics shall be established by independent laboratory analyses conducted in accordance with Standard Methods procedures.
(f) 
Detailed plan and mode of operation to be employed to prevent accidental spills or discharge of prohibited materials including elimination of or protection of potential entry points under a Preparedness, Prevention and Contingency (PPC) Plan to be adopted, implemented and practiced by the industry.
(3) 
To expedite permit review/approval, industrial users are encouraged to coordinate development of application data with the borough's consulting engineers. Upon review of the application, the borough may request additional information or approve or disapprove the application. All borough decisions will be forwarded to the applicant in writing. Where borough refusal of permit request is indicated, an explanation of the conditions leading to such decision will be given the applicant, as well as an opportunity for the applicant to file additional data for borough review and/or to request a hearing before the Borough Council, provided that written request for a hearing is filed by the applicant/industry within 30 days of the date of decision notice as issued by the borough. Any disagreements between the borough and any industrial user which cannot be resolved locally to the satisfaction of either party may be referred to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources for review.
(4) 
Upon receipt of adequate waste stream documentation, the borough, with the advice of its consulting engineers, shall notify the industrial establishment of borough decision to:
(a) 
Reject the waste discharge.
(b) 
Conditionally allow the waste discharge as proposed.
(c) 
Conditionally allow the waste discharge subject to on-site rate of flow control (equalization), monitoring, and/or pretreatment by and at the industrial user's expense.
(5) 
Borough Council decisions to approve any application for industrial waste discharge(s) are directly dependent on numerous factors, including but not necessarily limited to reliable, comprehensive, and timely documentation of waste characteristics by the industrial purveyor; determinations by the borough that such wastes, with or without pretreatment and/or flow equalization, are amenable to treatment in combination with domestic wastes at the receiving POTW; that adequate surplus capacities are available in the public sanitary sewer system or that the permittee will pay the capital value of required POTW additions; and that the waste purveyor is a reliable entity prepared to acquire on-site monitoring or other facilities at its expense and pay its fair share of public sewer system operating and maintenance costs. Additionally, wastes or establishments falling within categorical standards as now or hereinafter promulgated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under 40 CFR 403 or statewide pretreatment regulations as may be developed by the State of Pennsylvania will require the purveyor of the proposed industrial waste to comply with all such federal/state regulations and procedures prior to discharge to the borough's public sanitary sewer system. Compliance with such federal/state regulations will be viewed as a prerequisite to borough action to authorize any industrial waste discharge from establishments subject to categorical pretreatment standards. All such compliance actions including, but not necessarily limited to, baseline reports, schedule development, design and construction of pretreatment facilities, etc., will be accomplished by and at the sole expense of the industry and without cost or obligation whatsoever unto the borough.
B. 
Authorization. In any instance where the borough allows an industrial waste discharge, such authorization for discharge will be issued in the form of a conditional discharge agreement drawn by the borough with the advice of its solicitor and consulting engineers and executed by the purveyor of the industrial waste and the borough. The conditional aspect of any such industrial waste discharge agreement(s) shall reserve solely unto the borough the right to terminate the offering of public sewer service to the industrial establishment at any time upon determination of just cause and with reasonable advance notice of intent to terminate.
(1) 
By such agreement(s), the industrial discharger shall assume the full burden and responsibility of and pay all costs related to acquisition of regulatory agency support approvals, on-site pretreatment and/or flow monitoring/regulating (equalization) facilities, independent laboratory sampling, testing, and analyses services, source composite sampling/testing equipment and systems, Preparedness, Prevention and Contingency (PPC) Plan development and administration, and related features or facilities as may be required by the borough or any state/federal agency of jurisdiction. In addition, but not necessarily limited hereto, agreement(s) for conditional discharge of industrial wastes shall set sewer service charges and may impose special capital contribution levies to be paid by the industrial user. Special capital contribution levies, if any, against industrial establishments connecting after the effective date of this regulation shall, subject to final determination by the borough, be equivalent to the proportional principal amount of debt redemption prepaid by the borough on the POTW capacity component to be now obligated to and assumed by the industrial discharger, such proportional factor to be the ratio of industry obligated flow and/or organic capacity to the total design flow/organic capacities of the receiving POTW. Sewer service charges will, in consideration of industrial waste volumes and strengths, be set so as to adequately compensate the borough for the industrial waste stream specific service rendered to the industrial discharger in proportion to sewer service charges then or thereafter in effect for domestic customers on the borough's public sewer system. Capital contribution levies, if any, are payable in full to the borough by the industrial user on or before the date of first discharge to POTW pursuant to discharge agreement terms, while industrial user charges are payable in accordance with terms of billing and collecting in effect for all customers. The industrial discharger shall own, operate, maintain, and pay all costs relating to on-site facilities including pretreatment systems as required. In addition, the industrial discharger shall be assessed and required to pay the capital costs of expanded POTW facilities or special process equipment/systems to the extent that the same are required in order to provide capacity and capability within the POTW to accommodate and treat the proposed industrial waste stream.
(2) 
Industrial waste permits/agreements will be issued conditionally for a two-year period subject to rights of cancellation unto the borough at any time upon 10 days' advance notice of noncompliance with permit limitations and/or conditions, and further subject to revision or modification of permit terms or conditions at the borough's option where required to reasonably protect the waters of the state.
(3) 
Under any notification of noncompliance, the borough may require immediate cessation of the industrial waste discharge or portions thereof determined to be in violation, and/or the borough may require the industry to submit a schedule for achievement of compliance including steps or modifications to be taken to prevent recurrence. Under conditions of noncompliance, continuance of discharge on a temporary basis would be allowed by the borough only if the industry is actively pursuing and making reasonable progress towards full compliance achievement. Any borough notices hereunder shall be filed in writing and the industrial establishment shall have 10 days from date of personal service of such notice(s) to respond to the noted conditions of noncompliance. Where industrial response is not received, public sewer service shall be terminated.
(4) 
Industrial waste permits/agreements, if issued by the Borough Council, shall detail the requirements for on-site monitoring, allowable flow/strength limitations, source pretreatment and/or flow equalization prior to discharge to the public system of sanitary sewers, procedures for notification and compliance, permit term and procedures for renewal/revocation, and penalties for noncompliance. Any permit so issued shall not be assigned, transferred, or sold without the concurrence of the Borough Council. Each industrial discharger is required to file for a permit modification prior to altering the waste discharge characteristics or exceeding limitation imposed by permit of record.
(5) 
In addition, permits/agreements with industries shall stipulate the specific amount of treatment plant hydraulic and organic capacity allocated to the specific industrial waste source. Each permit shall also require industrial establishment notification of the borough immediately upon the accidental upset, spill, or discharge of wastes in violation of permit or document limitations. The initial notice of noncompliance shall be followed within 10 days of the date of occurrence by a detailed written industry statement describing the cause(s) and measures being taken to prevent recurrence. Such notifications shall not, however, relieve the industrial account from full responsibility for all damages or claims of any kind arising out of such noncompliance. All industrial establishments shall conspicuously post throughout their plant facilities notices advising employees of those persons and/or agencies to contact in case of accidental discharge in violation of this document or industrial waste discharge permits or agreements, as applicable.
C. 
Maintenance. Where pretreatment, flow equalization, composite sampling, and/or flow metering facilities are required by the borough in conjunction with granting of a permit for any industrial waste stream, they shall be acquired, operated, and maintained continuously in satisfactory and effective working order by and at the sole expense of the owner of the industrial premises served.
D. 
Control structure. The owner of any property serviced by a building sewer carrying industrial wastes shall install a suitable control manhole or structure together with such necessary meters and other appurtenances in the building sewer as will be required by the borough to facilitate observation, composite sampling, and flow measurement of wastes. Such control structure and metering facilities shall be accessible and safely located, and shall be constructed in accordance with plans approved by the Borough Engineer. The control structure and metering facilities shall be installed by the industrial user at his expense, and shall be maintained by him so as to be safe, accessible, and in good operating condition at all times.
E. 
Violation. On and after the effective date of this regulation, the discharge of industrial waste to the public sanitary sewer system without a borough-issued permit/agreement authorizing the same and state/federal regulatory agency approvals, as applicable, shall constitute a violation hereof. Any such violation shall be processed for remedy pursuant to the provisions hereof and penalty/damage assessments as stipulated herein. Existing industrial establishments now connected to the public sewer system and discharging untreated wastes without having in place an agreement with the borough to do so shall within 90 days of the effective date of this article file a written request to discharge with the borough, including all support documentation required by the provisions of this regulation.
A. 
Quantities. No user shall discharge or cause to be discharged any pollutant or wastewater in such quantities which will interfere with the operations and performance of the POTW. These general prohibitions apply to all users of the POTW whether or not the user is subject to National Categorical Pretreatment Standards.
B. 
Waters not to be discharged to POTW. A user shall not discharge any of the following described waters or wastes to the POTW:
(1) 
Any unpolluted stormwater, surface water, groundwater, roof runoff, drainage, uncontaminated cooling water, or other unpolluted industrial process waters.
(2) 
Any liquids, solids, or gases which by reason of their nature or quantity are or may be sufficient either alone or by interaction with other substances to cause fire or explosion or be injurious in any other way to the POTW or the processes of the POTW.
(3) 
Any gasoline, kerosene, naphtha, benzene, toluene, xylene, ethers, undistilled alcohols, ketones, aldehydes, peroxides, chlorates, perchlorates, bromates, carbides, hydrides, sulfides, and any other substances which the borough, the state, or the EPA has notified the user is a flammable and/or explosive liquid, solid, or gas fire hazard to the POTW.
(4) 
Any waters or wastes containing toxic or poisonous solids, liquids, or gaseous pollutants in sufficient quantity, either singly or by interaction with other pollutant wastes, to: significantly impair or interfere with any wastewater treatment process; constitute a hazard to humans or animals; create a public nuisance, toxic effect, or hazard in the receiving waters of the sewage treatment plant; exceed a specified pollutant limitation in the wastes as discharged to the public sewer; exceed a limitation set forth in Categorical Pretreatment Standards; or be classified as a hazardous waste (unless approved by contract).
(5) 
Any waters or wastes having a pH lower than 6.0 or higher than 9.0 or displaying any other corrosive property capable of causing damage or hazard to structures, equipment and/or personnel of the plant.
(6) 
Any water or wastes at a flow rate and/or pollutant level which is excessive over relatively short periods or classified as a slug load, which are sufficient in the opinion of the borough with advice of its consulting engineers to cause hydraulic overload, interference and/or loss of treatment efficiency in the POTW.
(7) 
Solid or viscous substances capable of impairing the hydraulic capacity of the sewer system, or causing interference with the proper operation of the POTW, such as, but not limited to: grease, garbage with particles greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension, ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags, feathers, tar, wood, unground garbage, whole blood, paunch manure, hair and fleshing, animal entrails or tissues, paper dishes, cups, milk containers, plastics, inert materials, garden refuse, spent lime, grass clippings, asphalt residues, and polishing wastes.
(8) 
Any noxious or malodorous liquids, gases, or solids which either singly or by interactions with other wastes are sufficient to create a public nuisance or hazard to life or are sufficient to prevent entry into the public sewers for normal maintenance and repair purposes.
(9) 
Any substances which may cause the POTW effluent or any other product of the POTW, such as residues, sludges, or scums, to be unsuitable for reclamation and reuse, or to detrimentally affect solids processing or interfere with the reclamation process where the POTW is pursuing a reuse and reclamation program. In no case shall a substance discharged to the POTW cause the POTW to be in noncompliance with sludge use or disposal criteria, guidelines, or regulations developed under Section 405 of the Act and criteria, guidelines, or regulations affecting sludge use or disposal development pursuant to the Solid Waste Disposal Act, the Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act, or state criteria applicable to the sludge management methods being utilized or implemented.
(10) 
Any liquid or vapor having a temperature higher than 150º F. (65º C.) or in such quantity that the temperature of influent at the sewage treatment plant exceeds 104º F. (40º C.).
(11) 
Any water or wastes containing fats, wax, grease, or oils in excess of 100 mg/l or containing substances which may solidify or become viscous at temperatures between 32º and 150º F. (0º and 65º C.)
(12) 
Any liquid containing strong acid iron or similar pickling wastes, or concentrated plating or stripping solutions and residues.
(13) 
Any waters or wastes containing iron, chromium, copper, nickel, zinc, and similar heavy metals, phenols, or toxic/hazardous substances as defined in Section 311(b)(4) of the Act, similar substances subject to EPA toxicity testing procedures, and/or those which may be subsequently declared for mandatory exclusion or pretreatment via State of Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources pretreatment regulations or Categorical Standards, promulgated by the EPA in accordance with Section 307(b) and (c) of the Act, pursuant to federal regulation 40 CFR 403 in quantities exceeding values experienced with normal domestic sewage.
(14) 
Any water or wastes containing color in excess of 150 true color units; subject, however, to limits of direct dilution capabilities of the public sewer system as the borough may determine with the advice of the Borough Engineer and the State of Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources in order to protect the receiving waters.
(15) 
Any waters or wastes exceeding the average strengths and composition of sanitary sewage as defined herein, except by borough-issued permit.
(16) 
Any waters or wastes containing radioactive materials or isotypes of such half-life or concentration as may exceed limits set by the borough in compliance with applicable state/federal regulations as now, or hereinafter, in effect.
(17) 
Waters or wastes containing any substances which are not amenable to treatment or biological reduction by the POTW process employed, or are amenable to treatment only to such degree that the sewage treatment plant effluent cannot meet the requirements of regulatory agencies having jurisdiction for establishment and enforcement of effluent quality limitations for POTW discharges to receiving waters.
(18) 
Any waters or wastes specifically or categorically:
(a) 
25.0 mg/l Aluminum (total).
(b) 
5.0 mg/l Arsenic (total).
(c) 
100.0 mg/l Barium (total).
(d) 
1.3 mg/l Cadmium (total).
(e) 
4.0 mg/l Chrome (total).
(f) 
3.0 mg/l Copper (total).
(g) 
5.0 mg/l Cyanide (total).
(h) 
5.0 mg/l Iron (total).
(i) 
2.0 mg/l Lead (total).
(j) 
1.0 mg/l Mercury (total).
(k) 
4.0 mg/l Nickel (total).
(l) 
15.0 mg/l Phenolic compounds which cannot be removed by the borough's wastewater treatment processes.
(m) 
15.0 mg/l Phosphates.
(n) 
1.0 mg/l Selenium (total).
(o) 
5.0 mg/l Silver (total).
(p) 
2.0 mg/l Tin (total).
(q) 
3.0 mg/l Zinc (total).
(r) 
100.0 mg/l fats, oils and grease.
A. 
Special agreements. No statement contained in these regulations shall be construed as preventing any special agreement or arrangement between the borough and any industrial user whereby compatible industrial waste discharges of unusual strength or character may be accepted by the borough for treatment, subject to borough-stipulated capital and usage changes by the industrial user. However, in no instance will a waiver be granted by the borough which would result in a violation of any federal, general, or categorical pretreatment standard or prohibition then in effect or subsequently promulgated.
B. 
Waivers. The borough does reserve the right to grant a waiver to any person for any specific limit contained in § 205-17B(1) through (18), when it can be demonstrated by the industrial user to the satisfaction of state/federal regulatory agencies of jurisdiction that such waiver will not result in contravention of state receiving water quality standards, violation of any of the remaining prohibited discharges as set forth in said § 205-17B(1) through (18), cause interference of the borough's POTW facilities, or adversely impact on borough sludge disposal. The following factors may be used in granting waivers:
(1) 
Compliance with the limit would result in a removal cost wholly out of proportion to the environmental benefits achieved.
Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources, United States Environmental Protection Agency and the borough's designated agents, manager, employees, building sewer inspector(s) and/or borough engineers, bearing proper credentials and identification, shall be permitted to enter all properties for purposes of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, and testing in accordance with the provisions of this regulation. However, no state, federal, or borough representative is with authorization to inquire into any proprietary processes including, but not necessarily limited to, metallurgical, chemical, oil refining, ceramic, fruit processing, paper, or other industries, beyond that point having a direct bearing on the kind, source, quantity, and qualities of waste discharges to the public sanitary sewers for waste treatment by the borough POTW.
Any person or party violating any of the provisions of this regulation shall, upon conviction before a District Magistrate having jurisdiction, be subject to a fine or penalty of not less than $25 nor more than $500 for each offense, to be collected as fines or penalties as recoverable by law, and whenever such person or party shall have been notified in writing by the borough or by the service of a summons in a prosecution that they are violating a provision of this regulation, each day that such person or party will continue such violation after such notice shall constitute a separate offense punishable by a like fine or penalty. In addition to fines or penalties imposed, persons or parties violating any provision of this regulation shall pay attorneys' fees and related expenses of litigation incurred by the borough in conjunction with appropriate suit(s) at law against such persons or parties found to have violated this regulation or any provision hereof.