A.
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged
any stormwater, surface water, groundwater, roof runoff, subsurface
drainage, uncontaminated cooling water or unpolluted industrial process
waters to any sanitary sewer. Existing facilities presently connected
to the combined sewers may remain until combined sewers become separated,
at which time they shall be disconnected.
B.
Stormwater and all other unpolluted drainage shall
be discharged to such sewers as are specifically designated as combined
sewage or storm sewers, or to a natural outlet approved by the City
Engineer. Industrial cooling water or unpolluted process waters may
be discharged, upon approval of the City Engineer, to a storm sewer,
combined sewer or natural outlet.
A.
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged
any of the following described waters or wastes to any public sewers:
(1)
Any gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil or other
flammable or explosive liquid, solid or gas.
(2)
Any waters or wastes containing toxic or poisonous
solids, liquids or gases in sufficient quantity, either singly or
by interaction with other wastes, which will injure or interfere with
any wastewater treatment process, constitute a hazard to humans or
animals, create a public nuisance, or create any hazard in the receiving
waters of the water pollution control plant effluent, including but
not limited to cyanides in excess of two (2) milligrams per liter
as CN in the wastes as discharged to the public sewer. However, the
discharge of some of these may be accepted conditionally by the City
Engineer.
(3)
Any waters or wastes having a pH lower than five point
five (5.5), or having a pH higher than nine point five (9.5), or having
any other corrosive property capable of causing damage or hazard to
structures, equipment or personnel of the sewage works.
(4)
Solid or viscous substances in quantities or of such
size capable of causing obstruction to the flow in sewers, or other
interference with the proper operation of the sewage works, such as
but not limited to ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal,
glass, rags, feathers, tar, plastics, wood, unground garbage, whole
blood, paunch manure, hair and fleshings, entrails and paper dishes,
cups, milk containers, etc., either whole or ground by garbage grinders.
B.
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged
the following-described substances, materials, waters or wastes if
it appears likely, in the opinion of the City Engineer, that such
wastes can harm either the sewers, sewage treatment process or equipment,
have an adverse effect on the receiving stream, or can otherwise endanger
life, limb or public property or constitute a nuisance. In forming
his opinion as the acceptability of these wastes, the City Engineer
will give consideration to such factors as the quantities of subject
wastes in relation to flows and velocities in the sewers, materials
of construction of the sewers, nature of the sewage treatment process,
capacity of the sewage treatment plant and other pertinent factors.
The substances prohibited in the first instance, but subject to review
by the City Engineer, are:
(1)
Any liquid or vapor having a temperature higher than
one hundred fifty degrees Fahrenheit (150 F.).
(2)
Any water or waste containing fats, wax, grease or
oils, whether emulsified or not, in excess of one hundred (100) milligrams
per liter or containing substances which may solidify or become viscous
at temperatures between thirty-two degrees and one hundred fifty degrees
Fahrenheit (32º and 150º F.).
(3)
Any garbage that has not been properly shredded. The
installation and operation of any garbage grinder equipped with a
motor of three-fourths (3/4) horsepower or greater shall be subject
to the review and approval of the City Engineer.
(4)
Any water or waste containing strong acid iron pickling
wastes or concentrated plating solutions, whether neutralized or not.
(5)
Any water or waste containing iron, chromium, copper,
zinc and similar objectionable or toxic substances unless their concentration
is reduced to a point that will not adversely affect any of the biochemical,
chemical or other sewage treatment processes. The concentration in
sewage of any of the toxic substances shall not exceed the concentrations
judged by the Director to be toxic to biological sewage treatment
processes or to the biota of the receiving waters.
(6)
Any water or waste containing phenols or other taste-
or odor-producing substances in such concentrations exceeding limits
which may be established by the Director as necessary, after treatment
of the sewage, to meet the requirements of the state, federal or other
public agencies or jurisdiction for such discharge to the receiving
waters.
(7)
Any radioactive wastes or isotopes of such half-life
or concentration as may exceed limits established by the City Engineer
or Director in compliance with applicable state or federal regulations.
(8)
Materials which exert or cause:
(a)
Unusual concentrations of inert suspended solids
(such as, but not limited to, fuller's earth, lime slurries and lime
residues) or of dissolved solids (such as, but not limited to, sodium
chloride and sodium sulfate).
(b)
Excessive discoloration (such as, but not limited
to, dye wastes and vegetable tanning solutions).
(c)
Unusual BOD, COD or chlorine requirements in
such quantities as to constitute a significant load on the sewage
treatment works.
(d)
Unusual volume of flow or concentration of wastes
constituting slugs, as defined herein.
If any waters or wastes are discharged or are proposed to be discharged to the public sewers, which waters contain the substances or possess the characteristics enumerated in § 299-26 herein, and which, in the judgment of the City Engineer and/or Director, may have a deleterious effect upon the sewage works, processes, equipment or receiving waters, or which otherwise create a hazard to life or constitute a public nuisance, the City Engineer and/or Director may:
A.
Reject the wastes;
B.
Require pretreatment to an acceptable condition for
discharge to the public sewers;
C.
Require control over the quantities and rates of discharge;
and/or
D.
Require payment to cover the added cost of handling
and treating the wastes not covered by existing taxes or sewer charges.
It shall be unlawful for any person to discharge, directly or indirectly, into public sewers or into any private sewer or any combined sewer discharging into a public sewer sewage combined with industrial wastes or other wastes, industrial wastes or other wastes the characteristics of which, at the point of discharge, exceed the concentration limits prescribed for normal sewage under § 299-2 herein, or fall within the categories prohibited under this article, except under the issuance of a permit therefor by the City Engineer and upon such terms and conditions as may be established by the City Engineer in the issuance of such permit.
A.
Each applicant for a permit to discharge sewage combined
with industrial wastes or other wastes into public sewers shall fill
out and file with the City Engineer an industrial sewer connection
application as a prerequisite for the consideration of such permit.
The following is a partial list of information to be furnished by
the applicant:
(1)
Plot plan of the property accurately showing all sewers,
drains and house connections or building sewers.
(2)
Plans and specifications covering any work proposed
to be performed under the permit.
(3)
A complete schedule of all process waters and industrial
wastes produced or expected to be produced at said property or premises,
including a description of the character of each waste, the daily
volume and maximum rated of discharge and representative analysis.
(4)
The name and address of the person or firm who or
which will be responsible for the performance of the work to be covered
by the permit and the name and address of the person or firm who or
which will be responsible for operating the facilities in accordance
with the terms and conditions of the permit.
B.
Terms and conditions as may be required and imposed
by the City Engineer in the issuance of the permit are as follows:
(1)
A limitation upon the volume of sewage and the rate
of flow permitted from the premises.
(2)
The installation and maintenance by the permittee,
at his own expense, of facilities or equipment for intermittent or
continuous measurement of sewage, industrial wastes or other wastes
discharged from the premises into the public sewer.
(3)
The installation and maintenance by the permittee,
at his own expense, of detention tanks or other facilities or equipment
for reducing the maximum rates of discharge of sewage to such a percentage
of the twenty-four-hour rate as may be required by the City Engineer.
(4)
The installation and maintenance by the permittee,
at his own expense, of such preliminary treatment facilities as may
be required by the City Engineer.
(5)
The installation and maintenance by the permittee,
at his own expense, of a suitable control or sampling manhole or manholes
in any sewer discharging to a public sewer for which a permit is issued.
(6)
The installation and maintenance by the permittee,
at his own expense, of grease, oil and sand interceptors, separators
or traps that are necessary for the proper handling of liquid wastes
containing such substances in excessive quantities or any flammable
waste or other harmful ingredients.
(7)
The submission to and approval of the City Engineer
of the plans for any of the facilities or equipment required to be
installed and maintained by the permittee.
(8)
Such other terms and conditions as may be necessary
to protect the sewer system and carry out the intent and provisions
of these rules and regulations.
(9)
Such terms and conditions may also provide that subsequent
to the commencement of operation of any preliminary treatment facilities,
periodic reports shall be made by the permittee to the City Engineer
setting forth adequate data upon which the acceptability of the sewage,
industrial wastes or other wastes, after treatment, may be determined.
(10)
Where preliminary treatment or flow-equalizing
facilities are provided for any water or wastes, they shall be maintained
continuously in satisfactory and effective operation by the permittee
at his expense.
(11)
A violation by the permittee of the permit shall
be a cause for revocation or suspension of the permit.
Whenever sewage, industrial wastes or other wastes having characteristics other than prescribed for normal sewage as defined in § 299-2 herein, or falling within the categories of waste prohibited from public sewers pursuant to these rules and regulations, are discharged into public sewers from any premises, the City Engineer and/or the Director shall have the right to take samples and tests as may be necessary to determine the nature and concentration of such wastes, and he shall have the right to reassess his determinations by taking samples and tests at any time or by periodic rechecks without notice to the person discharging such wastes.
A.
Normally, samples shall be taken and flow measurements
made at the control manhole or manholes.
B.
In the event that the requirement for a control manhole
or manholes has been specifically waived, the samples shall be taken
at a point or points to be selected by the City Engineer and/or Director.
When required by the City Engineer and/or the
Director, the owner of any property serviced by a building sewer carrying
industrial wastes shall install a suitable control manhole, together
with such meters and other appurtenances in the building sewer, as
are necessary to facilitate observation, sampling and measurement
of the wastes. Such manhole, when required, shall be accessibly and
safely located and shall be constructed in accordance with plans approved
by the City Engineer and/or Director. The manhole shall be installed
by the owner at his own expense and shall be maintained by him so
as to be safe and accessible at all times.
All measurements, tests and analyses of the
characteristics of waters and wastes to which reference is made in
these rules and regulations shall be determined in accordance with
the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water
and Wastewater, published by the American Public Health Association,
Inc., and shall be determined at the control manhole, or upon suitable
samples taken at said control manhole. In the event that no special
manhole has been required, the control manhole shall be considered
to be the nearest suitable one downstream in the public sewer at the
point at which the building sewer is connected. Samplings shall be
carried out by customarily accepted methods to reflect the effect
of constituents upon the sewage works and to determine the existence
of hazards to life, limb and property.
No unauthorized person shall maliciously, willfully
or negligently break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface or tamper with
any structure, appurtenance or equipment which is a part of the City
of Albany sewage system. Any person violating this provision shall
be subject to immediate arrest under charge of criminal tampering.
