Any person desiring to make a connection to the sewerage system or desiring to increase or otherwise change the composition of industrial process wastewater shall apply to the Secretary of the Delanco Sewerage Authority for an industrial discharge permit in accordance with the requirements of this chapter and in accordance with an application form approved by the Authority.
No person shall discharge, cause to be discharged or allow discharge of industrial wastes into the sewerage system without having first obtained a permit to do so. In violation hereof, said person is subject to Article VII, Enforcement Procedures, and costs as provided by Article VIII.
[Amended 1-9-2007 by Res. No. 2007-02]
Where in the opinion of the Authority sewage and other waste of deleterious character or adversely affect the collection system or the treatment processes, the Authority reserves the right to surcharge the person causing, allowing or otherwise permitting the discharge thereof into the sewerage system the added operating and treatment costs occasioned thereby and may terminate serve to said person and/or require such sewage and waste to be treated by said person to remove or neutralize the objectionable substances or unduly high concentrations or substances before discharge into the system. The surcharge for treatment of waste referred in this section shall be based upon the following formula:
Surcharge percentage =
33 (BOD* in mg/l / .300) + 33 (TSS* in mg/l / 300) + 34 (oil and grease* in mg/l/50)
* Where the actual concentrations are less than 300 mg/l for BOD or TSS and 50 mg/l for oil and grease, the value in the parentheses shall be equal to 1.