City of Ithaca, NY
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2023-12-06
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The Code
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 264 Sewer Use
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Article IX Local Pollutant Limitations
- The Charter
- Ch C Charter
- The Code
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 4 Administration of Government
- Ch 5 (Reserved)
- Ch 6 Appearance Tickets
- Ch 7 Appointments, by Mayor and/or City Manager
- Ch 8 Advisory Commissions
- Ch 12 (Reserved)
- Ch 17 Cable Commission
- Ch 18 Cable Access Oversight Committee
- Ch 22 (Reserved)
- Ch 27 (Reserved)
- Ch 31 (Reserved)
- Ch 35 Continuity of Government
- Ch 39 Contracts
- Ch 42 Cyber Security Citizen Notification Policy
- Ch 45 (Reserved)
- Ch 47 Economic Development Zone
- Ch 48 Emergency Preparedness
- Ch 50 Energy Commission
- Ch 55 Ethics, Code of
- Ch 62 Housing Trust Fund
- Ch 68 Industrial Park Leasing Policy
- Ch 73 Landmarks Preservation Commission
- Ch 78 Meetings, Open
- Ch 86 (Reserved)
- Ch 90 Personnel
- Ch 95 (Reserved)
- Ch 100 (Reserved)
- Ch 103 Residency Requirements
- Ch 105 Room Occupancy Tax
- Ch 107 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 112 (Reserved)
- Ch 113 (Reserved)
- Ch 114 Natural Areas
- Ch 116 Traffic Violations Bureau
- Ch 118 Videoconferences
- Ch 120 Youth Council
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 128 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 132 Assemblies and Parades
- Ch 137 Bicycles
- Ch 139 Bingo
- Ch 141 Bridges
- Ch 146 Building Code Enforcement
- Ch 149 Business Improvement Districts
- Ch 152 Communications Technology
- Ch 155 Circuses and Carnivals
- Ch 157 Commons
- Ch 160 Design Review
- Ch 164 Dogs and Other Animals
- Ch 170 Use of City Real Property
- Ch 176 Environmental Quality Review
- Ch 177 Eviction for Illegal Drug Use and Possession
- Ch 178 Exterior Property Maintenance
- Ch 179 Fill, Excavation and Stockpiling
- Ch 181 Fire Prevention
- Ch 186 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 192 Games of Chance
- Ch 196 Garbage and Refuse
- Ch 201 Hazardous or Radioactive Materials
- Ch 206 Houses, Numbering of
- Ch 210 Housing Standards
- Ch 215 Human Rights Protection
- Ch 219 Hunting and Firearms
- Ch 228 Landmarks Preservation
- Ch 232 Licensing of Businesses and Occupations
- Ch 237 Newsracks
- Ch 240 Noise
- Ch 250 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 256 Records, Public Access to
- Ch 258 Rental Housing
- Ch 260 Residential Parking Permit System
- Ch 262 Sewers and Water, Intermunicipal
- Ch 264 Sewer Use
- Ch 264 Art IX Local Pollutant Limitations
- § 264-48 Purpose and applicability.
- § 264-49 Definitions.
- § 264-50 Specific pollutant limitations.
- § 264-51 Applicability of other requirements and prohibitions.
- Ch 268 Shopping Carts
- Ch 272 Signs
- Ch 276 Site Plan Review
- Ch 278 Skateboards
- Ch 280 Smoking, Outdoor
- Ch 282 Stormwater Management and Erosion and Sediment Control
- Ch 283 Stormwater Utility
- Ch 285 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 290 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 295 Swimming Pools
- Ch 300 Taxation
- Ch 306 Trees and Shrubs
- Ch 316 Vehicles, Recreational
- Ch 317 Vehicles, Removal of
- Ch 320 Watershed
- Ch 325 Zoning
- Part III: Board of Public Works Legislation
- Ch 329 General Provisions, Board of Public Works
- Ch 330 Business Operations
- Ch 331 Garbage, Trash and Weeds
- Ch 336 Parks and Recreation
- Ch 342 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 346 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 348 Water and Sewers
- Appendix
- Ch A351 Special Acts Table
- Ch A352 (Reserved)
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
A.
The purposes of this chapter are to set forth specific
discharge limitations (hereinafter referred to as "local limits")
to prevent pass-through and interference, to protect the safety and
health of workers at the Ithaca Area Wastewater Treatment Facility
(POTW), and to improve opportunities to recycle and reclaim municipal
and industrial wastewaters and sludges.
B.
This chapter shall apply to all users of the POTW
in the Towns of Ithaca and Dryden and City of Ithaca and to persons
who are, by resolution, agreement, contract, or permit with the municipalities,
Special Joint Committee, or POTW, users of the POTW.
The definitions set forth in § 264-3 of this chapter, as they may be revised from time to time, shall apply to the words in this article.
These local limits shall apply at each point
of discharge to the sewerage system. In no case shall a user's discharge
to the POTW violate the following specific limitations:
|
Pollutant
|
Maximum Concentration, 30-Day Average
(mg/l)
|
Maximum Concentration, 24-Hour Average
(mg/l)
|
|---|---|---|
|
Arsenic
|
0.6
| |
|
Barium
|
80
|
240
|
|
Cadmium
|
2.5
|
7.5
|
|
Chromium, total
|
8
|
24
|
|
Chromium, hexavalent
|
1
|
3
|
|
Copper
|
2
|
6
|
|
Cyanide
|
0.2
|
0.6
|
|
Iron
|
180
|
540
|
|
Lead
|
20
| |
|
Manganese
|
8
|
24
|
|
Mercury
|
1.5
|
4.5
|
|
Nickel
|
10
| |
|
Silver
|
6
|
18
|
|
Zinc
|
20
|
35
|
|
Pollutant
|
Discharge Limit, Instantaneous
(ppm)
| |
|---|---|---|
|
Oil and grease (petroleum-based)
|
50
|
All users further shall comply with all other
requirements and prohibitions regarding discharges to the POTW set
forth in the other local laws, including those specified in each municipality's
Sewer Use Requirements Law as it may be revised from time to time.
