All establishments which produce industrial wastes and who propose
to connect to or discharge into any part of the wastewater treatment
system must first obtain a discharge permit prior to any connection
or discharge to any part of the wastewater treatment system.
Wastewater discharge permits shall be expressly subject to all
provisions of this Part 2 and all other regulations, user charges
and fees established by the City. The conditions of wastewater discharge
permits shall be uniformly enforced in accordance with this Part 2
and applicable state and federal regulations. Permit conditions will
include the following:
A. The unit charge or schedule of user charges and fees for the wastewater
to be discharged to the system.
B. The average and maximum wastewater constituents and characteristics.
C. Limits on rate and time of discharge or requirements for flow regulations
and equalization.
D. Requirements for installation of inspection and sampling facilities,
and specifications for monitoring programs.
E. Requirements for maintaining and submitting technical reports and
plant records relating to wastewater discharges.
F. Daily average and daily maximum discharge rates or other appropriate
conditions when pollutants subject to limitations and prohibitions
are proposed or present in the user's wastewater discharge.
H. All reports shall contain the following certification:
I certify under penalty of law that this document and all attachments
were prepared under my direction or supervision in accordance with
a system designed to assure that the qualified personnel properly
gather and evaluate the information submitted. Based on my inquiry
of the person or persons who manage the system, or those persons directly
responsible for gathering the information, the information submitted
is to the best of my knowledge and belief, true, accurate, and complete.
I am aware that there are significant penalties for submitting false
information, including the possibility of fine and imprisonment for
knowing violations.
I. The 90 day compliance report for new discharges shall contain the
certification statement found in 40 CFR 403.12(b)(6), a statement
indicating whether pretreatment standards are met.
J. All reports must be signed by the appropriate official as defined
in 40 CFR 403.12(1).
K. Requirements to control Slug Discharges, including the development
of a Slug Control Plan, if determined by the POTW to be necessary.
L. Other conditions to ensure compliance with this Part 2.
Wastewater discharge permits are issued to a specific user for
a specific operation. A wastewater discharge permit shall not be reassigned
or transferred or sold to a new owner, new user, different premises
or a new or changed operation.
Any user who violates the following conditions of his permit
or of this Part 2 or of applicable state and federal regulations is
subject to having his permit revoked. Violations subjecting a user
to possible revocation of his permit include, but are not limited
to, the following:
A. Failure of a user to accurately report the wastewater constituents
and characteristics of his discharge;
B. Failure of the user to report significant changes in operations or
wastewater constituents and characteristics prior to changing the
discharge;
C. Refusal of reasonable access to the user's premises for the
purpose of inspection or monitoring;
D. Violation of conditions of the permit; or
E. Failure of the user to report permit violations in accordance with §
177-62.
The City Engineer may use, as the figure representing the number of cubic feet and/or gallons of sewage discharged into the sewer system the amount of water supplied to the premises by the City or if such premises are used for an industrial or commercial purpose of such nature that the water supplied to the premises cannot be entirely discharged into the sewer system made by the City Engineer or the number of cubic feet of sewage discharged into the sewer system as determined by measurements and samples taken at a manhole installed by the owner of the property served by the public sewer system, at his own expense, in accordance with the terms and conditions of the permit issued by the City Engineer pursuant to §
177-11 of these rules and regulations.
In the event that the pollutant concentration of the waste discharged
from a premise to a public sewer is disputed by a person, a program
of resampling and gauging with subsequent chemical determination may
be instituted as follows:
A. The person must submit a request for resampling and gauging of the
wastes to the City Engineer and bind himself to bear all of the expenses
incurred by the City in the resampling and gauging and subsequent
analysis of the wastes.
B. A consultant or agency of recognized professional standing in the
employment of the person must confer with representatives of the City
in order that an agreement may be reached as to the various factors
which must be considered in a new sampling program.
C. The consultant or agency of recognized professional standing employed
by the person must be present or represented during the resampling
operation.
D. Resampling must be performed when all waste producing processes are
contributing wastes of normal concentrations at their normal rate.
E. The results of the resampling and the reanalysis in a laboratory
designated by the City Engineer shall be considered to be the current
analysis of the wastes discharged to the public sewer system and shall
be used for determining the surcharge and/or acceptability of the
wastes.