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 public sanitary
sewer.
Grease, oil and sand interceptors shall be provided when, in the opinion
of the Superintendent, they are necessary for the proper handling of liquid
wastes containing grease in excessive amounts or any flammable wastes, sand
or other harmful ingredients, except that such interceptors shall not be required
for private living quarters or dwelling units. All interceptors shall be of
a type and capacity approved by the Superintendent and shall be located as
to be readily and easily accessible for cleaning and inspection.
When preliminary treatment or flow-equalizing facilities are provided
for any waters or wastes, they shall be maintained continuously in satisfactory
and effective operation by the owner at his expense.
When required by the Superintendent, the owner of the property serviced
by a building sewer carrying industrial wastes shall install a suitable control
manhole, together with such necessary meters and other appurtenances in the
building sewer 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 Superintendent.
The manhole shall be installed by the owner at his 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 this chapter 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,
and shall be determined at the control manhole provided 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 downstream
manhole in the public sanitary sewer to the point at which the building sewer
is connected. Sampling 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. The particular analyses
involved will determine whether a twenty-four-hour composite of all outfalls
of a premise is appropriate or whether a grab sample or samples should be
taken. Normally, but not always, BOD and suspended solids analyses are obtained
from twenty-four-hour composites of all outfalls, whereas pH is determined
from periodic grab samples.
No statement contained in this article shall be construed as preventing
any special agreement or arrangement between the district and any industrial
concern whereby an industrial waste of unusual strength or character may be
accepted by the district for treatment subject to payment therefor by the
industrial concern.