[Added 9-23-1980 by L.L. No. 7-1985]
The Village of Croton-on-Hudson and all users
of the village's sanitary sewer system shall be subject to all applicable
rules and regulations contained in Chapter 824 of the Laws of Westchester
County.
No person shall discharge into any public sewer
of the Village of Croton-on-Hudson any waste, substance or waters
other than such kinds or types of waters or water-carried wastes for
the conveyance of which the particular public sewer is intended, designed
or provided.
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged
any stormwater, surface water, drainage water, swimming pool drain
water, cooling water, airconditioning and refrigerating wastewaters
or unpolluted industrial process waters to any sanitary sewer.
Stormwater and all other unpolluted drainage
or uncontaminated process water in excessive quantities shall be discharged
to storm sewers or to a natural outlet. Such waters shall be discharged
only after approval of any local, county or state regulatory agency
having jurisdiction.
Except as hereinafter provided, no person shall
discharge or cause to be discharged any of the following described
waters or wastes to any public sewer:
A.
Any liquid or vapor having a temperature higher than
150º F.
B.
Any water or waste which may contain more than 100
mg/l by weight of fat, oil, wax or grease or containing other substances
which may solidify or become viscous at temperatures between 32º
F. and 150º F.
C.
Any gasoline, benzene, naphtha, alcohol, tar, fuel
oil or other flammable or explosive liquid, solid, gas or vapor.
D.
Any garbage except properly shredded garbage. The
installation and operation of any garbage grinder equipped with a
motor of 3/4 horsepower or greater shall be subject to the review
and approval of the Superintendent.
E.
Any ashes, cinders, stones, sand, mud, straw, shavings
or sawdust, metal, sticks, coarse rubbish, glass, rags, tar, feathers,
plastics, waste rubber, animal guts or tissues, entrails, blood, hair,
hides, wood, paunch manure or any other substance likely to damage,
destroy or cause an obstruction to the flow in any sewer or which
may interfere with the proper operation of the sewage works.
F.
Any waters or wastes containing a toxic, poisonous
or radioactive substance in sufficient quantity to injure or interfere
with any sewage treatment process or to constitute a hazard to humans,
animals or marine life or create any hazard in the receiving waters.
Radioactive wastes or materials may be discharged into a public sewer
if Conditions I and II below are met and if either Condition III or
IV is also met, provided that such discharges are in compliance with
applicable state or federal regulations.
(1)
Condition I: Such wastes must be readily soluble or
dispersible in water.
(2)
Condition II: The gross quantity of all radioactive
materials so discharged must not exceed one curie per year.
(3)
Condition III: The daily quantity of any radioactive
material, if diluted by the average daily volume of sewage discharged
into the system from the installation, must not exceed the maximum
concentrations allowed by regulations of the United States Atomic
Energy Commission.
(4)
Condition IV: Daily quantities of radioactive materials
up to the maximum permitted by the United States Atomic Energy Commission
may be so discharged, provided that the total monthly quantities,
if diluted by the average monthly volume of sewage discharged from
the installation, do not exceed the concentrations permissible under
Condition III above.
G.
Any waters, sewage or wastes having a pH lower than
5.0 or higher than 9.5 or having any other corrosive or detrimental
property capable of causing damage or hazard to the sewage works or
personnel.
H.
Any noxious, malodorous or taste-producing gas, vapor
or substance, such as phenols, capable of creating a public or private
nuisance or which may prove toxic to sewage treatment processes or
which may exceed acceptable limits for discharge to receiving waters.
I.
Materials which exert or cause:
(1)
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).
(2)
Excessive discoloration (such as, but not limited
to, dye wastes and vegetable tanning solutions).
(3)
Unusual BOD, suspended solids, chemical oxygen demand
or chlorine requirements in such quantities as to constitute a significant
load on the sewage treatment works.
(4)
Unusual volume of flow or concentration of wastes
constituting slugs, as defined herein.
J.
Waters or wastes containing substances which are not
amenable to treatment or reduction by the sewage treatment processes
employed or are amenable to treatment only to such degree that the
sewage treatment plant effluent cannot meet the requirements of other
agencies having jurisdiction over discharge to the receiving waters.
A.
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 § 191-18 and which 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 village may:
(1)
Reject the wastes;
(2)
Require pretreatment to an acceptable condition for
discharge to the public sewers;
(3)
Require control over the quantities and rates of discharge;
and/or
(4)
Require payment to cover the added cost of handling
and treating the wastes not covered by existing taxes or sewer charges.
B.
If the village permits the pretreatment or equalization
of waste flows, the design and installation of the plants and equipment
shall be subject to the review and approval of the village and of
any or all state regulatory agencies having jurisdiction, and no construction
of such facilities shall be commenced until said approvals are obtained
in writing.
In determining whether any waste discharged
or proposed to be discharged into any public sewer is to be excluded,
consideration will be given to the quantity, time or times, rate and
manner of discharge, dilution and character of the waste in question,
the size of the sewer into which the waste is to be discharged, the
probable quantity of sewage or other wastes likely in said sewer and
other pertinent facts. Minute quantities of a waste which would be
objectionable in larger quantity may be accepted if sufficiently diluted
when and as discharged or if the quantity discharged is small as compared
with the flow in the receiving sewer, but any permission to discharge
minute quantities of an otherwise excluded waste shall be revocable
at any time by the village.
A.
At all premises where wastes or substances specified
to be excluded from public sewers by these regulations are present
and likely to be discharged directly or indirectly into said sewers,
suitable and sufficient piping layouts, oil, grease, sand, flammable
waste traps or separators, screens, setting tanks, diluting devices,
storage or regulating chambers, treatment, cooling or other equipment
and devices shall be provided. These shall be maintained and properly
operated by the owner of the premises or his agent at his expense
to ensure that no waste or substance is discharged in violation of
the requirements of these regulations.
B.
On premises where wastes or substances specified to
be excluded from public sewers are present, the village may require
the owner to provide, operate and maintain, at his expense, a sampling
well or wells, flow-measuring devices, manholes or other appurtenances,
all readily accessible, on the building sewer or drain from said premises
near the point where said sewer or drain connects to the public sewer.
By means of said sampling well or wells, flow-measuring devices or
other appurtenances, the village or any public officer having legal
jurisdiction may secure samples of or examine the wastes being discharged
into the public sewer for the purpose of determining compliance or
noncompliance with the requirements of these regulations.
C.
The village shall have the right to enter and inspect
any part of the premises served by public sewers upon which there
may be reason to believe that violations of the requirements of these
regulations have occurred or are likely to occur for the purpose of
ascertaining the facts as to such violation or suspected violation
or of obtaining samples of wastes or of inspecting flow-measuring
devices or treatment facilities provided to prevent prohibited discharges.
No wastewaters or substances which are excluded
from sanitary sewers shall be discharged into any storm sewer.
All measurements, tests and analyses of the
characteristics of waters and wastes to which reference is made in
this section shall be determined in accordance with Standard Methods
for the Examination of Water and Sewage. 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 sewer to the point
at which the building sewer is connected.
No statement contained on this section shall
be construed as preventing any special agreement or arrangement between
the village and any industrial concern whereby an industrial waste
of unusual strength of character may be accepted by the village for
treatment, subject to payment therefor by the industrial concern.
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged
into any public sewer, either directly or indirectly, any overflow
or effluent from a septic tank, cesspool, subsurface drainage trench,
bed or filter or other receptacle storing organic waste.
