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
150° F. (65° C.).
B.
Any waters or wastes which contain grease or oil or
other substances that will solidify or become discernibly viscous
at temperatures between 32° F. and 150° F.
C.
Any waters or wastes containing emulsified oil and
grease exceeding an average of 50 parts per million gallons ether-soluble
matter.
D.
Any gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil or mineral
oil or other flammable or explosive liquid, solid or gas.
E.
Any noxious or malodorous gas such as hydrogen sulfide,
sulfur dioxide or nitrous oxide or other substance, which either singly
or by interaction with other wastes, is capable of creating a public
nuisance or hazard to life or of preventing entry into sewers for
their maintenance and repair.
F.
Any garbage that has not been properly pulverized
or ground to fine powder.
G.
Any ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal,
glass, rags, feathers, tar, plastic, wood, paunch manure, hair and
fleshings, entrails, lime, residues, beer and distillery slops, chemical
residue, paint residues, cannery waste, bulk solids or any other solid
or viscous substance capable of causing obstruction to the flow of
the sewers or other interference with the proper operation of the
sewage system.
H.
Any waters or wastes, acid and alkaline in reaction,
having corrosive properties capable of causing damage or hazard to
structures, equipment and personnel of the sewage system; free acids
and alkalis must be neutralized at all times within a permissible
pH range of 6.0 to 9.0.
I.
Any long half-life (over 100 days) of toxic radioactive
isotopes without a special permit.
J.
Any waters or wastes that, for a duration of 15 minutes, have a concentration greater than five times the average of that of normal sanitary sewage, as defined in Subsection M of this section, as measured by suspended solids and BOD and/or which is discharged continuously at a rate exceeding 1,000 gallons per minute, except by special permit.
K.
Any stormwater, roof drains, spring water, cistern
or tank overflow, cellar or footing drains, discharge from any vehicle
rack or motor or the contents of any privy vault, holding tank, septic
tank or cesspool or the discharge of effluent from any air-conditioning
machine or refrigeration unit.
L.
Any waters or wastes containing a toxic or poisonous
substance, a high chlorine demand or suspended solids in sufficient
quantity to injure or interfere with any sewage treatment process,
constitute a hazard to humans or animals or create any hazard in the
receiving waters or the effluent of the Town's sewage treatment plant.
Such toxic substances shall be limited to the average concentrations
listed hereinafter in the sewage. If concentrations listed are exceeded,
individual establishments will be subject to control in volume and
concentration by the Engineer.
M.
Normal sanitary sewage shall be construed to fall
within the following ranges at the effluent of the industrial plant
in question:
|
Constituents
|
Normal Range
(parts per million)
| |
|---|---|---|
|
Suspended solids
|
180 to 350
| |
|
BOD
|
140 to 300
| |
|
Chlorine demand
|
5 to 15
|
N.
Any natural gas and oil production by-products.
[Added 11-15-2012 by L.L. No. 3-2012]
A.
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. The
Superintendent shall require grease interceptors on all restaurants
and food processing establishments. A periodic inspection of these
interceptors shall be made by the Superintendent at least four times
per year.
B.
In the maintaining of these interceptors, the owner(s)
shall be responsible for the proper removal and disposal by appropriate
means of the captured material and shall maintain records of the dates
and means of disposal and a copy of the receipt provided by the industrial
waste hauler indicating the waste transported and the location of
the disposal, as required by the regulations of the New York State
Department of Environmental Conservation, which are subject to review
by the Town. Any removal and hauling of the collected materials must
be performed by state-licensed waste disposal firms. All restaurants
and food handling or processing facilities shall install and maintain
such interceptor and removal facilities. Failure to maintain and provide
the records to the Town shall be presumptive evidence of noncompliance
with this provision.
No person shall cause the discharge of slugs
to the POTW. Each person discharging into the POTW greater than 10,000
gallons per day or greater than 5% of the average daily flow in the
POTW, whichever is lesser, shall install and maintain, on his property
and at his expense, a suitable storage and flow control facility to
ensure equalization of flow over a twenty-four-hour period unless
exempted by the Superintendent of Sewers. The facility shall have
a capacity for at least 50% of the daily discharge volume and shall
be equipped with alarms and a rate of discharge controller, the regulation
of which shall be directed by the Superintendent. A wastewater discharge
permit may be issued solely for flow equalization.
The admission into the public sewers of any
waters or wastes having a five-day biochemical oxygen demand greater
than 300 parts per million by weight, containing more than 350 parts
per million by weight of suspended solids, containing more than 15
parts per million of chlorine demand, containing any quantity of substances
having the characteristics above the previously described limits or
having an average daily flow greater than 2% of the average daily
sewage flow of the Town shall be subject to the review and approval
of the Engineer. Where necessary, in the opinion of the Engineer,
the owner shall provide, at his expense, such preliminary treatment
as may be necessary to reduce the solids to 350 parts per million
by weight, reduce the chlorine demand to 15 parts per million, reduce
objectionable characteristics or constituents to within the maximum
limits provided for or control the quantities and rates of discharge
of such waters or wastes.
A.
Plans, specifications and any other pertinent information
relating to proposed preliminary treatment facilities shall be submitted
for the approval of the Engineer and of the New York State Department
of Environmental Conservation, and no construction of such facilities
shall be commenced until said approvals are obtained in writing.
B.
Where preliminary treatment facilities are provided
for any waters or wastes, they shall be maintained continuously in
satisfactory and effective operation by the owner at his expense.
All measurements, tests and analyses of the
characteristics of waters and wastes to which reference is made shall
be determined in accordance with Ulster County Health Department Methods
of Examination of Water and Sewage upon suitable samples taken at
control manholes provided for above. 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 in this article shall
be construed as preventing any special agreement or arrangement between
the Town and any industrial concern whereby an industrial waste of
unusual strength or character may be accepted by the Town for treatment,
subject to payment therefor by the industrial concern.
