All users of the POTW will comply with all standards and requirements
of the Act and standards and requirements promulgated pursuant to
the Act, including but not limited to 40 CFR Parts 406 through 471.
A.
No user shall contribute or cause to be contributed, in any manner
or fashion, directly or indirectly, any pollutant or wastewater which
will interfere with the operation or performance of the POTW. These
general prohibitions apply to all such users of a POTW whether or
not the user is subject to National Categorical Pretreatment Standards,
or any other national, state or local pretreatment standards or requirements.
B.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, a user may not
contribute the following substances to the POTW:
(1)
Any solids, liquids or gases which, by reason of their nature or
quantity, are or may be sufficient, either alone or by interaction
with other substances, to cause a fire or an explosion or be injurious,
in any way, to the POTW, or to the operation of the POTW. At no time
shall both of two successive readings on a flame-type explosion hazard
meter, at the point of discharge into the system (or at any other
point in the system) be more than 25% nor any single reading be more
than 40% of the lower explosive limit (LEL) of the meter. Unless explicitly
allowable by a written permit, prohibited materials include, but are
not limited to, gasoline, kerosene, naphtha, benzene, toluene, xylene,
ethers, alcohols, carbides, hydrides and sulfides and any other substance
which the Superintendent, the state or the EPA has determined to be
a fire hazard or hazard to the POTW.
(2)
Solid or viscous substances which may cause obstruction to the flow
in a sewer or otherwise interfere with the operation of the POTW.
Unless explicitly allowable by a written permit, such substances include,
but are not limited to, grease, garbage with particles greater than
1/2 inch in any dimension, animal guts or tissues, paunch manure,
bones, hair, hides or fleshings, entrails, whole blood, feathers,
ashes, cinders, sand, spent lime, stone or marble dust, metal, glass,
straw, shavings, grass clippings, rags, spent grains, spent hops,
wastepaper, wood, plastics, gas, tar asphalt residues, residues from
refining or processing fuel or lubricating oil, mud or glass or stone
grinding or polishing wastes.
(3)
Any wastewater having a pH less than 5.5 or greater than 9.0, or
wastewater having any other property capable of causing damage or
hazard to the POTW or its staff.
(4)
Any wastewater containing toxic pollutants in sufficient quantity,
either singly or by interaction with other pollutants (including heat),
to injure or interfere with any wastewater treatment process, constitute
a hazard to humans or animals, create a toxic effect in the receiving
waters of the POTW, or to exceed the limitation set forth in a categorical
pretreatment standard. A toxic pollutant shall include, but not be
limited to, any pollutant identified pursuant to § 307(A)
of the Act.
(5)
Any noxious or malodorous solids, liquids or gases which either singly
or by interaction with other wastes are sufficient to create a public
nuisance or a hazard to life or are sufficient to prevent entry into
the sewers for their maintenance or repair.
(6)
Oils and grease. Any commercial, institutional or industrial wastes
containing fats, waxes, grease or oils which become visible solids
when the wastes are cooled to 10° C. (50° F.); any petroleum
oil, nonbiodegradable cutting oil or products of mineral oil origin,
in excess of 100 mg/l or in amounts that will cause interference or
pass-through.
(7)
Any wastewater which will cause interference or pass-through.
(8)
Any wastewater with objectionable color which is not removed in the
treatment process, such as, but not limited to, dye wastes and vegetable
tanning solutions.
(9)
Any solid, liquid, vapor or gas having a temperature higher than
65° C. (150° F.); however, such materials shall not cause
the POTW treatment plant influent temperature to be greater than 40°
C. (104° F.). The Superintendent reserves the right, in certain
instances, to prohibit or limit the discharge of wastes whose maximum
temperatures are lower than 65° C.
(10)
Unusual flow rate or concentration of wastes, constituting slugs,
except by industrial wastewater permit.
(11)
Any wastewater containing any radioactive wastes, except as
approved by the Superintendent, and in compliance with applicable
state and federal regulations.
(12)
Any wastewater which causes a hazard to human life or which
creates a public nuisance, either by itself or in combination, in
any way, with other wastes.
(13)
Any wastewater with a closed cup flashpoint of less than 140°
F. or 60° C. using the test methods specified in 40 CFR 261.21.
(14)
Any pollutants which result in the presence of toxic gases,
vapors or fumes within the POTW in a quantity that may cause acute
worker health and safety problems.
A.
No person shall discharge, directly or indirectly, into the POTW,
wastewater containing substances in concentrations exceeding those
listed below, on either a daily or an instantaneous basis, except
by permit. Concentration limits are applicable to wastewater effluents
at the point just prior to discharge into the POTW (end-of-pipe concentrations).
[Amended 11-15-2021 by L.L. No. 2-2021]
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Effluent Concentration Limits - (mg/l)
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|---|---|---|
|
Substance (1)
|
Allowable Average Daily (2)
|
Allowable Maximum Instantaneous (3)
|
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Arsenic
|
0.05
|
0.10
|
|
Cadmium
|
0.5
|
0.5
|
|
Chlorides
|
10
|
20
|
|
Chromium (hex)
|
0.05
|
0.05
|
|
Chromium (tot)
|
0.10
|
0.10
|
|
Copper
|
0.50
|
0.50
|
|
Cyanide (total)
|
0.10
|
0.10
|
|
Iodine
|
5.0
|
5.0
|
|
Lead
|
0.20
|
0.20
|
|
Mercury
|
0.00005
|
0.00005
|
|
Nickel
|
0.25
|
0.25
|
|
Phenols, total
|
1.0
|
2.0
|
|
Sulfides
|
5.0
|
10.0
|
|
Zinc
|
0.05
|
0.10
|
|
NOTES:
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|
(1)
|
Except for chromium (hex), all concentrations listed for metallic
substances shall be as "total metal," which shall be defined as the
value measured in a sample acidified to a pH value of 2 or less, without
prior filtration.
|
|
(2)
|
As determined on a composite sample taken from the user's daily
discharge over a typical operational and/or production day.
|
|
(3)
|
As determined on a grab sample taken from the user's discharge
at any time during the daily operational and/or production period.
|
B.
Other substances which may be limited are: alkalis, alkenes and alkynes;
aliphatic and aromatic alcohols and acids; aliphatic and aromatic
aldehydes and ketones; aliphatic and aromatic esters; aliphatic and
aromatic halogenated compounds; aliphatic and aromatic nitro, cyano
and amino compounds; antibiotics; benzene derivatives; chemical compounds
which, upon acidification, alkalinization, oxidation or reduction,
in the discharge or after admixture with wastewater and its components
in the POTW, produce toxic, flammable, or explosive compounds; pesticides,
including algicides, fungicides, herbicides, insecticides, rodenticides,
phthalates; polyaromatic and polynuclear hydrocarbons; total toxic
organics, TTO, as defined in 40 CFR 433.11; toxic organic compounds
regulated by federal pretreatment standards; unsaturated aliphatics,
including those with an aldehyde, ketone or nitrile functional group;
and/or viable pathogenic organisms from industrial processes or hospital
procedures.
A.
At no time shall the influent to the POTW contain quantities in excess
of those specified below.
|
Maximum Allowable POTW Influent Loading
| |
|---|---|
|
Pollutant Parameter
|
Pounds Per Day
(unless noted otherwise)
|
|
Arsenic
|
0.21
|
|
Cadmium
|
2.09
|
|
Chlorides
|
375.0
|
|
Chromium (hex)
|
0.21
|
|
Chromium (tot)
|
0.42
|
|
Copper
|
2.09
|
|
Cyanide (total)
|
0.42
|
|
Iodine
|
20.85
|
|
Lead
|
0.83
|
|
Mercury
|
0.21
|
|
Nickel
|
1.04
|
|
Phenols (total)
|
104.3
|
|
Sulfide
|
41.70
|
|
Zinc
|
0.63
|
|
Benzene
|
0.58
|
|
Ethylbenzene
|
6.26
|
|
Naphthalene
|
8.34
|
|
Pentachlorophenol
|
2.09
|
|
Toluene
|
4.17
|
|
Trichlorophenol -2,4,6
|
104.3
|
|
Xylene
|
8.34
|
|
B.O.D.
|
2,290
|
|
Suspended Solids
|
2,750
|
|
C.O.D.
|
4,000.0
|
|
Ammonia (as N)
|
200
|
|
TKN
|
300
|
|
Flow (monthly average) (million gallons per day)
|
1.20
|
B.
The Superintendent shall determine the total allowable influent load
of each substance from significant industrial users.
(1)
In determining the total load of each substance that significant
industrial users shall be allowed to discharge, the Superintendent
shall consider:
(a)
The quantities of each substance that are uncontrollable because
they occur naturally in wastewater;
(b)
The quantities of each substance that are anthropogenic but
are nonetheless uncontrollable;
(c)
Historical discharge trends;
(d)
Past pollution control efforts of each significant industrial
user as compared to other significant industrial dischargers of the
same substance;
(e)
Potential for growth in the POTW service area;
(f)
Potential for more restrictive regulatory requirements to be
placed on the POTW discharge or sludge disposal or sludge reuse method;
and
(g)
Treatability of the substance.
(2)
The Superintendent shall apply a minimum 15% safety factor to be
protective of the POTW.
C.
To assure that the total loads so calculated, for each substance,
are not violated, the Superintendent shall issue permits to significant
industrial users limiting discharge loads.
A.
Limitations on wastewater strength or mass discharge contained in
this chapter may be supplemented with more stringent limitations when,
in the opinion of the Superintendent:
(1)
The limitations in this chapter are not sufficient to protect the
POTW;
(2)
The limitations in this chapter are not sufficient to enable the
POTW treatment plant to comply with applicable water quality standards
or the effluent limitations specified in the POTW's SPDES permit;
(3)
The POTW sludge will be rendered unacceptable for disposal or reuse
as the Village desires, as a result of discharge of wastewaters at
the above-prescribed concentration limitations;
(4)
Municipal employees or the public will be endangered; or
(5)
Air pollution and/or groundwater pollution will be caused.
B.
The limitations on wastewater strength or mass discharge shall be
periodically re-evaluated by the Superintendent. The results of these
evaluations shall be reported to the Fonda Fultonville Joint Sewer
Board and each Village Board. This chapter shall then be amended appropriately.
Any issued industrial wastewater discharge permits, which have limitations,
based directly on any limitations, which were changed, shall be revised
and amended, as appropriate.
The Superintendent shall have the authority to copy any record
related to wastewater discharges to the POTW.
Except where expressly authorized to do so by an applicable
pretreatment standard, no user shall ever increase the use of process
water or, in any other way, attempt to dilute a discharge as a partial
or complete substitute for adequate treatment to achieve compliance
with a pretreatment standard. Dilution flow shall be considered to
be inflow.
[Amended 1-19-2021 by Res. No. 01-04-2021]
A.
Grease,
oil and sand interceptors shall be provided when, in the opinion of
the Superintendent, they are necessary for the proper handling of
wastewater discharges from sewer users that may contain excessive
amounts of grease, flammable substances, oil (mineral or vegetable),
sand or other similarly potentially harmful substances. Such sewer
users shall include, but not be limited to, motor vehicle maintenance
shops and washing facilities, food service shops including butchers,
delicatessens, bakeries and diners, except that such interceptors
shall generally not be required for private living quarters or living
units. All interceptors shall be of type and capacity approved by
the Superintendent and shall be so located as to be easily accessible
for cleaning and inspection. Such interceptors shall be provided,
inspected, cleaned, maintained and repaired by the owner, at his expense.
Each such owner shall maintain records of periodic cleanings and,
where specifically requested by the Superintendent, shall provide
suitable documentation of periodic cleanings satisfactory to the Superintendent.
B.
The Village
will establish a list of businesses that fall under this category.
C.
The Village
will send a letter and a copy of code to all businesses on the list.
D.
The Village
Code Enforcement Officer shall inspect all businesses on the list
annually or as necessary.
E.
All businesses
must follow DOH guidelines and meet Village and state code.
Sewage or wastes from solid waste grinders serving commercial
establishments, institutions or industries shall not discharge into
the POTW if there is a combined sewer overflow (CSO) on the sewer
lines conveying the waste to the POTW treatment plant.
The Superintendent may reject a user's wastewater upon determination that the wastewater contains substances or possesses characteristics which have a deleterious effect on the POTW and its processes or on the receiving water or which constitute a public nuisance or hazard (see § 110-120).
