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 water to the district sewage system.
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any of the following described waters or wastes to the district sewage system which:
A. 
Create a fire or explosion hazard, including but not limited to gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil or other flammable or explosive liquid, solid or gas; or any liquid, solids or gases which by reason of their nature or quantity are sufficient either alone or by interaction with other substances to cause fire or explosion or be injurious in any other way to the district sewage system and plant or to the operation of the district sewage system and plant. At no time shall two successive readings on an explosion hazard meter, at the point of discharge into the system (or at any point in the system), be more than 5% nor any single reading be over 10% of the lower explosive limit (LEL) of the meter.
B. 
Contain any noxious, malodorous gas or substance which is present in quantities that create a public nuisance or a hazard to life.
C. 
Cause corrosive damage or hazard to structures, equipment or personnel of the district sewage system and plant but in no case discharges with the following properties: having a pH lower than 5.0 or greater than 10.0 for more than 10% of the time in a twenty-four-hour period; having a pH lower than 3.5 or greater than 12.0 for any period exceeding 15 minutes. These requirements may be modified for facilities designed to accommodate greater ranges.
D. 
Cause obstruction to the flow in sewers or other interferences with the operation of the district sewage system and plant due to accumulation of solid or viscous materials; such substances include but are not limited to grease, ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags, feathers, tar, plastics, wood, underground garbage, whole blood, paunch manure, hair and fleshings, entrails and paper dishes, cups, milk containers, etc., in quantities or of such size capable of impairing the hydraulic capacity of the sewer or other interferences with the operation of the district sewage system and plant.
E. 
Contain garbage, refuse or household waste materials, whether or not the same is ground or shredded.
[Added 7-8-1996 by L.L. No. 4-1996]
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged the following described substances, materials, waters or wastes to the district sewage system without the prior approval of the Town Board of the Town of Liberty:
A. 
Materials which constitute a rate of discharge or substantial deviation from normal rates of discharge (slug discharge), sufficient to cause interference of the operation and performance of the district sewage system and plant.
B. 
Materials which contain heat in amounts which will accelerate the biodegradation of wastes, causing the formation of excessive amounts of hydrogen sulfide in the district sewage system or inhibiting biological activity in the plant, but in no case shall the discharge of heat cause the temperature in the district sewage system to exceed 65.5° C. (150° F.) or the temperature of the indolent to the treatment facilities to exceed 40° C. (104° F.) unless the facilities can accommodate such heat.
C. 
Materials which contain nonbiodegradable fats, wax, grease or oils, whether emulsified or not, in excess of 100 milligrams per liter or containing substances which may solidify or become viscous at temperatures between 32° and 150° F. (0° C. to 65° C.).
D. 
Materials which contain floatable oils, fat or grease.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Subsection E, dealing with materials containing improperly shredded garbage, was repealed 7-8-1996 by L.L. No. 4-1996.
E. 
Waters or wastes containing strong acids, iron pickling wastes or concentrated plating solutions, whether neutralized or not.
F. 
Materials which contain any odor or color-producing substances exceeding concentration limits which may be established for purposes of meeting the SPDES permit.
G. 
Materials which contain radioactive wastes or isotopes of such half-life or concentration as may exceed limits established by the Administrator in compliance with applicable Town, state and federal regulations.
H. 
Any waters or wastes having a pH in excess of twelve point zero (12.0).
I. 
Materials which exert or cause:
(1) 
Unusual concentration of inert suspended solids (such as but not limited to fuller's earth lime residues) or dissolved solids (such as but not limited to sodium chlorine and sodium sulfate).
(2) 
Excessive coloration (such as but not limited to dye wastes and vegetable tanning solutions).
(3) 
A BOD in excess of 240 milligrams per liter.
(4) 
A chlorine demand in excess of 25 milligrams per liter.
(5) 
A chemical oxygen demand in excess of 600 milligrams per liter.
(6) 
Suspended solids in excess of 300 milligrams per liter.
J. 
Waters or wastes containing substances which are not amenable to treatment or reduction by the sewage treatment process employed by the plant or are amenable to treatment only to such degree that the plant effluent cannot meet the requirements of agencies having jurisdiction over discharge to the receiving waters.
K. 
Effluent concentrations in excess of the following limits for toxic substances.
Effluent Concentration Limits for Toxic Substances1
Briscoe Road Sewer District
Infirmary Road Sewer District
Loomis Sewer District
Loomis Extension Sewer District
Swan Lake Sewer District
No. 1 Swan Lake Sewer District
No. 2 Youngs Hill Sewer District
Parameters
Discharge Concentration Limits
(mg/l)
Cadmium
00.2
Hexavalent chromium
00.1
Total chromium
02.0
Copper
00.4
Lead
00.1
Mercury
00.1
Nickel
02.0
Zinc
00.6
Arsenic
00.1
Available chlorine
50.0
Cyanide, free
00.2
Cyanide, complex
00.8
Selenium
00.1
Sulfide
03.0
Barium
02.0
Manganese
02.0
Gold
00.1
Silver
00.1
Fluorides
  To fresh water2
02.0
  To saline water2
18.0
Phenol
02.0
NOTES:
1 Effluent limitations promulgated by the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (the Act) shall apply in any instance where they are more stringent than those in this chapter. Under Section 307(b) of the Act, federal pretreatment standards are designed to achieve two purposes: to protect the operation of publicly owned treatment works and to prevent the discharge of pollutants which pass through such works inadequately treated. Users in industrial categories subject to effluent guidelines issued under Section (b) of the Act, which are discharging incompatible pollutants to publicly owned treatment works, are required to adopt the best practical control technology currently available, as defined by the administrative head pursuant to Section 304(b) of the Act.
2 If water is fluoridated, multiply by 1.5.
A. 
If any waters or wastes are discharged or are proposed to be discharged to the district sewage system, which waters contain the substances or possess the characteristics enumerated in § 121-25 of this article, and which, in the judgment of the Town Board of the Town of Liberty, may have a deleterious effect upon the sewage works, processes, equipment or other receiving waters or which otherwise create a hazard to life or constitute a public nuisance, the Town Board of the Town of Liberty may:
(1) 
Reject the waters or wastes;
(2) 
Require pretreatment to an acceptable condition for discharge to the district sewage system;
(3) 
Require control over the quantities and rates of discharge; and/or
(4) 
Require that periodic reports be filed with them at intervals not exceeding six months each, containing the following materials:
(a) 
The specific action, if any taken, to achieve compliance with Section 307 of the United States Public Law No. 95-217 and any statute, rule or regulation of New York State or any of its departments, agencies or bureaus.
(b) 
Results of a comprehensive sampling and laboratory testing program indicating the characteristics of the wastewater so discharged in terms of parameters that will adequately identify the waste. The types of testing and frequency of testing for each person discharging such wastewater shall be specified by the Administrator. All sampling and laboratory testing required by the Administrator shall be performed by each such person, and all costs and expenses incident to the testing, sampling, monitoring and reporting with respect to providing data to the Administrator, the NYSDEC, the USEPA, the Department of Health or any other agency having jurisdiction shall be borne by such person.
(5) 
Require payment in excess of the existing taxes or sewer charges or rents to cover the added cost of handling and treating the wastes pursuant to the provisions of § 121-47 of this chapter and any applicable law.
[Amended 7-8-1996 by L.L. No. 4-1996]
B. 
If the Town Board of the Town of Liberty permits the pretreatment or equalization of waste flows, the design and installation of the pretreatment/equalization works and equipment shall be subject to the review and approval of the Town Board of the Town of Liberty and subject to the requirements of all applicable codes, ordinances and laws.
Grease, oil and sand interceptors shall be provided when, in the opinion of the Town Board of the Town of Liberty or the Administrator, such interceptors are necessary for the proper handling of liquid wastes containing grease in excessive amounts or any flammable wastes, sand or other harmful ingredients. All interceptors shall be of a type and capacity approved by the Administrator and shall be located as to be readily and easily accessible for cleaning and inspection.
Where 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 or her expense.
[Amended 9-19-2016 by L.L. No. 3-2016]
When required by the Town Board of the Town of Liberty in its sole discretion, the owner of any property connected to and discharging into a district sewage system either (i) industrial waste, or (ii) in excess of 3,000 gallons of average daily flow of sewage in any given month, shall install at such property owner's sole cost and expense (inclusive of Town engineering and professional expenses) a manhole and flowmeter acceptable to the Town Board, the Administrator and the Town's Engineer, in order to facilitate observation, sampling and measurement of waste as well as inspection by the Town. The manhole shall be located and the meter installed so as to be safe and accessible by Town personnel and constructed in accordance with plans approved by the Administrator. All maintenance, repairs and replacements thereof, and annual calibration of meters, shall be at the property owner's sole expense (inclusive of Town engineering and professional expenses) and performed by contractors approved in advance by the Town Board.
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 control manhole has been required, the control manhole shall be considered to be the point at which the building sewer is connected to the septic tank in the district septic system for the Briscoe Road Sewer District, Loomis Sewer District and Loomis Extension Sewer District or the nearest downstream manhole in the district sewage system to the point at which the building sewer is connected for the Infirmary Road Sewer District, Swan Lake Sewer District No. 1 and Swan Lake Sewer District No. 2. 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.
A. 
Any persons aggrieved by any decision or determination made by the Town Board of the Town of Liberty or Administrator of the district pursuant to § 121-26 hereof may bring a proceeding to review such determination in the manner provided by Article 78 of the Civil Practice Law and Rules.
B. 
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 district for treatment, subject to payment thereof by the industrial concern, in accordance with applicable provisions of law.