No person shall cause or permit any stormwater,
groundwater, roof runoff or subsurface water drainage (hereinafter
referred to as "natural water") to be discharged into the public sewer
or into any building drain or building sewer connected to the public
sewer unless prior approval therefor is granted by the Borough Engineer
and/or Director of Public Works, which approval shall be granted only
if necessary for the proper and sanitary disposal of polluted natural
water.
Unless approval for discharge into the public sewer is granted in the manner provided in § 336-25 hereof, natural water and all other unpolluted drainage shall be discharged to storm sewers or to a natural outlet, subject, however, to any required approval by any regulatory official, agency or board, and unpolluted industrial cooling water or processed water may, subject to prior approval of the Borough Engineer and/or Director of Public Works, be similarly discharged to a storm sewer or natural outlet.
No person shall discharge or cause or permit
to be discharged into the public sewer any of the following matters:
A.
Gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil or any other
flammable or explosive liquid, solid or gas.
B.
Any waters containing toxic or poisonous solids, liquids
or gases in sufficient quality (either singly or by interaction with
other materials) to injure or interfere with any waste treatment process,
or to constitute a hazard to humans or animals, or to create a public
nuisance, or to create any hazard in the wastewater treatment plant.
C.
Any water or waste having a pH lower than 5.5 or having
any other corrosive property capable of causing damage or hazard to
structures, equipment or personnel of the wastewater treatment plant.
D.
Solid or viscous substances in quantities or of such
size as to be capable of causing obstruction of the flow in sewers
or other interference with the proper operation of the wastewater
facilities, such as, but not limited to, ashes, bones, cinders, sand,
mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags, feathers, tar, plastics,
wood, unground garbage, whole blood, manure, hair and fleshings, entrails
and paper dishes, cups, milk containers and similar materials.
A.
The substances, materials, waters and waste hereinafter
described in this section may be prohibited by the Borough Engineer
and/or Director of Public Works from being injected into the public
sewer or may be permitted into the public sewer in limited concentrations
and quantities, as the Borough Engineer and/or Director of Public
Works may determine.
B.
Such materials shall be discharged into the public
sewer only in concentrations or quantities which will not harm either
the sewers or the wastewater treatment plant or any equipment therein
and will not have an adverse effect on the public sewer and will not
otherwise endanger lives, public health or private or public property.
C.
In fixing limitations of concentrations or quantities
of such material to be discharged into the sewer, the Borough Engineer
and/or Director of Public Works shall consider the quantity of such
material in relation to flows and velocities in the sewers, the material
of which the sewers are constructed, the wastewater treatment process
being employed, the capacity of the wastewater treatment plant, the
extent to which the wastewater treatment process can treat such material,
and other factors which the Borough Engineer and/or Director of Public
Works deems pertinent to a consideration of the capacity and ability
of the sewer system to carry and properly treat the material.
D.
If the Borough Engineer and/or Director of Public
Works determines that such material cannot be carried and treated
without the adverse effects described above, or without deleterious
effect upon the sewer system, they may refuse to accept the material
within the sewer system or they may require pretreatment of the material
to convert it to an acceptable condition prior to discharge into the
public sewer.
E.
If proper treatment of such material will require
extraordinary or additional costs or expense beyond that normally
involved in carrying and treating sewerage, the Borough Engineer and/or
Director of Public Works may require additional payment for such material
to compensate for such additional cost and expense. BCUA and other
applicable approvals shall be submitted prior to acceptance of the
sewerage.
F.
The materials referred to in this section which may
be conditionally admitted to the public sewer include the following:
(1)
Wastewater having a temperature higher than 150º
F. (65º C.).
(2)
Wastewater containing more than 25 milligrams per
liter of petroleum oil, nonbiodegradable cutting oil or any product
of mineral oil origin.
(3)
Wastewater from industrial plants containing floatable
oils, fat or grease.
(4)
Any waters or wastes containing iron, chromium, copper,
mercury, zinc or other heavy metals or similar objectionable or toxic
substance to such degree that any such material received in the composite
wastewater at the wastewater treatment plant will exceed the limits
established by the Borough Engineer for such materials.
(5)
Any waters or wastes containing odor-producing substances
exceeding limits which may be established by the Borough Engineer.
(6)
Any radioactive wastes or isotopes of such half-life
or concentration as may exceed limits established by the Borough Engineer
in compliance with applicable state or federal regulations.
(7)
Quantities of flow, concentrations, or both which constitute a slug, as defined in § 336-1 of this chapter.
(8)
Waters or wastes containing substances which are not
amenable to treatment or reduction by the wastewater treatment processes
employed or are amenable to treatment only to such degree that the
wastewater treatment plant effluent cannot meet the requirements of
other agencies having jurisdiction over discharge to the receiving
waters.
(9)
Any water or wastes which, by interaction with other
waste or wastes in the public sewer system, release obnoxious gases
or odors from suspended solids which interfere with the collection
system or create a condition deleterious to structures and to the
treatment process.
A.
In addition to the measures described elsewhere in
this chapter, the Borough Engineer and/or Director of Public Works
may, when they deem it necessary to do so, in order to provide for
the proper handling of potentially dangerous or deleterious materials,
require the installation of grease, oil and sand interceptors to limit
or prevent the entry into the public sewer of liquid wastes containing
floatable grease in excessive amounts or any flammable waste, sand
or other harmful or potentially harmful ingredient; provided, however,
that such interceptors shall not be required for any one-family house.
B.
All such interceptors shall be of a type and capacity
approved by the Borough Engineer and/or Director of Public Works and
shall be so located as to be readily accessible for cleaning and inspection.
C.
The owner of the premises served by such interceptors
shall be responsible for proper maintenance and cleaning thereof and
proper removal and disposal of material therefrom, which removal may
be performed either by the owner of the premises or employees of such
owners or by persons properly licensed by the appropriate federal,
state or local authority for that purpose.
D.
The owner of the premises shall maintain an accurate
record of the date and means of disposal of such material which shall
be open by inspection by the Health Officer, the Borough Engineer
and/or the Director of Public Works.
Where pretreatment or flow-equalizing facilities
are provided for any waters or wastes, they shall be maintained in
satisfactory and effective operating conditions by the owner at the
expense of the owner.
A.
When required by the Borough Engineer, the Director
of Public Works and/or the Health Officer, the owner of any property
serviced by a building sewer carrying industrial wastes shall install
a suitable structure with necessary meters and other appurtenances,
connected to the building sewer, in order to facilitate observation,
sampling and measurement of wastes prior to their entry into the public
sewer.
B.
Such structure, when required by the Borough Engineer,
the Director of Public Works and/or the Health Officer, shall be installed
and maintained by the owner, at the expense of the owner, and shall
be accessible and located and maintained in a safe condition.
A.
All measurements, tests and analyses of waters and
wastes to which reference is made in this chapter shall be determined
and performed in accordance with the latest edition of Standard Methods
For The Examination of Water and Wastewater, published by the American
Public Health Association, and the timing and frequency of such measurements,
tests and analysis shall be determined in each case by the Borough
Engineer and/or the Director of Public Works.
B.
Fees shall be charged for such tests and measurements
in accordance with the provisions of this chapter or any other ordinance
hereafter adopted by the Mayor and Council.
Nothing contained in this chapter shall prohibit
the Borough from permitting the entry of any particular material into
the public sewer, provided that such material shall have received
proper and adequate pretreatment so that the condition thereof, as
it enters the public sewer, shall not be harmful to the public sewer,
and for that purpose the Borough may enter into any special agreement
or contract with any property owner to provide for special treatment
of any waste or any waste material prior to its entry into the public
sewer.
