[R.O. 2014 §710.010; Ord. No. 414 §1.1, 9-25-1980; Ord. No. 574 §1.1, 5-10-1990; Ord. No. 1977, 1-14-2021]
A.
This Chapter sets forth uniform requirements for direct and indirect
contributors into the wastewater collection and treatment system for
the City of Marshfield and enables the City to comply with all applicable
State and Federal laws required by the Clean Water Act of 1977 and
the general Pretreatment Regulations (40 CFR, Part 403).
B.
The objectives of this Chapter are:
1.
To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the municipality
wastewater system which will interfere with the operation of the system
or contaminate the resulting sludge;
2.
To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the municipal
wastewater system which will pass through the system, inadequately
treated, into receiving waters or the atmosphere or otherwise be incompatible
with the system;
3.
To improve the opportunity to recycle and reclaim wastewaters
and sludges from the system; and
4.
To provide for equitable distribution of the cost of the municipal
wastewater system.
C.
This Chapter provides for the regulation of direct and indirect contributors
to the municipal wastewater system through the issuance of permits
to certain non-domestic users and through enforcement of general requirements
for the other users, authorizes monitoring and enforcement activities,
requires user reporting, assumes that existing customer's capacity
will not be preempted, and provides for the setting of fees for the
equitable distribution of costs resulting from the program established
herein.
D.
This Chapter shall apply to the City of Marshfield and to persons
outside the City who are, by contract or agreement with the City,
users of the City POTW. Except as otherwise provided herein, the Superintendent
of the City POTW shall administer, implement, and enforce the provisions
of this Chapter.
[R.O. 2014 §710.020; Ord. No. 414 §1.2, 9-25-1980; Ord. No. 574 §1.2, 5-10-1990; Ord. No. 1977, 1-14-2021]
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the following
terms and phrases, as used in this Chapter, shall have the meanings
hereinafter designated:
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 USC § 1251, et seq.
The Director in an NPDES State with an approved State pretreatment
program and the Administrator of the EPA in a non-NPDES State or NPDES
State without an approved State pretreatment program.
Authorized Or Duly Authorized Representative Of The User.
If the user is a corporation:
The president, secretary, treasurer, or a vice-president of
the corporation in charge of a principal business function, or any
other person who performs similar policy or decision-making functions
for the corporation; or
The manager of one (1) or more manufacturing, production, or
operating facilities, provided the manager is authorized to make management
decisions that govern the operation of the regulated facility including
having the explicit or implicit duty of making major capital investment
recommendations, and initiate and direct other comprehensive measures
to assure long-term environmental compliance with environmental laws
and regulations; can ensure that the necessary systems are established
or actions taken to gather complete and accurate information for individual
wastewater discharge permit requirements; and where authority to sign
documents has been assigned or delegated to the manager in accordance
with corporate procedures.
If the user is a partnership or sole proprietorship: a general
partner or proprietor, respectively.
If the user is a Federal, State, or local governmental facility:
a director or highest official appointed or designated to oversee
the operation and performance of the activities of the government
facility, or their designee.
The individuals described in paragraphs (1) through (3), above,
may designate a duly authorized representative if the authorization
is in writing, the authorization specifies the individual or position
responsible for the overall operation of the facility from which the
discharge originates or having overall responsibility for environmental
matters for the company, and the written authorization is submitted
to the City of Marshfield.
BMPs are schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices to implement the prohibitions listed in Section 710.040 [40 CFR Section 403.5(a)(1) and (b)]. BMPs include treatment requirements, operating procedures, and practices to control plant site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge or waste disposal, or drainage from raw materials storage. [Note: BMPs also include alternative means (i.e., management plans) of complying with, or in place of certain established categorical pretreatment standards and effluent limits.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure, five (5) days
at twenty degrees Centigrade (20° C.) expressed in terms of weight
and concentration (milligrams per liter [mg/l]).
A sewer conveying wastewater from the premises of a user
to the POTW.
Federal Categorical Pretreatment Standards or pretreatment
standard.
The City of Marshfield or the Board of Aldermen of Marshfield,
Missouri.
Biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, pH and fecal
coliform bacteria; plus any additional pollutants identified in the
publicly owned treatment work's NPDES permit, where the publicly-owned
treatment work is designed to treat such pollutants and, in fact,
does treat such pollutants to the degree required by the POTW's
NPDES permit.
The term "control authority" shall refer to the "approval
authority," defined hereinabove; or the Superintendent if the City
has an approved pretreatment program under the provisions of 40 CFR,
Section 403.11.
The water discharged from any use such as air-conditioning,
cooling or refrigeration, or to which the only pollutant added is
heat.
The discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly
to the waters of the State of Missouri.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, or where appropriate
the term may also be used as a designation for the Administrator or
other duly authorized official of said agency.
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated
by the EPA in accordance with Section 307(b) and (c) of the Act (33
USC § 1347) which applies to a specific category of industrial
users.
A sample which is taken from a waste stream on a one-time
basis with no regard to the flow in the waste stream and without consideration
of time.
Any waste from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets,
campers, trailers, septic tanks, and vacuum-pump tank trucks.
All pollutants other than "compatible pollutants" as defined
in this Section.
The discharge or the introduction of non-domestic pollutants
from any source regulated under Section 307(b) or (c) of the Act,
(33 USC § 1317), into the POTW (including holding tank waste
discharged into the system).
A source of indirect discharge which does not constitute
a "discharge of pollutants" under regulations issued pursuant to Section
402 of the Act. (33 R.S.C. § 1342).
The inhibition or disruption of the POTW processes or operations
which contributes to a violation of any requirement of the City's
NPDES permit. The term includes prevention of sewage sludge use or
disposal by the POTW in accordance with Section 405 of the Act. (33
USC § 1345) or any criteria, guidelines or regulations developed
pursuant to the Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA), the Clean Air Act,
the Toxic Substances Control Act, or more stringent State criteria
(including those contained in any State sludge management plan prepared
pursuant to Title IV of SWDA) applicable to the method of disposal
or use employed by the POTW.
A permit issued pursuant to Section 402 of the Act (33 USC
§ 1342).
Any regulation developed under the authority of 307(b) of
the Act and 40 CFR, Section 403.5.
Any source, the construction of which is commenced after
the publication of proposed regulations prescribing a Section 307(c)
(33 USC § 1317) categorical pretreatment standard which will
be applicable to such source, if such standard is thereafter promulgated
within one hundred twenty (120) days of proposal in the Federal Register.
Where the standard is promulgated later than one hundred twenty (120)
days after proposal, a new source means any source, the construction
of which is commenced after the date of promulgation of the standard.
The City of Marshfield may determine that an industrial user
subject to categorical pretreatment standards is a non-significant
categorical industrial user rather than a significant industrial user
on a finding that the industrial user never discharges more than one
hundred (100) gallons per day (gpd) of total categorical wastewater
(excluding sanitary, non-contact cooling and boiler blowdown wastewater,
unless specifically included in the pretreatment standard) and the
following conditions are met:
The industrial user, prior to the City of Marshfield's
finding, has consistently complied with all applicable categorical
pretreatment standards and requirements;
The industrial user annually submits the certification statement required in Section 710.160(B)(5) [see 40 CR § 403.12(q)], together with any additional information necessary to support the certification statement; and
The industrial user never discharges any untreated concentrated
wastewater.
Any individual, partnership, co-partnership, firm, company,
corporation, association, joint stock company, trust, estate, governmental
entity or any other legal entity, or their legal representatives,
agents or assigns. The masculine gender shall include the feminine,
the singular shall include the plural where indicated by the context.
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the concentration
of hydrogen ions expressed in grams per liter of solution.
Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage,
garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials,
radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discharged equipment, rock,
sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal, and agricultural waste
discharged into water.
The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical,
biological, and radiological integrity of water.
That portion of the POTW designed to provide treatment to
wastewater.
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination
of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties
in wastewater to a less harmful state prior to or in lieu of discharging
or otherwise introducing such pollutants into a POTW. The reduction
or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical or biological
processes, or process changes other means, except as prohibited by
40 CFR Section 403.6(d).
Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment,
other than a National Pretreatment Standard imposed on an industrial
user.
A treatment works as defined by Section 212 of the Act, (33 USC
§ 1292) which is owned in this instance by the City. This definition
includes any sewers that convey wastewater to the POTW treatment plant,
but does not include pipes, sewers or other conveyances not connected
to a facility providing treatment. For the purposes of this Chapter,
"POTW" shall also include any sewers that convey wastewaters to the
POTW from persons outside the City who are, by contract or agreement
with the City, users of the City's POTW.
Is mandatory; MAY: Is permissive.
Any industrial user of the City's wastewater disposal
system who:
Has a discharge flow of twenty-five thousand (25,000) gallons
or more per average work day; or
Has a flow greater than five percent (5%) of the flow in the
City's wastewater treatment system; or
Has in his/her wastes toxic pollutants as defined pursuant to
Section 307 of the Act of Missouri Statutes and rules; or
Is found by the City (State Control Agency) or the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) to have significant impact, either singly
or in combination with other contributing industries, on the wastewater
treatment system, the quality of sludge, the system's effluent
quality, or air emissions generated by the system.
A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of
Management and Budget, 1972.
State of Missouri.
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural
precipitation and resulting therefrom.
The person designated by the City to supervise the operation
of the publicly owned treatment works and who is charged with certain
duties and responsibilities by this Chapter, or his/her duly authorized
representative.
The total suspended matter that floats on the surface of,
or is suspended in, water, wastewater or other liquids, and which
is removable by laboratory filtering.
Any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic
in regulations promulgated by the Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency under the provision of CWA 307(a) or other Acts.
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution
of wastewater into the City's POTW.
The liquid and water-carried industrial or domestic wastes
from dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities, and institutions,
together with any groundwater, surface water, and stormwater that
may be present, whether treated or untreated, which is contributed
into or permitted to enter the POTW.
As set forth in Section 710.150 of this Chapter.
All streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, water courses, waterways,
wells, springs, reservoirs, aquifer, irrigation systems, drainage
systems and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface or
underground, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained
within, flow through, or border upon the State or any portion thereof.
[R.O. 2014 §710.030; Ord. No. 414 §1.3, 9-25-1980; Ord. No. 574 §1.3, 5-10-1990; Ord. No. 1977, 1-14-2021]
The following abbreviations shall have the designated meanings:
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BOD — Biochemical oxygen demand
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CFR — Code of Federal Regulations
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COD — Chemical oxygen demand
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EPA — Environmental Protection Agency
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l — Liter
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mg — Milligrams
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mg/l — Milligrams per liter
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NPDES — National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
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POTW — Publicly owned treatment works
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SIC — Standard Industrial Classification
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SWDA — Solid Waste Disposal Act, 42 USC § 6901, et
seq.
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USC — United States Code
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TSS — Total suspended solids
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