All users of the Town of Sullivan sewerage system 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 as well as the pretreatment standards applicable to the Village of Sylvan Beach Sewage Treatment Plant and the Village of Chittenango Sewage Treatment Plant. Failure to comply with the pretreatment standards set forth in the rules and regulations of the Village of Sylvan Beach Sewage Treatment Plant and/or the Village of Chittenango Sewage Treatment Plant shall be considered a violation of this chapter and enforced pursuant to Article IX hereof.
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 sewerage system.
These general prohibitions apply to all such users of a sewerage system
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 sewerage system:
(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 sewerage system, or to the operation of the sewerage
system. At no time shall 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 meters.
Unless explicitly allowable by a written permit, prohibited materials
include, but are not limited to, gasoline, antifreeze, paint, paint
thinners or solvents of any kind, kerosene, naphtha, benzene, toluene,
xylene, ethers, alcohols, carbides, hydrides and sulfides, and any
volatile organic compounds or other substance which the Village of
Chittenango, Village of Sylvan Beach, the state, or the EPA has determined
to be a fire hazard, or hazard to the sewerage system.
(2)
Solid or viscous substances which may cause obstruction to the flow
in a sewer or otherwise interfere with the operation of the wastewater
treatment facilities. 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, medical wastes, syringes, formaldehydes, 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 grinding or polishing wastes.
(3)
Any wastewater having a pH less than 6.0 or greater than 9.0, unless
the sewerage system was specifically designed to manage such wastewater
or wastewater having any other corrosive property capable of causing
damage or hazard to structures, equipment and/or sewerage system personnel.
(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 sewerage system, or to exceed the limitation set forth
in a categorical pretreatment standard.
(5)
A toxic pollutant shall include, but not be limited to, any pollutant
identified pursuant to Section 307(A) of the Act.
(6)
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.
(7)
Oils and grease. Any commercial, institutional or industrial wastes
containing floatable fats, waxes, grease or oils, or which become
floatable when the wastes cool to the temperature prevailing, in the
wastewater at the sewerage system treatment plant, during the winter
season; also any commercial, institutional or industrial wastes containing
more than 100 mg/l of emulsified oil or grease; also any substances
which will cause the sewage to become substantially more viscous,
at any seasonal sewage temperature in the sewerage system.
(8)
Any substance which will cause interference or pass-through.
(9)
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.
(10)
Any solid, liquid, vapor, or gas having a temperature higher
than 65° C. (150° F.); however, such materials shall not cause
the sewage treatment plant influent temperature to be greater than
40° C. (104° F.). The Superintendent reserves the right, in
certain instances, to prohibit wastes at temperatures lower than 65°
C.
(11)
Unusual flow rate or concentration of wastes, constituting slugs,
except by industrial wastewater permit.
(12)
Any wastewater containing any radioactive wastes except as approved
by the Superintendent and in compliance with applicable state and
federal regulations.
(13)
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.
A.
No person shall discharge, directly or indirectly, into the sewerage system, wastewater containing any of the following substances in concentrations exceeding those specified below on either a daily or an instantaneous basis, except by permit or as provided for in § 206-71B. Concentration limits are applicable to wastewater effluent at point just prior to discharge into the sewerage system (end of pipe concentrations).
|
Effluent Concentration Limit
(mg/l)
| ||
|---|---|---|
|
Allowable Max Limit
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|
Substance
|
Daily
| |
|
Aluminum
|
2.0
| |
|
Antimony
|
(3)
| |
|
Arsenic
|
(3)
| |
|
Barium
|
2.0
| |
|
Beryllium
|
(3)
| |
|
Cadmium
|
0.2
| |
|
Chlorides
|
(3)
| |
|
Chlorine
|
(3)
| |
|
Chromium (hex)
|
0.01
| |
|
Chromium (tot)
|
0.02
| |
|
Cobalt
|
(3)
| |
|
Copper
|
0.4
| |
|
Cyanide (complex)
|
0.8
| |
|
Cyanide (free)
|
0.2
| |
|
Fluorides
|
3.0
| |
|
Gold
|
0.1
| |
|
Iodine
|
(3)
| |
|
Iron
|
4.0
| |
|
Lead
|
0.1
| |
|
Manganese
|
2.0
| |
|
Mercury
|
0.001
| |
|
Molybdenum
|
(1)
| |
|
Nickel
|
2.0
| |
|
Phenols, total
|
(3)
| |
|
Selenium
|
0.1
| |
|
Silver
|
0.1
| |
|
Sulfates
|
(3)
| |
|
Sulfides
|
3.0
| |
|
Tin
|
(3)
| |
|
Titanium
|
(3)
| |
|
Vanadium
|
0.6
| |
|
Zinc
|
(3)
| |
(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 two 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)
No
standard limit exists. Units will be established as required.
(4)
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:
(1)
Antibiotics;
(2)
Chemical
compounds which, upon acidification, alkalinization, oxidation or
reduction, in the discharge or after admixture with wastewater and
its components in the sewerage system produce toxic, flammable or
explosive compounds;
(3)
Pesticides,
including algicides, fungicides, herbicides, insecticides, rodenticides;
(4)
Polyaromatic
hydrocarbons, viable pathogenic organisms from industrial processes
or hospital procedures;
(5)
Volatile
organics.
Limitations on wastewater strength contained in this chapter
may be supplemented with more stringent limitations when, in the opinion
of the Superintendent:
A.
The limitations in this chapter are not sufficient to protect the
sewerage system, the Village of Sylvan Beach Treatment Plant and the
Village of Chittenango Treatment Plant;
B.
The limitations in these rule and regulations are not sufficient
to enable the Village of Sylvan Beach Treatment Plant and the Village
of Chittenango Treatment Plant to comply with applicable water quality
standards or the effluent limitations specified in the respective
treatment plant's SPDES permit;
C.
The sewerage system sludge will be rendered unacceptable for disposal
or reuse as the Village of Sylvan Beach or Village of Chittenango
desires, as a result of discharge of wastewaters at the above prescribed
concentration limitations;
D.
Town of Sullivan, or other municipal employees or the public will
be endangered; or
E.
Air pollution and/or groundwater pollution will be caused.
No user shall 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.
Grease, oil, and sand interceptors shall be provided, when,
in the opinion of the Superintendent, they are necessary for the proper
handling of wastewater containing excessive amounts of grease, flammable
substances, sand or other harmful substances; except that such interceptors
shall 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 to be easily accessible for cleaning and inspection.
Such interceptors shall be inspected, cleaned and repaired regularly,
as needed, by the owner, at his expense.
