All users of the Village of Waterloo 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. 
General prohibitions. 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. 
Specific prohibitions. No user shall introduce or cause to be introduced into the POTW the following pollutants, substances, or wastewater:
(1) 
Any wastewater with a closed-up flash point of less than 140° F. or 60° C. using the test methods specified in 40 CFR 261.21.
(2) 
Any wastewater having a pH less than 5.0 or greater than 10.0, unless the POTW 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 POTW personnel.
(3) 
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, straw, shavings, grass clippings, rags, spent grains, spent hops, waste paper, wood, plastics, gas, tar asphalt residues, residues from refining or processing fuel or lubricating oil, mud, or glass or stone grinding or polishing wastes.
(4) 
Any wastewater containing toxic pollutants, including oxygen-demanding pollutants (BOD, etc.), 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.
(5) 
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.
(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 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.
(8) 
Trucked or hauled pollutants, except at discharge points designated by the Superintendent in accordance with this chapter.
(9) 
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.
(10) 
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.
(11) 
Any wastewater containing any radioactive wastes except as approved by the Superintendent, and in compliance with applicable state and federal regulations.
(12) 
Stormwater, surface water, groundwater, artesian well water, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, swimming pool drainage, condensate, deionized water, noncontact cooling water, and unpolluted wastewater, unless specifically authorized by the Superintendent.
(13) 
Sludges, screenings, or other residues from the pretreatment of industrial wastes.
(14) 
Medical wastes, except as specifically authorized by the Superintendent in an individual wastewater discharge permit.
(15) 
Wastewater causing, alone or in conjunction with other sources, the treatment plant's effluent to fail toxicity test.
(16) 
Detergents, surface active agents, ink wastes or other substances which might cause excessive foaming in the POTW, except as specifically authorized by the Superintendent.
(17) 
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 Village of Waterloo, the state, or the EPA has determined to be a fire hazard or hazard to the POTW.
(18) 
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.
(19) 
Any wastewater which will cause interference or pass-through.
(20) 
A toxic pollutant, which shall include, but not be limited to, any pollutant identified pursuant to Section 307(A) of the Act, as amended.
(21) 
Unusual flow rate or concentration of wastes, constituting slugs, except by industrial wastewater permit.
(22) 
Any hazardous waste as defined in 40 CFR Part 261, as amended.
Users must comply with the categorical pretreatment standards found at 40 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter N, Parts 405 through 471.
A. 
Where a categorical pretreatment standard is expressed only in terms of either the mass or the concentration of a pollutant in wastewater, the Superintendent may impose equivalent concentration or mass limits in accordance with § 195-79E and F.
B. 
When the limits in a categorical pretreatment standard are expressed only in terms of mass of pollutant per unit of production, the Superintendent may convert the limits to equivalent limitations expressed either as mass of pollutant discharged per day or effluent concentration for purposes of calculating effluent limitations applicable to individual industrial users.
C. 
When wastewater subject to a categorical pretreatment standard is mixed with wastewater not regulated by the same standard, the Superintendent shall impose an alternate limit in accordance with 40 CFR 403.6(e).
D. 
Once included in its permit, the industrial user must comply with the equivalent limitations developed in this section (§ 195-79) in lieu of the promulgated categorical standards from which the equivalent limitations were derived.
E. 
Many categorical pretreatment standards specify one limit for calculating maximum daily discharge limitations and a second limit for calculating maximum monthly average, or four-day-average, limitations. Where such standards are being applied, the same production or flow figure shall be used in calculating both the average and the maximum equivalent limitation.
F. 
Any industrial user operating under a permit incorporating equivalent mass or concentration limits calculated from a production-based standard shall notify the Superintendent within two business days after the user has a reasonable basis to know that the production level will significantly change within the next calendar month. Any user not notifying the Superintendent of such anticipated change will be required to meet the mass or concentration limits in its permit that were based on the original estimate of the long-term average production rate.
The Superintendent is authorized to establish local limits pursuant to 40 CFR 403.5(c), as amended.
A. 
No person shall discharge, directly or indirectly, into the POTW 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 § 195-82. Concentration limits are applicable to wastewater effluents at the point just prior to discharge into the POTW ("end-of-pipe" concentrations).
Effluent Concentration Limit
(mg/l)
Substance
(1)
30-Day Average
(2)
24-Hour Average
(3)
Arsenic
0.2
0.4
Barium
4.0
8.0
Cadmium
0.4
0.8
Chlorine, available
50.0
50.0
Chromium (hex)
0.2
0.4
Chromium (tot)
4.0
8.0
Copper
0.8
1.6
Cyanide (complex)
1.6
3.2
Cyanide (free)
0.4
0.8
Fluorides
4.0
8.0
Gold
0.2
0.4
Lead
0.2
0.4
Manganese
4.0
8.0
Mercury
0.2
0.4
Nickel
4.0
8.0
Phenols, total
4.0
8.0
Selenium
0.2
0.4
Silver
0.2
0.4
Sulfides
6.0
12.0
Zinc
1.2
2.4
(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 grab or composite sample taken from the user's daily discharge over a typical operational and/or production day.
(3) 
Other substances which may be limited are:
Aluminum, antimony, beryllium, bismuth, bromine, cobalt, iron, tin, titanium, and vanadium
Alkanes, 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
Viable pathogenic organisms from industrial processes or hospital procedures
(4) 
Special concentration limits. When findings of the Village of Waterloo show that the volume of a single toxic industrial waste discharge or a combined toxic industrial waste discharge of a group of industries within a single contributory area is so large as to raise a question of the ultimate concentration of toxic substances entering the POTW, or in cases where it is known that the toxic substances in the concentrations involved will be effectively removed by the POTW without causing deleterious effects of any kind to the treatment process, the treatment plant, sludge, employees, or the receiving water after treatment, the Village of Waterloo may rule that separate or special concentration limits shall be used by the contributors in that area. Concentration limits at variance with the federal categorical pretreatment standards will not be granted.
B. 
The Village of Waterloo may revise with its rules and regulations the above-listed limits or insert additional items after hearing when, in the opinion of the Superintendent or County Department of Health, the need for a rule change is indicated, or as provided in the federal categorical pretreatment standards.
C. 
Limits for organic pollutants other than those listed in this section and higher than the minimum detection limits as established by 40 CFR Part 136 and/or the current edition of Standard Methods shall be set on a case-by-case basis. These limits shall be determined by the Superintendent using screening level criteria, process biological treatability, safety criteria, receiving water quality criteria, sludge disposal options, NYSDEC's Operational Guidance Manuals and USEPA guidelines.
D. 
Other substance that may be limited are: antibiotics; asbestos; 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 algaecides, fungicides, herbicides, insecticides and rodenticides; polyaromatic hydrocarbons; and viable pathogenic organisms from industrial processes or hospital procedures.
A. 
The Superintendent shall determine the total allowable influent load of each substance from significant industrial users. In determining the total load of each substance that significant industrial users shall be allowed to discharge, the Superintendent shall consider:
(1) 
The quantities of each substance that are uncontrollable because they occur naturally in wastewater;
(2) 
The quantities of each substance that are anthropogenic but are nonetheless uncontrollable;
(3) 
Historical discharge trends;
(4) 
Past pollution control efforts of each significant industrial user as compared to other significant industrial dischargers of the same substance;
(5) 
Potential for growth in the POTW service area;
(6) 
Potential for more restrictive regulatory requirements to be placed on the POTW discharge or sludge disposal or sludge reuse method; and
(7) 
Treatability of the substance. The Superintendent shall apply a minimum fifteen-percent safety factor to be protective of the POTW.
B. 
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.
C. 
Permits issued in accordance with this section may allow for discharges in excess of limitations set forth under § 195-81.
The Village of Waterloo reserves the right to establish, by law or in individual wastewater discharge permits, more stringent standards or requirements on discharges to the POTW consistent with the purpose of this chapter.
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 of Waterloo 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 recalculated not less frequently than once every five years. The results of these calculations shall be reported to the Village of Waterloo 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.
A. 
No user shall ever increase the use of process water, or in any way attempt to dilute a discharge, as a partial or complete substitute for adequate treatment to achieve compliance with a discharge limitation unless expressly authorized by an applicable pretreatment standard or requirement. The Superintendent may impose mass limitations on users who are using dilution to meet applicable pretreatment standards or requirements, or in other cases when the imposition of mass limitations is appropriate.
B. 
Dilution flow shall be considered to be inflow.