[Ord. No. 2020-498, 9/24/2020[1]]
1.
This chapter sets forth the uniform requirements for the user(s)
of the Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTW) for the Township of Cranberry
and enables the Township to comply with applicable commonwealth and
federal laws, including the Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. § 1251
et seq.) and the general pretreatment regulations (40 CFR 403). The
objectives of this chapter are:
B.
To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the POTW that pass
through the POTW into receiving waters;
C.
To protect both POTW personnel who may be affected by wastewater
and sludge in the course of their employment and the general public;
D.
To promote the reuse and recycling of industrial wastewater and sludge;
E.
To provide equitable distribution of the cost of operation, maintenance,
and improvement of the publicly owned treatment works; and
F.
To enable the Township to comply with its National Pollutant Discharge
Elimination System (NPDES) permit conditions, sludge use and disposal
requirements.
2.
The chapter authorizes the issuance of wastewater discharge permits;
regulates user(s) through general requirements; provides for monitoring,
compliance, and enforcement activities; establishes administrative
review procedures; requires user reporting; and sets fees for the
program established herein.
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Editor's Note: This ordinance also repealed former Ch.
19, Wastewater Pretreatment, as amended.
[Ord. No. 2020-498, 9/24/2020]
Except as otherwise provided herein, the Township Manager or
his designees are responsible to administer, implement, and enforce
the provisions of this chapter.
[Ord. No. 2020-498, 9/24/2020]
The following abbreviations, when used in this chapter, shall
have the designated meanings:
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BMP
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Best management practices
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BOD
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Biochemical oxygen demand
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CFR
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Code of Federal Regulations
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CIU
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Categorical industrial user
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COD
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Chemical oxygen demand
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DD
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Dental discharger
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EPA
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United States Environmental Protection Agency
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FDF
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Fundamentally different factors
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FOG
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Fats, oil and grease
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GU
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General user
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Gpd
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Gallons per day
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lbs/day
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Pounds per day
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MAHL
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Maximum allowable headworks loading
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mg/L
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Milligrams per liter
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NAICS
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North American Industry Classification System
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NPDES
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National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
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NSCIU
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Non-significant categorical industrial user
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POTW
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Publicly owned treatment works
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RCRA
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Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
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SIU
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Significant industrial user
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TSS
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Total suspended solids
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U.S.C.
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United States Code
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[Ord. No. 2020-498, 9/24/2020]
Unless a provision states otherwise, the following terms and
phrases, as used in this chapter, shall have the following designated
meanings:
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
"Clean Water Act," as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.
Any wastewater generated and discharged by a dental discharger
through the practice of dentistry that may contain dental mercury
amalgam.
A device designed to capture and remove dental mercury amalgam
from the amalgam process wastewater of a dental facility.
Authorized representatives of the user are 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 decisionmaking functions for the corporation; or the manager of
one 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 Subsections 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. Any such authorization shall be submitted to the Township in writing.
Schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices to implement the prohibitions listed in § 19-201 [40 CFR 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.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures for five days
at 20° C., usually expressed as a concentration in mg/1.
The Board of Supervisors of the Township.
An area or structure equipped with facilities for washing
automobiles or other vehicles.
A user subject to a Categorical Pretreatment Standard or
Categorical Standard.
Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by the EPA which apply to a specific category of user(s), and which appear in 40 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter N, Part 405 through Part 471.
A measure of the oxygen required to oxidize all compounds,
both organic and inorganic, in water.
Any building, premises, and land in which or upon which a
business, service, or industry performs or renders a service involving
vehicles, including maintenance, repair, or painting.
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
The water discharged from any use, such as air conditioning,
cooling or refrigeration, or water to which the only pollutant added
is heat, including noncontact cooling water.
The maximum allowable discharge limit of a pollutant during
a calendar day. Where daily maximum limits are expressed in units
of mass, the daily discharge is the total mass discharged over the
course of the day. Where daily maximum limits are expressed in terms
of a concentration, the daily discharge is the arithmetic average
measurement of the pollutant concentration derived from all measurements
taken that day.
A mixture of an alloy of elemental mercury and other metal(s)
used in the practice of dentistry.
A facility where the practice of dentistry is performed,
including, institutions, permanent or temporary offices, clinics,
home offices, and facilities owned and operated by federal, state
or local governments that discharges wastewater to a publicly owned
treatment works (POTW).
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
Discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly into
the waters of commonwealth.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency.
Any source of discharge that is not a "new source" as defined
in this chapter.
Those components of wastewater amenable to measurement by
EPA Method 1664A (polar material), including fats, oil and grease
and other components extracted from wastewater by this method.
A device installed in the plumbing or sewage system for the
purpose of grinding food waste or food preparation by-products for
the purpose of disposing it in the sanitary sewer collection system.
A facility which prepares and/or packages food or beverages
for sale or consumption, on or off site, with the exception of private
residences, including food manufacturers, food packagers, restaurants,
grocery stores, bakeries, lounges, hospitals, hotels, nursing homes,
churches, schools.
Building(s), premises or portions thereof which are used,
arranged, designed, or intended to be used for dispensing gasoline
or other fuel for use, including motor vehicles, boats or aircraft.
A user that is required to obtain a wastewater permit but
does not fall under the SIU, CIU, or NSCIU category.
A sample that is taken from a waste stream without regard
to the flow in the waste stream and over a period not to exceed 15
minutes.
A plumbing appurtenance or appliance with a liquid retention
capacity greater than 100 gallons installed in a sanitary drainage
system to intercept fats, oils, and greases (FOG) from a wastewater
discharge.
A plumbing appurtenance or appliance with a liquid retention
capacity less than or equal to 100 gallons installed in a sanitary
drainage system to intercept fats, oils, and greases (FOG) from a
wastewater discharge.
Any waste from holding tanks including; vessels, chemical
toilets, campers, trailers, septic tanks, and vacuum pump trucks.
Including, but not limited to.
The introduction of pollutants into the POTW from any nondomestic
source regulated under Section 307(b), (c), or (d) of the Act.
Shall have the meaning ascribed to it in the Act of June
22, 1937 (P.L. 1987, No. 394), known as the "Clean Streams Law,"[1] as amended, and the regulations adopted thereunder, including
any solid, liquid, radioactive, gaseous or other substance or form
of energy, excluding sewage, rejected or escaping in the course of
any industrial, manufacturing, trade, or business process or in the
course of the development, recovery, or processing of natural or artificial
resources.
The maximum concentration of a pollutant allowed to be discharged
at any time, determined from the analysis of any discrete or composited
sample collected, independent of the industrial flow rate and the
duration of the sampling event.
A discharge, which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge
or discharges from other sources, inhibits or disrupts the POTW, its
treatment processes or operations or its sludge processes, use, or
disposal, and therefore is a cause of a violation of the Township's
NPDES permit or the prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal in
compliance with any of the following statutory/regulatory provisions
or permits issued thereunder, or any more stringent commonwealth regulations:
Section 405 of the Act; the Solid Waste Disposal Act, including Title
II, commonly referred to as the "Resource Conservation and Recovery
Act (RCRA)"; any commonwealth regulations contained in a sludge management
plan prepared pursuant to Subtitle D of the Solid Waste Disposal Act;
the Clean Air Act; the Toxic Substances Control Act; and the Marine
Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act.
Specific discharge limits developed and enforced by Cranberry
Township upon industrial or commercial facilities to implement the
general and specific discharge prohibitions listed in 40 CFR 403.5(a)(1)
and (b).
Isolation waste including; infectious agents, human blood,
blood products, pathological wastes, sharps, body parts, contaminated
bedding, surgical wastes, potentially contaminated laboratory wastes,
and dialysis wastes.
The sum of all daily discharges measured during a calendar
month divided by the number of daily discharges measured during that
month.
Any building, structure, facility, or installation from which
there is (or may be) a discharge of pollutants, the construction of
which commenced after the publication of proposed pretreatment standards
under Section 307(c) of the Act that will be applicable to such source
if such standards are thereafter promulgated in accordance with that
section, provided that:
The building, structure, facility, or installation is constructed
at a site at which no other source is located;
The building, structure, facility, or installation totally replaces
the process or production equipment that causes the discharge of pollutants
at an existing source; or
The production or wastewater generating processes of the building,
structure, facility, or installation are substantially independent
of an existing source at the same site. In determining whether these
are substantially independent, factors such as the extent to which
the new facility is integrated with the existing plant, and the extent
to which the new facility is engaged in the same general type of activity
as the existing source, should be considered.
Construction on a site at which an existing source is located
results in a modification rather than a new source if the construction
does not create a new EPA Model Pretreatment Ordinance 6 building,
structure, facility, or installation meeting the criteria of Section
1B or 1C above but otherwise alters, replaces, or adds to existing
process or production equipment.
Construction of a new source as defined under this section has
commenced if the owner or operator has:
Begun, or caused to begin, as part of a continuous on-site construction
program:
Any placement, assembly, or installation of facilities or equipment;
Significant site preparation work including clearing, excavation,
or removal of existing buildings, structures, or facilities which
is necessary for the placement, assembly, or installation of new source
facilities or equipment; or
Entering a binding contractual obligation for the purchase of
facilities or equipment which are intended to be used in its operation
within a reasonable time. Options to purchase or contracts which can
be terminated or modified without substantial loss, and contracts
for feasibility, engineering, and design studies do not constitute
a contractual obligation under this section.
A categorical industrial user who discharges 100 gpd or less
of total categorical wastewater and meets each of the following conditions:
Upon a finding that a SIU has no reasonable potential for adversely
affecting the POTW's operation or for violating any pretreatment
standard or requirement, the Township may, at any time, on its own
initiative or in response to a petition received from an industrial
user, and in accordance with procedures in 40 CFR 403.8(f)(6), determine
that such user should not be considered a significant industrial user.
Classification as an NSCIU results in reduced reporting requirements
and a reduction of oversight requirements by the POTW. It does not
relieve compliance to the categorical pretreatment standards.
Water used for cooling that does not come into direct contact
with any raw material, intermediate product, waste product, or finished
product.
A classification pursuant to the United States NAICS Manual
issued by the United States Office of Management and Budget.
A permit issued to a POTW pursuant to Section 402 of the
Act.
An appurtenance or appliance installed in a sanitary drainage
system to intercept, separate and contain oils, greases, sand and
grit.
A discharge which exits the POTW into waters of the commonwealth
in quantities or concentrations which, alone or in conjunction with
a discharge or discharges from other sources, is the cause of a violation
of the Township's NPDES permit requirements, including an increase
in the magnitude or duration of a violation.
Any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company,
corporation, association, joint-stock company, trust, estate, governmental
entity, or any other legal entity, or their legal representatives,
agents or assigns. This definition includes federal, commonwealth,
and local governmental entities.
The logarithm (Base-10) of the reciprocal of the concentration
of hydrogen ions expressed in grams per liter of solution.
Wastes including, dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator
residue, filter backwash, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions,
medical wastes, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive
materials, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt,
municipal, agricultural, industrial, and certain characteristics of
wastewater (e.g., pH, temperature, TSS, turbidity, color, BOD, COD,
toxicity, or odor).
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination
of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties
in wastewater prior to or in lieu of introducing such pollutants into
the POTW. This reduction or alteration including physical, chemical,
or biological processes; process modifications; or by other approved
means.
Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment
imposed on a user, other than a pretreatment standard.
Any prohibited discharge standards, categorical standards,
or local limits.
Absolute prohibitions against the discharge of certain substances; these prohibitions appear in § 19-201 of this chapter.
A "treatment works" as defined by Section 212 of the Act
(33 U.S.C. § 1292) which is owned by the Township. This
definition includes any devices or systems used in the collection,
conveyance, storage, treatment, recycling, and reclamation of sewage
or industrial wastes of a liquid nature.
Human excrement, and gray water including household showers,
and dish-washing operations.
Any user subject to categorical pretreatment standards or
a user that:
Discharges an average of 25,000 gpd or more of process wastewater
to the POTW (excluding sanitary, noncontact cooling, and boiler blowdown
wastewater);
Contributes a process waste stream which makes up 5% or more
of either the average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity of
the treatment plant; or
Designated as such by the Township on the basis that it has
a reasonable potential for adversely affecting the POTW's operation
or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement due to processes
employed or chemicals stored at the facility.
Any discharge at a flow rate or concentration, which could cause a violation of the prohibited discharge standards in Section § 19-201 of this chapter. A slug discharge is any discharge of a non-routine, episodic nature, including an accidental spill or a non-customary batch discharge, which has a reasonable potential to cause interference or pass-through, or in any other way violate the POTW's regulations, local limits or permit conditions.
Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural
precipitation, and resulting from such precipitation, including snowmelt.
The total suspended matter that floats on the surface of,
or is suspended in, water, wastewater, or other liquid, and that is
removable by laboratory filtering.
The Township of Cranberry, County of Butler, Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
Any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic
in regulations promulgated by the EPA under the provisions of Section
307 of the Act.
Any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution
of wastewater into the POTW.
Treated or untreated liquids entering the POTW including
water-carried industrial wastes and sewage from user(s).
That portion of the POTW which is designed to provide treatment
of municipal sewage and industrial waste.
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Editor's Note: See 35 P.S. § 691.1 et seq.
