8573-95 Amending Article 2 Chapter 17 Municipal Code Pretreatment Requirements Public Sewers

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construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool, or other facility intended or used for the disposal of sewage. (h) The owner of all houses, buildings or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes, situated within the City and abutting on any street, alley or right-of-way in which there is now located a public sanitary or combined sewer of the City is hereby required at his expense to install suitable toilet facilities therein, and to connect such facilities directly with the proper public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance, within ninety (90) days after date of official notice to do so, provided that said public sewer is within three hundred (300) feet of the property line. Sec. 17-10 . Pretreatment of Industrial Wastes . Pretreatment of industrial wastes from major contributing industries prior to discharge to the treatment works is required and is subject to the Rules and Regulations adopted by the EPA (40 CFR Part 403) , and "Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures for Analysis of Pollutants" (40 CFR Part 136) , in addition to any more stringent requirements established by the City and subsequent State or Federal Guidelines and Rules and Regulations . (a) Limitations on wastewater strength: (1) The National Categorical Pretreatment Standards, located in 40 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter N, Parts 405- 471, are hereby adopted and incorporated by reference into this code and include amendments to those standards that occur hereafter as the same are published in the CFR with effective dates as fixed therein. An application for modification of the National Categorical Pretreatment Standards may be considered by the Board of Public Works when the wastewater treatment plant achieves consistent removal of the pollutants described therein. (2) State and local requirements and limitations on discharges shall be met by all dischargers when such requirements and limitations are more stringent than federal requirements and limitations . (3) No discharger shall use potable water to dilute a discharge as a substitute for adequate treatment of prohibited substances to achieve compliance with the standards set forth in this division. (4) Under no circumstances shall a discharger release water or waste containing concentrations of the following substances in amounts exceeding the stated values : Parameter 1-Day-Maximum 4-Day Average Arsenic 1 . 0 0 .2 Cadmium 2 .7 1 .2 Copper 5. 0 3 .5 Cyanide 1 .5 0 .5 Lead 2 . 0 0 . 8 Mercury 0 . 1 0 . 005 Nickel 5 . 0 2 .5 Total Chromium 7 .5 5 . 0 Zinc 10 . 0 6 . 0