8409-93 Amending Articles 1 & 2 of Chapter 17 Pretreatment Requirements the Public Sewers

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Ir ' 1 � r (b) No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged to any sanitary sewer, either directly or indirectly, storm water, surface water, ground water, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, cooling water, unpolluted water or unpolluted industrial water. (c) Storm water, surface water, ground water, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, cooling water, unpolluted water or unpolluted industrial process water may be admitted to storm sewers which have adequate capacity for their accommodation. No person shall use such sewers, however, without the specific permission of the City. (d) No new connection shall be made unless there is capacity available to all downstream sewers, lift stations, force mains and the sewage treatment plant, including capacity for BOD and S .S . (e) No person shall place, deposit or permit to be deposited in any unsanitary manner on public or private property within the jurisdiction of the City, any wastewater or other polluted water except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with provisions of this ordinance and the NPDES permit . (f) No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged to any natural outlet any wastewater or other polluted water except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with provisions of this ordinance and a NPDES permit . (g) Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful to 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) National Categorical Pretreatment Standards as promulgated by the (EPA}- shall be met by all affected nonresidential waste dischargers .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