Industrial Wastewater Permit - Honeywell International Inc.

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22 Honeywell International Industrial Discharge Permit n. Any waters or wastes having a pH lower than 6.0, any waters or wastes having a pH in excess of 11.0, or having any corrosive property capable of causing damage or hazard to structures, equipment, or personnel of the publicly owned treatment works (POTW), or that interferes with any treatment process. o. Noxious or malodorous liquids, gases, solids, or other wastewater which, either singly or by interaction with other wastes, are sufficient to create a public nuisance or a hazard to life, or to prevent entry into the sewers for maintenance or repair. p. Sludges, screenings, or other residues from the pretreatment of industrial wastes. q. Medical Wastes, except as specifically authorized by the Director. r. Wastewater causing, alone or in conjunction with other sources, the POTW’s effluent to fail a toxicity test. s. Materials which exert or cause: i. Unusual concentrations of inert suspended solids (S.S.) (such as, but not limited to, Fullers earth, lime slurries and lime residues) or of dissolved solids (such as, but not limited to, sodium chloride and sodium sulfate). ii. Excessive discoloration (such as, but not limited to, dye wastes and vegetable tanning solutions). iii. Unusual S.S., CBOD, BOD, ammonia-nitrogen, phosphorus, or chlorine requirements in such quantities as to constitute a significant load on the sewage treatment works. iv. Unusual volume of flow or concentration of wastes constituting "slugs," as defined herein. t. Waters or wastes containing substances which are not amenable to treatment or reduction by the sewage treatment processes employed, or are amenable to treatment only to such degree that the sewage treatment plant effluent will be compromised. u. It shall be unlawful for any permittee to place, deposit, permit to be deposited, or discharged in any manner whatsoever, any substance into a sewer at a point different than the proposed sewer connection to the sanitary sewer system. 3. Dilution Prohibition. No permittee 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 Director may impose mass limitations on permittees who are using dilution to meet applicable Pretreatment Standards or Requirements or in other cases when the imposition of mass limitations is appropriate.