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Tri-Pac Inc. Industrial Wastewater Discharge Permit page 7 of 36 <br />Facility Description <br /> <br />Tri-Pac, Inc engages in the mixing, compounding, and formulating of pharmaceutical and health <br />related products in dosage form for consumer use. The blending of chemicals and city water take <br />place to produce pharmaceutical and health related products. Blending materials are bottled to <br />manufacture final products. <br /> <br />PART I – EFFLUENT LIMITATION <br /> <br />A. Sample Port and Collection Location <br />1. Sample Site Outfall # 001 is located at the West end of the building next to an overhead door <br />between the Warehouse and Pharamaceutical Room #1. The Teflon Sampling Tube is fixed <br />under the Flow Meter Interface. <br /> <br />2. Any discharge of water or waste having a pH lower than 6.0 S.U. or a pH higher than 11.0 S.U. <br />is prohibited. In addition, the permittee’s wastewater discharge shall not exceed the following <br />effluent limitations: <br /> <br /> Effluent limitations for Sample Site Outfall # 001: <br />Parameter Daily Maximum Limit (mg/L) Monthly Average Limit (mg/L) <br />Arsenic (mg/L) Report* Report* <br />Cadmium (mg/L) Report* Report* <br />Chromium (mg/L) Report* Report* <br />Copper (mg/L) Report* Report* <br />Lead (mg/L) Report* Report* <br />Mercury (mg/L) 0.00019 -na- <br />Nickel (mg/l) Report* Report* <br />Silver (mg/L) Report* Report* <br />Zinc (mg/L) Report* Report* <br />Oil and grease (mg/l) 300 -na- <br />Oil and Grease TPH (mg/l) 100 -na- <br />Acetone 20.7 8.2 <br />n-Amyl acetate 20.7 8.2 <br />Ethyl acetate 20.7 8.2 <br />Isopropyl acetate 20.7 8.2 <br />Methylene chloride 3.0 0.7 <br />*Note: In accordance with the City of South Bend’s “What You Need Is What You Get” allocation method, local Daily Maximum and Monthly <br />Average limits have only been developed for those pollutants that have been observed at or above certain concentrations in each Significant <br />Industrial User’s wastewater discharge. If “Report” appears on the table, it has been determined that an allocation of this pollutant is not <br />necessary. The permittee shall compare any monitoring data for these pollutants with the screening table in Part I (3) below. If pollutant <br />concentrations above the screening levels are observed, a local Daily Maximum and/or Monthly Average limit may be developed for that <br />pollutant.