The
"Pretreatment Program Rules and Regulations" sets forth uniform
requirements for direct and indirect contributors into the wastewater
collection and treatment system of the Board of Water and Sewer
Commissioners of the City of Mobile (the BOARD); enables the BOARD
to comply with all applicable State and Federal laws required by
the Clean Water Act of 1977 and the General Pretreatment Regulations
(40 CFR, Part 403).
The
"Pretreatment Program Rules and Regulations" provides for the regulation
of direct and indirect contributors to the BOARD’s wastewater system
through the issuance of contracts to certain non-domestic users
and through enforcement of general requirements for the other users,
authorizes monitoring and enforcement activities, requires user
reporting, establishes administrative review procedures, assumes
that existing customer’s capacity will not be preempted, and provides
for the setting of fees for the equitable distribution of costs
resulting from the program established herein.
The
"Pretreatment Program Rules and Regulations" shall apply to persons
both within and outside the city limits of the City of Mobile who
are, by contract or agreement with the BOARD, users of the BOARD’s
wastewater treatment facilities. Any user that discharges wastewater
into the BOARD’s wastewater system, shall comply with the terms
and conditions established in the "Pretreatment Program Rules and
Regulations", as well as any permits or orders issued hereunder.
Except as otherwise provided herein, the Director of the Mobile
Area Water & Sewer System or his designees shall administer,
implement, and enforce the provisions of the "Pretreatment Program
Rules and Regulations". Any powers granted to or duties imposed
upon the Director may be delegated by the Director to other BOARD
personnel.
B.
OBJECTIVES
1.
Prevent
the introduction of pollutants into the Board’s wastewater system
that will interfere with the operation of the system or negatively
affect the quality of the resulting sludge or its marketability.
2. Prevent
the introduction of pollutants into the BOARD's wastewater system
which will pass through the system, inadequately treated, into receiving
waters or the atmosphere or otherwise be incompatible with the system.
3.
Provide for the equitable distribution of the cost of the BOARD’s
wastewater system.
4.
Protect, in addition to the general public, the BOARD’s personnel
who may come into contact with sewage, sludge and effluent in the
course of their employment.
5.
Ensure the BOARD’S compliance with its NPDES permit conditions,
sludge use and disposal requirements and any other Federal or State
laws to which the BOARD’s wastewater system may be subject.
6.
Improve the opportunity to recycle and reclaim wastewater and sludges
from the system.
Unless
the context specifically indicates otherwise, the following terms
and phrases, as used in the "Pretreatment Program Rules and Regulations"
shall have the meanings hereinafter designated:
1.
Act or "the Act" - The Federal Water Pollution
Control Act, also known as the Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C.
1251 et. seq.
2.
Approval Authority
- The Approval Authority shall be the Alabama Department of Environmental
Management (ADEM), the successor to AWIC.
3.
Authorized Representative of Industrial User
- An authorized representative of an Industrial User may be:
a.
A principal executive officer of at least the level of vice-president,
if the Industrial User is a corporation.
b.
A general partner or proprietor if the industrial user is a partnership
or proprietorship, respectively.
c.
A duly authorized representative of the individual designated
above if such representative is responsible for the overall operation
of the facilities from which the indirect discharge originates.
4.
Batch Process - A treatment process in which a tank or reactor
is filled, the wastewater (or solution) is treated or a chemical
solution is prepared, and the tank is emptied. The tank may then
be filled and the process repeated. Batch processes are also used
to cleanse, stabilize or condition chemical solutions for use in
the industrial manufacturing and treatment processes.
5.
Biochemical Oxygen Demand -
Shall mean the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5)
days at 20°
centigrade, expressed in parts per million by weight.
6.
BOARD - Shall
mean the Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners of the City of Mobile.
7. Building Sewer - Shall mean the extension from the building
drain to the sewer lateral at the property line or other lawful
place of disposal.
8. Categorical Standards - National Categorical Pretreatment
Standards or Pretreatment Standards.
9. City - The City of Mobile or the City Commission or City
Council of the City of Mobile.
10. Chemical Oxygen Demand - Shall mean the quantity of dissolved
oxygen required for the chemical oxidation of decomposable matter
under aerobic conditions.
11. Composite Sample - Shall be time-composite sample collected
using automatic sampling equipment or a minimum of eight (8) equal
volume grab samples collected over equal time intervals for the
total period of discharge not to exceed 24 hours.
12. Contractual Arrangement - Shall mean a contract between
a discharger and the BOARD. A permit issued by the BOARD to a discharger
is also referred to as a contractual arrangement.
13. Cooling Water - The water discharged from any use such
as air conditioning, cooling or refrigeration, or to which the only
pollutant added is heat.
14. Constituents - Shall mean the combination of particles,
chemicals or 15. conditions which exist in the industrial waste.
15.
Direct Discharge - The discharge of treated or untreated wastewater
directly to the waters of the State of Alabama.
16. Director - The person designated by the BOARD to supervise
the operation of the publicly owned treatment works and who is charged
with certain duties and responsibilities by this article, or his
duly authorized representative.
17. Discharge - The introduction of non-domestic pollutants
into the BOARD’s wastewater collection and treatment system by an
industrial user.
18. Effluent - Shall mean the discharge of flow from a reservoir,
basin, treatment process or treatment facility.
19. Effluent Limits - Pollutant limitations developed by
a POTW for each industrial plant discharging to the POTW system.
At a minimum, all industrial facilities are required to comply with
federal prohibited discharge standards. The industries covered by
federal categorical standards must also comply with the appropriate
discharge limitations. The POTW may also establish local limits
in excess of or in addition to the federal and state standards for
some or all of its industrial users.
20. Environmental Protection Agency - A regulatory agency
established by the U. S. Congress to administer the nation’s environmental
laws; the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, or where appropriate
the term may also be used as designation for the Administrator or
other duly authorized official of said agency.
21. Grab Sample - A sample that is taken from a waste stream
on a one-time basis with no regard to the flow in the waste stream
and without consideration of time.
22. Holding Tank Waste - Any waste from holding tanks such
as vessels, chemical toilets, campers, trailers, septic tanks, and
vacuum-pump tank trucks.
23. Indirect Discharge - The discharge or the introduction
of non-domestic pollutants from any source regulated under Section
307(b) or (c) of the Act, (33 U.S.C. 1317), into the BOARD’s wastewater
treatment facilities (including holding tank waste discharged into
the system).
24. Industrial Plant - Shall mean any plant producing liquid
waste, with or without bearing suspended solids, required to be
discharged either with or without pretreatment, into the BOARD’s
wastewater system.
25. Industrial Plant Site - Shall mean a parcel of land occupied
by a facility that discharges industrial waste.
26. Industrial Surcharge – Shall mean an additional service
charge assessed against industries in the BOARD’s service system
area whose waste characteristics exceed those of normal wastewater,
industrial waste or the liquid waste other than domestic sewage
resulting from processes or operations employed in industrial establishments.
Normal sewage is that waste have BOD of 280 ppm.
27. Industrial Wastewater - Non-domestic wastewater originating
from a non-residential source.
28. Interference - The inhibition or disruption of the BOARD’s
treatment processes or operations that contributes to a violation
of any requirement of the BOARD’s Permit. The term includes prevention
of sewage sludge use or disposal by the BOARD in accordance with
405 of the Act, (33 U.S.C. 1345) or any Solid Waste Disposal Act
(SWDA), the Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act, applicable
to the method of disposal or use employed by the BOARD.
29. National Pollution Discharge Elimination System Permit -
A permit issued pursuant to Section 402 of the Act (33 U.S.C.
1342).
30. Non-domestic Pollutant - Any substance other than human
excrement or household gray water.
31. Person or Owner - Shall mean any individual, partnership,
copartnership, firm, company, corporation, association, joint stock
company, trust, estate, governmental entity, or any other legal
entity, or their legal representative agents or assigns. The masculine
gender shall include the feminine, the singular shall include the
plural where indicated by the context.
32. pH - Shall mean the reciprocal of the log of the weight
of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
33. Pollution - Shall mean any dredged spoil, solid waste,
incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions,
chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat,
wrecked or discharged equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and industrial,
municipal, and agricultural waste discharged into water.
34. Pretreatment or Treatment - Shall mean the reduction
of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants, or the
alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater to
a less harmful state prior to or in lieu of discharging or otherwise
introducing such pollutants into the Board’s wastewater treatment
facilities. Pretreatment shall also mean that biological, physical
or chemical treatment given to waste are those processes utilized
for this purpose before discharge into the sanitary sewer system.
35. Pretreatment Specialist - BOARD personnel who conduct
inspections of industrial pretreatment facilities and food service
facilities to ensure protection of the environment and compliance
with general and categorical pretreatment regulations.
36. Shall - is mandatory May is permissive.
37. Slug load - Any pollutant (including BOD) released in
a discharge at a flow or concentration that will cause a violation
of the specific discharge prohibition.
38. Suspended Solids - Shall mean solids that either float
on the surface of, or that are in suspension in water, sewage or
other liquids and which are removable by laboratory filtering.
39. Toxic Pollutant - Any pollutant or combination of pollutants
listed as toxic in regulations promulgated by the Administrator
of the Environmental Protection Agency under the provision of CWA
307(a) or other Acts.
40. Treatment plant - Any device or system used in collection,
storage, treatment, recycling and/or reclamation of wastewater.
41. User - Any person who contributes, causes or permits
the contribution of wastewater into the BOARD’s wastewater treatment
facilities also herein referred to as discharger.
42. Wastewater or Wastes - Shall mean the used water and
water-carried solids from the community that flow into the BOARD’s
wastewater system.
43. Waters of the State - All streams, lakes, ponds, marshes,
watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, reservoir, aquifers, irrigation
systems, drainage systems and all other bodies or accumulations
of water, surface or underground, natural or artificial, public
or private, which are contained within, flow through, or border
upon the State or any portion thereof.
