§ 50.44. Purpose and policy.

A.

This article sets forth uniform requirements for discharges into the City's wastewater collection and treatment system, and enables the city to protect public health in conformity with all applicable local, state and federal laws related thereto.

B.

The objectives of this article are:

1.

To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the City's wastewater system which will interfere with the normal operation of the system, safety of the employees or contaminate the resulting municipal sludge;

2.

To prevent the introduction of the type and quality of pollutants into the City's wastewater system which do not receive adequate treatment in the water pollution control station, and which will pass through all or a portion of the system or bypass the system into the navigable waters of the United States or the atmosphere or otherwise be incompatible with the system. The type and quality of pollutants discharged into the City's wastewater system or storm water system shall not cause a degradation of the quality of the receiving waters and/or violation of the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit issued to the city by Ohio EPA as a primacy state for USEPA;

3.

To improve the opportunity to recycle and reclaim wastewater and sludge from the system;

4.

To satisfy the state and federal requirements that the city develop and implement an industrial waste control program in compliance with the Clean Water Act of 1977 and the General Pretreatment Regulations for New and Existing Sources, 40 CFR Part 403. Further, this article shall satisfy the state and federal requirements that the city develop and implement a Storm Water Quality Management Program in accordance with the Water Quality Act of 1987, 40 CFR Part 402(P).

5.

To provide a procedure by which the city can enforce the elimination, up to the specified storm event design, of separate sanitary sewer overflows, elimination of dry weather combined sewer overflows, reduction and control of wet weather combined sewer overflows in community sewer systems and control peak flows from community sewer systems at the point of connection into sewers owned by the city or another community.

C.

This article provides for the regulation of discharges into the City's wastewater system and storm water system through the issuance of permits and the enforcement of administrative regulations. This article does not provide for the recovery of operations, maintenance or replacement costs of the Water Pollution Control Station or other costs associated with the construction of collection and treatment systems used by industrial dischargers, in proportion to their use of the Water Pollution Control Station, which are the subject of separate enactments.

(Ord. 677-1994; Ord. 443-1994; Ord. 173-1991)