Chapter 13.04 - GENERAL PROVISIONS

Sections:

13.04.010 - Adoption by reference.#

The "Wastewater Rules and Regulations" of the city of South Salt Lake and the Central Valley Water Reclamation Facility, dated December 2, 1986, and a copy of which is available in the office of the city recorder, be and the same is adopted in its entirety; the same includes certain minor textual changes and the adoption of a new section, to wit: Chapter 7.16, and entitled "Owner Reports and Liabilities."

(Amended during 1994 codification; Ord. 196 § 2, 1986)

13.04.020 - Amendment.#

The provisions of this division may be amended or revised from time to time by a majority vote of the POTW governing authority.

(Ord. 164 § 2 (Ch. 12), 1985)

13.04.030 - Short title.#

The rules and regulations codified in this division shall be known as the "Wastewater Control Rules and Regulations" of the city of South Salt Lake.

(Ord. 164 § 2 (§ 1.1), 1985)

13.04.040 - Purpose.#

A.

It is necessary for the health, safety and welfare of the residents of the POTW to regulate the collection of wastewater and treatment thereof to provide for maximum public benefit. The provisions of this division set forth uniform requirements for direct and indirect contributors into the wastewater collection and treatment system for the POTW, and enables the POTW to comply with all applicable local, state and federal laws.

B.

The objectives are:

1.

To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the POTW wastewater system which will interfere with the operation of the system or contaminate the resulting sludge;

2.

To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the POTW wastewater system which will pass through the system, inadequately treated, into receiving waters or the atmosphere or otherwise be incompatible with the system;

3.

To improve the opportunity to recycle and reclaim wastewaters and sludges from the system;

4.

To provide for equitable distribution among users of the cost of the POTW wastewater system; and

5.

To provide for and promote the general health, safety and welfare of the employees of the treatment plant, the member entities of Central Valley and the citizens within the jurisdiction of the member entities of Central Valley.

C.

The provisions of this division provide for the regulation of direct and indirect contributors to the POTW wastewater system through the issuance of permits and through enforcement of general requirements for all users, authorize monitoring and enforcement activities, require user reporting, assume that existing user's capability will not be preempted, and provide for the setting of fees for the equitable distribution of costs resulting from the program established in this division.

D.

The provisions of this division shall apply to the POTW and to persons outside the POTW who are, by contract or agreement with the POTW, users of the POTW. The provisions of this division shall provide for enforcement and penalties for violations.

(Ord. 164 § 2 (§ 1.2), 1985)

13.04.050 - Definitions.#

Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the following terms and phrases, as used in these rules and regulations, shall have the meanings designated in this section:

"Act" or "The Act" means the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, P.L. 92-500 also known as the Clean Water Act, including the amendments made by the Clean Water Act of 1977, P.L. 95-217, and any subsequent amendments.

"Approval authority" means the director in an NPDES state with an approved state pretreatment program and the Administrator of the EPA in a nonNPDES state or NPDES state without an approved state pretreatment program.

"Authorized representative of industrial user" means and includes: 1.

A principal executive officer of at least the level of vice president, if the industrial user is a corporation;

2.

A general partner or proprietor if the industrial user is a partnership or proprietorship, respectively; and

3.

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.

"Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD)" means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure, five days at twenty (20) degrees centigrade expressed in terms of weight and concentration (milligrams per liter (mg/l)). Laboratory determinations shall be made in accordance with procedures set forth in Standard Methods.

"Building or lateral sewer" means a sewer conveying the wastewater of a user from a residence building or other structure to a POTW sewer, including direct connections to a POTW sewer where permitted by the POTW. A lateral sewer is a building sewer.

"Business classification code (BCC)" means a classification of dischargers based on the 1972 Standards Industrial Classification Manual, Bureau of the Budget of the United States of America.

"Categorical standards" means National Categorical Pretreatment Standards or Pretreatment Standard.

"Chemical oxygen demand (COD)" means the oxygen equivalent of that portion of organic matter in a wastewater sample that is susceptible to oxidation by a strong chemical oxidant.

"Chlorine demand" means the amount of chlorine required to produce a free chlorine residual of 0.1 mg/l after a contact time of fifteen (15) minutes as measured by the DPD (N, N, Diethylp-Phenylene - Diamine) method on a sample at a temperature of twenty (20) degrees centigrade in conformance with Standard Methods.

"Compatible pollutant" means biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, pH and fecal coliform bacteria; plus any additional pollutants identified in the publicly owned treatment work's NPDES permit, where the publicly owned treatment work is designed to treat such pollutants and, in fact, does treat such pollutants to the degree required by the POTW's NPDES permit.

"Construction standards" means the general construction requirements adopted by the POTW for installation of sewerage facilities.

"Contamination" means an impairment of the quality of the waters of the state by waste to a degree which creates a hazard to the environmental and/or public health through poisoning or through the spread of disease, as described in Standard Methods.

"Control authority" refers to the approval authority defined in this section; or the manager, if the POTW has an approved pretreatment program under provisions of 40 CFR, 403.11.

"Cooling water" means the water discharged from any use such as air conditioning, cooling or refrigeration, to which the only pollutant added is heat.

"Direct discharge" means the discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly to the waters of the state of Utah.

"Discharger" means any person who discharges or causes the discharge of wastewater to a POTW sewer system.

"Environmental Protection Agency or EPA" means the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, or where appropriate, the term may also be used as a designation for the administrator or other duly authorized official of said agency.

"Garbage" means solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food from the handling, storage and sale of produce.

"Grab sample" means a sample which 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.

"Holding tank sewage" means any wastewater from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets, campers, trailers, septic tanks, sealed vaults and vacuum-pump tank trucks.

"Incompatible pollutant" means all pollutants other than compatible pollutants as defined in this section.

"Indirect discharge" means the discharge or the introduction of nondomestic pollutants from any source regulated under Section 307(b) or (c) of the Act, (33, U.S.C. 1317), into the POTW (including holding tank waste discharged into the system).

"Industrial user" means any industrial user of the wastewater disposal system who: 1.

Has a discharge flow of twenty-five thousand (25,000) gallons or more within a twenty-four (24) hour period;

2.

Has a flow greater than five percent of the flow in the POTW wastewater treatment system;

3.

Has in his wastes, toxic pollutants as defined in this section, or pursuant to Section 307 of the Act or Utah Statutes and Rules; or

4.

Is found by the POTW, Utah State Water Pollution Committee or the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to have significant impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on the wastewater treatment system, the quality of a sludge, the system's effluent quality or air emissions generated by the system.

"Interference" means the inhibition or disruption of the POTW treatment processes or operations or which contributes to a violation of any requirement of the POTW NPDES permit. The term includes prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal by the POTW in accordance with 405 of the Act, (33 U.S.C. 1345) or any criteria, guidelines or regulations developed pursuant to the Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA), the Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act or more stringent state criteria (including those contained in any state sludge management plan prepared pursuant to Title IV of SWDA) applicable to the method of treatment and disposal or use employed by the POTW.

"Manager" means the chief executive officer of the POTW or his designated representative.

"National Categorical Pretreatment Standard" or "Pretreatment Standard" means any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by the EPA in accordance with Section 307(b) and (c) of the Act (33 U.S.C. 1347) which applies to a specific category of industrial user.

"National Pollution Discharge Elimination System or NPDES permit" means a permit issued pursuant to Section 402 of the Act (33 U.S.C. 1342).

"National Prohibitive Discharge Standard" or "Prohibitive Discharge Standard" means any regulation developed under the authority of 307(b) of the Act and 40 CFR, Section 403.5.

"New source" means any wastewater source commenced after the publication of proposed regulations prescribing a section 307(c) (33 U.S.C. 1317) categorical pretreatment standard which will be applicable to such source, if such standard is thereafter promulgated within one hundred twenty (120) days of proposal in the Federal Register. Where the standard is promulgated later than one hundred twenty (120) days after proposal, a new source means any source, the construction of which is commenced after the date of promulgation of the standard.

"Person" means any individual, partnership, co-partnership, firm, company, corporation, association, joint stock company, trust, estate, governmental entity or any other legal entity or their legal representatives, agents or assigns. The masculine gender shall include the feminine, the singular shall include the plural where indicated by context.

"pH" means the logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen ions expressed in grams per liter of the solution.

"Pollution" or "pollutant" means the manmade or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical, biological and radiological integrity of water. Including, but not limited to, any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discharged equipment, rock, stand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal and agricultural waste discharged into water.

"POTW" refers to the sanitary sewer collection system physically connected to each user and to all lines and treatment works connected to the sewer system and to the treatment works as defined in this section.

"POTW governing authority" refers to the governing authority of each political subdivision operating all or a portion of a POTW.

"POTW treatment plant" means that portion of the publicly owned treatment works designed to provide treatment for wastewater.

"Pretreatment" or "treatment" means 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 a POTW. The reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical or biological processes or process changes by other means, except as prohibited by 40 CFR Section 403.6(d).

"Pretreatment requirements" means any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment, other than a National Pretreatment Standard imposed on an industrial user.

"Publicly owned treatment works (POTW)" means a treatment works as defined by Section 212 of the Act, (33 U.S.C. 1291) which is owned by the state of Utah or one or more political subdivisions having statutory authority to collect and treat sewage. This definition includes any sewers that convey wastewater to the POTW treatment plant, except building or lateral sewers. For the purpose of this division, POTW shall also include any sewers that convey wastewater to the POTW from persons outside the POTW boundaries who are by contract or agreement with the POTW actually users of the POTW.

"Receiving water quality requirements" means requirements for the POTW's treatment plant effluent established by the POTW or by applicable state or federal regulatory agencies for the protection of receiving water quality. Such requirements shall include effluent limitations and waste discharge standards, requirements, limitations or prohibitions which may be established or adopted from time to time by state or federal laws or regulatory agencies.

"Sanitary sewer" means the pipe or conduit system and appurtenances, for the collection, transportation, pumping and treatment of sewage. This definition shall also include the terms "public sewer," "sewer system," "POTW sewer" and "sewer."

"Sewage" means the water-borne wastes discharged to the sanitary sewer from buildings for residential, business, institutional and industrial purposes. Wastewater and sewage are synonymous; thus, they are interchangeable.

"Shall" and "will" are mandatory; "may" is permissive.

"Slug" means any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which, in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow, exceeds for any one period of duration longer than fifteen (15) minutes more than five times the average twenty-four (24)-hour concentration or flows during the normal operation of the user.

"Standard industrial classification (SIC)" means a classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget, 1972.

"Standard Methods" means procedures described in the latest edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater" as published by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation or such other procedures as may be adopted by the POTW.

"State" means the state of Utah.

"Storm sewer" means a sewer that carries only storm, surface and groundwater drainage.

"Stormwater" means any flow occurring during or following any form of natural precipitation and resulting therefrom.

"Subdivision" means the division of a tract, or lot or parcel of land into three or more lots, plots, sites or other divisions of land for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of sale or of building development or redevelopment; provided, however, that divisions of land for agricultural purposes or for commercial, manufacturing or industrial purposes shall be exempt. Further, the above definition shall not apply to the sale or conveyance of any parcel of land which may be shown as one of the lots of a subdivision of which a plat has theretofor been recorded in the office of the county recorder. The word subdivide and any derivative thereof shall have references to the term subdivision as herein defined.

"Suspended solids" means the total suspended matter that floats on the surface of, or is suspended in, water, wastewater or other liquids, and which is removable by laboratory filtering in accordance with procedures set forth in Standard Procedures.

"Toxic pollutant" means any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed in Schedule 1, a copy of which is available in the office of the city recorder, as toxic or in regulations promulgated by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under Section 307(a) of the Act.

"User" means any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution of wastewater into a POTW.

"Wastewater" means the liquid- and water-carried industrial or domestic wastes from dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities and institutions, together with any infiltrating groundwater, surface water and Stormwater that may be present, whether treated or untreated, which enters the POTW.

"Wastewater discharge permit." As set forth in Chapter 13.12 of this code.

"Wastewater strength" means the quality of wastewater discharged as measured by its elements, including its constituents and characteristics.

"Waters of the state" means all streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, water courses, waterways, wells, springs, reservoirs, aquifiers, irrigation systems, drainage system and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface or groundwater, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained within, flow through or border upon the state or any portion thereof.

"Viscosity" means the property of a fluid that resists internal flow by releasing counteracting forces.

(Amended during 1994 codification; Ord. 164 § 2 (§ 1.3), 1985)

13.04.060 - Abbreviations.#

The following abbreviations have the designated meanings as set out in this section: BOD ..... Biochemical oxygen demand;

CFR ..... Code of Federal Regulations;

cp ..... Centipoise = 0.01 poise = c.g.s; unit of absolute viscosity gm sec x cm;

COD ..... Chemical oxygen demand

EPA ..... United States Environmental Protection Agency or its successor;

l ..... Liter;

mg ..... Milligrams;

mg/l ..... Milligrams per liter;

NPDES ..... National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System;

POTW ..... Publicly owned treatment works;

SIC ..... Standard Industrial Classification;

SWDA ..... Solid Waste Disposal Act, 42 USC 6901, et seq;

USC ..... United States Code;

TSS ..... Total suspended solids.

(Ord. 164 § 2 (§ 1.4), 1985)