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Home My WebLink About33856 / 86-04April 3, 1986 #10 ORDINANCE FIRST READING (CARRIED LOST LAID OVER WITHDRAWN _ PURPOSE: AMEND WASTEWATER SYSTEMS ORDINANCE INITIATED BY: CITY ADMINISTRATION A GENERAL ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF OSHKOSH AMENDING SECTIONS 24-6� 24-6.1(C), 24-6.3(A), 24-6.3(F), 24-6.3(H), 24-6.301, 24-6.7(F) AND 24-6.7(G) OF THE OSHKOSH MUNICIPAL CODE PERTAINING TO WASTEWATER SYSTEMS. The Common Council of the City of Oshkosh do ordain as follows: SECTION 1. That Section 24-6 of the Oshkosh Municipal Code is amended by relettering paragraphs (JJ) thxough (YY) to (KK) through (ZZ) respectively, and by creating new paxagraph (JJ) to read as follows: (JJ) SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER OR SIGNIFICANT USER -- Any Industrial User of the City's wastewater disposal system who: 1. has a flow greater than 5 percent of the flow in the City's wastewater treatment system, or 2. is subject to national categorical pretreatment stan- dards and/or discharges toxic pollutants in amounts potentially or actually exceeding limits set forth in this Chapter, or 3. has a significant impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on the wastewater treatment system, the quality of sludge, the system's effluent quality, or air emissions generated by the system, or 4. has an organic concentration of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), suspended solids or phosphorus greater than 210, 340 and 12 milligrams per liter (mg/1), respectively. SECTION 2. That Section 24-6.1(C) of the Oshkosh Municipal Code is amended by renumbering paragraphs (5) and (6) to paragraphs (6) and (7) respectively, by repealing and recreating paragraph (4) to read as follows: (4) Solid or viscous substances which will or may cause obstruction to the flow in sewers, or other interference with the proper operation of the wastewater system such as, but not limited to, ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags, feathers, wax, grease, tar, plastics, wood, unground garbage, whole blood, paunch manure, hair and fleshings, entrails, and cups, miJk containers, etc., either whole garbage grinders. - 23 - paper dishes, or ground by April 3, 1986 #10 Cont'd. by creating new paragraph (5) to read as follows: (5) Specific Pollutant Limitations No person shall discharge wastewater at any outfall entering the City sewer system containing the following pollutants in excess of the following maximum 24-hour average concentrations or the maximum average concentra- tion during the period of discharge if less than 24 hours. Cadmium Chromium Copper Lead Nickel zinc Cyanide (total) OTHER CONSTITUTENTS: 1.2 mg/1 7.0 mg/1 4.5 mg/1 .6 mg/1 4.1 mq/1 4.20 mg/1 1.9 mg/1 Shall not contain other sub- stances which are or may become injurious or detrimen- tal to the wastewater system. by repealing and recreating subparagraph (b) of paragraph (6), now renumbered as (7), to read as follows: (b) Wastewater containing more than �Q4�lligrams per liter of petroleum oil, non-biodegradable cutting oils, grease or other products of mineral oil origin. and by creatinq new subparagraph (1) of paragraph (6), now renumbered as (7), to read as follows: (1) Water or waste containing chlorine above 5 mg/1. SECTION 3. That Section 24-6.3(A) of the Oshkosh Municipal Code is repealed and recreated to read as follows: (A) Submission of General Dischaxge Data Within 90 days after passage of this ordinance, each user discharging industrial process wastewater to the wastewater system, if notified by the Approving Authority, shall be required to obtain a discharge permit and file with the Authority an Industrial wastewater Discharge Application, to be furnished by the authority, which shall supply pertinent data, including estimated quantity of wastewater flow, wastewater characterists and consti- tuents, plant operational characteristcs and other perti- nent information requested with respect to the industrial production process and wastes. The questionnaire must be signed by an authorized representative of the industrial user. - 24 - April 3, i986 # 10 Cont'd. Similarly, each industrial discharger desiring to make a new connection to the system, or modifying an existing process or connection to the system, shall be required to file with the authority a revised Industrial Wastewater Discharge Application, ��1� s�8�. and obtain a new wastewater discharge permit, j,_f �policabl�, before connecting to the wastewater system, or modifying its process or connection. SECTION 4. That Section 24-6.3(F)(3) of the Oshkosh Municipal Code is repealed and recreated to read as follows: (3) Periodic Monitoring Reports Any industry subject to a pretreatment standard or other requirement set forth in this ordinance, after the compliance date of such standard or requirement, or, in the case of a new industry, after commencement of the discharge to the wastewater system, shall allow the Appxoving Authocity semiannually, unless required more frequently by the authority, to monitoi the nature and concentration of prohibited or regulated substances in the industxial effluent which are limited by the Pretreatment Standards and/or other requirements hereof. The cost of any or such monitoring performed at the industry as directed by the Approving Authority shall be billed to the industry in accordance with this Ordinance. The Approving Authority may choose to have the city perform such monitoring or contract services of an engineering firm, decided through a bidding process, to conduct the monitoxing. Personnel from a contracted engineering firm shall be deemed duly authorized representatives of the city and shall have the right of entry to inspect, observe, and sample as provided for in Section 24-6.6(A) of the Sewer Use Ordinance. In addition, if required by the authority, the industry shall submit a repoxt to the authority by June 31st and December 31st of each year, or other dates as established, that should contain but is not limited to the following items: (1) A record of all measured or estimated average and maximum daily flows from designated points that occurred duting the reporting period. Flows shall be reported on the basis of actual measurement, provided, however, where cost or feasibility considerations justify, the Approving Authority may accept reports of average and maximum flows estimated by verifiable techniques. (2) Volumes and dates of discharge of all batch tank contents discharged to the sanitary sewer during the reporting period and scheduled discharges during the next reporting period. - 25 - April 3, 1986 (3) Certification statements regulated pollutants in the sewer system. #10 Cont`d. as to the status of the wastestream discharged to (4) The pollutants and pollutant concentrations as found in the Authority's monitoring of the industry's wastewater and provided to the industry. (5) The report shall be signed by an authorized representative of the industrial usec. SECTION 5. That Section 24-6.3(H) of the Oshkosh Muinicipal Code, the introductory three unnumbered paragraphs only, is repealed and recreated to read as follows: (H) Wastewater Discharge Permit No significant industrial user discharging industrial wastewaters into the City's wastewater system shall discharge or cause to be discharged into the wastewater system any wastewater except upon application to the Approving Authority and upon receipt of a wastewater permit. Application for a wastewater discharge permit shall be on a form furnished by the Authority. A waste- water permit shall be in addition to any other permit required for connection to the public sanitary sewer system. The fee required for a wastewater discharge permit shall be $20.00. All existing significant industrial wastewater discharges shall apply for a wastewater discharge permit within 30 days after the effective date of this ordinance, and shall obtain a wastewater permit within 90 days after the effective date of this Ordinance. Similarly, each significant industrial wastewater discharger desiring to make a new connection, or to modify an existing process or connection to the wastewater system shall apply for a new wastewater discharge permit, at least 90 days before desiring such modification or connection and shall receive a permit before the process modification or connection is made to the wastewater system. , (EXPLANATORY NOTE: Paragraphs (1), (2) and (3) of Section 24- 6.3(H) as now amended remain unchanged.) SECTION 6. That Section 24-6.301 of the Oshkosh Municipal Code is created to read as follows: SECTION 24-6.301 SEPTAGE DISPOSAL (A) Prohibition it shall be unlawful for any one to dispose of, or to cause the introduction of, septage into the City's waste- water system except upon application to the Approving - 26 - April 3, 1986 #10 Cont'd Authority and upon receipt of a septage disposal permit. All disposals shall comply with the provisions of this Section. (B) Definitions For purposes of this Section: (1) "Sanitary waste hauler" shall mean a person whether representing himself or another individual, a company, business or corporation engaged in the transportation of septage from a point of original to a point of disposal. (2) "Septage" shall mean scum, liquid, sludge or other waste from a septic tank, said absorption field holding tank, vault toilet, or privy. It does not include the waste from a grease trap unless mixed with other septage. (C) Permit and Fees All commercial and private sanitary waste haulers shall secure a permic rrom Lne ciLy au� septage to the wastewater system. permits, obtained at the Wastewat contain such information as the i mines is necessary including the used to transport septage, the ce and the estimated volume of sept� treatment per day or per week. E for a two-year period from Januar of the subsequent year or portioi expire on December 31 of the sub tions for renewal permits shall the year of expiration. A fee o: shall accompany each application mit. A late fee of Five Dollars for renewal applications filed a shall be paid prior to issuance � c�ucizlny ciie cai5c:ciaLye ur Applications for er Treatment Plant, shall �pproving Authority deter- number of vehicles to be pacity of each vehicle, ige to be transported for ermits shall be issued y 1 through December 31 thereof, and shall �equent year. Applica- �e made by October 31 of ' Ten Dollars ($10.00) for new or renewal per- ($5.00) shall be assessed Eter October 31. All fees �f any permit (D) Procedures 1. All regulations in Chapter 24, City of Oshkosh Municipal Code, Wastewater Systems, shall be observed. 2. Sanitary waste haulers, holding an active permit from the City of Oshkosh Wastewater Treatment Plant may discharge septage at the Oshkosh Wastewater Treatment Plant, 233 Campbell Road, from 7:00 A.M. to 8:00 P.M., Monday through Saturday, excepting holidays. 3. Discharge to the wastewater system shall be at a location designated by the Wastewater Division. Discharge at any other location without prior written approval from the Approving Authority shall be deemed a violation of this Section. - 27 - April 3, 1986 #10 Cont'd. 4. Septage discharges shall be subject to periodic inspection and testing, and a determination of character and concentration of said wastes. The determinations shall be made by the waste genecator or the permitted discharger as often as may be deemed necessary by the City of Oshkosh. 5. Upon request of oshkosh Wastewater Treatment Plant personnel, the discharger shall provide a representative sample of the septage to be discharged. 6. Oshkosh Wastewater Treatment plant employees shall direct the discharger to cease the discharge of any waste determined to be incompatible with the wastewater system. 7. Prior approval shall be required for the discharge of septage at time periods or locations other than those specifically designated. 8. A manifest form, supplied by the City of Oshkosh, shall be completed and filed with the Wastewater Treatment Plant at the time of each discharge. 9. The discharger shall clean up all spills or other deposits resulting from his activity at any point in the City of Oshkosh. (E) Service Charaes All septage discharged into the wastewater system shall be billed in accordance with this Chapter and shall be charged the fees specified in Section 24-6.5(E)(4). Additional charges may be levied for wastewater discharge of unusual strenqth, damage to the wastewater system, its structures or apparatus, or restoration of the discharge area required as a result of spills or other hauler activities. (F) Non-compliance and Penalties (1) Failure to comply with the provisions of this Section shall subject the violator to suspension of the permit for 30 days for the first violation and for 90 days foc the second violation, and to revocation of the permit for the third violation, all within two year permit time. Appeal may be had to the Approving Authority. (2) In addition to the foregoing, any person who violates any provision of this Section, upon conviction thereof, shall forfeit not less than Fifty Dollars ($50.00) for the first offense, not less than One Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($150.00) for the second offense and not less than Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00) for any subsequent offense, each forfeiture �.� April 3, 19�6 REVISED #10 Cont`d. not to exceed Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), together with the costs of prosecution, or in default of payment thereof be imprisoned in the Winnebago County jail for a period not to exceed thirty (30) days. Each violation even though such violations shall be consecutive, shall constitute a separate offense. SECTION 7. That Sections 24-6.7(F) and (G) of the Oshkosh Municipal Code are repealed and recreated to read as follows: (F) Annual Publication of Violators A list of all industrial users which, during the past 12 months, were significantly in non-compliance with the Industrial Wastewater Discharge Program requirements of this Ordinance shall be published at least annually, by the Approving Authority, in the official publication at least annually, by the Approving Authority, in the official publication daily newspaper. "Significantly in noncompliance" shall refer to violations which remain uncorrected 45 days after notification of non-compliance, �th�h .�� par� Qf � pattern � IlQn=compl.i�ns� QY�r .� l� month period, g� �h inYQ1Y� � failure � accuratelv report non�como�iance. g� which resulted ��g citv exercisina i�!� emergencv authoritv . (G) Riaht of Appeal Any industery or other discharger or any interested party shall have the right to request, in writing, within �Q davs of receiving a wastewater permit or enforcement action, an interpretation or ruling from the Approving Authority on any matter covezed by this Ordinance and shall be entitled to a prompt written reply. if the user does not file an appeal with the Approving Authority within said time, the wastewater permit or enforcement action is final. In the event that such inquiry is by an Industry and deals with matters of performance or compliance with this ordinance, or deals with a Wastewater Dischaxge Permit issued pursuant hereto for which enforcement activity relating to an alleged violation is the subject, receipt of an Industry's request shall stay all enforcement proceedings, pending receipt of aforesaid written reply. SECTION 8. 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