§ 3-5-283. Pretreatment facilities.  


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  • (a)

    Industrial users may be required by the general manager to install, in their effluent waste system immediately prior to entrance into the county sewer, a stainless steel automatic mechanically cleaned screen of either a vibration or brush type. The owner must maintain the screening facility in proper working condition at all times.

    (b)

    Users shall provide necessary wastewater treatment as required to comply with this article and shall achieve compliance with all federal categorical pretreatment standards within the time limitations as specified by the federal pretreatment regulations. Any facilities required to pretreat wastewater to a level acceptable to the authority shall be provided, operated, and maintained at the user's expense. Detailed plans showing the pretreatment facilities and operating procedures shall be submitted to the authority for review, and shall be prepared by a registered professional engineer before construction of the facility. The review of such plans and operating procedures will in no way relieve the user from the responsibility of modifying the facility as necessary to produce an effluent acceptable to the authority under the provisions of this article. Any subsequent changes in the pretreatment facilities or method of operation shall be reported to the authority prior to the user's initiation of the changes. The authority, in no way, shall be responsible for the design or operation of the plant; the review is intended only to ensure compatibility of the pretreatment system with the POTW.

    The industrial user must appoint a State of Georgia certified industrial operator to be in responsible charge of its pretreatment system. The operator should have a Class III or higher industrial operator license.

    "Operator in responsible charge" means any operator who has direct general charge of the day-to-day field operation of a wastewater treatment plant, wastewater collection system, water distribution system, or public water supply system, and who is responsible for the quality of the treated water or wastewater effluent.

    "Wastewater treatment" means biological, physical/chemical, or settling processes which remove pollutants from industrial or domestic wastewaters prior to discharge to a stream, sewer, or land. It includes only those processes permitted by the authority and specifically excludes those processes that consist solely of screening, pH adjustment, sedimentation processes without mechanical solids removal, septic tanks, grease traps, or oil-water separators.

(Ord. No. 01-09, Art. 6(h), (i), 12-03-2001)