Legal Documents of Kingston

In order to comply with Federal Industrial Pretreatment Rules 40 CFR part 403 and Tennessee Pretreatment Rules 1200-4-14 and to fulfill the purpose and policy of this chapter, the following regulations are adopted.

1. User discharge restrictions. All system users must follow the general and specific discharge regulations specified in § 18-209.
2. Users wishing to discharge pollutants at higher concentrations than Table A Plant Protection Criteria of § 18-209, or those dischargers who are classified as significant industrial users will be required to meet the requirements of this chapter. Users who discharge waste which falls under the criteria specified in this chapter and who fail to or refuse to follow the provisions shall face termination of service and/or enforcement action specified in § 18-305.
3. Discharge regulation. Discharges to the sewer system shall be regulated through use of a permitting system. The permitting system may include any or all of the following activities: completion of survey/application forms, issuance of permits, oversight of users monitoring and permit compliance, use of compliance schedules, inspections of industrial processes, wastewater processing, and chemical storage, public notice of permit system changes, and public notice of users found in significant noncompliance.
4. Surcharge threshold and maximum concentrations. Dischargers of high strength waste may be subject to surcharges based on the following surcharge thresholds. Maximum concentrations may also be established for some users.
   
   
   
   

   Table B - Surcharge and Maximum Limits

   Parameter	Surcharge Threshold	Maximum Concentration
   BOD	220	350
   COD	440	700
   MBAS	5.00	10.0
   Oil and grease	50.00	100
   Suspended solids	220	350
   Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen (TKN)	45	90.00

5. User inventory. The utility director will maintain an up-to-date inventory of users whose waste does or may fall into the requirements of this chapter, and will notify the users of their status.
6. Right to establish more restrictive criteria. No statement in this chapter is intended or may be construed to prohibit the pretreatment coordinator from establishing specific wastewater discharge criteria which are more restrictive when wastes are determined to be harmful or destructive to the facilities of the WWF or to create a public nuisance, or to cause the discharge of the WWF to violate effluent or stream quality standards, or to interfere with the use or handling of sludge, or to pass through the WWF resulting in a violation of the NPDES permit, or to exceed industrial pretreatment standards for discharge to municipal wastewater treatment systems as imposed or as may be imposed by the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation and/or the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
7. Combined waste stream formula. When wastewater subject to categorical pretreatment standards is mixed with wastewater not regulated by the same standard, the permitting authority may impose an alternate limit using the combined waste stream formula. (modified)