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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORDINANCE - 816 - 6/27/1972 - INDUSTRIAL WASTES INTO TREATMENT PLANTSORDINANCE NO. 816 AN ORDINANCE AMFNDING CHAPTER 22A OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE, BY ADDING A NEW SECTION PERTAINING TO THE ADMISSION OF INDUSTRIAL WASTES INTO THE SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTSOF THE VILLAGE OF ELK GROVE VILLAGE NOW,, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED, by the President and Board of Trustees of the Village of Elk Grove Village, Counties of Cook and DuPage, Illinois, as follows: Section 1: That Chapter 22A of the Municipal Code of the Village of Elk Grove Village is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section entitled Industrial Wastes into the Sewage Treatment Plant, said section to read as follows: A. GENERAL It shall be the policy of the Village of Elk Grove Village that no sewerage system, which is planned or designed to discharge into any of the aforesaid waters any industrial wastes or other wastes that will cause the pollution of such waters, may be installed unless a written permit for such sewerage system has been granted by the Village of Elk Grove Village Water and Sewer Department. It shall be the policy of the Village of Elk Grove Village to admit to its sewage works those types and quantities of industrial waste that are not harmful or damaging to the structures, processes or operation of the sewage works and are not specifically prohibited by this ordinance, and it shall be the policy of the Village of Elk Grove Village to prohibit discharge of industrial wastes, which will cause pollution, directly into the waters, water- course atercourse or natural outlets within the boundaries of Elk Grove Village. Whenever necessary, in the opinion of the Board of Trustees, the owner, operator or tenant of any industrial plant or other establishment dis- charging or proposing to discharge industrial wastes into any waters, sewer, water course or natural outlet in the Village of Elk Grove Village, at such owner's, operator's or tenant's expense, shall provide such preliminary treatment or handling facilities as may be necessary to: (a) Reduce or modify the objectionable characteristics or con- stituents of such industrial wastes to meet the limits or conditions provided for in Section 22A901 hereof, and to comply with the pollution restrictions as indicated in the above definition of pollution, (b) Control the quantities and rates of discharge of such Indust- rial wastes over a twenty-four (24) hour day and a seven (7) day week to prevent surge discharges which may place an un- reasonable burden upon the Sewage works of the Village of Elk Grove Village. Before any permit for the construction of preliminary treatment or hand- ling facilities will be issued, plans, specifications and other pertinent data or information relating to the proposed preliminary treatment or handling facilities shall be submitted by the industry for the approval of the Board of Trustees, and no permit shall be issued and no construc- tion of such facilities shall be commenced without the prior written app- roval of the Board of Trustees. No substantial alteration or addition to or in the sewer system or preliminary treatment or handling facilities shall be made without the prior written approval of the Board of Trustees. 22A901: PROHLBITED WASTES Except as otherwise provided by the Board of Trustees pursuant to the provisions hereof, no person shall discharge or cause to be discharges the following described wastes or waters into any sewer, water course, natural outlet or waters with the Village of Elk Grove Village. (a) Water or wastes to be substantially free of all oils or greases if such water or wastes are, in the opinion of the Board of Trustees, sufficient (1) to interfere with the biological processes of a sewage treatment plant;(2) interfere with proper operation of the sewage works; (3) cause pollution as herein defined. (b) Liquids, solids, or gases which by reason of their nature or quantity are sufficient to cause fire or exp- losion or be injurious in any other way to the sewage works structures or to the operation of the sewage works. (c) Noxious or malodorous liquids, gases or substances which either singly or by interaction with other wastes are sufficient to prevent entry into the sewers for their maintenance and repair. (d) Water or wastes having a pHlower than 4.5 or higher than 10.0 or having corrosive properties sufficient to cause damage or hazards to structures, equipment, or personnel of the sewage works or interfering with the proper opera- tion of the sewerage system or sewage treatment works. (e) Water or wastes containing toxic substances in quantities which are sufficient to interfere with the biological pro- cesses of the sewage treatment works. (f) Garbage that has not been ground or comminuted to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely in sus- pension under conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half inch in any dimension. (g) Radio -active wastes unless they comply with the Atomic Energy Commission Act of 1954 (63 Stat. 919) as amended and Part 20, Sub -Part D- Waste Disposal, Section 20.303, of the Regulations issued by the Atomic Energy Commission or amendments, thereto. (h) Solid or viscous wastes which cause obstruction to the flow in sewers or other interference with the proper operation of the sewerage system or sewage treatment works, such as grease, uncomminuted garbage, animal guts, or tissues, paunch manure, bone, hair, hides, fleshings, entrails, feathers, sand, cinders, ashes, spent lime, stone or marble dust, metal, glass, straw, shavings, grass clippings,rags, spent grain, waste paper, wood, plastic, gas, tar, asphalt residues, residues from refining or pro- cessing of fuel or lubricating oil, gasoline, naptha, and similar substances. (i) Liquids or vapors having a temperature higher than 150 degrees F. at the point of entrance into a public sewer. Whenever possible clean waters from air conditioning, cooling or cond- ensing systems or from swimming pools or clean waters resulting from pretreatment of industrial wastes shall be discharged to a storm sewer, combined sewer or natural outlet approved by the Village of Elk Grove Village. 22A902:"INSP.ECTIONS-MANHOLES (a)Any person discharging industrial wastes into a sewer shall construct and maintain a 48" inspection manhole or manholes downstream from any such place of discharge to permit obser- vation, measurement and samplings of such wastes by the Vil- lage of Elk Grove Village. Where no manhole has been cons- tructed or can be constructed, as in the case of some exist- ing industries, the control manhole shall be considered to be the nearest downstream manhole in the public sewer to the point at which the building sewer is connected. ( 2 ) (b) The Village shall have the right to enter and set up, on company property, sur_h devices necessary to conduct a gauging and sampling operation after first giving ten days advance notice of its intention so to do. While performing the work the Village of Elk Grove Village shall observe all safety rules applicable to the premises, established by the company and the com- pany shall be held harmless for injury or death to the Village employees and the Village of Elk Grove Village shall indemnify the company against loss or damage to its property by Village employees, and shall also in- demnify the company to cover liability claims and demands for personal injury and property damage asserted against the company which grow out of the gauging and sampling operations or other work of the Village employees. (c) All analyses to determine the strength and character of industrial wastes shall be made in accordance with the latest edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Sewage" prepared and published jointly by the American Public Health Association, American Water Works Association, and the Water Pollution Control Federation. Strength character and quantity of wastes shall be based on composite samples taken over a 24- hour or longer period from the flow from all plant outlets discharging into single public sewer. 22A903: PERMITS Application for permission to connect an industrial waste sewer to any sewer in the Village of Elk Grove Village or to discharge to any waters, water course or channel within the Village of Elk Grove Village shall be made on the standard form obtainable from the Village of Elk Grove Village Water and Sewer Department. 22A904: INTERPRETATION Industrial Wastes as "Industrial Wastes" Wastes" is included the statute. 22A905: PENALTY used in this Section shall mean both and "Other Wastes". The term "Other in order to correspond with language of Any person, firm or corporation violating any provisions of this ordinance shall be fined not less than $1000.00nor more than $10,000.00 for each offense and a separate offense shall be deemed committed on each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues. Section 2: That this ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage, approval and publication according to law. PASSED this 27th day of June 1972. APPROVED this 27th day of June 1972. VOTE: AYES: 5 NAYS: 0 ABSENT ATTEST: Village Clerk Published this _-day of ( 3 ) Village President 1972 in the Elk Grove Herald.