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0-83-493)
ORDINANCE NO.
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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 11 OF THE COLLEYVILLE CITY CODE,
SECTION 2, BY ADDING DEFINITIONS OF SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
AND TOTAL TOXIC ORGANICS; PROHIBITING DILUTION AS A MANNER OF
REDUCING PROHIBITED POLLUTANT CONCENTRATIONS; MODIFYING AND
SPECIFYING PROHIBITED POLLUTANT CONCENTRATIONS; PROVIDING FOR
PUBLIC NOTIFICATION OF INTRODUCTION OF NOXIOUS, INDUSTRIAL WASTE
INTO THE SEWAGE SYSTEM; REQUIRING ALL INDUSTRIAL USERS TO COMPLY
WITH APPLICABLE FEDERAL AND STATE STANDARDS; PROVIDING FOR A
PERMIT PROCEDURE, COMPLIANCE TIME AND CONFIDENTIALITY OF INFORMA-
TION OF SIGNFICANT INDUSTRIAL USERS; MODIFYING THE CITY'S RIGHT
OF ACCESS FOR THE PURPOSE OF MONITORING SEWAGE DISCHARGE;
PROVIDING FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF A TESTING LABORATORY; REQUIRING
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USERS TO PAY ALL COSTS OF MONITORING;
REQUIRING SELF-MONITORING AND REPORTS; PROVIDING FOR THE DISCON-
I NECTION AND RECONNECTION OF SEWER SERVICE FOR VIOLATION AND
I SUBSEQUENT COMPLIANC& WITH THE PROVISIONS OF CHAPTER 11; CONDI-
TIONING RECONNECTION UPON THE PAYMENT OF ALL COSTS OF DISCONNEC-
!: TION AND RECONNECTION OF SEWAGE SERVICE; PROVIDING FOR THE REVO-
I CATION OF PERMITS; ESTABLISHING A PENALTY AND AUTHORIZING PUBLI-
CATION.
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WHEREAS, the City Council has amended the waste water service
contract with the Trinity River Authority of Texas in
relation to the induction of industrial waste and
pre-treatment of industrial waste; and,
WHEREAS, this modification was required pursuant to the published
16 administrative rules of the United States Environmental
Protection Agency; and,
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WHEREAS, the aforesaid contract amendment and rules of the
United States Environmental Protection Agency require
certain modifications to the existing COlleyville Code
dealing with waste water; and,
WHEREAS, it is the opinion of the City Council that the following
amendments promote the health, safety and welfare of the
citizens of the City of Colleyville; NOW, THEREFORE, I
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLLEYVILLE,
TEXAS:
Sec. 1. THAT Part A of Section 2 of Chapter 11 of the
23 Colleyville City Code be amended by adding thereto the
following additional definitions:
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"(19) ~.ign i fi can t Industria 1 User (S I U) - Any industrial
user who is connected or desires to connect to the
City's domestic waste water collection system and
meets at least one of the following criteria:
(i)
Average industrial waste water discharge
rate greater than 50,000 gpd.
(i i) B.O.D. and/or su spended sol ids concen tra-
tion in industrial waste water greater
than 250 mg/l.
(iii) Industrial category regulated by national
pre-treatment standards as promulgated by
the United States Environmental Protection
Agen cy .
(20) Total Toxic Organics - The sum of all detected
concentrations greater than 10 micrograms per litre for
all organid compounds classified as priority pollutants
by the United States Environmental Protection Agency."
THAT Part B(2) of Section 2 of Chapter 11 of the
Colleyville Code wherein it is stated:
"Except in quan ti ties, or concen tra tion, or with pro-
visions as stipulated herein, it shall be unlawful for
any person, or corporation, or individual, to discharge
water or waste into the sanitary sewer containing:"
be amended to read as follows:
"Except in quan ti ties, or concen tra tion, or wi th pro-
visions as stipulated herein, it shall be unlawful
for any person, corporation or individual, to
discharge water or waste into the sanitary sewer
containing any of the following pollutants in the
prohibited concentrations. For the purpose of deter-
mining quantities or concentration of pollutants, the
measurement thereof shall not take into consideration
any dilution of the discharge by water or other liquid
occuring after the manufacturing process which gener-
ated the pollutants."
THAT part B(2)(c) of Section 2 of Chapter 11 of the
Colleyville City Code be amended by entirely deleting
same and in substitution therefor inserting the
following:
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"(c) Any waste or waters exceeding the concentrations
listed below:
PoIlu tan t
Maximum Allowable
Concentration (mg/1)
An timony
Arsenic
Barium
Beryllium
Bi smu th
Boron
Cadmium
Chromium (total)
Cobalt
Copper
Cyanides
Fluorides
Hydrogen Sulfide
Lead
Manganese
Mercury
Molybdenum
Nickel
Phenol
Selenium
Si 1 v e r
Tin
Uranyl-Ion
Zinc
Cyanides or Cyanogen Compounds
(capable of liberating hydrocyanic
gas on acidification)
Total Toxic Organics
0.010
0.100
2.000
0.010
0.500
1.000
0.100
3.500
1.000
2.500
1.000
1.500
0.100
2.000
3.500
0.005
1.000
1.500
0.005
0.020
0.100
1.000
5.000
2.500
0.200
1.000
THAT part B of Section 2 of Chapter 11 of the
Colleyville City Code be amended by adding thereto a
Part (3) which shall provide as follows:
"(3) In the event of any significant introduction
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into the sanitary sewer of the pOllutants in
the concentrations prohibited by Part (2) hereof,
the City shall take such measures as it deems
sufficient to notify the public of the potential
hazards to health engendered by the introduction
of the aforesaid pollutants."
THAT part C(2) of Section 2 of Chapter 11 of the
Colleyville City Code be amended by adding Part (d)
thereto providing as follows:
"(d) Compliance with all applicable federal categorical
pre-treatment standards, as well as any applicable
state and local standards."
THAT part C of Section 2 of Chapter 11 of the
Colleyville City Code be amended by adding thereto
Sections (2.1) through 2.3) providing as follows:
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"(2.1) Each existing and future SIU shall complete
and submit a permit application containing the
information specified in the sample application
attached hereto as Exhibit 'A' and incorporated
herein. Within 30 days after the receipt of a
permit appliction, the City shall forward same
to the Trinity River Authority of Texas. The
Trinity River Authority shall provide comments
on said application within 30 days of receipt
and return its comments to the City. The
failure of the Trinity River Authority to
comment upon the permit application within 30
days of its receipt shall constitute approval
by the Authority of thepermi t. After approval
of the permi t appl ica tion by both the Ci ty and
the Authority, the City shall issue a permit to
discharge which shall be in the form as attached
hereto as Exhibit 'B.'
(2.2) A permit to discharge shall be required of all
SIU's prior to the introduction of any industrial
waste into the sewage system. Any SIU currently
discharging waste into the sewage system shall
have 180 days to comply with the requirement of a
permit.
(2.3) The SIU by a document accompanying its appli-
cation for permit may designate such infor-
mation in the permit application which shall
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be maintained as confidential. The City shall
not publicly disclose the information desig-
nated as confidential by the SIU unless required
by an applicable state or federal statute.
THAT part C(4) of Section 2 of Chapter 11 of the
Colleyville City Code be amended by entirely deleting
same and substituting therefor the following:
"(4) The City Manager and other duly authorized
employees or representatives of the City of
Colleyville acting as its duly authorized agent
and bearing proper credentials and identifica-
tion, shall be permitted to gain access at any
time to such properties as may be necessary for
the purpose of inspection, observation, measure-
ment, sampling and testing of sewage and/or
industrial waste. The City Manager from time to
time shall designate or approve one or more
laboratories for the purpose of analyzing
industrial waste to determine compliance with the
provisions of this chapter. All costs of analyz-
ing industrial waste shall be borne by the person,
firm or corporation producing the waste, and said
cost shall be paid within 30 days of demand by the
City.
"( 4.1) The Ci ty Manager sha 11 f rom time to time
establish self-monitoring and testing re-
quirements for the waste introduced into
the sewage system by all SIUs."
THAT part E(2) of section 2 of Chapter 11 of the
Colleyville City Code be amended by deleting same in
its entirety and substituting, therefore, the following:
"Where the City determines that an SIU is introducing
prohibited waste into the sewage system, or that an
SIU is violating its discharge permit, or that an SIU
is introducing waste into the system without a dis-
charge permit, or that an SIU has or is committing
any other violation of section 2 of Chapter 11 of the
Colleyville Code, the City may immedidately disconnect
the SIU from the City sewer system. Further, where
any governmental agency informs the City that the
effluent from the treatment plan is no longer of the
standard permitted for release into the water course
and it is found that the owner is delivering waste
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water to the City's system that cannot be sufficiently
diluted by mixing with the City's waste or requires
treatment that is not provided by the City as normal
domestic treatment, the City shall so notify the owner
and the City may disconnect the owner from the sewage
system. The owner's waste treatment service shall
remain disconnected until such time that the owner has
complied with all of the provisions of section 2 of
Chapter 11 of the Colleyville Code and/or provided
additional pretreatment facilities designed to remove
the objectionable cause from the owner's industrial
waste. No reconnection of the City sewage system shall
be made until the owner has paid all cost of the
original disconnection and reconnection of same."
Sec. 9. THAT section 2 of Chapter 11 of the Colleyville City
Code be amended by adding thereto a part P, providing
as follows: i
"F. REVOCATION OF PERMIT.
Where the City determines that an SIU is
introducing sewage into the City's sewage
system in violation of its discharge permit,
or that the SIU has given false information
in its application for a permit, or determines
that the SIU has given false information in
its self-monitoring and reporting process, or
that the SIU is in violation of any provision
of section 2 of Chapter 11 of the Colleyville
City Code, the City may revoke the SIU's dis-
cha rge permi t."
Sec. 10. Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the
provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor and upon final conviction thereof
fined in an amount not to exceed Two Hundred Dollars
($200.00). Each and every day such violation con-
tinues shall constitute a separate offense and is
punishable as such.
Sec. 11. The City Secretary is hereby authorized and directed
to cause publication of the descriptive caption and
penalty clause of this ordinance as an alternative
method of publication provided by law.
AND IT IS SO ORDERED.
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