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INDUSTRIAL PRETREATMENT
The Environmental Services Section administers the Industrial Pretreatment
Program as mandated by the Federal Clean Water Act. This program
regulates local businesses and industries and provides information
to them concerning their wastewater discharges. This section also
inspects and monitors these discharges in order to protect the wastewater
treatment plants, workers, sewer system and the receiving stream.
All new commercial businesses wishing to locate within the City
of Gainesville should complete an Industrial Pretreatment Permit
application. After reviewing the application, the Environmental
Services staff will make a decision as to what level permitting
is required.
The City of Gainesville has two classifications of industrial users;
the first classification is a Significant Industrial User, and the
second is an Industrial User. All perspective users that meet any
of the six categories listed below shall be subject to both Permitting
and Industrial Pretreatment.
Significant Industrial User (SIU) is based on one or more of the
following criteria:
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Discharges 25,000 gallons per day or more of wastewater; |
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Contributes a waste stream which makes up five percent or
more of the average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity
of the treatment plant; |
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Contains in its waste a priority pollutant in amounts as
defined in standards issued under Section 307 (a) of the Federal
Water Pollution Control Act; |
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Impacts, either singly or in combination with other contributing
industries, on the treatment works or upon the quality of
effluent from the treatment works as found by the control
authority, in connection with the issuance of a National Pollutant
Discharge Elimination permit to the public owned treatment
works receiving the waste; |
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Is designated as such by the City of Gainesville on the basis
that the industrial user has a reasonable potential for adversely
affecting the publicly owned treatment works operation or
for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement or; |
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Is subject to Categorical Pretreatment Standards |
If the perspective user does not meet the categories listed above,
the application will be reviewed to determine what level of management
will be required to comply with local ordinances.
Any nonresidential user of a publicly owned treatment works which
discharges up to the equivalent of 25,000 gallons per day of process
wastewater and/or contaminated non-process wastewater and in the
opinion of the Director may have a significant impact, either
singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on
the treatment works or upon the quality of effluent from the treatment
works.
For further information or to obtain an Industrial Pretreatment application, contact our Industrial Pretreatment Coordinator, Erik Lunsford, or our Environmental Services Administrator, Horace Gee at 770-532-7462. |
