INDUSTRIAL PRETREATMENT PROGRAM
The Federal Clean Water Act was enacted to eliminate discharges of pollutants into navigable waters to achieve water that is both "swimmable" and "fishable". The focus of the federal program has been on direct municipal and industrial point sources that discharge to a receiving stream and on indirect industrial sources that discharge to a treatment facility. The Clean Water Act gave the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. E.P.A.) the authority to establish and enforce pretreatment standards for businesses and industries that discharge into a sewer system. Industrial wastewater can contain toxic pollutants that may not be removed at wastewater treatment facilities and therefore pass into receiving streams and biosolids. The objective of the pretreatment regulations is to remove toxic pollutants at the source of the industrial discharge so that they do not interfere with the treatment processes at the wastewater treatment facility. To this extent the Greater Lawrence Sanitary District (GLSD) established its Industrial Pretreatment Program (IPP) to regulate industrial discharges to the sewer system. The GLSD administers an EPA approved pretreatment program through its Rules and Regulations Covering Discharge of Wastewater, Drainage, Substances or Waste or local sewer use ordinance. These Rules and Regulations provide for the regulation of all users of the District's treatment facility through the issuance of permits, control documents and through the enforcement of Federal pretreatment requirements and technically based local discharge limitations.
Businesses and Industries that are typically regulated are:
- Electroplaters and Metal Finishers
- Printed Circuit Board Manufacturers
- Textile Mills
- Dairy Manufacturers
- Pharmaceutical and Chemical Manufacturers
- Hospitals
- Electronic/Industrial Phototool Manufacturers
- Septage Haulers
For more information on Pretreatment Program permitting see:
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