Mountain House Municipal Code Ch. 8 Publication of Users in Significant Noncompliance

In accordance with federal regulations, the City shall publish at an interval of not less than once per year, a list of the user(s) found to be in significant noncompliance with any pretreatment standard or requirement of federal or State law or this Ordinance within the previous twelve (12) months. The publication shall occur in the newspaper that has the largest daily circulation within the City's service area.

(Ord. 2024-23, § 1(Exh. A), 2024)

The term "significant noncompliance" applies to all significant industrial users (or any industrial user that violates paragraphs (c), (d), or (h) below) and shall mean:

(a) Chronic violations of wastewater discharge limits, defined here as those in which sixty-six (66) percent or more of all of the measurements taken for the same pollutant parameter taken during a six-month period exceed by any magnitude a numeric pretreatment standard or requirement, including instantaneous limits;

(b) Technical review criteria (TRC) violations, defined here as those in which thirty-three (33) percent or more of all of the wastewater measurements taken for each pollutant parameter during a six-month period equals or exceeds the product of the numeric pretreatment standard or requirement including instantaneous limits multiplied by the applicable TRC (1.4 for BOD, TSS, fats, oils and grease, and 1.2 for all other pollutants except pH);

(c) Any other violation of a pretreatment standard or requirement that the City determines caused (alone or in combination with other discharges) interference or pass through, including endangering the health of POTW personnel or the general public;

(d) Any discharge of a pollutant that caused imminent endangerment to the public or environment or resulted in the City's exercise of its emergency authority to halt or prevent such a discharge;

(e) Failure to meet within ninety (90) days of the scheduled date, a compliance schedule milestone in a wastewater discharge permit or enforcement order for the user to start or complete construction or attain final compliance;

(f) Failure to provide within thirty (30) days after the due date any reports required (e.g., baseline monitoring reports, reports on compliance with categorical pretreatment standard deadlines, periodic self-monitoring reports, and reports on compliance with compliance schedules);

(g) Failure to accurately report noncompliance; or

(h) Any other violation(s) that the City determines will adversely affect the operation or implementation of the local pretreatment program.

(Ord. 2024-23, § 1(Exh. A), 2024)