Explanation
BACKGROUND: The purpose of this legislation is to amend Columbus City Codes, 1959, Section 1145.25, Specific Pollutant Limits, to implement new local limits as approved by the Ohio EPA through rule and regulation.
The U.S. EPA and Ohio EPA regulate the City's operation of its sewer system and treatment works which serve the people of the City of Columbus and numerous other central Ohio communities. The City is required to control or prevent the introduction of deleterious materials into the system by the system's users and the U.S. EPA and Ohio EPA have mandated that all municipalities, including the City, maintain and enforce their sewer use regulation through the implementation of effluent limits for certain industrial dischargers in order to protect these sewer systems, treatment works, and the waters into which these systems discharge.
Discharges from industrial sources and by waste haulers have demonstrated the need for the City to modify and enhance its sewer use regulations. The Ohio EPA, by letter dated August 21, 2007, has approved the Department of Public Utilities' proposed revised effluent limits as part of the City's sewer use regulations. The Department of Public Utilities seeks to implement these new local limits as approved by Ohio EPA through rule and regulation.
Title
To amend Section 1145 of the Columbus City Codes, 1959, relating to Specific Pollutant Limits.
Body
WHEREAS, the City is the owner and operator of a sewer system and treatment works which serve the people of the City of Columbus and numerous other central Ohio communities; and
WHEREAS, the U.S. EPA and Ohio EPA regulate the City's operation of this system, by which the City is required to control or prevent the introduction of deleterious materials into the system by the system's users; and
WHEREAS, the U.S. EPA and Ohio EPA have mandated that all municipalities, including the City, maintain and enforce their sewer use regulation...
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