Florida Administrative Code › 62 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 62 - Departmental › Chapter 62-600 - DOMESTIC WASTEWATER FACILITIES › Part V - PERMITTING › Section 62-600.735 - Operation and Maintenance Performance Report

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1) All
				  applications to renew permits for treatment, reuse, or disposal facilities as
				  required by Form  62-620.910(2) 
				  shall include a detailed operation and maintenance performance report. This
				  report will be used, in part, to establish reasonable assurances that these
				  facilities will meet permit limitations during the period for which the permit
				  is requested.
(2) The report shall
				  be jointly prepared by staff responsible for operation of these facilities, by
				  the permittee or the permittee's delegated representative, and by a
				  professional engineer registered in Florida.
(3) The report shall evaluate the capability
				  of treatment, reuse, and disposal facilities to function as intended during the
				  period for which the permit is requested.
(4) The report shall:
(a) Evaluate the physical condition of each
				  treatment unit, the treatment efficiencies of each treatment process, the
				  overall treatment efficiency of the treatment plant, performance trends, and
				  the operation and maintenance program.
(b) Identify physical, capacity, performance,
				  and operation and maintenance problems and deficiencies which need immediate
				  attention and areas which are potential problems. The report shall identify the
				  consequences if these problems and deficiencies are not corrected in a timely
				  fashion.
(c) Provide
				  recommendations and schedules for corrective actions.
(d) Evaluate the following components,
				  systems, and processes, if included in the facilities being considered for
				  permit renewal:
1. Pumping facilities (raw
				  wastewater, intermediate, recirculation, biosolids, effluent, or reclaimed
				  water pump stations).
2.
				  Preliminary treatment (screens, grit chambers, comminutors).
3. Primary, intermediate, and final
				  clarifiers (structures, scum and biosolids removal equipment, baffles, weirs,
				  sand and grit accumulation).
4.
				  Activated sludge system (blowers, mechanical aerators, aeration system, return
				  sludge system, diffusers, sand and grit accumulation).
5. Trickling filters (wastewater distribution
				  system, media, filter bottom, blowers).
6. Rotating biological contactors (drive
				  mechanisms, media integrity).
7.
				  Filters (media, distribution equipment, filter bottoms, backwash
				  facilities).
8.
				  Coagulation/flocculation (mixers, motors, flocculators, drives).
9. Nutrient removal systems.
10. Disinfection (contact chambers,
				  chlorinators, ozonators, ultraviolet systems).
11. Biosolids treatment and handling
				  (thickeners, chemical conditioning, aerobic digesters, anaerobic digesters,
				  biosolids collection equipment, heat exchange facilities, gas collection
				  equipment).
12. Biosolids
				  dewatering (drying beds, filter presses, vacuum filters).
13. Chemical feed facilities.
14. Blowers and motors associated with
				  treatment processes.
15.
				  Instrumentation and monitoring equipment.
16. Sample collection and laboratory
				  analysis.
17. Effluent or reclaimed
				  water pumping and transmission facilities (pumps, motors, valves).
18. Outfalls.
19. Injection wells.
20. Reuse systems.
21. Wetlands systems.
All applications to revew permits for treatment, reuse, or
					 disposal facilities as required by Form
					  62-620.910(2),
					 F.A.C., shall: