New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 21 - Miscellaneous › Chapter LXXXII - Buffalo Sewer Authority › Part 10075 - Buffalo Sewer Authority Sewer Use Regulations › Section 10075.9 - Discharge monitoring, reporting and inspections

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) Control manhole. When required as a
				condition of a BPDES permit or by the general manager, the owner of any
				property serviced by a building service sewer, carrying wastewater shall
				install and maintain in proper working order a suitable control manhole or
				other appropriate station together with such flow meters, automatic flow
				proportional sampling equipment and/or automatic analysis and recording
				equipment deemed necessary by the general manager to adequately sample and
				measure the waste passing through the control manhole or monitoring station.
				This control manhole shall be located so as to permit unrestricted access by
				representatives of the authority.
(b) Industrial wastewater sampling, analysis,
				and flow measurements.
(1) Each industrial
				user, unless specifically relieved of such obligation by the authority, will be
				required, as deemed necessary to submit periodic discharge monitoring reports
				to the B.S.A. These reports shall contain measurements of daily flow rates,
				daily flow volumes, B.O.D. 5, total phosphate and total
				suspended solids for use in determining the annual industrial wastewater
				treatment charges and such measurements of other constituents deemed necessary
				by the general manager. All sampling, analysis, and flow measurements of
				industrial wastewaters shall be performed in conformance with the latest
				edition of the B.S.A. Sampling Measurement and Analytical Guideline Sheet (see
				Appendix 52 of this Title) and shall be performed by a laboratory approved by
				the general manager. In the case of a recalcitrant industry not performing the
				required analyses, the B.S.A. may elect to perform these analyses, bill the
				discharger for all associated costs of these analyses.
(2) For industrial users on which mass
				limitations have been imposed, the periodic monitoring reports will be subject
				to the requirements stated above with the additional requirement that the mass
				of substances discharged and limited either by these regulations or by
				categorical pretreatment standards will be indicated.
(3) All wastewater analyses shall be
				conducted in conformance with procedures referenced in the latest edition of
				B.S.A.'s Sampling and Measurement and Analytical Guideline Sheet (see Appendix
				52 of this Title). If no appropriate procedure is specified for a particular
				substance, other procedures may be used subject to the approval of the general
				manager. Any independent laboratory or discharger performing these analyses
				shall clearly and concisely report the analytical results, their units of
				measurements, the test method for each analysis and, if appropriate, the
				equipment used.
(4) All users
				making periodic measurements may be required to furnish and install at the
				control manhole, or other appropriate location, a calibrated flume, weir, flow
				meter or similar device approved by the general manager, and suitable to
				measure the industrial wastewater flow rate and total volume. A flow
				indicating, recording, and totalizing register may also be required by the
				general manager. In lieu of wastewater flow measurement, the general manager
				may accept records of water usage and adjust the flow volumes by suitable
				factors to determine peak and average flow rates for the specific industrial
				wastewater discharge.
(5) The
				periodic monitoring reports will contain all the information and data set forth
				in the most recent edition of the B.S.A. Sampling Measurement and Analytical
				Guideline Sheet (see Appendix 52 of this Title). The frequency of monitoring
				required will be specified either by the general manager or in the appropriate
				pretreatment standard.
(6) The
				periodic monitoring reports will be signed by an authorized representative of
				the industrial user. The user will also maintain records of all information
				resulting from monitoring activities required by this section for a period of
				three years.
(7) The sampling,
				analysis and flow measurement procedures equipment and monitoring records shall
				be subject at any time to inspection by the authority.