Annual publication of significant noncompliance for industrial users.
Columbus City Codes § 1145.49
in effect1145.49 - Annual publication of significant noncompliance for industrial users.
The Director shall publish annually, in a newspaper of general circulation that provides meaningful public notice within the jurisdictions served by the City of Columbus POTW, as list of the users which, at any time during the previous twelve (12) months, were in significant noncompliance with applicable pretreatment standards and requirements or any discharge permit. The term significant noncompliance shall be applicable to all significant industrial users (or any other industrial user that violates paragraphs (C), (D) or (H) of this section) and shall mean:
(A) Chronic violations of wastewater discharge limits, defined here as those in which sixty-six (66) percent or more of all the measurements taken for the same pollutant parameter at any permitted monitoring point 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 measurements taken for the same pollutant parameter at any permitted monitoring point during a six-month period equal or exceed the product of the numeric pretreatment standard or requirement including instantaneous limits, multiplied by the applicable TRC (TRC = 1.4 for fats, oil and grease, and 1.2 for all other pollutants except pH);
(C) Any other violation of a pretreatment standard or requirement as defined by paragraph (N) of rule 3745-3-01 of the Ohio Administrative Code (daily maximum or longer-term average, instantaneous limit, or narrative standard) that the city determines has 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 has caused imminent endangerment to human health, welfare or the environment or has resulted in the POTW's exercise of its emergency authority to halt or prevent such a discharge;
(E) Failure to meet, within ninety (90) days after the schedule date, a compliance schedule milestone contained in a local control mechanism or enforcement order for starting construction, completing construction, or attaining final compliance;
(F) Failure to provide, within forty-five (45) days after the due date, required reports such as baseline monitoring reports, ninety-day compliance reports, periodic self monitoring reports, reports on compliance with compliance schedules, or any other reports required by the city;
(G) Failure to accurately report noncompliance; or
(H) Any other violation or group of violations, including a violation of BMPs, that the city determines adversely affects the operation or implementation of the local pretreatment program.
(Ord. No. 1327-2012, § 1, 7-23-2012, eff. 10-1-2012; Ord. No. 2553-2020, § 1, 2-8-2021)
Source: City of Columbus, City Codes and City Charter (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/oh/columbus/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=TIT11WASEELCO_CH1145SEUSRE_1145.40--1145.49PENOUS_1145.49ANPUSINOINUSFetched: 10/27/2026