Local limits.

Riverside Municipal Code § 14.12.350

in effect

14.12.350 - Local limits. A. The Director shall develop and implement specific prohibitions, pollutant limitations, pollutant parameters and best management practices (BMPs) ("local limits"). These local limits are necessary to assure compliance with the City's NPDES permit, including preventing pass through, interference, or impacts to biosolids reclamation or reuse. These local limits may be continually developed as necessary and adopted by resolution after public notice to affected persons or users. B. The local limits may be allocated among industrial user classes or individual users as uniform concentration limits, or as the ratio of the total mass per user, or as a selected industry reduction, or by such other method considering factors such as persistence of the pollutant, equity, treatment feasibility, economic feasibility, and economics of scale, pollution prevention and waste minimization measures, anticipated growth and enforcement feasibility. C. User-specific allocations at current loadings may be created for public health facilities which provide a lifesaving service or procedure, so long as the pollutant discharged would not contribute to pass-through, interference or other violation of the City's NPDES permit. D. Pollutant allocations may be granted to Class III or Class V users on a case-by-case basis based upon the POTW's excess treatment capacity for the pollutant requested. These limits shall be based upon the pounds of pollutant(s) discharged and the impacts on the treatment capabilities of the POTW. If the permit is issued for more than one year, a pollutant review will take place annually to determine the POTW's excess treatment capacity for those permitted pollutants. A review may be conducted at any time if the Director finds that the Permittee's wastewater discharge has adversely affected the POTW, has caused a rise in that pollutant of more than 20 percent, or has caused interference, pass through, or violations of the POTW's NPDES permit. E. When categorical pretreatment standards are expressed only in terms of pollutant concentrations, a categorical industrial user may request that the City convert the concentration limits to an equivalent mass limits. To be eligible for equivalent mass limits, the categorical industrial user must comply with the requirements in 40 CFR Part 403.6(c)(5)(i-iv). F. The director reserves the right to establish, by ordinance or in individual wastewater discharge permits, more stringent standards or requirements on discharges to the POTW consistent with the purpose of this ordinance. G. Local limits adopted by resolution of the City Council are pollutant limits for discharges to the POTW established to protect against pass through and interference. No person shall discharge wastewater containing pollutants in excess of the local limits adopted by City Resolution. (Ord. 7551 §24, 2021; Ord. 7362 §6, 2017; Ord. 7032 §2, 2009; Ord. 6637 §2 (part), 2002; Ord. 6232 §2 (part), 1995)

Source: City of Riverside, California, Municipal Code and City Charter (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/ca/riverside/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=PTIICOOR_TIT14PUUT_CH14.12DIWAINPUSEPOINSTDRSY_DIVIIIINWA_14.12.350LOLIFetched: 11/1/2026