General Pretreatment Requirements.

Austin City Code tit. 15, ch. 15-10, art. 5, div. 1

in effect

Austin City Code § 15-10-51 PRETREATMENT REQUIRED.

§ 15-10-51 - PRETREATMENT REQUIRED. A person generating wastewater containing prohibited waste discharged to the POTW must pretreat the prohibited waste in compliance with the discharge standards, local limits, and requirements established in this chapter, or otherwise lawfully dispose of the prohibited waste. Source: 1992 Code Section 18-2-51; Ord. 031204-14; Ord. 031211-11.

Austin City Code § 15-10-52 PRETREATMENT FACILITIES REQUIRED.

§ 15-10-52 - PRETREATMENT FACILITIES REQUIRED. A person discharging prohibited waste to the POTW shall install, operate, and maintain wastewater pretreatment facilities approved by the director. Source: 1992 Code Section 18-2-52; Ord. 031204-14; Ord. 031211-11.

Austin City Code § 15-10-53 PERMIT REQUIRED.

§ 15-10-53 - PERMIT REQUIRED. (A) A person must obtain a permit from the director before discharging wastewater containing industrial waste or other prohibited waste to the POTW. (B) A person shall not discharge wastewater from a pretreatment facility except as allowed by a permit issued by the director. (C) The director may set permit pretreatment standards more stringent than those contained in this chapter, local, state, or federal regulation, if the director determines that the standards are necessary to protect the POTW. Source: 1992 Code Section 18-2-53; Ord. 031204-14; Ord. 031211-11; Ord. No. 20200729-002, Pt. 12, 8-10-20.

Austin City Code § 15-10-54 PRETREATMENT PLANS.

§ 15-10-54 - PRETREATMENT PLANS. (A) A person required to pretreat waste or wastewater before discharge to the POTW, must submit complete plans and specifications for the pretreatment system to the director. (B) A plan developed under this section shall describe the proposed pretreatment method, process, or technology, including products, chemicals, agents or devices used for pretreatment. (C) A person must obtain the director's approval prior to: (1) discharging wastewater; or (2) constructing, using or modifying a pretreatment facility, method, process or technology. Source: 1992 Code Section 18-2-54; Ord. 031204-14; Ord. 031211-11.

Austin City Code § 15-10-55 INSPECTION AND APPROVAL.

§ 15-10-55 - INSPECTION AND APPROVAL. (A) A person may not discharge wastewater to the POTW from or through a pretreatment facility until the facility's design, size, construction plan, installation, and connection to the POTW has been inspected and approved by the director. (B) The director may require a pretreatment facility, process, device, agent or product to be tested prior to use or commencement of a discharge to the POTW. Source: 1992 Code Section 18-2-55; Ord. 031204-14; Ord. 031211-11.

Austin City Code § 15-10-56 WASTEWATER FLOW CONTROL.

§ 15-10-56 - WASTEWATER FLOW CONTROL. The director may require a person discharging to the POTW to: (1) restrict or equalize the flow rate of discharge; (2) designate specific sewers for discharge of particular wastewater; (3) relocate or consolidate points of discharge; (4) separate a domestic sewage wastewater flow from an industrial wastewater flow; and (5) implement wastewater flow control or limitations on wastewater discharge as necessary to protect the POTW, or determine compliance with this chapter. Source: 1992 Code Section 18-2-56; Ord. 031204-14; Ord. 031211-11.

Austin City Code § 15-10-57 FLAMMABLE SUBSTANCES.

§ 15-10-57 - FLAMMABLE SUBSTANCES. (A) The director may require a person discharging wastewater containing potentially flammable substances to install and maintain an approved combustible gas detection meter. (B) A person discharging wastewater containing potentially flammable substances shall install and maintain an approved combustible gas meter at the request of the director. Source: 1992 Code Section 18-2-57; Ord. 031204-14; Ord. 031211-11.

Austin City Code § 15-10-58 SLUG CONTROL PLAN.

§ 15-10-58 - SLUG CONTROL PLAN. (A) A person discharging wastewater containing industrial waste or other prohibited waste to the POTW shall implement a system and procedures to prevent slug discharges. (B) The director may require a person to develop and implement a slug control plan before authorizing the person to connect water or wastewater service to discharge wastewater to the POTW. (C) The director shall determine if a significant industrial user has sufficient systems and procedures to prevent slug discharges. This determination shall be documented and the results of the determination shall be available to the approval authority upon request. The director shall require a significant industrial user to develop and implement a slug control plan under this article if the director finds a risk to the POTW exists. (D) A plan developed under this article must include the following: (1) description of discharge practices including a non-routine batch discharge; (2) description of stored chemicals; (3) procedures for immediate notification of the POTW in the event of an accident or slug discharge in violation of this chapter; and (4) procedures to prevent property damage or danger to public health and safety from an accident or slug discharge including: (a) storage area inspection and maintenance; (b) material handling and transfer; (c) loading and unloading operations; (d) plant site runoff control; (e) worker training; (f) containment structures or equipment construction; (g) toxic organic pollutants containment; (h) emergency response equipment and plan; and (i) spill detection. Source: 1992 Code Section 18-2-58; Ord. 031204-14; Ord. 031211-11; Ord. No. 20200729-002, Pt. 13, 8-10-20.

Austin City Code § 15-10-59 TOXIC ORGANIC MANAGEMENT PLAN.

§ 15-10-59 - TOXIC ORGANIC MANAGEMENT PLAN. (A) The director may require submission of a toxic organic management plan as an alternative to or in addition to routine total toxic organics monitoring for a user regulated under the CFR categories of: (1) electroplating; (2) metal finishing; (3) electrical and electronic components; or (4) other categories authorized by the CFR. (B) A toxic organic management plan submitted under this section must include: (1) a complete inventory of all toxic organic chemicals: (a) used in regulated process operations, including organic constituents of a trade-name product; or (b) identified through wastewater sampling and analysis; (2) a description of disposal methods, excluding dumping, used for inventoried compounds; (3) spill prevention, control, and countermeasures plan to prevent spillage or leakage of a regulated toxic organic chemical into process wastewater, floor drains, non-contact cooling water, groundwater, surface water or general discharge of a toxic organic chemical; (4) determination of identity and approximate quantity of toxic organic chemical used and discharged from a regulated manufacturing process; and (5) identity of toxic organic chemicals that may be present in wastewater discharged to the sanitary sewer as a result of a regulated process or disposal, spill, leak, rinse water carryover, air pollution control, and other source. Source: 1992 Code Section 18-2-59; Ord. 031204-14; Ord. 031211-11.

Austin City Code § 15-10-60 BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES.

§ 15-10-60 - BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES. The director may require a person discharging to the POTW to adopt and implement best management, source reduction and pollution prevention practices necessary to protect the POTW. Source: 1992 Code Section 18-2-60; Ord. 031204-14; Ord. 031211-11.

Austin City Code § 15-10-61 AUTHORITY TO ASSIGN OTHER LIMITS.

§ 15-10-61 - AUTHORITY TO ASSIGN OTHER LIMITS. If necessary to protect the POTW or sanitary sewer or to prevent interference or pass through, the director may issue a permit, order, or rule that assigns or imposes limits on the mass or concentration of any pollutant discharge. Source: Ord. No. 20200729-002, Pt. 14, 8-10-20.

Austin City Code § 15-10-62 OFF-SITE WASTE DISPOSAL.

§ 15-10-62 - OFF-SITE WASTE DISPOSAL. A person shall comply with applicable local, state, and federal regulations on storage, handling, transportation and disposition of wastes and residues removed for off-site disposal from pretreatment facilities, or prohibited from discharge to the POTW. Source: 1992 Code Section 18-2-62; Ord. 031204-14; Ord. 031211-11.

Austin City Code § 15-10-63 NEW SOURCE.

§ 15-10-63 - NEW SOURCE. (A) The director may make a determination that construction at an existing source of discharge results in a new source. (B) The director may not find that an existing source becomes a new source if construction on a site where an existing source is located does not create a new building, structure, facility or installation meeting the definition of new source under this chapter but otherwise alters, replaces, or adds to existing process or production equipment. (C) The director may determine that a source becomes a new source if the owner or operator has: (1) begun placement, assembly or installation of facilities or equipment, or significant site preparation work including clearing, excavation, or removal of an existing building, structure, or facility as part of a continuous onsite construction program; or (2) entered a contract to purchase facilities or equipment intended for operational use within a reasonable time, excluding options to purchase or contracts subject to termination or modification without substantial loss, or feasibility, engineering, and design study contracts. Source: 1992 Code Section 18-2-63; Ord. 031204-14; Ord. 031211-11.

Source: City of Austin, City Code and City Charter (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/tx/austin/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=TIT15UTRE_CH15-10WARE_ART5PRRE_DIV1GEPRREFetched: 10/27/2026