Broken Arrow Municipal Authority
Meeting of: 12-05-17
To: Chairman and Authority Members
From: Utilities Department
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Acknowledgement of Submittal to the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) a Notice of Intent to Revise Technically Based Local Limits (TBLL) for the City of Broken Arrow and Regional Metropolitan Utility Authority (RMUA) Industrial Pretreatment Program
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Background:
The Oklahoma Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (OPDES) Program, governed by the Oklahoma DEQ, requires Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTW) with an approved Pretreatment Program to develop and enforce specific limits to control contributions to the POTW by industrial users. In Broken Arrow, these limits were developed for Arsenic, Cadmium, Chromium, Copper, Cyanide, Lead, Mercury, Molybdenum, Nickel, Silver, and Zinc and were based upon federal pretreatment standards, Oklahoma Water Quality Limits, and wastewater treatment plant design capacity. The development of these limits is a specific requirement of the OPDES permits.
The Lynn Lane Wastewater Treatment Plant OPDES Permit No. OK0040053 was renewed effective October 1, 2017. The Haikey Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant OPDES Permit No. OK0034363 will expire on May 31, 2018. A requirement of the two permits is to submit to DEQ, within 60 days of the effective date of the permit, a written certification that a technical evaluation has been performed demonstrating that the existing technically based local limits (TBLL) are based upon the current state water quality standards and are adequate to prevent pass through of pollutants, inhibition of or interference with the treatment facility, worker health and safety problems, and sludge contamination OR submit a written notification that a technical evaluation revising the current TBLL and a draft sewer use ordinance which incorporates such revisions will be submitted within 12 m...
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