Broken Arrow Municipal Authority
Meeting of: 11-20-2018
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Acknowledgement of submittal of the FY 2018 Regional Metropolitan Utility Authority (RMUA)/Haikey Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant Annual Pretreatment Report to the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ)
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Background:
RMUA is required by Oklahoma Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (OPDES) Permit No. 0034363 to operate a pretreatment program in accordance with Section 402(b)(8) of the Clean Water Act, the General Pretreatment Regulations (40 CFR 403) and the provisions of the approved industrial pretreatment program. In the month of October, RMUA is required to submit a status report to DEQ of the pretreatment program activities for the previous 12 months. City of Broken Arrow pretreatment staff submitted an annual report to DEQ outlining pretreatment activities for significant industrial users that discharge wastewater to the RMUA/Haikey Creek Wastewater Treatment Basin. The report is for the period of October 2017 to September 2018.
The following is a summary of the report:
Report of Changes to the Approved Pretreatment Program
There have been no changes made or requested to the RMUA/Haikey Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant approved Industrial Pretreatment Program.
A technically based local limit study is in progress and will be submitted to DEQ by May 31, 2019. The sampling plan is included in the report, Section 7: Water Quality Based Effluent Concentrations.
Industrial User (IU) Wastewater Survey
The IU Wastewater Survey is continually updated in Tulsa and Broken Arrow. In Tulsa, the Industrial Waste Survey database is updated monthly by Pretreatment staff reviewing the monthly report of new commercial and industrial utility account customers and conducting inspections of those facilities. No new permits were added to the City of Tulsa Industrial Pretreatment Program during FY 2018.
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