Managing commercial and light-industrial discharges to POTWs
- RGF Environmental Group, West Palm Beach, FL (United States)
Discharging commercial and light-industrial wastewater to a publicly owned treatment works (POTW) is risky business. Pretreating wastewater using traditional methods may leave a wastestream's originator vulnerable to fines, civil and criminal punishment, cleanup costs, and cease-and-desist orders. EPA has tightened regulations applying to discharges from POTWs, which, in turn, are looking to industrial and commercial discharge sources to determine responsibility for toxic contaminants. Although EPA in the past focused on large point sources of contamination, the Agency has shifted its emphasis to smaller and more diverse nonpoint sources. One result is that POTWs no longer act as buffers for light-industrial and commercial wastewater dischargers.
- OSTI ID:
- 5647419
- Journal Information:
- Hazmat World; (United States), Vol. 6:2; ISSN 0898-5685
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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