This chapter is intended to prevent unpermitted and insufficiently treated wastewater from entering waters of this Commonwealth by requiring the owners and operators of sewerage facilities to project, plan and manage future hydraulic, organic and industrial waste loadings to their sewerage facilities. Reductions in wastewater volume and pollutant mass loadings through the application of pollution prevention practices are encouraged to avoid hydraulic, organic and industrial wastewater overloads at sewerage facilities to accomplish the following objectives:

1. (1) Prevent the occurrence of overloaded sewerage facilities.
2. (2) Limit additional extensions and connections to an overloaded sewer system or a sewer system tributary to an overloaded plan.
3. (3) Improve opportunities to prevent or reduce the volume and toxicity of industrial wastes generated and discharged to sewerage facilities and where prevention and reduction opportunities have been maximized, and to recycle and reuse municipal and industrial wastewaters and sludges.

Authority

The provisions of this § 94.2 issued under section 9 of the Pennsylvania Sewage Facilities Act (35 P. S. § 750.9); amended under section 5 of The Clean Streams Law (35 P. S. § 691.5); and section 1920-A of The Administrative Code of 1929 (71 P. S. § 510-20).

Source

The provisions of this § 94.2 adopted November 4, 1977, effective November 21, 1977, 7 Pa.B. 3259; amended October 3, 1980, effective October 4, 1980, 10 Pa.B. 3917; amended February 26, 1988, effective upon delegation of the pretreatment program to the Department by the Environmental Protection Agency; amended September 4, 1998, effective September 5, 1998, 28 Pa.B. 4517. Immediately preceding text appears at serial page (228276).