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Industrial Pretreatment

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Industrial Pretreatment...  

"IP", "IPP", "IWPP"...

It goes by few different acronyms.

EPA Currently defines the National Pretreatment Program as:

"The national pretreatment program is a component of the NPDES program. It is a cooperative effort of federal, state, and local environmental regulatory agencies established to protect water quality. Similar to how EPA authorizes the NPDES permit program to state, tribal, and territorial governments to perform permitting, administrative, and enforcement tasks for discharges to surface waters (NPDES program), EPA and authorized NPDES state pretreatment programs approve local municipalities to perform permitting, administrative, and enforcement tasks for discharges into the municipalities’ publicly owned treatment work publicly owned treatment works.  A treatment works (as defined by CWA section 212) that is owned by a state or municipality [as defined by CWA section 502(4)]. This definition includes any devices or systems used in the storage, treatment, recycling, and reclamation of municipal sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid nature. It also includes sewers, pipes, or other conveyances only if they convey wastewater to a POTW treatment plant. The term also means the municipality [as defined in CWA section 502(4)] that has jurisdiction over the indirect discharges to and the discharges from such a treatment works. [40 CFR 403.3(q)] (POTWs). The program is designed to: protect POTWs publicly owned treatment works.  A municipal or public service district sewage treatment system. infrastructure, and reduce conventional and toxic pollutant levels discharged by industries and other nondomestic wastewater sources into municipal sewer systems and into the environment."

https://www.epa.gov/npdes/industrial-wastewater

FDEP further explains 

"The goals of a pretreatment program:

1. To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the WWF that will cause interference with its operation;
2. To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the WWF that will pass through the WWF, inadequately treated, into waters of the State;
3. To provide protection for both public health and welfare and WWF workers; and
4. To promote beneficial reuse and recycling of domestic wastewater and residuals from WWFs."

http://www.dep.state.fl.us/water/wastewater/dom/pretreat.htm


We're reviving the Industrial Pretreatment training programs within FW&PCOA.

The first step was finding someone "smart enough to do it, but dumb enough to volunteer"...  

Hi.  My name is Kevin.

The next step is filling the committee to help design new training for the professionals interested or already employed in the Industrial Pretreatment field...

(This is where you come forward and introduce yourself by posting below..."






Any questions?

Thanks

Kevin Shropshire

IP Committee Chair (ipp@fwpcoa.org)
Region III Director (03-director@fwpcoa.org)
Environmental Specialist III, City of Orlando (kevin.shropshire@cityoforlando.net)
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