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Water Pollution Control Division
INDUSTRIAL PRETREATMENT SECTION

The Industrial Pretreatment Section has the responsibility for the following environmental regulation mandated programs:
  • Industrial Pretreatment Program
  • Combined Sewer Overflow Program
  • Storm Water Program
  • Tributary Community Permit Program
Industrial Pretreatment Program
The core mission of this program is:

"To prevent interference, pass through,
and sludge contamination,
while meeting regulatory requirements"

The major end results of this program are:
  • Compliance with NPDES Permit Industrial Pretreatment Program requirements,
  • Enforcement of federal, state and local pretreatment program requirements, and
  • Prevention of pass through, interference, inhibition and sludge contamination in regard to the Akron Water Pollution Control Station.
Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) Program
The major end results of this program are:
  • Verification that CSOs occurred only as a result of wet weather,
  • Compliance with technology based requirements and State established Water Quality Standards,
  • Minimization of impacts on water quality with respect to human health, aquatic and biotic criteria, and
  • Compliance with NPDES Permit CSO requirements and US EPA strategies.
Stormwater Program
The major end results of this program are:
  • Reduction of the discharge of pollutants from the municipal separate storm sewer systems (MS4),
  • Implementation of the MS4 NPDES Permit and,
  • Implementation of non-point source objectives.
Tributary Community Permit Program
The major end results of this program are:
  • NPDES Permit Compliance with respect to Tributary Community’s.
  • Reduction of inflow and infiltration and,
  • Elimination of Separate Sanitary Sewer Overflows (SSOs) with respect to the Community’s sanitary sewers tributary to the Water Pollution Control Station.

City of Akron
Industrial Pretreatment Section
Water Pollution Control Division
2460 Akron-Peninsula Road
Akron, OH 44313
Phone: (330) 375-2963 | Fax: (330) 375-2966 | e-mail: IPS

 


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