Abe Pierce IV, Pretreatment Coordinator
Joy Jefferson, Assistant Pretreatment Coordinator

Pretreatment Program

The City of Monroe Industrial Waste Pretreatment Program is a federally mandated and approved environmental program designed to identify industrial and commercial users of the City’s sanitary sewer system which might be subject to federal and local pretreatment rules and regulations.

Objectives

The objectives of the Monroe industrial waste pretreatment program are to prevent discharges from industrial and commercial sources that could: interfere with the operation of the city’s collection and treatment system, including interference with the use or disposal of municipal sludge; to prevent the introduction of pollutants, foreign objects, and FOG (Fats, Oils, and Grease) into the city’s sanitary sewer system which will pass through the treatment works or other-wise be incompatible with such works: and to improve opportunities to recycle and reclaim municipal and industrial wastewaters and sludges.

Pretreatment Staff Responsibilities

The City presently employs two (2) fulltime employees. The pretreatment staff responsibilities are to ensure that both permitted and non-permitted industrial and commercial facilities are compliant with federal, state, and local Pretreatment Program Requirements. Compliance with these rules is ensured through conducting routine and non-routine inspections and sampling events, evaluations of industrial and commercial user surveys, review self-monitoring reports and wastewater discharge applications and issuance of wastewater permits.

Pretreatment Program Facts

There are currently 9 Significant Industrial Users (SIU’s) and 180 Commercial Users (CU’s) whose wastewater discharge is permitted by the City’s Pretreatment Program. Each permit has been written in accordance with 40 CFR 403 and the City’s Sewer Use Ordinance No. 9332. Each permit consists of effluent limitations, monitoring requirements, reporting requirements, general discharge prohibitions, along with rules concerning right of entry, confidential information, sampling/inspections, special conditions, enforcement, fines, and fees. Each permit issued is for a year period. A permit fee is issued to each permitted IU on a yearly basis. The permit fee is $25.00 per year.

Reporting Accidental Spills & Discharges

To report accidental spills and illegal discharges to the sanitary sewer system please contact the Pretreatment Division at (318) 329-2428 or (318) 329-2463 Monday – Friday from 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. For after hours and weekends call (318) 366-1347 or (318) 366-2615.