Ordinance No. 20499 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

identifiable point source. This includes emissions from stacks, exhaust vents, ducts, pipes, or other confined air streams. Fugitive emissions are emissions that are not released through stacks, vents, ducts, pipes or other confined air stream. Included are evaporation, leakage, or releases from the following sources: blending operations; transfer operations; charging and discharging reaction vessels; storage piles and tanks; leaking seals, pumps, flanges, valves, etc.; furnaces or kilns; open vats or pits; crushing, pelletizing or grinding operations; and loading and unloading operations. 6. Quantity discharged into publicly treated sewage Report the quantity of the substance discharged into the wastewater collection system (sanitary sewer). Report the actual amount of the hazardous substance, not the total discharge. 7. Quantity released into surface waters Report the quantity of the substance discharged directly into surface waters, other than quantities that went to surface waters via the sewer system (output type 6). This would include storm water runoff and any spills that ran into surface waters. Quantity eliminated through treatment at the facility See Appendix F, Report the quantity of the reportable substance that was Question 46 destroyed or neutralized through on -site treatment processes, including gaseous, wastewater (aqueous), liquid (non- aqueous), and solid. Destruction may include any process that changes the physical, chemical, or biological character or composition of the substance so as to neutralize or chemically decompose the waste. If during treatment new reportable substances are created that leave the facility as other forms of output, they must be reported as inputs of type 3 (produced at the facility) and as outputs. Example: A facility uses nitric acid and sodium hydroxide for neutralization. During the process they react to form water, nitrate and sodium ions. Both the nitric acid and the sodium hydroxide are treated and neutralized in the process. The mass of sodium nitrate produced must be calculated and is reportable as a nitrate compound (water dissociable). 9. Quantity eliminated through energy recovery at the facility Reportable energy recovery is the combustion of residual material containing a hazardous substance when (a) the combustion unit is integrated into an energy recovery system (boilers, industrial furnaces and industrial kilns), and (b) the substance that is combustible has a heating value high enough to sustain combustion. Metals and metal compounds cannot be reported in this output because they are not combustible. The metal component of the material being combusted could be in the ash or could be in the exhaust. If it is in the ash, the metal component that is a hazardous substance would be reported as output of type 3 (quantity transferred away from the facility as waste), or output of type 10 (quantity disposed on- site), depending on what happens to the ash. If it is exhausted, it would be reported as output of type 5 (quantity emitted to the air). -19-