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Resolution to Accept Treated Wastewater Discharge to the POTW from Environmental Cleanup Activities at the Michigan Consolidated Gas Company Property at 841 Broadway Street
Memorandum
City Staff from both the Wastewater Treatment Plant and the Systems Planning Unit have been coordinating with DTE Energy staff to issue a permit to discharge treated wastewater from environmental cleanup activities at the site of the former Michigan Consolidated Gas Company Broadway Station, located at 841 Broadway Street.
Under the City’s Sewage and Sewage Disposal Ordinance (Chapter 28), there are provisions for prohibited discharges to the City’s sanitary sewer system. Section 2:43.1 (1)(l) allows a user to discharge effluent from environmental cleanup activities that are regulated under the Michigan Environmental Response Act (MERA) (1982 Public Act 307, as amended), if approved by City Council.
City WWTP staff plans to issue an Industrial User Permit to the Michigan Consolidated Gas Company for the discharge of industrial wastewater from the environmental cleanup activities, which are regulated under the Michigan Environmental Response Act (MERA) (1982 Public Act 307, as amended), into the City of Ann Arbor POTW (Publicly Owned Treatment Works). This industrial wastewater will be effluent from the dewatering water pretreatment system for the environmental cleanup. This discharge into the city system will be at a location identified in the Permit, and will be performed in accordance with the conditions set forth in the Permit and the City’s Sewer Use Ordinance. The discharge location identified and approved by both parties is a sanitary manhole located approximately 125 feet south of the former Michigan Consolidated Gas Company service center building.
Compliance with the Industrial User Permit does not relieve the User of its obligation to comply with all applicable pre-treatment regulations, standards, or requirements under local, State, and Federal laws, incl...
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