Section 327IAC6.1-7-7. Domestic wastewater treatment reliability criteria

   The supervisor of a domestic sewage treatment works requiring disinfection equipment dependent upon electricity for operation shall submit documentation for approval by the commissioner demonstrating the ability to:

(1) provide an alternative power source sufficient to operate pathogen reduction equipment to a degree that pathogen limitations detailed in section 2 or 3 of this rule are achieved;

(2) upon the reduction, loss, or failure of power to the disinfection equipment, cease land application of domestic wastewater and cease discharge to a domestic wastewater storage structure used for land application of domestic wastewater for a period of seventy-two (72) hours; or

(3) provide an effective alternate method of disinfection, sufficient to a degree that pathogen limitations detailed in section 2 or 3 of this rule are achieved, approved by the commissioner, that does not require electricity for proper operation.

(Water Pollution Control Division; 327 IAC 6.1-7-7; filed May 15, 1998, 10:20 a.m.: 21 IR 3808; readopted filed Jan 10, 2001, 3:23 p.m.: 24 IR 1518; readopted filed Nov 21, 2007, 1:16 p.m.: 20071219-IR-327070553BFA; readopted filed Jul 29, 2013, 9:21 a.m.: 20130828-IR-327130176BFA)