Public Notice for Modification of Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTW)

Pretreatment Program-City of Goshen Wastewater Treatment Plant

      The City of Goshen Wastewater Treatment Plant has requested approval of a modification to its Industrial Pretreatment Program (IPP). The proposed modification consists of revisions to the pretreatment local limits for the following pollutants:  Removing the daily maximum limit for Hexavalent Chromium (currently 0.25 mg/l); adding a daily maximum limit of 3.10 mg/l for Molybdenum (currently none);  adding a daily maximum limit of 0.50 mg/l for PCBs (currently none); adding a monthly ceiling limit of 800.00 mg/l for BOD5 with excess amounts being subject to a surcharge; adding a daily maximum ceiling limit of 1,600.00 mg/l for BOD5 with excess amounts subject to a surcharge; and changing Phosphates to Phosphorus (P) with a daily maximum limit of 10.00 mg/l with excess amounts subject to a surcharge.  All other current pretreatment local limits amounts exceeding the maximum limits subject to a surcharge remain unchanged.

      The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 has proposed to approve the pretreatment program modification. The proposed determination is tentative.

      Interested persons are invited to submit written comments on the proposed program modification. Comments should be submitted in person or mailed no later than 30 days from the date of this Public Notice.  Copies of the relevant POTW documents are available for inspection and copying at EPA and at the POTW at the addresses listed above.

      Any person may request a public hearing within 30 days of the date of the Public Notice by submitting a written request to EPA Region 5. The request shall indicate the interest of the person filing such request and the reasons why a hearing is warranted. A public hearing will be held if there is a significant degree of public interest in the proposed program modification.  Public notice of such a hearing will be circulated in the newspaper and to the parties requesting the hearing.

      All comments or hearing requests should be submitted to the POTW at the address listed above, and to:

                                                      Pretreatment Program

                                                      NPDES Section 2

                                                      US EPA Region 5, WP-16J

                                                      Attn:  Jodie Opie

                                                      77 W. Jackson Blvd.

                                                      Chicago, IL  60604

                                                      or email to R5NPDES@epa.gov

      If no comments to this notice are received, the proposed IPP Modification will be approved as set forth herein without changes and without further public notice. In such event, this notice shall constitute the notice of approval or disapproval required by Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations Part 403.11(e) and no additional notice shall be provided; the approved modification will be incorporated in the POTW’s NPDES permit by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management. Anyone who wishes to be sent a notice of the approval of the modifications should send a request for such notice to the Indiana Department of Environmental Management.

      Published in the Goshen News June 21, 2024.