Environmental Compliance Permits
The City requires an industrial Wastewater Discharge Permit Application from a Significant Industrial User (SIU) at least 45 days before they wish to dispose of wastewater.
Need help determining which permit to apply for?
We can help! Please call 951-351-6140.
Changes in Industrial Operations
All permitted industrial users shall report proposed
changes in their operations in writing to Environmental
Compliance for approval 30 days before those changes are implemented.
Changes include:
- A sustained twenty percent increase or decrease in production capacity or wastewater discharge.
- Additions, deletions or changes to processes or equipment.
- Experimentation with new processes, materials, chemicals, and/or equipment that may affect the wastewater discharged.
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Industrial User Categories
- Class I-VI
Permitted Industries
- Non-Significant Industrial Users (NSIU)
are industries that do not require a Class I-VI Industrial User Permit or are not considered a restaurant.
- Restaurants are retail establishments selling prepared foods and drinks for consumption on or off the premises; including lunch counters and refreshment stands. Retail establishments, lunch counters, and drinking places serving prepared food and drink as a subordinate service incidental to their main operations, and institutional facilities (schools, hospitals, and jails), which serve food on the premises shall also be called restaurants.
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Industrial User Permit Classes
In order to determine which permit application to complete, a brief
summary of each industrial class is below:
- Class I Users have an annual average industrial wastewater
discharge of 25,000 gallons or more per day. Significant Industrial Users and
Categorical Industrial Users have a federally regulated process waste stream
discharge.
- Class II Users have an annual average industrial wastewater
discharge between 10,000 and 24,999 gallons per day.
- Class III Users have an annual industrial wastewater
discharge between 1 and 9,999 gallons per day where the industrial discharge has
the potential to adversely affecting the POTW operations or violate any
pretreatment standard, prohibition, or requirement of Riverside Municipal Code
Chapter 14.12.
- Class IV Users have a manufacturing or production process
that generates wastewater and/or waste that is not discharged to the POTW due to
the user’s reclamation, recycling, segregation, and/or offsite disposal of the
wastewater and/or waste. Industrial users who are considered categorical, but do
not discharge process wastewater to the sanitary sewer system will be issued a
Zero-Discharger Categorical Industrial User Permit (Class IV).
- Class V Users have a temporary need to discharge wastewater
to the POTW. The temporary period shall be from 1 to 180 days.
- Class VI Users haul wastewater by truck or other means from
septic tanks, cesspools, seepage pits and private disposal systems.
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Permit Fees
Permit fees are due and payable upon receipt of invoice
from the City’s Finance Department. Do not enclose any money
or checks to the Environmental Compliance Section with your
permit application.
Class I
|
$1,000.00 per year |
Class II |
$500.00 per year |
Class III
|
$250.00 per year |
Class IV |
$250.00 per year |
Class VI
|
$120.00 per year |
Application fee
for Class I –IV
|
$120.00 |
Application fee
for Class VI |
$25.00 |
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