Wisconsin Administrative Code
Department of Natural Resources
NR 200-299 - Environmental Protection Wisconsin Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
Chapter NR 235 - Organic chemical manufacturing
Subchapter IX - Pipe Biological Treatment
Section NR 235.81 - Toxic pollutant effluent limitations and standards for direct discharge point sources that use end-of-pipe biological treatment

Universal Citation: WI Admin Code § NR 235.81

Current through August 26, 2024

(1) Any point source subject to this subchapter must achieve discharges not exceeding the quantity determined by multiplying the process wastewater flow times the concentrations in the following table.

(2) For chromium, copper, lead, nickel, zinc and total cyanide:

(a) The discharge quantity shall be determined by multiplying the concentrations listed in the following table for these pollutants times the flow from the metal-bearing waste streams for the metals and times the flow from the cyanide bearing waste streams for total cyanide.

(b) The metal-bearing waste streams and cyanide-bearing waste streams are defined as:

1. Those waste streams listed in Appendix A.

2. Any additional OCPSF process wastewater streams identified by the permitting authority on a case-by-case basis as metal or cyanide bearing based upon a determination that such streams contain significant amounts of the pollutants identified above.

(c) Any streams designated under par. (b) 2. shall be treated independently of other metal or cyanide bearing waste streams unless the permitting authority determines that the combination of such streams, prior to treatment, with the Appendix A waste streams will result in substantial reduction of these pollutants. This determination shall be based upon a review of relevant engineering, production and sampling information.

Sources Using End of Pipe Biological Treatment

BAT Effluent Limitations and NSPS1
Maximum for any 1 day	Maximum for monthly average
Pollutant or pollutant property	µg/l	µg/l
Acenaphthene	59	22
Acenaphthylene	59	22
Acrylonitrile	242	96
Anthracene	59	22
Benzene	136	37
Benzo(a)anthracene	59	22
3,4-Benzofluoranthene	61	23
Benzo(k)fluoranthene	59	22
Benzo(a)pyrene	61	23
Bis(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate	279	103
Carbon tetrachloride	38	18
Chlorobenzene	28	15
Chloroethane	268	104
Chloroform	46	21
2-Chlorophenol	98	31
Chrysene	59	22
Di-n-butyl phthalate	57	27
1,2-Dichlorobenzene	163	77
1,3-Dichlorobenzene	44	31
1,4-Dichlorobenzene	28	15
1,1-Dichloroethane	59	22
1,2-Dichloroethane	211	68
1,1-Dichloroethylene	25	16
1,2-trans-Dichloroethylene	54	21
2,4-Dichlorophenol	112	39
1,2-Dichloropropane	230	153
1,3-Dichloropropylene	44	29
Diethyl phthalate	203	81
2,4-Dimethylphenol	36	18
Dimethyl phthalate	47	19
4,6-Dinitro-o-cresol	277	78
2,4-Dinitrophenol	123	71
2,4-Dinitrotoluene	285	113
2,6-Dinitrotoluene	641	255
Ethylbenzene	108	32
Fluoranthene	68	25
Fluorene	59	22
Hexachlorobenzene	28	15
Hexachlorobutadiene	49	20
Hexachloroethane	54	21
Methyl chloride	190	86
Methylene chloride	89	40
Naphthalene	59	22
Nitrobenzene	68	27
2-Nitrophenol	69	41
4-Nitrophenol	124	72
Phenanthrene	59	22
Phenol	26	15
Pyrene	67	25
Tetrachloroethylene	56	22
Toluene	80	26
Total Chromium	2,770	1,110
Total Copper	3,380	1,450
Total Cyanide	1,200	420
Total Lead	690	320
Total Nickel	3,980	1,690
Total Zinc2	2,610	1,050
1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene	140	68
1,1,1-Trichloroethane	54	21
1,1,2-Trichloroethane	54	21
Trichloroethylene	54	21
Vinyl Chloride	268	104

1All units are micrograms per liter.

2Total zinc for rayon fiber manufacture that uses the viscose process and acrylic fiber manufacture that uses the zinc chloride/solvent process is 6,796 mg/l maximum for any one day and 3,325 mg/l maximum for monthly average.

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