HomeMy WebLinkAbout033435 ORD - 08/20/2024Ordinance to amend Ordinance 033281 as required by Texas
Commission on Environmental Quality regulations by amending Section
55-141(d)(3) of the City Code to update the list of pollutants for which
limits may be established in an industrial discharge wastewater permit
utilizing the New Broadway Wastewater Treatment Facility or the Oso
Water Reclamation Plant; providing for a penalty not to exceed $2,000
and publication.
WHEREAS, the City working with a technical consultant proposed updates to its technically based
local limits for discharge of wastewater into the City's wastewater system and submitted proposed
changes approved by City Council Ordinance 033281 to the Texas Commission on Environmental
Quality for review;
WHEREAS, Ordinance 033281 inadvertently omitted cyanide from list of pollutants identified in
City Code Section 55-141(d)(3) for which limits may be established for purposes of any requested
industrial discharge wastewater permits utilizing the Oso Water Reclamation Plant or New
Broadway Wastewater Treatment Facility;
NOW THEREAFORE BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL FOR THE CITY OF
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That the Corpus Christi City Code, Chapter 55, Sec. 55-141 — General
sewer use requirements, subsection (d) Specific local pollutant limitations, is amended by
adding the following language that is underlined (added) as delineated below:
(3) Significant industrial users desiring to discharge to the Oso Water Reclamation Plant or New Broadway
Wastewater Treatment Facility shall submit a permit application prior to discharge. Limits for the
following pollutants may be found in a wastewater discharge permit:
Arsenic, total
Cadmium, total
Chromium, total
Copper, total
Cyanide, total
Lead, total
Mercury, total
Phenols, total
Nickel, total
Silver, total
Zinc, total
No user shall discharge pollutants in excess of the limits in a wastewater discharge permit.
SECTION 2. If for any reason any section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word,
or provision of this ordinance shall be held invalid or unconstitutional by final judgment of
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a court of competent jurisdiction, it shall not affect any other section, paragraph,
subdivision, clause, phrase, word or provision of this ordinance, for it is the definite intent
of this City Council that every section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word or
provision hereof be given full force and effect for its purpose.
SECTION 3. Publication shall be made in the official publication of the City of Corpus
Christi as required by the City Charter of the City of Corpus Christi.
SECTION 4. Penalties are as provided in Section 1-6 of the Corpus Christi City Code.
SECTION 5. This ordinance takes effect after publication.
Introduced and voted on the 131N\day of Au, 5, 2024.
PASSED and APPROVED on the a day of A-k/064- , 2024.
ATTEST:
Paulette Guajardo, Mayor
EFFECTIVE DATE
Tian- ay .
Rebecca Huerta, City Secretary
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City of Corpus Christi-Secretary amend Ordinance 033281 as
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sion on Environmental Qual-
STATE OF WISCONSIN, COUNTY OF BROWN ity regulations by amending
Section 55-141 (d) (3) of the
The Corpus Christi Caller-Times, a newspaper published in the city City Code to update the list
of Corpus Christi, Nueces County, State of Texas, generally
circulated in Aransas, Bee, Brooks, Duval,Jim Hogg, Jim Wells, of pollutants for which limits
Kleberg, Live Oak, Nueces, Refugio, and San Patricio Counties, may be established I n an
and personal knowledge of the facts herein state and that the
notice hereto annexed was Published in said newspapers in the industrial discharge waste-
issue: water permit utilizing the
08/26/2024 New Broadway Wastewater
and that the fees charged are legal. Treatment Facility or the
Sworn to and subscribed before on 08/26/2024 Oso Water Reclamation
Plant; providing for a
penalty not to exceed $2,000
and publication. This ordi-
nance was passed and
Legalcle,k approved on second reading
tit approved
the Corpus Christi City
Notary,State of WI,County of Brown ' Council on August 20, 2024.
on q., • 1st Rebecca Huerta
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ICity Secretary
Publication Cost: $130.75
Tax Amount: $0.00
Payment Cost: $130.75
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VICKY FELTY
Notary Public
State of Wisconsin
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