Charlotte County Utilities
Treatment Facilities - Information for New Businesses
To make sure you are complying with all appropriate regulations, especially if your business has:
- Discharge to the wastewater system from a heating or cooling system.
- Usage, storage, or generation of hazardous or toxic materials.
- Discharge to the wastewater system other than restrooms, showers, eyewashes, hand-washing sinks, kitchen sinks, or dishwashers.
- Presence of floor drains or other spill pathways to the wastewater system.
- A discharge containing fats, oils and grease (FOG) in excess of 100 mg/l.
- Discharge of wastewater with a high temperature.
- Discharge containing heavy metals, such as - Cadmium, Copper, Arsenic, Chromium, Cyanide, Lead, Molybdenum, Nickel, Silver, Zinc, Mercury, or Selenium.
- Discharge high in Total Suspended Solids or B.O.D. (organic loading).
- Discharge of flammable or explosive substances.
Contact Jim Winter, Industrial Pretreatment Compliance Coordinator, at 941-764-4599 or 941-764-4595; by fax at 941-627-4603.
