Wastewater Treatment
Contact Information
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Richard McGee - Water Pollution Control Superintendent
234 South Main Street
Kendallville, IN 46755
Tel: 260-347-1362
Fax: 260-347-7037
Email: wpc@kendallville-in.org
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Functions / Services of the Wastewater Treatment Department
How does our plant work?
View this
presentation to see how we process wastewater.
Sewer Problems
Do you have a sewer problem? Please contact us
first before contacting a plumber.
Helpful Tips
Downspouts
If downspouts are connected to your sewer line leaving the
house or structure, this condition needs to be corrected by
removing it. Why? First, rain water uses up treatment capacity
at the Wastewater Treatment Plant for water that is relatively
clean and in turn cost money to process these flows needlessly.
Second, the volume of water from rains in your sewer line may
cause basements to flood, problems with foundations and sewer
backups into houses or structures. Should you need advise as to
how to correct your situation, please contact our
office.
Grass Clippings
When mowing your lawn, please blow clippings away from
street. Doing this will help our storm inlets from plugging when
it rains and helps the water to get away.
Disposing of Household Wastes
The Water Environment Federation has designed an easy-to-use
color coded chart to help determine the appropriate means of
disposal for home and garden hazardous wastes.
More information can be found at the
Northeast Indiana
Solid Waste District's web site.
Kendallville's Pretreatment Program
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972, amended in
1977 and 1987, gives the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(US EPA) the authority to establish and enforce pretreatment
standards for the indirect discharge of industrial wastewaters.
The intent of these regulations is to prohibit the discharges
of wastes that are incompatible with the Water Pollution Control
Facility (WPCF) processes. To be specific, the pretreatment
program has 4 objectives (40 CFR Part 403.2):
- To Prevent the introduction of pollutants to the WPCF
that will interfere with the operation of the WPCF,
including interference with its use or disposal of municipal
sludge;
- To prevent the introduction of pollutants to the WPCF
that will pass through the treatment work or otherwise be
incompatible with such work.
- To improve opportunities to recycle and reclaim
municipal and industrial wastewaters and sludge; and
- To enable the City of Kendallville to comply with its
NPDES permit conditions, sludge use and disposal
requirements and any other federal or state laws to which
the WPCF is subject.
Kendallville is one of 45 municipalities in Indiana that have
approved pretreatment programs. Approved pretreatment programs
issue wastewater discharge permits, authorizes monitoring,
compliance and enforcement activities, establishes
administrative review procedures; requires industrial user
reporting; and provides for the setting of fees for the
equitable distribution of cost resulting from the program.
Kendallville has 2 "Biosolids" permits approved through the
IDEM. One is a Non-Site Specific land application permit and the
other is a Marketing and distribution (Give-Away).
Kendallville's "Biosolids" have been designated as Class A,
thus allowing Kendallville WPCF to make available solids to the
public.
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