Documents providing additional information on specific prohibitions of hazardous exposure to wastewater.
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Guidance Manual for Preventing Interference at POTWs (PDF)(119 pp, 7 MB)
Assists POTWs in identifying interference episodes caused by discharges and in tracking and mitigating nondomestic wastes.
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Guidance Manual for the Identification of Hazardous Wastes Delivered to Publicly Owned Treatment Works by Truck, Rail, or Dedicated Pipe (PDF)(132 pp, 7 MB)
Guides EPA regions and states on identifying POTWs that receive hazardous wastes by truck, rail, or dedicated pipe, and the requirements to impose on those POTWs.
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Guidance To Protect POTW Workers From Toxic And Reactive Gases And Vapors (PDF)(113 pp, 5 MB)
EPA issued regulations that require POTWs to identify and control potential exposures to substances in industrial wastewater.