Industrial Pretreatment Program
The Industrial Pretreatment Program (IPP) protects the Cache la Poudre River by monitoring industry-created pollutants.
Our team regulates and tracks discharges from industrial and commercial users into our wastewater system via Wastewater Discharge Permits & Sector Control Programs to meet EPA requirements, protect the Wastewater Treatment and Reclamation Facility (WTRF), and ensure compliance with the City’s Wastewater Discharge Permit and other relevant regulatory programs. The EPA mandates this program and ensures that water coming out of Greeley’s WTRF meets public safety and environmental standards.
Objectives of the Industrial Pretreatment Program
The Industrial Pretreatment Program serves to:
- Prevent pollutants getting into the wastewater treatment plant and collection system that might pass through treatment without being removed or that are incompatible with the treatment processes.
- Prevent pollutants from getting into the wastewater treatment plant and collection system that might interfere with treatment operations or the use or disposal of biosolids.
- Improve the feasibility of recycling/reclaiming municipal and industrial wastewater and biosolids.
- Protect the general health and safety of wastewater treatment plant and collection system employees.
Enforce applicable EPA categorical standards.