Outfall Compliance
PRETREATMENT & DISCHARGE RESPONSE
Your sewer authority just cited you. The compliance clock is already running.
We handle industrial pretreatment violation response and the ongoing paperwork for manufacturers who don't have a full time environmental compliance person and don't want to hire one.
The first letter is never the expensive one.
A first time effluent violation typically draws a $1,500 to $2,500 penalty, small enough that a lot of owners set the letter aside. The danger isn't that letter. It's the second one, the compliance schedule you miss, and the referral that follows once you're already on file.
What we do when you've just been cited
One engagement, priced to the size of the citation, whether that's a local notice of violation or a state agreed order. Not an open ended retainer.
10 to 80 employees. No environmental staff. A permit you didn't think about until this week.
Metal finishing and electroplating shops, circuit board manufacturers, industrial laundries, food and beverage processors, and other facilities that discharge process wastewater into a municipal sewer system. Usually the maintenance supervisor holds the compliance binder as a side duty, until a notice of violation makes it everyone's problem.
After the rescue
Most clients keep us on afterward for the recurring paperwork: self monitoring reports, sampling calendars, the 24 hour notification clock, and compliance schedule tracking. So this doesn't happen again. That's a separate, lower monthly engagement. We only bring it up once the immediate violation is handled.
Get your notice reviewed
Tell us who cited you and what it says. We'll tell you, in plain terms, what happens next and what it will take to close it out, before you respond to anyone.