erated properly and can meet its permit conditions, the federal Clean Water Act (CWA) requires industry to "pretreat" its industrial wastewater prior to discharge into the POTW's collection system (Cheney).
There is nothing extraordinary about how DES or EPA handles the collection and treatment of industrial, urban, or rural wastewater in New Hampshire. However, the disposal of liquid substances, such as freon, that can be classed as industrial use fluids are an entirely different matter. Materials like freon, that are created for specific uses and functions are usually not biodegradable nor treatable in POTW. These fluids, which under certain physical circumstances are classed as
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