PH Level Of Treatment Water

Local environmental protection has the jurisdiction on this. But you may go to US EPA site, search for water quality or policies.

You need to run it through a waste water treatment facility first!

Some pointers:

• Contact the operation that already supplies sewage treatment for the facility. If it is industrial, there should already be discharge consents in place under the regime for which the facility already pays. Or look it up; someone at the facility already pays the bill.
• Surface water run-off is not part of a sewage discharge consent as it goes directly to drainage and not sewage. However the local Environmental Protection operation will have already made observations, recommendations and requirements with which the facility must comply to avoid prosecution.
• Local authorities will also have building regulations with which the facility will need to comply with regard to new structures. Water supply and sewage return will be encompassed by those regulations during new build and alteration projects.

Not sure what country your treatment process is (will be) located, but in the US; any process/waste water treatment that discharges must be permitted through the local environmental protection agency. The resulting permit will contain the effluent criteria, along with sampling and reporting requirements.

If your process, and its discharge are of minimal impact, then you will likely fall under the general discharge permit for your area, which will also note the aforementioned sampling and reporting requirements.

Odds are though, if your process/waste water requires treatment, then a specific permit will be required.

For further information, contact your local environmental protection agency.

So far, all of the replies before mind have been spot-on correct. I will add that (1) if this is for Storm Water Runoff compliance within the United States, you probably will have needed to have filed paperwork with the local city codes enforcement folks, and (2) if this is water discharged into a waterway, the monitoring and constraints are more exacting.

Depending what type of facility, there can be sampling requirements, the testing of which has to be certified in a manner consistent with local codes and ordinances. If you are discharging waste water from any process (such as cooling industrial process or power generation), then you must apply for both federal and state permits with the United States, so this becomes more stringent in terms of parameters monitored above and beyond simple pH measurements. Metals, Total Suspended Solids, targeted parameters such as chloride and sulfate, chlorine, phosphate, etc. will have to be monitored. Any priority pollutants must be prevented from entering into public waterways of the governing authority where this is located (at least within the United States of America). Furthermore, within the USA, it is a felony to misrepresent any portion of the data, including the flow totals, average daily flow, etc.

If you wish to stay out of trouble, I suggest you contact environmental consulting engineers within your local governing State, and learn what the actual requirements are before you step off your horsey into shifting sand.