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OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE GUIDELINES For the CONTINUOUS DEFL.ECTIVE SEPARATION UNIT ,INTRODUCTION The CDS unit is an important and effective component of your storm water management program and proper operation and maintenance of the unit are essential to demonstrate your compliance with local, state and federal water pollution control requirements, The CDS technology features a patented non-blocking, indirect screening technique developed in Australia to treat water runoff. The unit is highly effective in the capture of suspended solids, fine sands and larger particles. Because of its non-blocking screening capacity, the CDS unit is un-matched in its ability to capture and retain gross pollutants such as trash and debris. In short, CDS units capture a very wide range of organic and in-organic solids and pollutants that typically result in tons of captured solids each year: total suspended solids (TSS), sediments, oil and greases and captured trash and debris (including floatables, neutrally buoyant, and negatively buoyant debris) under very high flow rate conditions. CDS units are equipped with conventional oil baffles to capture and retain oil and grease. Laboratory evaluations show that the CDS units are capable of capturing up to 70% of the free oil and grease from storm water. CDS units cana.lso accommodate the addition of oil sorbents within their separation chambers. The addition of the oil sorbents can ensure the permanent removal of 80% to 90% of the free oil and grease from the storm water runoff. OPERATIONS The CDS unit is a non-mechanical self-operating system and will function any time there is flow in the storm drainage system. The unit will continue to effectively capture pollutants in flows up to the design capacity even during extreme rainfall events when the design capacity may be exceeded. Pollutants captured in the CDS unit's separation chamber and sump will be retained even when the unit's design capacity is exceeded. CDS CL.EANOUT The frequency of cleaning the CDS unit will depend upon the generation of trash and debris and sediments in your application. Cleanout and preventive maintenance schedules will be determined based on operating experience unless precise pollutant loadings have been determined. The unit should be periodically inspected to determine the amou nt of accumulated pollutants and to ensure that the cleanout frequency is adequate to handle the predicted pollutant load being processed by the CDS unit. The recommended cleanout of solids within the CDS unit's sump should occur at 75% ofthe sump capacity. However, the sump may be completely full with no impact to the CDS unit's performance. Access to the CDS unit is typically achieved through two manhole access covers - one allows inspection and cleanout of the separation chamber (screen/cylinder) & sump and another allows inspection and c1eanout of sediment captured and retained behind the screen. The PSW & PSWC off-line models have an additional access cover over the Exhibit B-1