[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Clairton 11-12-2002 by Ord. No.
1731. Amendments noted where applicable.]
This chapter shall be hereafter known as the "City of Clairton
Grease Remediation Ordinance."
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Discharge concentrations exceeding 100 ppm of grease, oil
and fat downstream of an interceptor or trap.
Includes any food establishment in any building, room or
place or any portion thereof or appurtenances thereto, where human
food or drink is mixed, cooked, or otherwise prepared, offered for
sale, sold, served or given with or without charge to patrons, customers
or guests for consumption on the premises; provided, however, that
this does not include the mixing, cooking or other preparation of
serving of food in single-family dwellings to the resident family
or its guest.
An interceptor whose rated flow exceeds 35 gpm and which
is located underground outside the building.
An interceptor whose flow rate is 35 gpm or less and which
is located inside the building. Grease traps shall be rated for a
minimum 22.5 gpm.
Includes any public eating place where meals are prepared,
offered for sale, sold and served to patrons, customers or guests
for compensation based on the price charged for and generally paid
at the conclusion of each meal. The word "meals" as used herein means
meals generally consisting of courses embracing some kind of meat
or its equivalent, vegetables, bread, pastry, beverages and accompaniments.
Every building or room occupied or used as a food preparation
facility or restaurant shall be well drained. All soil pipes, waste
pipes, drains or other plumbing fixtures shall be of adequate size
to enable a passage of any waste intended to pass through it to the
main public sewer. All drains, sewers, waste and soil pipes, traps
in water and gas pipes shall, at all times, be kept in good repair
and order so that no passes or odor shall escape therefrom and so
that the same shall not leak, and all vent pipes shall be kept in
good order and repair and free from obstruction.
A.
On or before December 1, 2002, every building, room or space or part
thereof used as a restaurant or food-preparation facility, whether
new or existing, shall install or cause to be installed a grease interceptor
or grease trap. The type of installation shall be determined by the
total fixture flow through rate of potential grease-laden fixtures
discharging through the building sewage lines as determined by the
City of Clairton Code Enforcement Officer or City of Clairton or its
responsible agent. For flow through rated 35 gpm or less, an internal
grease trap may be installed in certain existing structures used as
restaurants and food preparation facilities. For flow through rates
exceeding 35 gpm, an external, underground grease interceptor must
be installed in all new structures or changes of use involving restaurants
or food preparation facilities.
B.
All new restaurants or food preparation facilities shall be required
to install an exterior, underground grease interceptor of a minimum
1,000 gallon capacity, regardless of flow through rate.
C.
In all existing restaurants or food preparation facilities, there
shall be installed a grease interceptor or grease trap as determined
by flow through rate, as detailed above. In existing facilities where
it is determined by the City of Clairton that a grease trap is not
sufficient, the City of Clairton or its responsible agent or assigns,
may require that a grease interceptor (as detailed above) be installed.
Such insufficiency shall be evidenced by excessive amounts of grease
being discharged into the public sewer system by a facility. All existing
restaurants or food preparation facilities shall, at a change of ownership
or alteration, install an exterior, underground grease interceptor
of a minimum 1,000 gallon capacity. In all existing structures, buildings
or parts thereof in which there is a change of use or occupancy to
that of a restaurant of food preparation facility there shall be installed
a grease interceptor, minimum 1,000 gallon capacity, regardless of
flow through rate. Each grease interceptor or grease trap shall and
must be installed by a plumber registered with the Allegheny County
Plumbing Department.
A.
Said grease trap or interceptors shall be installed in the sanitary
sewer lateral between the restaurant and the main line sewer. An inspection
site tee shall be installed between the interceptor discharge and
connected to the public sewer system. All installations shall be in
accordance with the City of Clairton rules and regulations.
B.
No solid waste device, such as waste grinders, disposal, potato peelers,
etc., shall discharge through the grease trap or grease interceptor.
Only potential grease-laden fixtures may discharge through the trap
or interceptor.
A.
All grease interceptors and grease traps shall be maintained and
kept in good working order at all times. The interceptor or trap shall
limit the amount of grease discharged into the public sewer system
to levels not exceeding those permitted by the City of Clairton. Oil/grease
discharges shall not exceed 100 ppm downstream of the interceptor
or trap.
B.
It shall be the duty and responsibility of any owner, lessee or agent
of any restaurant or food preparation facility to, at a minimum of,
quarterly inspect the grease interceptor or trap. A written record
shall be kept of all inspections. The inspection record shall, at
a minimum, list the name (inspector and company), address, phone number
of the inspection/disposal company, the method and frequency of the
cleaning schedule and the date of the cleaning/inspection. Such records
shall be presented to the City upon request. A more frequent cleaning/inspection
schedule may be ordered to be performed by the facility when it is
determined by the City that the facility is discharging excessive
amounts of grease to the public sewer system.
A.
Whosoever violates any of the provisions of this chapter shall, upon
conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of up to $1,000. Each
day that a violation continues shall be deemed a separate offense.
B.
Whosoever violates any of the provisions of this chapter shall cease
to discharge or infiltrate or permit the discharge or infiltration
of the violating materials and substances upon receiving 30 days'
notice, in writing, to do so. In case the violator neglects or refuses
to do so, in addition to the fines set forth above, the City of Clairton
may proceed to have the violating system disconnected, and the cost
thereof, together with the penalty of 10% additional thereto, shall
be collected from the violator in the manner now provided by law.
In addition to the penalties provided above, the City of Clairton
shall have the right, upon proper notification, to cause water service
to the offending premises to be terminated by the provider thereof.
A.
In the discharge of duties, the City of Clairton Code Enforcement
Officer or authorized representative shall have the authority to enter,
at any reasonable hour, any restaurant or food preparation facility
in the jurisdiction to enforce the provisions of the chapter.
B.
The City of Clairton Code Enforcement Officer may cooperate with
or delegate his authority to the appropriate official of the City
of Clairton or other county agency charged with the duty of enforcing
any ordinance or regulations relating to the subject matter of the
within chapter.
The City of Clairton reserves the right to invoke and enforce
any City of Clairton regulations relating to the subject matter of
this chapter and to seek the imposition of the penalties provided
in said City of Clairton rules and regulations.
