[Adopted 8-21-2012 by Ord. No. 1342]
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Includes any food establishment in any building, room or
place or any portion thereof or appurtenance 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 and
serving of food in single-family dwellings to the resident family
or its guests, or to buildings designated for other approved residential
use in the Borough Zoning Ordinance.
An interceptor whose flow rate is 35 gpm or less and which
is located inside building. Grease traps shall be rated for a minimum
22.5 gpm.
Includes any public eating place where regular 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 words "regular meals" as
used herein mean meals generally consistent of curses embracing some
kind of meat or its equivalent, vegetables, bread, pastry, beverage
and accompaniments, serve at more or less intervals.
Grease removal systems must be installed at all connections
to the Avalon Borough sanitary sewage facilities from users conducting
food preparation or food processing operations, including, but not
limited to, restaurants, nursing homes, schools, hospitals or other
connections which discharge or have the potential of discharging quantities
of grease to the Borough sanitary sewage facilities in excess of allowable
standards. Installation of a grease removal system shall be required
when the Borough determines that such discharge could result in obstruction
to flow in the sewer or accumulations of grease that could result
in obstruction to flow in the sewer. Grease removal systems must be
installed according to the following specifications:
A.
No wastewater, other than from kitchen fixtures or food processing
equipment, shall discharge into the grease removal system unless approved
by the Avalon Borough Council or its designee in writing.
C.
Inground grease removal system shall have a minimum depth of four
feet and a minimum capacity of 500 gallons, and shall have sufficient
capacity to provide at least a twenty-four-hour detention period for
the process flow. The minimum process flow shall be based on 15 gallons
per seat or chair per day or based on actual water usage for existing
facilities, according to such reasonable standards as may be utilized
the Borough Engineer.
D.
A suitable sampling location shall be providing for sampling of the
discharges from grease removal systems. Any plans for such grease
removal system as required in this section shall be submitted for
Borough review and approval prior to installation. The Borough must
be notified 72 hours prior to installation of any grease removal device
in order to inspect and oversee the installation. Automatic electrical/mechanical
grease removal systems must have a sampling valve installed in the
discharge piping with a minimum clearance of eight inches for the
installation of sampling bottles.
E.
The owners shall be responsible for cleaning and maintaining grease
removal system and shall maintain records of the dates of cleaning
and the means of disposal, subject to review by the Borough. Any removal
and hauling of the collected materials not performed by the owner
must be performed by a licensed waste disposal firms.
F.
All dishwasher wastewater from the prerinse station must discharge
to the grease removal device. All other dishwater wastewater must
by-pass the grease removal device and be discharged directly into
the sewer system.
G.
The garbage disposal units may only be installed in facilities with
properly sized and operational inground passive-type grease interceptors
which have been properly designed for retention of settleable solids.
Garbage disposal units are prohibited in all other commercial or industrial
facilities. Garbage disposal waste shall not be discharged into automatic
electrical/mechanical grease removal systems.
H.
Grease and oil traps or other interceptors shall be provided at the
user's expense, when such user operates an establishment preparing,
processing or serving food and/or food products. Grease interceptors
can be required in other industrial or commercial establishments when
they are necessary, in the opinion of the Borough, for proper handling
of liquid waste containing oil and/or grease in an amount in excess
of 200 mg/l by weight fat soluble, or for any flammable waste, and
all such traps, tanks, chambers or other interceptors shall be of
a type and capacity approved by the Borough and shall be readily and
easily accessible for cleaning and inspection. All such interceptors
shall be serviced and emptied of the waste content as required for
the efficient operation, but not less often than every 30 days, in
order to maintain the minimum design capability to intercept oils
and greases from the wastewater discharged to the publicly owned sanitary
sewer.
I.
Waste removed from grease inceptors shall not be discharged into
the publicly owned sanitary sewer. The owner shall be responsible
for the sanitary disposal of such waste. The owner shall keep a contemporaneous
written record stating the date of disposal, the name and address
of the person or company handling such disposal and the disposal location.
J.
A facility must keep interceptor cleaning records and disposal records
on file a minimum of three years. The following information must be
maintained: receipt for job performed signed by contractor, and cost,
cleanout date, person responsible for cleaning, name of firm performing
the cleanout, disposal method for and destination of material removed.
K.
The owner must inspect and maintain oil and grease storage containers
at least once a week and record in a maintenance log the date and
time of inspection, maintenance activity and the name of the individual
conducting the activity. The maintenance activities that shall be
documented in the maintenance log must include the following:
L.
A facility must maintain a proper containment around the storage
container and storage area.
M.
The facility owner is not to utilize enzymes, bacteria, chemicals,
etc., that would adversely affect the operation of the grease traps.
N.
The facility owner is to document the cleaning of the exhaust system
filters and record in a maintenance log the date and time of inspection,
maintenance activity and the name of the individual conducting the
activity. No filter cleaning is to be performed in an area not protected
by a grease trap.
O.
Notwithstanding the above, no interceptor or grease trap shall discharge
amounts of grease into the public sewer system that are in excess
of levels permitted by Allegheny County Sanitary Authority (ALCOSAN).
In the event that ALCOSAN regulations are more stringent than those
stated above, the ALCOSAN regulations and limits shall control.
P.
In the discharge of duties, the Borough Code Enforcement Officer,
Borough Engineer or other Borough designee shall have the authority
to enter, during regular business hours, any restaurant, food preparation
facility or other covered place or enterprise in the jurisdiction
to enforce the provisions of this article.
Q.
The Borough may adopt and charge to the user of an interceptor or
grease trap reasonable inspection fees to be set by resolution in
order to facilitate and enforce this article.
A.
Any person or user who is found to have failed to comply with the
provisions of this article regarding grease traps may be fined up
to $1,000 per day per violation. Each day of violation shall be a
separate offense.
B.
Wherever a user has been notified of a violation of the provisions
of this article and has not abated the violation within the deadline
as ordered by the Borough, the Borough may arrange with the water
supplier for water service to the user to be severed and for service
to recommence, at the user's expense, after the user has satisfactorily
come into compliance. The user shall pay all water-termination-related
charges of the water supplier.
C.
In addition to the penalties and remedies contained herein, the Borough
may take any action at law or in equity to seek redress for violation
of this article.
A.
Should the Borough determine any user to be in violation of these
regulations, it may serve upon such person a written notice stating
the nature of the violation. Within 20 days from the date of said
notice, the user must supply to the Borough a written explanation
for the violation and a plan for the satisfactory correction of the
violation and a schedule for coming into full compliance. Submission
of such a plan does relieve the user of liability for any violation
occurring before or after receipt of the notice of violation.
B.
Any person aggrieved by the issuance of a violation notice under
this article may file a written appeal to the Borough Manager within
20 days of such notice of violation requesting a Local Agency Law
hearing. Upon the filing of such appeal, the Borough Council will
provide for such a hearing and may assign a hearing officer to conduct
a hearing, make findings of fact and recommendations, and/or to issue
a determination. Any request for an appeal hearing shall be accompanied
by a $50 nonrefundable hearing fee, and the applicant shall be responsible
for payment of all costs incurred by the Borough in connection with
the hearing, including but not limited to court reporter costs, costs
of transcripts, cost of publication of notices, etc.
C.
Upon written request from any person, the Borough Engineer may approve
a modification of any substantive requirement herein, provided that
such modification is needed to avoid undue hardship, adequate measures
are taken to preserve the proper operation of the sanitary sewer system,
and the modification poses no danger to the public health.
