[Ord. No. 5.202 §1, 6-17-1954]
It is hereby found, determined and declared to be necessary
for the public health, safety, welfare and benefit of the City of
California, Missouri, and its inhabitants that the waterworks and
the sewerage system of the City of California, Missouri, and all future
improvements and extensions thereto, whether to the waterworks or
to the sewerage system or to both, shall be and the same are combined
and it is hereby declared that said waterworks and said sewerage system,
and all future improvements and extensions thereto, as aforesaid,
thenceforth be operated and maintained as a combined waterworks and
sewerage system.
[Ord. No. 14.535 §§1 —
3, 10-5-2015]
A.
APPROXIMATE LOCATION
DESIGN REQUEST
EMERGENCY
EXCAVATION
EXCAVATOR
LOCATE STATUS
MARKING
NOTIFICATION CENTER
NOTIFICATION CENTER PARTICIPANT
PERMITTED PROJECT
PERSON
PIPELINE FACILITY
STATE PLANE COORDINATES
TRENCHLESS EXCAVATION
UNDERGROUND FACILITY
UNDERGROUND FACILITY OWNER
WORKING DAY
Definitions. For the purposes of this Section and
enforcement thereof, the following terms shall mean:
A strip of land not wider than the width of the underground
facility plus two (2) feet on either side thereof. In situations where
reinforced concrete, multiplicity of adjacent facilities or other
unusual specified conditions interfere with location attempts, the
owner or operator shall designate to the best of his or her ability
an approximate location of greater width.
A request from any person for facility location information
for design purposes only.
A sudden, unexpected occurrence, presenting a clear and imminent
danger demanding immediate action to prevent or mitigate loss or damage
to life, health, property, or essential public services. "Unexpected
occurrence" includes, but is not limited to, thunderstorms, high winds,
ice or snow storms, fires, floods, earthquakes, or other soil or geologic
movements, riots, accidents, water or wastewater pipe breaks, vandalism,
or sabotage.
Any operation in which earth, rock or other material in or
on the ground is moved, removed or otherwise displaced by means of
any tools, equipment or explosives and includes, without limitation,
backfilling, grading, trenching, digging, ditching, pulling material
from a ditch but not including routine road maintenance, drilling,
well drilling, augering, boring, tunneling, scraping, cable or pipe
plowing, plowing in, pulling in, ripping, driving, and demolition
of structures, except that the use of mechanized tools and equipment
to break and remove pavement and masonry down only to the depth of
such pavement or masonry on roads dedicated to the public use for
vehicular traffic, the tilling of soil for agricultural purposes when
such excavation does not exceed sixteen (16) inches in depth, the
installation of marking flags and stakes and the use of pressurized
air to disintegrate and suction to remove earth, rock, or other materials
for the location of underground facilities shall not be deemed excavation.
Backfilling or moving earth on the ground in connection with other
excavation operations at the same site shall not be deemed separate
instances of excavation. For railroads regulated by the Federal Railroad
Administration, excavation shall not include any excavating done by
a railroad when such excavating is done entirely on land that the
railroad owns or on which the railroad operates, or in the event of
an emergency, excavating done by a railroad on adjacent land.
Any person making one or more excavations who is required
to make notices of excavation under the requirements of Sections 319.010
to 319.050, RSMo., as presently enacted.
The underground facility owner's designation of the
status of the locate request to the notification center which then
makes that information available to the person making the locate request
through electronic or other means.
The use of paint, flags, stakes, or other clearly identifiable
materials to show the field location of underground facilities, or
the area of proposed excavation, in accordance with the marking standards
for underground facilities as designated by the Common Ground Alliance
Best Practices Version 10.0 except that approximate location shall
comply with the requirements as set forth in the definition of "approximate
location" in this Section.
A statewide organization operating twenty-four (24) hours
a day, three hundred sixty-five (365) days a year on a not-for-profit
basis, supported by a majority of the underground facility owners
in the State of Missouri.
An underground facility owner who is a member and participant
in the notification center.
A project for which a permit for the work to be performed
is required to be issued by a local, State or Federal agency and,
as a prerequisite to receiving such permit, the applicant is required
to notify all underground facility owners in the area of the work
for purposes of identifying the location of existing underground facilities.
Any individual, firm, joint venture, partnership, corporation,
association, cooperative, municipality, political subdivision, governmental
unit, department or agency and shall include a notification center
and any trustee, receiver, assignee or personal representative thereof.
Includes all parts of a facility through which a hazardous
liquid or gas moves in transportation, including, but not limited
to, pipe, valves and other appurtenances connected to pipe, pumping
units, fabricated assemblies associated with pumping units, metering
and delivery stations and fabricated assemblies therein, and breakout
tanks.
A system of locating a point on a flat plane developed by
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and utilized by
State agencies, local governments, and other persons to designate
the site of a construction project.
Horizontal excavation parallel to the surface of the earth
which does not use trenching or vertical digging as the primary means
of excavation, including but not limited to directional boring, tunneling,
or augering.
Any item of personal property which shall be buried or placed
below ground for use in connection with the storage or conveyance
of water, storm drainage, sewage, telecommunications service, cable
television service, electricity, oil, gas, hazardous liquids or other
substances, and shall include but not be limited to pipes, sewers,
conduits, cables, valves, vaults, lines, wires, manholes, attachments,
or appurtenances, and those portions of pylons or other supports below
ground that are within any public or private street, road or alley,
right-of-way dedicated to the public use or utility easement of record,
or prescriptive easement. If gas distribution lines or electric lines,
telecommunications facilities, cable television facilities, water
service lines, water system, storm drainage or sewer system lines,
other than those used for vehicular traffic control, lighting of streets
and highways and communications for emergency response, are located
on private property and are owned solely by the owner or owners of
such private property, such lines or facilities receiving service
shall not be considered underground facilities for purposes of this
Chapter, except at locations where they cross or lie within an easement
or right-of-way dedicated to public use or owned by a person other
than the owner of the private property. Water and sanitary sewer lines
providing service to private property that are owned solely by the
owner of such property shall not be considered underground facilities
at any location. A structure that transports only stormwater drainage
under roadways, driveways, or railways shall not be considered an
underground facility.
Any person who owns or operates underground facilities.
Every day, except Saturday, Sunday or a legally declared
State or Federal holiday.
B.
Requirements.
1.
All property owners and contractors or other individuals doing
work (installation or replacement of water, sewer, or natural gas
facilities) within the City shall complete an application for service
on the form supplied by the City prior to any water, sewer, or natural
gas installation regardless of whether said installation is to be
completed by the contractor or the property owner. Precise location
coordinates and as-built drawings for all underground facilities shall
be provided to the City by the person performing the installation.
2.
By January 1, 2016, if new lateral sewer pipes or water service
lines are installed and connected to an underground facility within
the public right-of-way, as defined herein, or if such infrastructure
is fully replaced by excavation within the public right-of-way, the
facility owner shall be required to place tracer wire or other utility
location technology and an access point within a protective enclosure
over water lines and cleanouts for gravity sewer laterals. For sewer
laterals operating under pressure or vacuum, the facility owner shall
be required to place an access point within a protective enclosure
and shall not be required to place a cleanout. All protective enclosures
and cleanouts shall be extended to grade and installed so that they
are easily accessible. For water service lines and sewer laterals
operating under pressure or vacuum, tracer wire, or other utility
location technology, shall be placed within the protective enclosure
to provide approximate location of the underground facilities in these
areas that are located within a public right-of-way. An underground
facility owner shall not be liable to any party for damages or injuries
resulting from an excavation if they are in compliance with this Section.
This Section shall apply to all installations of water service lines
and sewer laterals without regard to their status as underground facilities
under Section 319.015, RSMo. Nothing in this Section shall require
any owner of underground facilities who is not otherwise required
under Sections 319.010 to 319.050, RSMo., to become a notification
center participant.
3.
The installer shall furnish and install a coated solid copper
trace wire on all non-conductive water, sewer, and natural gas service
lines in the trench attached to the pipe. The trace wire shall be
in accordance with the City's trace wire specification document.
4.
The trace wire shall be twelve-gauge minimum and run continuously
without splices for the full length of the service line from the building
to the water, sewer, or natural gas main. If splicing is necessary,
a direct bury splice kit is required in accordance with the City's
trace wire specification document.
5.
The trace wire shall daylight at the point of entry at the foundation
of the building through PVC conduit and be permanently attached to
a test station as a future contact point to locate the service. The
test station shall be in accordance with the City's trace wire
specification document.
6.
The trace wire shall be installed on all new water main installations
in the street/roadway and shall come to the surface at every fire
hydrant for termination in accordance with the City's trace wire
specification document.
7.
In some circumstances the Public Works Department and/or Building
Official may also require trace wire be extended to curb boxes, clean-outs,
gutter drains, fire hydrants, or other similar underground infrastructure
in accordance with the City's trace wire specification document.
8.
All other ordinances concerning the water, sewer, and natural
gas systems of the City will be complied with.
