(a)
There is hereby adopted by reference, portions of chapter 49 “Water
and Wastewater,” of the revised Code of Civil and Criminal Ordinances
of the City of Dallas, Texas (“code”), being the hereinafter
enumerated sections of said chapter 49, to wit:
Section 49-1, 49-7, 49-18.12, 49-18.13, 49-19, 49-24, 49-33,
49-37, 49-40, 49-41, 49-42, 49-43, 49-44, 49-45, 49-46, 49-47, 49-48,
49-49, 49-50, 49-51, 49-52, 49-53, 49-54, 49-55.1, 49-55.2, 49-55.3,
49-55.4, 49-55.5, 49-55.6, 49-55.7, as amended by city of Dallas Ordinance
Nos. 26925, 26961 and 28084 and any future amendments hereafter adopted
by the City of Dallas.
(b)
A copy of the above referenced sections shall be maintained on file
in the office of the city secretary and made a part hereinafter for
all purposes, together with this article, as the industrial waste
disposal ordinance of the city.
(Ordinance 2010-0901, sec. 1, adopted 2/1/10; Ordinance 2011-0920 adopted 1/24/11)
(a)
The director of the city water and sewer department or the city’s
designated representative shall have the power to enforce the provisions
of this article. For purposes of this article, state law and federal
law, the wastewater system is a publicly owned treatment works.
(b)
The municipal court shall have the power to issue to the representative
administrative search warrants, or other processes allowed by law,
or necessary to aid in enforcing this section.
(c)
A person who violates any provision of this article or chapter 49
of the “Dallas Code” as adopted hereby or any term or
condition of an industrial waste discharge permit granted pursuant
to this article is guilty of a separate offense for each day or portion
of a day during which the violation is continued.
(d)
A person is criminally responsible for a violation of this article
if the person knowingly, recklessly, intentionally, or with criminal
negligence:
(e)
This article or the terms and conditions of a discharge permit granted
pursuant to this article may be enforced by civil court action as
provided by state or federal law.
(1992 Code, sec. 11.202; Ordinance 2010-0901, sec. 1, adopted 2/1/10)
The director of the city’s water and sewer department
or the city’s designated representative and other duly authorized
employees of the City of Dallas acting as duly authorized agents and
bringing proper credentials and identification, shall be permitted
to gain access to such properties as may be necessary for the purpose
of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling and testing in accordance
with the provisions of this article.
(1992 Code, sec. 11.203)
(a)
The director of the city’s water and sewer department or the
city’s designated representative may deny a permit if he/she
determines that an applicant is not qualified under section 49-107(c),
of the “Dallas Code” and may suspend a permit if he/she
determines that the permittee:
(1)
Is not qualified under section 49-45(c);
(2)
Has violated a provision of this section or the “Dallas Code;”
(3)
Has failed to pay a fee required pursuant to this article or the
“Dallas Code;”
(4)
Has failed to comply with the applicable federal pretreatment standards
and requirements; or
(5)
Has failed to comply with the compliance schedule required under
section 49-45(c)(2) of the “Code,” as adopted herein.
(b)
After suspension under this section, the permittee may file a request
for reinstatement of the permit. When the director of the city water
and sewer department or the city’s designated representative
determines that the permittee is again qualified, all violations have
been corrected, precautions have been taken to prevent future violations,
and all required fees have been paid, he/she shall reinstate the permit.
(c)
A permittee whose permit is suspended shall not discharge industrial
waste into the sanitary sewer.
(d)
The director of the city’s water and sewer department or the
city’s designated representative may amend a permit with additional
requirements to assure compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
(1992 Code, sec. 11.204)
The city sanitary sewers and sewage treatment shall be under
the control and management of the superintendent of the waterworks
department, and the superintendent of the waterworks department shall
make and keep complete transcript of the records of the sanitary sewers
and sewage treatment.
(1992 Code, sec. 11.205)
(a)
It shall be the duty of the superintendent of the water works department
to issue all permits for sewer connections.
(b)
Before making connection with any sewer, the builder or plumber shall
take out a plumbing permit with the office of the building inspector
in the public works department. A copy of this permit will be transmitted
to the engineering division of the water department and the plumber
must make an application for a lateral permit with the engineering
division of the water department. This application shall give the
exact location of the property, the name of the owner and the name
of the person employed to do the plumbing.
(1992 Code, sec. 11.206)
All permits to connect with sewers shall be given upon expressed
condition that the superintendent of the waterworks department may,
at any time before the work is completed or the sewer is connected
to the city sanitary sewer system, revoke and annul the same, and
no party interested shall have any right to claim damages in consequence
of such permits being revoked or annulled.
(1992 Code, sec. 11.207)
It shall be unlawful to service or connect any lot, tract or
plat of land, or any part thereof, for the use of the owner or purchaser
of such land, or any part thereof, with sewer connection or service
unless and until such plan, plot or replat of lot or tract of land
shall conform to the platting requirements of the city and has been
approved by the city plan commission.
(1992 Code, sec. 11.208)
No person shall injure, break or remove any portion of any manhole,
lamp hole or any part of the city’s sanitation sewer system,
and when any person shall desire to lay or drive any pipe in any of
the streets upon which sewers are laid, they shall give at least a
twenty-four (24) notice to the superintendent of the water works department.
(1992 Code, sec. 11.209)
No person shall connect any open gutter, rainwater conductor,
privy, vault or cistern with any public sewer, or with any private
sewer connecting with a public sewer.
(1992 Code, sec. 11.210)
(a)
The use of any premises in the city in such a manner as to create
sewage thereon not discharged into the sewerage system of the city
is hereby declared a nuisance. Every water closet or privy connected
and used in any building, not connected with the sewerage system,
is hereby declared a nuisance; provided, that this section shall be
inapplicable to premises where connection with the city’s sewerage
system is not feasible. Such connection with the city’s sewerage
system is hereby declared to be feasible as to any premises abutting
any street, alley or other public way or sewer right-of-way in which
any line of the sewerage system of the city sufficient to handle the
same exists.
(b)
It shall be the duty of any persons owning or occupying improved
property within the city which can be feasibly connected to the city
sewerage system as hereinabove set out, to also connect such property
and the improvements thereon with the city water services if the same
exist in the street, alley or other public way or water right-of-way
abutting the premises.
(c)
Where these city services are not available in the abutting streets,
alleys, other public ways or other utility rights-of-way but subsequently
are laid therein, it shall be the duty of the owner or occupant of
such property within sixty (60) days after the same becomes available,
to connect therewith. These connections must be made subject to the
applicable charges provided by the then current ordinances of the
city.
(1992 Code, sec. 11.211)
It shall be the duty of the superintendent of the water works
department to notify the owner or occupant of every building situated
where there has been laid a sanitary sewer, and where there is sufficient
water service from the city’s waterworks, to make closet connections
with the city’s sanitary sewer and any such owner or occupant
of any building so situated, who shall fail to make at least one water
closet connection with the city’s sanitary sewer within thirty
(30) days after receipt of such notice from the superintendent of
the water works department, or person designated by the city, or who
shall fail to have such water closets suitably arranged for the use
of a urinal, unless separate urinal is provided, shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor.
(1992 Code, sec. 11.212)
Connections with the city’s sanitary sewer shall be made
by the water works department and under no circumstances shall the
owner, his representative or a plumber make such a connection. All
connections will be made by the water works department at the expense
of the property owners. The water department will construct the house
lateral from the city’s sewer main to the nearest property or
easement line and the plumber will install the building’s sewer
from the building drain to within two (2) feet of the lateral.
(1992 Code, sec. 11.213)
It shall be unlawful for the owner or occupant of any building
situated within one hundred (100) feet of any city’s sanitary
sewer, in which building food is cooked or clothing is washed, to
fail to have a suitable sink or hopper for the reception of wastewater,
provided, however, that if the water closet is of the kind suited
to such use, it may receive the wastewater, and the sink, slop-stone
or hopper may be dispensed with; provided, further, that a connection
is made to the sanitary sewer.
(1992 Code, sec. 11.214)
It shall be unlawful for any person to throw, or allow any person
under his or her control to throw or deposit on the surface of the
ground or in any hole or vault in or under the surface of the ground,
on any lot reaching within one hundred (100) feet of any sanitary
sewer, except in the proper and necessary manuring of the soil, any
water which has been used for domestic or industrial purpose, or any
liquid or solid filth, chemicals, feces or urine.
(1992 Code, sec. 11.215)
The schedule of charges and charges for disconnection provided
for in this article shall be deemed to be an essential part of any
service rendered by the water works department. Failure to pay the
monthly bills, as provided in section 49-7 of the “Dallas Code,”
when due or failure to pay the established pro-rata fee or charges
for sanitary or water installations as provided in section 49-56 of
the “Dallas Code” when due or repeated discharge of prohibited
wastes to the sanitary sewer, shall be sufficient cause to disconnect
any and all services to the water mains of the water department, and
the same penalties and charges provided for by the provisions of this
code and other ordinances of the city for failure to pay the bills
for water service when due, shall be applicable in like manner in
case of failure to pay the established charge for sanitary sewer service
as herein provided.
(1992 Code, sec. 11.216)
(a)
This article shall apply to all nondomestic users of the city
sanitary sewers and sewage treatment facilities.
(b)
Grease, oil, and sand interceptors shall be provided when, in
the opinion of the director of public works, or their designee, such
interceptor is necessary for the proper handling of liquid wastes
containing grease in excessive amounts, or any flammable wastes, sand,
or other harmful ingredients.
(c)
Grease, oil and sand interceptors shall not be required for
residential users.
(d)
All grease, oil, and sand interceptors shall be of a type and
capacity approved by the director of public works and building official
and shall be located to be readily and easily accessible for cleaning
and inspection.
(e)
A permit must be obtained for installation of each separate
grease interceptor.
(f)
No user may intentionally or unintentionally allow the direct
or indirect discharge of any petroleum oil, nonbiodegradable cutting
oil, mineral oil, or any fats, oils, or greases of animal or vegetable
origin into the city sanitary sewers and sewage treatment system in
such amounts as to cause interference with the collection and treatment
system, or as to cause pollutants to pass through the treatment works
into the environment.
(Ordinance 2023-1167 adopted 6/5/2023)
(a)
All food establishments must be equipped with a grease trap.
A plumbing permit must be obtained by a licensed plumber from the
building inspector prior to installation of the grease trap.
(b)
Grease traps shall be installed and sized in accordance with
the currently adopted Uniform Plumbing Code formula as follows:
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Step 1
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Step 2
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Step 3
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Step 4
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Step 5
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Step 6
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No. of Meals Per Peak Hours
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X
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Waste Flow Rate
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X
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Retention Time
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X
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Storage Factor
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=
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Calculated Interceptor Size
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Grease Interceptor
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Step 1
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Number of Meal per Peak Hours
Seating capacity X Meal factor = Meals per peak hour
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Establishment Type:
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Meal Factor:
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Fast food (45 min)
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1.33
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Restaurant (60 min)
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1.00
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Leisure dining (90 min)
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0.67
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Dinner club (120 min)
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0.50
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Step 2
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Waste Flow Rate:
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Condition:
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Flow Rate:
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With a dishwashing machine
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6 gallons
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Without a dishwashing machine
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5 gallons
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Single service kitchen
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2 gallons
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Food waste disposer only
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1 gallon
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Step 3
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Retention Time:
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Commercial kitchen waste
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Dishwasher
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2.5 hours
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Single service kitchen
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Single serving
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1.5 hours
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Step 4
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Storage Factor:
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Kitchen Type
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Storage Factor
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Fully equipped commercial:
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Hours of operation:
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8 hours
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1.00
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12 hours
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1.50
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16 hours
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2.00
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24 hours
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3.0
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Single service kitchen:
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1.5
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Step 5
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Calculate Liquid Capacity:
Multiply the values obtained from Step 1, 2, 3 & 4. The
result is the approximate grease interceptor size for this application.
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Step 6
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Select Grease Interceptor:
Using the approximate required liquid capacity from Step 5,
select an appropriate size as recommended by the manufacturer.
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Notwithstanding the calculation of grease trap size
calculated above, the minimum grease trap size shall be 100gpm/200
lbs.
(c)
Grease traps installed in food establishments shall be located
outside the establishment unless approved in writing by the building
official and director of public works, or their designee. A grease
trap may not be installed in any part of the building where food is
handled. Grease traps shall be located to be easily accessible for
cleaning.
(d)
All grease trap waste shall be pumped and removed, and the tanks
thoroughly cleaned at least once every three months (90 days). Any
deviation from this schedule must be approved in writing by the director
of public works. The director of public works may require additional
pumping, increase the frequency of cleanings, or require immediate
pumping of a grease trap if it is deemed necessary in order to prevent
grease from entering the sanitary sewer system. Any establishment
utilizing microorganisms in any grease trap within the city will still
be required to comply with the aforementioned pumping schedule.
(e)
All grease waste must be transported by a grease waste hauler
licensed by TCEQ. The grease hauler is responsible for proper disposal
of grease waste in an approved permitted site. It is the responsibility
of the grease hauler to forward a copy of each waste trip ticket to
the director of public works.
(f)
Mobile food vendors, roadside vendors, temporary food establishments,
and mobile concession stands are exempt from the requirement of grease
traps. The city may grant other exceptions on a case-by-case basis.
(Ordinance 2023-1167 adopted 6/5/2023)
Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions
of this ordinance as amended hereby, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor
and, upon conviction in the municipal court of the city, shall be
subject to a fine not to exceed the sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00)
for each offense, and each and every day such offense shall continue
shall be deemed to constitute a separate offense.
(Ordinance 2023-1167 adopted 6/5/2023)
