This chapter shall be known as the sanitary code of the city
of West Sacramento.
(District code Ch. 5 Art. II §26.01)
This chapter is intended to provide rules and regulations for
the use and construction of sanitary sewer facilities hereafter installed,
altered or repaired within the city. This chapter shall not apply
retroactively; and in the event of an alteration or repair hereafter
made, it shall apply only to the new materials and methods used in
this chapter.
(District code Ch. 5 Art. II § 26.02)
The following rules and regulations respecting sewer construction
and disposal of sewage and drainage of buildings and connection to
the sewage works of the city are adopted, and all work in respect
thereto shall be performed as required in this chapter and not otherwise.
(District code Ch. 5 Art. II § 26.03)
When any person, by reason of special circumstances, is of the
opinion that any provision of this chapter is unjust or inequitable
as applied to his or her premises, he or she may make written application
to the city council, stating the special circumstances, citing the
applicable provision of this chapter, and requesting suspension or
modification of that provision as applied to his or her premises.
(District code Ch. 5 Art. II § 26.04)
The city council may, on its own motion, find that by reason
of special circumstances any provision of this regulation and chapter
should be suspended or modified as applied to a particular premises
and may, by resolution, order such suspension or modification for
the premises during the period of special circumstances, or any part
hereof.
(District code Ch. 5 Art. II § 26.05; Ord. 94-10 § 1)
The city council shall employ on a permanent basis a fit and
qualified person or persons to perform the duties of operation and
maintenance engineer, which will include providing engineering guidance
in the construction, installation, connection and operation and maintenance
of the plant and collection system of the city.
(District code Ch. 5 Art. II § 26.06; Ord. 91-20 § 1(A))
Following the effective date of the ordinance from which this
chapter is derived, it is unlawful for any person to connect to, construct,
install or provide, maintain and use any other means of sewage disposal
from any building in the city except by connection to a public sewer
in the manner provided in this chapter.
(District code Ch. 5 Art. II § 26.07)
For the purpose of this chapter the terms used herein are defined
as follows:
means the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known
as the Clean Water Act, as amended 33 USC Section 1251, et seq.
means the person making application for a permit for a sewer
or plumbing installation and shall be the owner or his or her authorized
agent of the premises to be served for the sewer for which a permit
is requested.
means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical
oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure, five
days at twenty degrees Centigrade expressed in terms of weight and
concentration (milligrams per liter (mg/l)).
means any structure used for human habitation or a place
of business, recreation or other purpose.
means that portion of a side sewer beginning at the plumbing
or drainage outlet of any building or industrial facility and running
to the property line or to a private sewage disposal system.
means National Categorical Pretreatment Standards or Pretreatment
Standard.
means the city council of the city of West Sacramento.
means the person appointed to administer and enforce the
rules and regulations of the city or his or her designated representative.
The designated representative for public services is the director
of public works.
means the system of sanitary sewers designed and connected
to carry away and dispose of the city's domestic and industrial wastes,
also to any annexed territory or territory served by agreement.
means a sewer designed to receive both surface runoff and
sewage.
means an individual, firm, corporation, partnership or association
duly licensed by the state of California to perform the type of work
to be done under the permit.
means the water discharged from any use such as air conditioning,
cooling or refrigeration, or to which the only pollutant added is
heat.
means the director of public works or the director's designee.
refers to the plan developed by the city to apply specific
enforcement actions related to industrial pretreatment pursuant to
40 CFR 403.8(f)(5).
means the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, or where
appropriate the term may also be used as a designation for the Administrator
or other duly authorized official of the agency.
means a source of discharge of industrial waste to the wastewater
treatment plant from any nondomestic source.
means any waste, discharge or pollutant from a nonresidential
or nondomestic source.
means a discharge which alone or in conjunction with discharges
from other sources both inhibits or disrupts the sewage treatment
plant; its treatment processes or operations; or its sludge processes,
use or disposal; and therefore causes a violation of its NPDES permit
or prevents sewage sludge use or disposal in compliance with specified
applicable federal statutes, regulations or permits.
means the portion of a side sewer lying within a public street
connecting a building sewer to the main sewer and maintained by the
city.
means the portion of a side sewer connecting the main sewer
and existing city cleanout.
means a public sewer designed to accommodate more than one
lateral sewer.
means a building for residential purposes containing more
than one kitchen or having facilities for the occupancy of more than
one person or families, including, but not limited to, the following:
hotels, motels, auto courts, trailer courts, apartment houses, duplexes,
roominghouses, boardinghouses, and dormitories.
means any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits
promulgated by the EPA under the Act applicable to industrial users
(IUs) including the general and specific prohibitions.
means a facility from which there is or may be a discharge
of pollutants, identification of which began after the publication
of the pretreatment standards pursuant to the Act which will apply
to the facility provided certain criteria are met.
means a sanitary sewer beyond the limits of the city not
subject to the control or jurisdiction of the city.
means a discharge which exits the sewer treatment plant in
quantities or concentrations which alone or with discharge from other
sources causes a violation of its NPDES permit.
means any written authorization required pursuant to this
or any other regulation of the city for the installation of any sewerage
works.
means any human being, individual, firm, company, partnership,
association, private corporations and cities.
means the logarithm (base ten) of the reciprocal of the concentration
of hydrogen ions expressed in grams per liter of solution.
means any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue,
sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological
materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discharged equipment,
rock, sand, cellar dirt, and industrial, municipal and agricultural
waste discharged into water.
means the manmade or man-induced alteration of the chemical,
physical, biological and radiological integrity of water.
means the reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination
of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties
in wastewater to a less harmful state prior to or in lieu of discharging
or otherwise introducing such pollutants into the sewerage system.
means any substantive or procedural pretreatment requirement,
other than a National Pretreatment Standard, applicable to IUs.
means a sewer serving an independent sewage disposal system
not connected with a public sewer and which accommodates one or more
buildings or industries.
means a sewer lying within a street, easement or right-of-way
and which is controlled by or under the jurisdiction of the city.
means solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
means a sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface
and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
means a combination of water-carried wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments.
means any arrangement of devices and structures used for
treating sewage.
means all facilities owned or controlled by the city except
private sewers, for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of
sewage.
means a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
is considered mandatory; "may" shall be considered permissive.
means the sewer line beginning at the foundation wall of
any building and terminating at the main sewer and includes the building
sewer and lateral sewer together.
means any categorical industrial users (CIU) as defined in
40 CFR 403, and any other industrial users (IU) which:
Discharge an average of twenty-five thousand gallons or more
of wastewater per day;
Contribute wastewater which makes up five percent or more of
the dry weather average hydraulic or organic capacity of the treatment
plant;
Is designated as such by the local authority on the basis that
it has a reasonable potential to adversely affect the sewer treatment
plant operation or to violate a pretreatment standard or requirement.
means any IU whose violation meets one or more of the specific
criteria listed in the city's enforcement response plan. If the city
determines that an IU is in SNC, that user must be included on the
annual publication list.
means and refers to the place of residence for a single family.
means classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial
Classification Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President,
Office of Management and Budget, 1982, as amended and supplemented.
means a set of documents now in existence or to be published
containing design and construction standards for all sewerage works
within the city.
means the state of California.
means a sewer which carries storm and surface or groundwaters
and drainage, but excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes.
means any flow occurring during or following any form of
natural precipitation and resulting therefrom.
means any public highway, road, street, avenue, alley, way,
public place, public easement or right-of-way.
means the total suspended matter that floats on the surface
of, or is suspended in, water, wastewater or other liquids, and which
is removable by laboratory filtering.
means any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as
toxic in regulations promulgated by the Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency under the provisions of the Act.
means the portion of a side sewer beginning at the plumbing
or drainage outlet of any building or industrial facility and running
to the existing city cleanout.
means any person who contributes, causes, or permits the
contribution of wastewater into the city's sewage system.
means the liquid and water-carried industrial or domestic
wastes from dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities
and institutions, together with any groundwater, surface water or
stormwater which may be present, whether treated or untreated, which
is contributed or permitted to enter the wastewater treatment plant.
means a permit required by some users as defined in this
chapter.
(District code Ch. 5 Art. II § 27-53; Ord. 91-20 § 1(B), (C); Ord. 93-6 § 1(A)—(H); Ord. 94-6 § 1; Ord. 18-1 §2)
