For the purposes of this title, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
means schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures and other management practices to prevent or reduce the introduction of FOG to the sewer facilities.
means the utilities department of the city.
means any person who discharges or causes a discharge of wastewater directly or indirectly to a public sewer. Discharger shall mean the same as user.
means any substance such as vegetable or animal products that is used in, or is a by-product of, the cooking or food preparation process, and that turns or may turn viscous or solidifies with a change in temperature or other conditions.
means the FOG control program required by and developed pursuant to State Water Resources Control Board Order No. 2006-0003.
means any device installed in the plumbing or sewage system for the purpose of grinding food waste or food preparation by-products for the purpose of disposing it in the sewer system.
means facilities defined in California Uniform Retail Food Service Facility Law (CURFFL) Section 113789, and any commercial entity within the boundaries of the city's service area, operating in a permanently constructed structure such as a room, building, or place, or portion thereof, maintained, used, or operated for the purpose of storing, preparing, serving, or manufacturing, packaging, or otherwise handling food for sale to other entities, or for consumption by the public, its members or employees, and which has any process or device that uses or produces FOG, or grease vapors, steam, fumes, smoke or odors that are required to be removed by a Type I or Type II hood, as defined in CURFFL Section 113789. A limited food preparation establishment is not considered a food service facility when engaged only in reheating, hot holding or assembly of ready to eat food products and as a result, there is no wastewater discharge containing a significant amount of FOG. A limited food preparation establishment does not include any operation that changes the form, flavor, or consistency of food.
means the animal and vegetable waste from the handling, preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food.
means any material which is extractable from an acidified sample of a waste by hexane or other designated solvent and as determined by the appropriate procedure in standard methods. "Grease" includes fats and oils.
means any grease interceptor, grease trap or other mechanism, device, or process, which attaches to, or is applied to, wastewater plumbing fixtures and lines, the purpose of which is to trap or collect or treat FOG prior to it being discharged into the sewer system. "Grease control device" may also include any other proven method to reduce FOG subject to the approval of the city.
means a pretreatment device designed and installed to separate fats, oils, and grease from wastewater.
means a grease control device that is used to serve individual or multiple fixtures and have limited effect and should only be used in those cases where the use of a grease interceptor or other grease control device is determined to be impossible or impracticable.
means area in sewer lines that have experienced sanitary sewer overflows or that must be cleaned or maintained frequently to avoid blockages of the sewer system.
means solid, liquid or gaseous substances discharged or flowing from an industrial, manufacturing or commercial premises resulting from manufacturing, processing, treating, recovery or development of natural or artificial resources of whatever nature.
means all water-carried wastes and wastewater of the community excluding domestic wastewater and including all wastewater from any industrial production, manufacturing, processing, commercial, agricultural or other operation. These may also include wastes of human origin similar to domestic wastewater.
means a person authorized by the city to inspect any existing or proposed wastewater generation, conveyance, and processing and disposal facilities.
means a grease interceptor.
means the sewer system constructed jointly by the Vista Sanitation District, the city and the Buena Sanitation District pursuant to that certain contract entitled "Basic Agreement between Vista Sanitation District and the City of Carlsbad for the Acquisition and Construction of a Joint Sewer System" (County Contract No. 1858-2129E) and all amendments and supplements thereto and as such sewer system is specifically delineated on that certain map entitled "Map of Joint Sewer System—City of Carlsbad, Vista Sanitation District and Buena Sanitation District" on file in the office of the clerk of the Board of Supervisors of the Buena Sanitation District as Document No. 381247.
means the Encina Administrative Agency.
includes a holder in fee, life tenant, executor, administrator, trustee, and guardian or other fiduciary, lessee or licensee holding under any government lease or license of real property.
means any person, firm, company, association, corporation, political subdivision, municipal corporation, district, the state, the United States of America or any department or agency of any thereof.
means the reciprocal of the logarithm of the hydrogen ion concentration. It indicates the intensity of acidity and alkalinity on a pH scale running from zero to 14. A pH value of 7.0, the midpoint of the scale, represents neutrality. Values above 7.0 indicate alkalinity and those below 7.0 indicate acidity.
means any lot, piece or parcel of land, building or establishment.
means a physical change or operational change causing generation of the amount of FOG that exceed the current amount of FOG discharge to the sewer system by the food service facility in an amount that alone or collectively causes or creates a potential for SSOs to occur; or exceeding a cost of $50,000.00 to a food service facility that requires a building permit, and involves any one or combination of the following: (1) under slab plumbing in the food processing area; (2) a 30% increase in the net public seating area; (3) a 30% increase in the size of the kitchen area; or (4) any change in the size or type of food preparation equipment.
means and includes any overflow, spill, release, discharge or diversion of untreated or partially treated wastewater from a sanitary sewer system. SSOs include:
Overflows or releases of untreated or partially treated wastewater that reach waters of the United States;
Overflows or releases of untreated or partially treated wastewater that do not reach waters of the United States; and
Wastewater backups into buildings and on private property that are caused by blockages or flow conditions within the publicly owned portion of a sanitary sewer system.
means the waterborne wastes derived from ordinary human living processes and of such character as to permit satisfactory disposal, without special treatment, into the public sewer, a private sewer, or by means of household septic tank systems and individual household aerobic units.
"Building or house sewer," also known as the "lateral," or the "sewer lateral" means a pipe or conduit carrying sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes from a building to the public sewer or a common sewer.
"Sewer main" means any public sewer used to collect and convey sewage or industrial wastes to a publicly owned treatment works (POTW).
"Private sewer" refers to a privately owned sewer, which is not directly controlled by the city.
"Public sewer" means a publicly owned treatment works (POTW), which is owned in this instance by Encina Joint Powers and its member agencies. This definition includes the sewer main and any sewers that convey wastewater to the POTW plant, but does not include pipes, sewers or other conveyances not connected to the facility providing treatment. "Public sewer" also includes any sewers that convey wastewater to the POTW from persons outside the cities of Carlsbad and Vista, the Vallecitos Water District, the Leucadia Wastewater District, the Buena Sanitation District and Encinitas Sanitary District, who are, by contract or agreement with said cities and/or districts, users of the Encina Water Pollution Control Facility.
means all construction and appurtenant equipment utilized in the collection, transportation, pumping, treatment and final disposal of sewage within the district.
means any discharge of water, sewage or industrial wastes which in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes more than five times the average 24-hour concentration of flows during normal operation.
means the current edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater as published by the American Public Health Association, and Water Pollution Control Federation.
means solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in water, sewage or other liquids; and which are largely removable by laboratory filtering and as determined by the appropriate procedure in standard methods.
means any substance whether gaseous, liquid or solid, which when discharged to the sewer system in sufficient quantities may tend to interfere with any sewage treatment process, or to constitute a hazard to human beings or animals, or to inhibit aquatic life or create a hazard to recreation in the receiving waters of the effluent from the sewage treatment plant.
means the Director of Utilities of the city or designee.
means any person carrying on or engaging in vehicular transport of waste as part of, or incidental to, any business for that purpose.
means plans or programs intended to reduce or eliminate discharges to the sewer system or to conserve water, including, but not limited to, product substitutions, housekeeping practices, inventory control, employee education, and other steps as necessary to minimize wastewater produced.
means any liquid waste of any kind, whether treated or not, and whether animal, mineral or vegetable including sewage, agricultural, industrial and thermal wastes, which are discharged into or permitted to enter a public sewer.
(Ord. 7060 § 1, 1980; Ord. NS-129 § 1, 1990; Ord. NS-851 § 1, 2007; Ord. CS-010 § 1, 2008; Ord. CS-164 § 6, 2011)