There is adopted as the Sanitary Sewers and Industrial Waste
Ordinance of the city, except as it is hereinafter amended, Los Angeles
County Code, Title 20, Utilities, Division 2, Sanitary Sewers and
Industrial Waste (Los Angeles County Ordinance 89-0101 adopted July
27, 1989).
Three copies of Los Angeles County Code, Title 20, Utilities,
Division 2, have been deposited with the city clerk and shall be at
all times maintained by the city clerk for use and examination by
the public. Whenever in said code reference is made to the unincorporated
area of the county of Los Angeles, such area shall be deemed to include
in its true geographical location the area of the city.
(Ord. 861 § 2, 1994)
Whenever any of the following names or terms are used in Title
20 of Los Angeles County Code, each such name or term shall be deemed
and construed to have the meaning ascribed to it in the section as
follows:
means the city council;
means the city engineer;
means the city health officer;
means the city, except in such instances where the County
of Los Angeles is a correct notation due to circumstances;
means the county sewer maintenance district, except in the
instance where the territory concerned either is not within or has
been withdrawn from a county sewer maintenance district. In any such
instance "County Sewer Maintenance District" means the city;
means an ordinance of the city, except in such instances
where the reference is to a stated ordinance of the county of Los
Angeles;
means all sanitary sewers and appurtenances thereto, lying
within streets or easements dedicated to the city, which are under
the sole jurisdiction of the city;
means a sewer under the jurisdiction of a public entity other
than the city;
means city treasurer.
(Ord. 861 § 2, 1994)
Section 20.32.690 of Los Angeles County Code, Title 20, is amended
to read as follows:
20.32.690—Reimbursement for repairs and maintenance following
violations. Whenever an industrial sewer connection permittee by reason
of violation of Section 20.36.400 of this Code, or any other person
by reason of violation of Section 20.32.640, causes obstruction, damage
or destruction of a public sewer, or any appurtenances thereto, or
pumping plants or water pollution control plants in connection therewith,
he or she shall reimburse the County Sewer Maintenance District in
which damage occurred for the cost of flushing, cleaning, repairing
and reconstruction of such sewer or facility, made necessary by such
violation, within 30 days after the County Engineer has rendered an
invoice for the same. The amount when paid shall be deposited in to
the fund of the said maintenance district.
In the event the damaged public sewer is not in a sewer maintenance
district, the violator shall reimburse the City within 30 days after
the City Engineer shall render an invoice for the same. The amount
when paid shall be deposited in the City Treasury.
(Ord. 861 § 2, 1994)
Section 20.36.250 of Los Angeles County Code, Title 20, is amended
by increasing the fees to two times the amount set forth in Section
20.36.250 of Los Angeles County Code, Title 20.
(Ord. 861 § 2, 1994)
Section 20.36.270 of the Los Angeles County Code, Title 20,
is amended by increasing the fees to two times the amount set forth
in Section 20.36.270 of Los Angeles County Code, Title 20.
(Ord. 861 § 2, 1994)
This chapter shall be known as the "Sewer Reconstruction Fund,"
may be cited as such, and will be referred to herein as "this ordinance"
or "this chapter."
(Prior code § 5081.1)
A.
Most
of the existing sewers in the city were constructed many years ago
and were designed to serve single-family residential and agricultural
properties at a time when the city was of low population density.
Because of the erection of many multifamily dwelling units, apartment
houses, and the growth of commercial and industrial establishments,
the population density of the city has greatly increased, with the
result that the city sewerage system is no longer adequate to accommodate
the increased volume of sewage generated by such development. Detailed
studies and findings of this fact are contained in the Sanitary Sewer
System Study prepared by the city engineer and on file in the office
of the city engineer.
B.
The
purpose of this chapter is to establish a charge to be collected from
the owners of such properties proposing to discharge, to the public
sewer, quantities of sewage in excess of the quantity for which the
existing sewerage system was designed, and to establish a fund into
which these charges may be deposited and from which money will be
available for the city sewer reconstruction program.
(Prior code § 5081.2)
as used in this chapter, mean a main line sanitary sewer,
dedicated to public use, but excepting therefrom sewers under the
jurisdiction of a public entity other than the city of Pico Rivera.
(Prior code § 5081.4)
The city engineer shall enforce and administer all of the provisions
of this chapter.
(Prior code § 5082.2)
No person shall, within the city, erect, construct, enlarge
or alter any building or structure, or cause the same to be done,
without first having complied with the provisions of this chapter.
(Prior code § 5082.1)
A.
The
sewer reconstruction program shall be carried out basically in accordance
with the City of Pico Rivera Sewer Reconstruction Plan contained in
the report of the city engineer entitled "Sanitary Sewer System Study,"
on file in the office of the city engineer.
B.
If
compliance with the reconstruction plan is impossible or impractical
because of peculiar or unforeseen conditions, and the purposes of
this chapter may be accomplished and the public health and safety
assured by alternate construction, the city council may from time
to time grant exceptions to the reconstruction plan by motion permitting
such alternate construction.
C.
In
addition, the city engineer is directed to periodically review the
sewer reconstruction plan and report to the city council any proposed
changes in the plan which may hereafter be adopted and approved by
the city council by motion.
(Prior code § 5081.3)
The size and grade of each public sewer must be such as to provide
at all times sufficient capacity for peak-flow rates of discharge.
In order to establish estimates of sanitary sewage at peak flow, each
applicant for a building permit shall submit plans of intended construction,
and such information as the city engineer may require, on printed
forms provided for that purpose. The following Table 13.56.070 is
established as the peak flows for the various occupancies, and shall
be used as a basis for computing the discharge rate to the public
sanitary sewer. (See Table 13.56.070, following this section.)
A.
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Table 13.56.070
Determination Of Capacity
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|---|---|
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Occupancy
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Peak Flow
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Apartment or multiple dwelling
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600 gal/day/dwelling unit
|
|
Assembly areas
|
15 gal/day/person
|
|
Auditorium
|
15 gal/day/seat
|
|
Bars and cocktail lounges
|
60 gal/day/seat
|
|
Churches
|
600 gal/day/1,000 square feet of floor area
|
|
Hospitals
|
1,500 gal/day/bed
|
|
Hotels
|
600 gal/day/room
|
|
Industry, heavy
|
Actual gallons per day, as stated in industrial waste permit
|
|
Industry, light (no water processes)
|
600 gal/day/1,000 square feet of floor area
|
|
Laundry, automatic (public)
|
225 gal/day/machine
|
|
Medical office
|
900 gal/day/1,000 square feet of floor area
|
|
Mobile homes and/or trailer courts
|
400 gal/day/unit
|
|
Motels
|
600 gal/day/unit
|
|
Motor vehicle, automatic carwash, self-service
|
86,400 gal/day/lane, 2,500 gal/day/stall
|
|
Office
|
600 gal/day/1,000 square feet of floor area
|
|
Restaurant
|
150 gal/day/seat
|
|
Schools
|
|
|
1. Elementary
|
27 gal/day/capita
|
|
2. Other
|
75 gal/day/capita
|
|
Stand or drive-in for sale of lunches, ice cream, beverages
and similar items
|
900 gal/day/1,000 square feet of floor area
|
|
Storage garages and warehouses
|
75 gal/day/1,000 square feet of floor area
|
|
Stores, commercial and display
|
300 gal/day/1,000 square feet of floor area
|
B.
Any
occupancy not contained within the aforementioned classification shall
be rated by the city engineer at a peak flow based upon any aforementioned
classified occupancy it most nearly resembles. Until the city council,
based upon further engineering studies, determines excessive peak-flow
discharge for single-family residential property, all single-family
residential property shall be classified at six hundred gallons per
day per dwelling unit; provided, however, any single-family classification
having in addition to a single-family use on each five thousand square
feet of lot area an accessory use discharging sewage to the public
sewer, shall be classified for the purpose of this chapter as a multiple
dwelling.
C.
The
peak flow to the sanitary sewer for a building containing mixed occupancies
shall be determined by adding the peak flow characteristics of the
various occupancies as set forth in Table 13.56.070.
(Prior code § 5083.1)
A.
The
aforementioned table of peak flows is based upon the Sanitary Sewer
System Study prepared by the city engineer using engineering criteria
and mathematical formulae in determining existing sewer capacity,
needed sewer reconstruction by discharge over and above existing sewer
capacity, and the cost and scheduling thereof.
B.
As
a result of such study, the city council finds and determines that
the total cost of reconstruction, as set forth in said sewer plan,
will be at the rate of ninety-two cents per gallon of peak flow in
excess of six hundred gallons, which rate shall be modified periodically
to reflect any changes in construction costs.
C.
In order to pay for such reconstruction, a reconstruction charge shall be imposed in accordance with the terms and provisions of this section. The applicant for any permit required under Chapter 15.08 of this code shall declare all information necessary, as determined by the city engineer, to comply with the provisions of this chapter, and shall pay to the city at the time of issuance of such a permit, a charge based upon the total peak flow resulting from such building or structure, as determined from the aforementioned schedule, times ninety-two cents per gallon thereof.
D.
In
determining such charge, each five thousand square feet of lot area
shall be given a credit of six hundred gallons. The amount of gallons
of peak flow over and above said six hundred gallons per five thousand
square feet of lot area shall be used in determining the charge to
be imposed for the purpose of this chapter at the rate of ninety-two
cents per gallon thereof.
(Prior code § 5083.2; Ord. 982 §§ 1-3, 2002)
A.
In
accordance with the Sanitary Sewer System Study, aforementioned, the
city council finds and determines that there are certain critical
areas within the sewerage system which are overloaded, as set forth
on Appendix C of that certain study entitled "Sanitary Sewer System
Study," of the city engineer. Where the city engineer hereafter determines
in any such critical area that further construction will result in
sewage being disposed in the sewer lines of such area in excess of
the capacity available to handle such sewage, to the point that the
sewage may back up or overflow, creating a hazard to the public health,
the city engineer shall so certify in writing such a determination
and finding to the chief building official, and thereafter no building
permit shall be issued for any building or structure within such area
until the city engineer has certified a sufficient capacity is available
in the public sewer, or can be made available before the building
is occupied.
B.
If
any owner, in order to obtain sufficient capacity for a sewer, shall
with the approval of the city engineer reconstruct public sewers as
herein defined, said owner shall receive as a credit against the payment
of any sewer reconstruction charges, an amount equal to the cost of
such reconstruction not subject to reimbursement pursuant to the terms
and provisions of Section 13.40.200 of this code.
(Prior code § 5083.5)
A.
The charges collected under this chapter shall be credited to the sewer reconstruction fund. Money deposited in the sewer reconstruction fund shall be expended for the purpose of reconstructing the public sewer system, as set forth in the Sanitary Sewer System Study on file in the office of the city engineer, or as hereafter modified or amended by the city council. All engineering costs, refunds as provided in Section 13.56.110, mileage, overhead, incidental and construction costs necessarily incurred in the reconstruction of sewers shall be charged to the fund, to the extent allowed by law.
B.
"Reconstruction," as used in this chapter, shall include the acquisition and construction of public sewers, as defined in Section 13.56.030, or as authorized and subject to Section 5471 of the Health and Safety Code.
(Prior code § 5083.3)
In the event any person shall have paid the applicable sewer
reconstruction charge based on the additional peak flow created by
new construction, as provided herein, and no portion of the new construction
shall have been commenced, and the permit for such construction shall
have been cancelled or expired, such person shall be entitled, upon
written request, to a refund in an amount equal to one hundred percent
of the sewer reconstruction charge paid by such person, minus one
percent of the charge for administrative handling. However, the amount
retained shall not exceed ten dollars.
(Prior code § 5083.4)
