The sewerage system of the City shall discharge effluent into
the treatment plant of the Oak View Sanitary District. Under contractual
arrangements between the City and the Oak View Sanitary District,
the City shall regulate the flow of certain wastes into such treatment
plant.
(§ 101, Ord. 224, as amended
by § 1, Ord. 334, eff. March 25,
1964)
For the purposes of this article, certain words and phrases
used herein are defined as follows:
shall mean the City Manager of the City or his authorized
representative or deputy.
shall mean the amount of hydrocarbon oil floating to the
surface of a sample of the water under the same conditions as prescribed
in the definition for floatable oil and grease below.
shall mean the oil and grease floating to the surface of
a sample of water when it is retained for one hour in a quiescent
condition in a vessel with vertical walls, filled to the depth of
30 centimeters.
shall mean the waste water arising from or associated with
an industrial operation. Such operation shall include the production
or refining of petroleum, the production, processing, packing, or
canning of fruits, vegetables, meat, or beverages, the laundering
of clothes in public laundries or public self-service laundries, the
production of fertilizers, keeping of livestock, and operation of
dairies, the production or dyeing of textiles, the production of soap
or other detergents or chemicals, the cleaning of tanks, tank cars,
or barrels, the plating of metals, the processing or reclamation of
refuse, all kinds of manufacturing, and other similar operations.
It shall also include the washing of equipment or spaces used in industrial
operations. It shall not include waste waters from the operation of
restaurants, hotels, schools, hospitals, vehicle service stations,
wash racks, garages, establishments for the regeneration of water
softening apparatus, or places of retail business. It shall not include
waste waters from lunch rooms, toilets, or wash rooms in industrial
establishments.
shall mean any sewer owned or maintained by the City, whether
inside or outside the City. The term as here used shall not include
storm drains or channels for the conveyance of natural surface waters.
(§§ 202—206, Ord. 224, as amended by § 2, Ord. 334, eff. March 25, 1964)
Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful for any
person to discharge or cause to be discharged into any public sewer
or any opening leading to a public sewer of the City any of the following:
(a)
Any
earth, sand, rocks, ashes, gravel, plaster, concrete, glass, metal
filings, metal objects, or other materials which will not be carried
by the sewage stream nor anything which may obstruct the flow of sewage
in the sewer, nor any object which will cause clogging of a sewage
pump or sewage sludge pump;
(b)
Any
garbage which has not first been shredded so that no particle is more
than one-fourth inch in any dimension, nor any garbage containing
broken glass;
(c)
Any
solid or semisolid material, such as garbage, trimmings, cuttings,
offal, or other wastes produced in the processing of meats, fruits,
vegetables, food stuffs or similar material except garbage produced
in the preparation of or arising in connection with the serving of
meals at the premises;
(d)
Any
compound which may produce a strong odor in the sewer or sewage treatment
plant;
(e)
Any
volatile liquid or substance which can produce a toxic or flammable
atmosphere in the sewer;
(f)
Any
overflow from any septic tank or cesspool, or any liquid or sludge
pumped from a cesspool or septic tank, except at such place and in
such manner as may be prescribed by the City Manager.
(g)
Any
storm water or any run-off from any field, roof, yard, driveway, or
street;
(h)
Any
material which will cause damage to any part of the sewerage system
or abnormal sulfide generation or abnormal maintenance or operation
costs of any part of the sewerage system or which may cause any part
of the sewerage system to become a nuisance or a menace to public
health, or a hazard to workers, or which will cause objectionable
conditions at the final point of disposal of the sewage, or which
will cause the sewage to transgress the concentration limits set by
Regional Water Pollution Control Board No. 4.
(§ 301, Ord. 224)
(a)
Sand-and-oil interceptor required. Any station maintained
for the servicing or repair of roadway vehicles shall install and
maintain a sand-and-oil interceptor. Waste waters from toilets shall
not be allowed to pass through this interceptor, but all waste waters
arising from the servicing and repair of vehicles shall pass through
this interceptor before discharge to a public sewer of the City. If
the service station does not include facilities for the washing of
more than one vehicle at a time, the interceptor shall have an operating
fluid capacity not less than six cubic feet and an accessible effective
water surface not less than four square feet. "Accessible effective
water surface" is defined as a surface which is easily accessible
for cleaning and which at the same time will retain oil floating on
the surface of water passing through the trap under conditions of
use. If the service station has facilities for washing more than one
vehicle at a time, the interceptor shall have an operating fluid capacity
of at least 12 cubic feet and an accessible effective water surface
of at least six square feet, and shall be as much larger than this
as is necessary so that a seven day accumulation of sand and oil will
not together fill more than 25% of the fluid capacity. The interceptor
shall be designed so as to retain any oil and grease which will float
and any sand which will settle. It shall be water-tight and structurally
sound and durable. It shall be easily accessible for cleaning and
also for inspection of the City Manager.
(b)
Prior installation of interceptors permitted. Any interceptor legally and properly installed at a vehicle service station on or before October 14, 1957 shall be acceptable as an alternative to the interceptor specified in subsection (a) of this section, provided such interceptor is effective in removing sand and oil and is so designed and installed that it can be inspected and properly maintained. If the City Manager finds either by engineering knowledge or by observation that an interceptor is incapable of retaining adequately the sand and oil in the waste water flow from a service station, he shall condemn such interceptor and declare that it does not meet the requirements of this article.
(c)
Design of interceptor. The City Manager shall maintain a
file, available for public use, of suitable designs of sand-and-oil
interceptors. This shall be for informational purposes. Installation
of an interceptor of a design shown in this file, or of any design
meeting the size requirements set forth in this article shall not
impute any liability to the City for the adequacy of the interceptor
under actual conditions of use. It shall not relieve the owner or
proprietor of responsibility for keeping sand and oil out of the sewer.
If the interceptor is not adequate under the conditions of use, he
shall construct one which is effective in accomplishing the intended
purpose.
(d)
Approval of interceptor. The Plumbing Official shall not
approve the plumbing of a vehicle servicing or repairing station if
it does not have a sand-and-oil interceptor meeting the requirements
of this article.
(e)
Maintenance of interceptor. The sand-and-oil interceptor
of a vehicle servicing station shall be properly maintained. It shall
be cleaned as often as is necessary to assure that sand and oil do
not accumulate in sufficient amount to impair the efficiency of the
interceptor, or in such amount that sand and oil will pass out with
the effluent. When an interceptor is cleaned, the accumulated sediment
and floating material shall be removed and legally disposed of otherwise
than to a sewer. An interceptor is not considered to be properly maintained
if for any reason it is not in good working condition. It is not considered
to be properly maintained if sand and oil accumulations total more
than 25% of the operating fluid capacity. The owner of any service
station, the lessee and sub-lessee if there be such, and the proprietor,
operator, or superintendent of such station are individually and severally
liable for any failure of proper maintenance of such interceptor.
(§§ 401—405, Ord. 224)
(a)
Water treating apparatus. It shall be unlawful for any person
to install, replace, or enlarge any apparatus for treating all or
any part of the water supply to a property discharging sewage into
a public sewer of the City if such apparatus is of a kind that produces,
in any phase of its use or servicing, any waste water with a mineral
content higher than that of the water supply of the property, except
that such apparatus may be installed if arrangements are made to dispose
of the waste water by other means than discharge to the sewers of
the City or to the ground in any place where it might pollute any
usable water supply. Such apparatus shall include zeolite and resinous
ion exchange softeners or demineralizers, stills, processes using
electro-osmosis, and other like devices. The regeneration of ion exchange
softeners in commercial soft water service establishments and the
addition of ion exchange materials to water softeners shall be included
in the operations limited by this section.
It shall be unlawful for any person to use or to maintain in
a condition of readiness for use any apparatus which it would be illegal
to install under this section if such apparatus was installed on or
after October 14, 1957.
(b)
Approval by City Manager. Any person desiring to install, enlarge, or replace any water-treating apparatus of the kind described in subsection (a) of this section, or to regenerate ion exchange water softeners in a commercial establishment, or to add ion exchange materials to any water softeners, shall submit to the City Manager a letter describing the intended installation or alteration and describing the arrangements which will serve to prevent improper discharge of the waste water. Within 10 days the City Manager shall reply, stating whether or not the disposal arrangements are adequate to insure against the addition of mineral salts to the sewage or the ground. No person shall install, replace, or enlarge a water-treating apparatus of the kind described in subsection (a) of this section, nor may he operate such a unit, if installed on or after October 14, 1957, nor may he regenerate an ion exchange water softener in a commercial establishment, nor may he add ion exchange materials to any water softeners unless he has a letter from the City Manager approving as satisfactory the proposed arrangements for the disposal of waste waters. Such apparatus may be operated only so long as the method of waste water disposal is as approved by the City Manager. Alterations in the method of disposal may be made only after communication to the City Manager and receipt of a letter of approval as in the first instance.
(c)
Inspection by City Manager. Any person installing or operating water-treating apparatus of the kind described in subsection (a) of this section shall make such apparatus accessible to the City Manager for inspection and shall make such reports as the City Manager may request as to the operations of the apparatus.
(d)
Exemptions. Any water-treating apparatus which has a rated
capacity less than five gallons in an eight hour period shall be exempt
from the provisions of this section. Multiple units installed to supply
water to the same points of use shall be considered as a single apparatus
for the purposes of this subsection.
(e)
Other requirements applicable. Nothing in this section shall
be construed as lessening the applicability of other requirements
of this article.
(§§ 501 through 505, Ord.
224, as amended by § 3, Ord. 334, eff. March 25, 1964)
(a)
Approval for discharge by the City Manager. Any person desiring
to discharge industrial waste water into a public sewer of the City
in an amount exceeding 100 gallons in any one day shall submit a letter
to the City Manager presenting information as to the kind and size
of the industrial operation producing the waste water, the quantity
and characteristics of the waste water, detailed plans for any pretreatment
facilities planned to prevent the discharge of improper materials
to the sewer, and any other information requested by the City Manager.
If the City Manager shall find that the quality of the water and the
facilities for discharge to the sewer conform to the requirements
of this article and Code, that any required pretreatment facilities
are adequate, and that sewer capacity is available, he shall reply
approving the discharge of that waste water to the sewer. The letter
of approval shall state the nature of the industry and the nature
and amount of flow which the applicant may discharge to the sewer,
and shall include any restrictions which the City Manager finds necessary
in order that the sewerage system may serve its intended purpose.
If he finds that the proposed discharge will not be lawful under this
article or other applicable laws, he shall so notify the applicant.
(b)
Alterations of approved discharge methods. If the discharger wishes to make alterations of pretreatment facilities or alterations of connections to the sewer, or if he wishes to discharge additional wastes or to discharge wastes in excess of the amounts which have been approved, or wastes of a different kind, he shall submit to the City Manager a letter requesting approval of such alteration. The City Manager shall treat this in the same manner as an original application under subsection (a) of this section.
(c)
Effective date. It shall be unlawful, on and after January
15, 1958, for any person to discharge to a public sewer of the City,
directly or indirectly, any industrial waste water which is not approved
as to kind and amount by a letter from the City Manager, and any such
discharge shall be in accordance with any restrictions and conditions
imposed in the City Manager's letter of approval.
(d)
Requirements. Except as hereinafter set forth, no industrial
waste shall be discharged to a public sewer unless it conforms to
the requirements set forth hereinbefore for all discharges to public
sewers, and no industrial waste water flow exceeding 100 gallons in
any one day shall be discharged to a public sewer unless it conforms
also to the following requirements:
(1)
The content of dissolved solids shall at no time exceed 1,250 milligrams
per liter;
(2)
The content of chloride ion shall at no time exceed 175 milligrams
per liter;
(3)
The content of boron shall at no time exceed 2.0 milligrams per liter
of boron, except that this restriction shall not be applied unless
and until it is found that the boron content of the total sewage outflow
from the City averages more than 1.0 milligrams per liter, this average
to be determined from analyses of four consecutive samples on different
days in one week;
(4)
The content of total oil and grease shall at no time exceed 600 milligrams
per liter;
(5)
The content of floatable oil and grease shall at no time exceed 25
milligrams per liter;
(6)
The content of floatable hydrocarbon oil shall at no time exceed
10 milligrams per liter;
(7)
The standard five-day biochemical oxygen demand shall at no time
exceed 1,000 milligrams per liter;
(8)
The suspended solids content shall at no time exceed 1,000 milligrams
per liter;
(9)
The dissolved sulfide content shall at no time exceed 0.1 milligram
per liter; and
(10)
The pH shall at no time be below 6.
(e)
Manholes—Sampling compartments. Every discharge of
industrial waste to a public sewer of the City shall be routed through
a manhole or sampling compartment approved by the City Manager, which
manhole or sampling compartment shall be available and accessible
at all times to authorized representatives of the City Manager. If
reasonably practical, this structure shall be on public property but
shall be built at the expense of the industry using it. The piping
to and from the manhole or sampling compartment shall be arranged
so that observations may be made of all of the industrial sewage flow
without prior admixture of any waste water from toilets, washrooms,
kitchens, or lunch rooms, and so that the industrial sewage flow can
be plugged off without impeding the flow of sewage from such other
sources.
(f)
Report of measurement of flow. The City Manager may require
that any person discharging industrial waste water to the sewer shall
install a measuring device and the measurements of the flow be taken
and reported to the City. Where the discharge of waste of low pH (acid
wastes) is a possibility, he may require the installation of pH recording
equipment, with submission of records to the City. He or she may require
that the industry provide for the inspection of the quality of the
waste water or performance of the waste water pretreatment facilities
by an impartial third party, with reports to the City. He or she may
require that a permittee report to the City from time to time on the
amount of materials processed by the industry or other information
which he finds necessary to evaluate the effect of the wastes on the
sewerage system.
(g)
Approval for discharge tentative. Every letter of approval
for the discharge of industrial waste waters shall be considered tentative,
and the approval shall be revoked by the City Manager when it is found
that the discharge which the letter approves is in fact in violation
of this article or Code, or that the information furnished by the
applicant in applying for the approval was misleading, or that the
discharge is causing harm, nuisance, or an unreasonable burden in
the operation of the sewerage system.
(h)
Other requirements applicable. Nothing in this section shall
be construed as lessening the applicability of other requirements
of this article.
(§§ 601—608, Ord. 224, as amended by § 4, Ord. 334, eff. March 25, 1964)
If a waste water contains or may contain constituents which will cause it to fail to conform to any of the requirements of Sections 5-3.103, 5-3.104, 5-3.105, or 5-3.106 of this article for sewage or industrial waste discharges, but if the City Manager finds that the discharge will not cause harm to the sewerage system nor an unreasonable or inequitable burden in the operation of the system, and that it will not cause deterioration of the quality of the sewage effluent of the City, he or she may grant approval for discharge to the sewer, with waivers or modifications of the requirement which would not be met. In the letter of approval he or she shall include a statement regarding the requirement waived, with reasons as to why the waiver is reasonable. A copy of such letter shall be filed with the City Clerk.
(§ 701, Ord. 224)
It shall be unlawful for any person to discharge, or cause to
be discharged, into any storm drain or storm water channel or natural
watercourse, whether currently carrying water or not, or into any
pipe or waterway leading to such drain, channel, or watercourse any
solid or fluid material which will impair the useful functioning of
such drain, channel, or watercourse, or which will cause expense to
the City in maintaining the proper functioning of the same, a public
nuisance, public hazard, or the detrimental pollution of natural surface
or subsurface waters.
It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit or discharge,
or cause to be deposited or discharged, into any sump which is not
impermeable, or into any pit or well, or on the ground, or into any
storm drain or watercourse any material which, by seeping underground,
or by being leached, or by reacting with the soil, can cause such
alterations of usable underground waters as to be detrimental and
as to be beyond the range of the effects of ordinary nonindustrial
land uses on underground waters into which such wastes may seep, or
which may violate any requirement of Water Pollution Control Board
No. 4.
(§§ 801 and 802, Ord. 224)
Any aggrieved person may appeal a decision of the City Manager, in respect to the provisions of this article, to the City Council, pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 4 of Title 1 of this Code. The action of the City Council shall be final insofar as the authority of the City is concerned.
(§ 901, Ord. 224, as amended
by § 4, Ord. 708, eff. April 27,
1995)
