HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrdinance 329ORDINANCE NO. 329
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BEAUMONT, CALIFORNIA,
WHICH REGULATES THE DISCHARGE OF WASTE INTO THE
PUBLIC SEWER SYSTEM AND PROVIDES THE PENALTY FOR
THE VIOLATION THEREOF.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BEAUMONT, CALIFORNIA, DOES HEREBY
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the
meaning of terms used in this ordinance shall be as follows:
"Natural Outlet" shall mean any outlet into a water course, both
ditch, lake, or any other body of surface or ground water.
"Water Course" shall mean a channel in which a flow of water occurs,
either continuously or intermittently.
"Sanitary Sewer" shall mean a sewer which carries sewage and into which
storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
"Combined Sewer" shall mean a sewer receiving both surface runoff
and sewage.
"Storm Sewer" or "Storm Drain" shall mean a sewer which carries storm
and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and polluted industrial
wastes.
"Sewage Treatment Plant" shall mean any arrangement of devices and
structures used for treating sewage.
"Industrial Waste"shall mean the waste arising from, or associated
with, an industrial operation. Such operation shall be understood to
include production, processing, packing or canning of fruits, vegetables,
meat or beverages, laundering of clothes in public laundries or public
self-service launderies, production of fertilizers, keeping of live stock
and operation of dairies, production or dyeing of textiles, production of
soap or other detergents or chemicals, plating of materials, processing
or reclamation of refuse and kinds of manufacturing and other similar
operations. Waste not comparable in composition and volume to normal
domestic sewage shall be considered to be industrial waste, except as
hereinafter described. It includes the washing of equipment, or spaces
used in industrial operation, unless otherwise provided for. It does not
include waste water from the operation of restaurants, hotels, schools,
hospitals, vehicle service stations, wash racks, garages, establishments
for regeneration of water softening apparatus, or places of retail business;
and does not include the waste waters from lunch rooms, toilets, or wash
rooms in industrial establishments.
"Garbage" shall mean solid wastes from the preparation, cooking, and
dispensing of food, and from handling, storage and sale of produce.
"Properly shredded Garbage"shall mean the wastes from the preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food that have been shredded to such degree
that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions
normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than
1/4" in any dimension.
"Building Drain" shall mean that part of the lowest horizontal
piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from soil,
waste, the other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and
conveys it to the building sewer, beginning five feet outside the inner
face of the building wall.
"Building Sewer" shall mean the extension from the building drain to
the public sewer or other place of disposal.
"B.O.D." (denoting Biochemical Oxygen Demand) shall mean the quantity
of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under
standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20 degrees C. expressed in
parts per million by weight.
"pH" shall mean the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of
hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
"Suspended Solids" shall mean solids that either float on the surface
of, or are in suspension in water, sewage, or other liquids, and which are
removable by laboratory filtering.
"Interceptor" shall mean an approved structure designed to temporarily
slow down or retain the sewage from the premises immediately prior to
discharge into the public sewer to permit the separation of material
deleterious to the operation of the sewage system and treatment plant.
"Inspector" shall mean the Building Inspector, Street Superintendant,
or other such person or persons as shall be designated by the City Council
to implement this Ordinance.
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Section 2. No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any
storm water, surface water, ground water, roof runoff, subsurface drainage,
polluted cooling water or polluted industrial process waters to any sanitary
sewer.
Storm water and all other unpolluted drainage shall be discharged to
such sewers as are specifically designated as combined sewers or storm
sewers, or to a natural outlet approved by the Inspector. Unpolluted
commercial and industrial cooling water or unpolluted process waters may
be discharged, upon approval of the Inspector and after receiving waste
discharge requirements from State of California Regional Water Control
Board No. 8 to a storm sewer, combined sewer, natural outlet or sanitary
sewer.
Except as hereinafter provided, no person shall discharge or cause
to be discharged any of the following described waters or wastes to any
public sewer:
(a) Any liquid or vapor having a temperature higher than
150 degrees F.
(b) Any water or waste which may contain more than 100 parts
per million by weight, of fat, oil or grease.
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(c) Any gasoline, benzene, naptha, fuel oil, or other inflammable
or explosive liquid, solid or gas.
(d) Any garbage that has not been properly shredded.
(e) Any ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal,
glass, rags, feather, tar, plastics, wood, paunch manure or any other
solid or viscuous substance capable of causing obstruction to the flow
in sewers or other interference with the proper operation of the sewage
works.
(f) Any waters or wastes having a pH lower than 5.5 or higher
than 9.0 or having any other corrosive property capable of causing damage
or hazard to structures, equipment, and personnel of the sewage works.
(g) Any waters or wastes containing a toxic or poisonous
substance in sufficient quantity to injure or interfere with any sewage
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treatment process, constitute a hazard to humans or animals, or create
any hazard in the receiving waters of the sewage treatment plant.
(h) Any waters or wastes containing suspended solids of such
character and quantity that unusual attention or expense is required to
handle such materials at the sewage treatment plant.
(i) Any noxious or malodorous gas or substance capable of
creating a public nuisance.
The admission into the public sewers of any waters or wastes
having (a) a 5 -day Biochemical Oxygen Demand greater than 300 parts per
million by weight, or (b) containing more than 350 parts per million by
weight of suspended solids or (c) containing any quantity of substances
having the characteristics described in Section 2 having an average daily
flow greater than 2 per cent of the average daily sewage flow of the City,
shall be subject to the review and approval of the Inspector. Where
necessary in the opinion of the Inspector, the owner shall provide, at
his expense, such preliminary
reduce the Biochemical Oxygen
suspended solids to 350 parts
objectionable characteristics
treatment as may be necessary to, (a)
Demand to 300 parts per million and the
per million by weight, or (b) reduce
or constituents to within the maximum limits
provided for in Section 2 or (c) control the quantities and rates of
discharge of such waters or wastes. Plans, specifications, and any other
pertinent information relating to proposed preliminary treatment facilities
shall be submitted for the approval of the Inspector and of the Water
Pollution Control Commission of the State of California, and no constru-
ction of such facilities shall be commenced until said approvals are
obtained in writing.
Section 3. SPECIAL RESTRICTIONS - VEHICLE SERVICING STATIONS. Any
station maintained for the servicing or repair of roadway vehicles shall
install and maintain a sand -and -oil interceptor within two months after
the effective date of this Ordinance. 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
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this interceptor before discharge to a public sewer of the City of
Beaumont. 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 capable of not less than 6 cubic feet and an accessible
effective water surface not less than 4 square feet. "Accessible effective
water surface" is here understood to mean a surface which is easily
accessible for cleaning and which at the 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
6 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 per cent 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 Inspector.
Section 4. Any interceptor legally and properly installed at a
vehicle service station before the effective date of this ordinance shall
be acceptable as an alternative to the interceptor specified in Section 3,
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 Building Inspector finds either by engineering knowledge or
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 ordinance.
Section 5. The City Building Inspector 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
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requirements set forth in this ordinance shall not impute any liability
to the City of Beaumont 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 his
interceptor is not adequate under the conditions of use he shall construct
one which is effective in accomplishing the intended purpose.
Section 6. The Building Inspector 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 Ordinance.
Section 7. 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 ofatherwise 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 per cent of the operating
fluid capacity. The owner of any service station, the lessee or sub -lessee
if there be such, and the proprietor, operator or superintendant of such
station are individually and severally liable for any failure of proper
maintenance of such interceptor.
Section 8. SPECIAL RESTRICTIONS - WATER TREATMENT WASTE. It shall
be unlawful for any person or persons to discharge or cause to be dis-
charged from any establishment, industry or apparatus used for commercial
regeneration of potable water treating units, or of replaceable elements
of water treating equipment, any waste containing in excess of 0.36 pounds
of chloride ion per kilogram of softening capacity regenerated, or to
discharge any quantities of other water -treating wastes which may cause or
contribute to difficulties in operation and maintainance of the sanitary
sewer system or sewage treatment works.
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It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to discharge or cause
to be discharged from any establishment, industry or apparatus used for
regeneration of water-treating equipment or for treating of all or a
portion of water used by said person or persons, any waste containing more
than 0.20 pounds of chloride ion per kilogram of softening capacity
regenerated, or to discharge any quantities of other water-treating wastes
which may cause or contribute to difficulties in operation and maintainance
of the sanitary sewer system or sewage treatment works. This section does
not apply to use of individual residential water softening units when
regeneration is performed at the residence where the unit is located.
Section 9. Any person desiring to install, enlarge, or replace any
apparatus to regenerate ion-exchange water softeners in a commercial
regeneration establishment shall submit to the Inspector a letter describing
the intended installation or alteration and describing the arrangements
which will serve to prevent improper discharge of the waste water, including
installation and operation of recording monitoring devices simultaneously
recording the conductivity and rate of flow of waste discharge or other
means of ascertaining compliance with Section 8. Within ten days, the
inspector shall reply, stating whether or not the disposal arrangements are
adequate to insure against the addition of excessive mineral salts to the
sewage or the gbund. No person shall regenerate an ion-exchange water
softener or elements thereof, in a commercial regeneration establishment
unless he has a letter from the Inspector approving as satisfactory the
proposed arrangements for disposal and monitoring of the waste waters.
Such apparatus may be operated only so long as the method of waste water
disposal is as approved by the Inspector. Alteration in the method of
disposal may be made only after communication to the Inspector and receipt
of a letter of approval as in the first instance.
Section 10. A person installing or operating a water treatment
apparatus of the kind described in Section 8 shall make such apparatus
accessible to the Inspector for inspection, and shall make such reports as
the Inspector may request as to the operation of the apparatus.
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Section 11. Any water treating apparatus which has a rated capacity
less than five gallons in an 8 -hour period shall be exempt from the
provisions of this Ordinance. Multiple units installed to supply water to
the same points of use shall be considered as a single apparatus for the
purposes of this section.
Section 12. WAIVERS. If waste water contains or may contain the
constituents which will cause it to fail to conform to any of the requirements
set forth in this article for sewage or industrial waste discharges, but if
the Inspector finds that the discharge will not cause harm to the sewerage
system nor unreasonable or inequitable burden in operation of the system,
and that it will not cause deterioration of the quality of the sewage
effluent of the City, then he may grant approval for discharge to the
sewer with waiver or modification of the requirement which would not be
met. In this letter of approval he shall include a statement regarding the
requirements that is waived with reasons as to why the waiver is reasonable.
A copy of this letter shall be filed with the City Clerk.
Section 13. DISCHARGE TO STORM DRAINS, PITS AND LANDS. It shall be
unlawful for any person to discharge or cause to be discharged into any
storm drain or storm water channel or natural water course, whether currently
carrying water or not, into any pipe or waterway leading to such drain,
channel or watercourse, or which will cause expense to the City in maintaining
the proper functioning of same, or which will cause public nuisance or public
hazard or which will cause detrimental pollution of natural surface or
sub -surface waters.
Section 14. 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 to the ground, or into any storm drain or
water course any material which by seeping underground or by being leached
or by reacting with the soil can cause such alterations of usable under-
ground waters as to be detrimental and as to be beyond the range of the
effects of ordinary non -industrial land uses on underground waters into
which such wastes may seep, or which will violate any requirements of
State of California Water Pollution Control Board.
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Section 15. APPEALS. Any person may appeal a decision of the
Inspector in respect to the provisions of this Ordinance, to the City
Council. Action of the City Council shall be final insofar as the
authority of the City of Beaumont is concerned.
Section 16. PENALTIES. Any person, firm or corporation, whether
as principal, agent, employee, or otherwise, violating or causing vio
lation of any of the provisions of this article shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punishable by a fine
of not more than $500.00 or imprisonment for a term not to exceed six
months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Such person, firm or
corporation shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense for each and
every day during any portion of which any violation of this article is
committed or continued by such person, firm or corporation and shall be
punishable as herein provided.
The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this ordinance and
shall cause the same to be published once within fifteen days from the
date of its passage, in the Beaumont Gazette, a newspaper of general
circulation, printed, published and circulated in the City of Beaumont,
and thirty (30) days after its adoption, this ordinance shall be in full
force and effect.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 12th day of June 1961.
ATTEST:
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CITY CLERK
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA)
) SS.
COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE)
I, BERNICE CONINE, City Clerk of the City of Beaumont, California,
hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was introduced and read at
a regular meeting of the City Council of said City duly held on
April 24, 1961, and was duly passed and adopted at a regular meeting
held on the 12th day of June 1961, by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen McClellan, Houston, Leeb, Moore, and Allen
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
City Clerk of the City of
Beaumont
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