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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. PAGE 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 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. Vin+ (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 PAGE 3 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 PAGE 4 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 PAGE 5 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. PAGE 6 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. PAGE 7 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. PAGE 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 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: { CITY CLERK PAGE 9 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 PAGE 10