HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrd. 470 - Sewer SystemORDINANCE NO. `7 /
AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO THE CITY OF McCALL SEWER
SYSTEM; REPEALING CHAPTER FOUR (4) OF TITLE VIII OF
THE VILLAGE CODE OF McCALL, IDAHO, RELATING TO
SEWERS; AMENDING TITLE VIII OF THE VILLAGE CODE OF
McCALL, IDAHO, BY THE ADDITION THERETO OF A NEW
CHAPTER FOUR (4), TITLE VIII OF THE VILLAGE CODE OF
McCALL, IDAHO, TO PROVIDE FOR A SEWER SYSTEM WITHIN
THE CITY, TO PROVIDE FOR SEWER HOOK-UPS, TO PROVIDE
FOR SERVICE CHARGES AND FEES, TO PROVIDE FOR
BILLING CHARGES TO RECORD TITLE HOLDER OF PREMISES
SERVED, TO PROVIDE FOR TRUNK SEWER AND TREATMENT
PLANT CONNECTION CHARGES, TIME OF PAYMENT THEREOF
AND DISPOSITION OF SUCH FEES. PROVIDING SEWER
SERVICE CONNECTION FEES, PERMITS THEREFORE AND
INSPECTION THEREOF AND DISPOSITION OF SUCH FEES;
PROVIDING FOR CHANGES OF USE AND FEES THEREFORE,
PROVIDING FOR DISCONNECTION AND LIENS FOR UNPAID
CHARGES, PROVIDING FOR REGULATIONS REGARDING
DISPOSITION OF AND FEES THEREFORE, PROVIDING
REGULATIONS, INSPECTION OF, AND ENFORCEMENT
REGARDING HARMFUL SUBSTANCES AND EXCESSIVE FLOWS,
PROVIDING FOR HEARINGS AND JUDICIAL REVIEW
PROVIDING REGULATIONS FOR FOOD WASTE DISPOSAL
UNITS, PROVIDING FOR RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR
DISCHARGE OF INDUSTRIAL WASTES, PROVIDING FOR
TAP -INS OR HOOKUPS TO THE CITY SEWER SYSTEM, WATER
SAVING DEVICES, PROVIDING PENALTIES, PROVIDING FOR
A CIVIL REMEDY, AND PROVIDING SEVERABILITY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF McCALL, IDAHO, AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. That Chapter 4 Title VIII of the Village Code of
McCall, Idaho, be, and the same is hereby repealed.
SECTION 2. That Title VIII of the Village Code of McCall,
Idaho, be, and the same is hereby amended by the addition thereto
of a new chapter, to be known and designated as Chapter 4, Title
VIII of Village Code of McCall, Idaho and to read as follows:
8-4-1: SEWER SYSTEM WITHIN CITY; SEWER CONNECTIONS REQUIRED;
AND PENALTY:
(A) For the purpose of promoting health, safety and the
general welfare of McCall, a system for the collection,
transmission and disposal of sanitary sewage shall be constructed,.
extended, maintained, repaired, replaced, operated and removed
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within the corporate limits of the City of McCall by which to
provide an adequate system for the collection, transmission and
disposal of sanitary sewage from domestic, commerical, industrial
and such other uses and purposes for which said system may be
used.
(E) Every building, structure or other sewer user within the
corporate limits of the City shall be connected by a sewer service
line to a public sewer line or main line where such sewer line or
main line is available and within three hundred (300) feet of the
property line of the lot, tract or parcel of land on which such
building or structure exists.
(C) No permit shall be issued for the construction of any
building or structure in the City on any lot, tract or parcel of
land where there is a public sewer line available and within three
hundred (300) feet of such lot, tract or parcel of land, unless
the plans and specifications show connections in compliance with
this Ordinance.
(D) Every building, structure or other use in existence prior
to the construction of a public sewer line which is available and
within three hundred (300) feet of the lot, tract or parcel of
land on which said building or structure stands shall upon the
construction of the public sewer line or main line, be connected
to said sewer not later than six (6) months from the date said
line or main is certified and accepted by the City Public Works
Director as being completed and ready for use.
(E) It shall be unlawful to occupy or use any building or
structure in violation of this Ordinance, and any violation of
this Ordinance shall be punishable as a misdemeanor.
(F) Every building or structure which lies outside of the
City of McCall corporate limits shall connect to the sanitary
sewer where sewer service is available and within three hundred
(300) feet of the property line on which it is located.
Connection to the sanitary sewer system by properties outside the
corporate limits shall be subject to approval by the City Public
Works Director and if warranted by the City Council of the City of
McCall. Consideration will be given to the existing volume of
sewage presently being deposited at the treatment facility.
A11 property outside of the corporate limits connecting
to the City sewer system shall be subject to all connection fees
and double monthly service charges as provided in this Ordinance.
All such connections shall be inspected by the City and shall
comply with all applicable regulations and provisions of the City
of McCall Village Code.
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(G) Section 8-4-1 (F) does not apply to buildings or
structures within the Payette Lakes Water & Sewer District.
8-4-2: SERVICE CHARGES AND FEES:
(A) The charges and fees hereinafter imposed shall be
reviewed annually and revised periodically as required and the
charges and fees provided by this Ordinance are hereby levied and
assessed against each lot, tract or parcel of land, or against
each building, structure or other property having any sewer
connection with the City service area, or intercepting sewers or
otherwise discharging sewage, industrial wastewater or other
liquids, directly or indirectly, into the sewer system or
treatment facilities of the City.
SEWER CLASSIFICATIONS: All users of the sewer system of the
City of McCall are hereby classified as follows:
Class A - private residences
Class B - industrial users
Class C - all other users
(B) SEWER CHARGES: The City of McCall shall charge and the
user shall pay monthly for sewer service the following rates,
to -wit:
For each Class A use, seven dollars ($7.00) per. month;
For each Class B and Class C use, seven dollars ($7.00) per
month or sixty percent (60o)of the charges for the City water
service, whichever is greater.
For each Class A, B, and C users, five dollars ($5.00) per
month surcharge fee to be deposited into the Capital Improvements
Fund established the provisions of section 8-4-8 of the Village
Code of City of McCall, Idaho
8-4-3: SEWER CHARGE BILLINGS: All charges for monthly sewer
service furnished by the City shall be billed directly to the
record title holder of the premisies to which the sewer service is
furnished, according to the official records in the office of the
Recorder Valley County, Idaho.
8-4-4: TRUNK SEWER AND TREATMENT PLANT CONNECTION CHARGES,
TIME OF PAYMENT,DISPOSITION OF CHARGES: A trunk sewer connection
charge shall be made and imposed upon and collected from every
person, firm, company, corporation, partnership or association or
any other sewer user before constructing a sewer service line by
which to attach and connect the property to the sanitary sewer
system of the City. The rate for each connection charge is hereby
fixed and established as follows:
Single family residence: $600.00
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Duplex or Triplex, per unit: $600.00
Mobile Home Park, per unit: $600.00
Condominiums, Townhouses and apartments:
("Gross acre" shall mean an acre of ground inluding all public
and private drives within the the development and one-half (1/2)
of the width of all bordering public streets)
4 units or less per gross acre, per unit: $600.00
Over 4 units to and including 7 units per
gross acre, per unit: $600.00
Over 7 units to and including 10 units per
gross acre, per unit: $700.00
Over 10 units to and including 13 units per
gross acre, per unit: $800.00
Over 13 units per acre, per unit: $1000.00
Travel trailer, motor home, truck camper,
parking space per unit: $500.00
Commerical, Industrial, Institutional: To be fixed and determined
by the City Council on the basis of equilvent single family
residential units, and the determination of such equivalence shall
include the volume, type and content of liquid effluent and/or
industrial wastewater discharged into the sewer system.
All trunk sewer and treatment plant connection charges shall
be paid to the City Clerk and shall be deposited by the City Clerk
into the Capital Improvements fund established and created by
Section 8-4-8 of the Village Code of McCall, Idaho.
8-4-5: SEWER SERVICE CONNECTION FEE; PERMIT; INSPECTIONS;
DISPOSITION OF FEES: In addition to a trunk sewer connection
charge, a person constructing a sewer service line by which to
attach and connect the property to any sewer system transporting
sewage, industrial wastewater or other wastes and liquids to a
City of McCa11 treatment plant shall pay a sewer service
connection charge, and such charge shall be made and imposed upon
and collected from such sewer users. The rate for each connection
charge is hereby fixed and established as follows:
Single family residence: $150.00
Duplex or Triplex, per unit: 150.00
Fourplex and larger, per unit: 150.00
Mobilehome park, per unit: 150.00
Condominium, townhouse and apart-
ments, per unit: 150.00
Commerical, Industrial, Institutional:
to be fixed and determined by the City Council on a basis of
equivalent single family residential unit, and the determination
of such equivalence shall include the volume, type and content of
liquid effluent and/or industrial wastewater discharged into the
sewer system.
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Before any connection shall be made to the City sewer system a
permit therefore shall be obtained from the City Clerk upon
payment of the fees provided in this Section and thereafter such
connection to the City sewer system shall be made the expense of
the person desiring such connection and the same shall be made
under the supervision of the City Public Works Director and such
connection shall not be covered until final inspection and
approval by the City Public Works Director. All fees collected by
the City Clerk hereunder shall be by the City Clerk deposited in
the general fund of the City.
8-4-6: CHANGE OF USE; FEE: Each sewer user changing use of
his property now connected to the sanitary sewer system of the
City of McCall shall pay the difference betweeen the connection
charges (trunk sewer and treatment plant charges and sewer service
connection charges) applicable to the use to which the property is
being changed and the use to which the property had been
previously applied. If, for example, a single family dwelling
situated upon property now connected to the sewer is demolished
and a duplex,triplex, multi -family mobilehome park or
commerical/industrial/institutional use is thereon constructed,
the charge to be made for both trunk sewer and treatment plant
connection charges and sewer service connection charges shall be
the difference between the total of the charges provided by
Section 8-4-4 and 8-4-5 above.
8-4-7: DISCONNECTION; AND LIEN:
(A) In case of nonpayment of delinqency in payment of the
sewer charges and fees and connection fees herein required, the
City Public Works Director is hereby authorized and directed to
disconnect and plug the sewer connection to the sewer system.
(B) All service charges or fees not paid within thirty (30)
days of the date when due, and all connection fees not paid prior
to and upon connecting to the sanitary sewer system of the City of
McCall shall become delinquent and the amount due and payable
shall constitute a lien upon and against the property or premises
being served by and connected to the sanitary sewer system. The
deliquent charges and fees, service and connection, together with
a penalty of ten percent(10o) added thereto shall be certified to
the City Treasurer, Ex-Officio Tax Collector, of Valley County, in
the manner and at the time required by Section 50-1008, Idaho
Code, and the same shall be collected in the same manner and
subject to the same penalties as other City taxes.
8-4-8: CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT FUND: There is hereby established
and created a "Capital Improvement Fund" for the receipt, deposit,
and accounting of all moneys collected and raised from the levy or
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collection of sewer connection and/or treatment plant charges with
which to erect, construct, enlarge or maintain sewerlines or sewer
treatment facilities or structures for the City. The moneys
deposited in said Fund shall be kept separate and apart from all
other moneys of said City and shall be held in trust, dedicated to
the specific purpose for which the Capital Improvement Fund is
hereby created and established. The City Treasurer may, as
directed and empowered by Resolution adopted and approved by the
City Council, invest the moneys of the Fund in the Securities
authorized by law, but no portion of the Fund may be transferred
to the credit of any other general or special fund or used for
any other public purpose.
8-4-9: SEPTAGE DEPOSIT OR DUMPING:
1. Prohibition against dumping: It shall be unlawful for any
person, firm or corporation to deposit, dump, place or leave
septage, sewage or effluent from any septic tank, cesspool, or
other private sewage disposal system within the corporate limits
of the City of McCall except at the McCall City Treatment Plant.
2. Who can dump: Only vehicles designed and constructed for
the purpose of transporting or hauling septage, sewage or effluent
shall be allowed to dump at the McCall City Treatment plant. The
vehicle shall be water and air tight and be clearly marked with
the gallonage of the holding tank. The fee and exact sources of
each load shall be recorded on a dumping ticket provided by the
City of McCall.
3. Fee: The fee for dumping shall be $10.00 per 1000 gallons
based on tank capacity or actual flow measurement. The minimum
fee shall be $7.50.
4. Monitoring: The dumping of all septage shall be monitored
by the plant operator or his designate and samples may be taken
during th discharge into the system.
5. Cleanup: The dumping area shall be left clean.
8-4-10: HARMFUL SUBSTANCES AND EXCESSIVE; PROHIBITED FLOWS:
For promoting health, safety, and welfare and so no use or
activity endangers or inhibits the City of McCall sewer system,
treatment plant, and personnel; and so use and activity does not
cause the City of McCall to violate the Federal Water Pollution
Control Act.
It shall be unlawful to permit or cause flow of any of the
following substances into the sanitary sewer system:
1. Any grease, fatty materials, offal or garbage;
2. Any stone dust, sand, dirt, gravel, sawdust, metal
filings, broken glassor any other material which may cause or
create an obstruction in the sewer;
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3. Gasoline, benzine, fuel oil, pehnols, cresols, or any
petroleum productsor volatile liquids, or any wastes which create
a fire explosion hazard;
4. Milk, or any liquid milk waste products, in quantities in
excess of ten (10) gallons during each twenty four (24) hour
period;
5. Any cyanid, phenols or any other chemical or substance
which interferes with or prevents the functioning of the sewer
system or wastewater treatment facilities;
6. Paint or waste products from paint manufacturing;
7. Radioactive wastes;
8. Any material from cesspools and septic tanks, other than
effluent;
9. Any material from chemical toilets, such as used in
recreational vehicles and on construction sites;
10. Any other substance or liquid deleterious to the sewer
system and wastewater treatment facilities or which shall endanger
the employees, operation or treatment processes of wastewater
disposal, or which shall cause encrustations or otherwise
chemically or physically corrode or erode the sewer system and
wastewater treatment facilities. In no case shall wastes with a
pH lower than 6.0 nor wastes with a pH greater than 9.0 be
permitted into the sanitary sewer system.
A) Every building, structure or premises used or occupied
by any sewer userwhere any commerical or industrial operations are
conducted or permitted which result in the discharge into the
sewer system of any products, waste products or other substances,
matter or liquid in the manner and to the extent prohibited in
this Ordinance shall be equipped with an adequate and suitable
grease trap, filter or other interceptor device installed in such
a manner that products, waste products or other substances,
material or liquids herein set forth shall not flow into or be
discharged into the sanitary sewer system. The grease trap,
filter or other interceptor shall be:
1. operated efficiently at all times;
2. continually maintained and operational;
3. in compliance with the specifications as set forth in
the Uniform Plumbing Code;
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4. installed and located in a manner easily accessible by
the City Public Works Department inspector;
5. installed and located in a manner that will provide
for easy cleaning, repair, replacement, and inspection;
Any time without notice the trap, filter or interceptor
shall be available for inspection by the City Public Works
Department. If found to be in violation of this Ordinance,
written notification will be given requiring the user to take the
necessary steps to remedy the situation within one week after
written notice.
It shall be unlawful to permit the flow of such waste from
such buildings, structures or premises into the sanitary sewer
system.
B) Inflows of surface and excessive infiltration are
prohibited. Such prohibited sources of inflow shall include, but
not be limited to, the following:
1. Heating or cooling system discharges in excess of
2,000 gallons per day, storm water connections, subwater drains,
foundation drains, roof drains, street drains, basement drains,
sump pumps, and abandoned sewer lines.
2. Infiltration greater than 200 gallons per day per inch
diameter per mile of pipe shall be prohibited.
3. Existing inflows of surface and subsurface waters from
storm water connections, subwater drains, foundation drains, roof
drains, street drains, basement drains, sump pumps, abandoned
sewer lines and excessive infiltration and other sources shall be
eliminated. Structures and buildings with inflow in existance
before the time of this Ordinance shall not be deemed to have
"GRANDFATHER RIGHTS" and therefore shall be eliminated in order to
comply with this Ordinance.
8-4-10 (A): HEARINGS AND APPEALS:
The City Public Works Department shall conduct such
inspections as are necessary to assure compliance with this
ordinance and shall notify the property owner and the City
Council of the City of McCall in writing of sources in violation
of this ordinance stating the source, nature, and amount of the
inflow.
The property owner shall be given fourteen days notice in
writing wherein to appear before the City Council to show cause
if any why he should not be required to take such action as may be
required in order to eliminate the inflow.
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The property owner shall have the right to be represented by
counsel and present witnesses in his behalf; a tape recording of
such hearing shall be kept by the City and a written transcription
of that tape shall be available upon request at a cost to the
requestor. A written decision stating the reasons therefor shall
be rendered by the City Council within 30 days.
The property owner shall be notified by certified mail of the
decision of the City Council.
A property owner upon receiving an adverse decision may within
30 days after the mailing of a decision as provided in Section
8-4-10 above, seek judicial review under the provisions of Section
67-5215 (f) through (g) and Section 67-5216, Idaho Code.
The maximum time allowed to eliminate excessive inflows shall
be two (2) months after the official notification from the City
Council unless the City Council detemines that there would be
undue hardship within the time limit allowed.
The City Public Works Department will inspect and certify that
all new construction complies with this Ordinance.
8-4-11: FOOD WASTE DISPOSAL UNITS:
(A) It is the declared policy of the City to discourage and
prevent discharge of food wastes into the sanitary sewer system
when such food wastes could be disposed of in a manner other than
discharge into the said sewer system. Where the disposal of such
food wastes, particularly by commerical and institutional users of
the system is allowed, the method and manner of such disposal
shall be as required in the subsequent portions of this Section.
(B) Domestic and commerical food waste disposal units shall
be connected and trapped separately from any other fixture or
compartment, except that a continuous waste with a flow directing
parition will be acceptable for domestic units. All units may
have either automatic or hand operated water supply controls;
however, domestic units shall be provided with an approved inlet
cover having waterway passages for use during grinding operations.
(C) No waste from a food waste grinder shall be discharged
into or through a grease interceptor.
(D) Waste grinders and their installation in restaurants,
institutions, food processing or storage plants and similar
operations shall meet the requirements of this Ordinance as well
as the Uniform Plumbing Code. An installation will be permitted
only upon the finding of the City that other methods of disposal
are not feasible and that the City sewer system can properly
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handle the waste.
8-4-12: DISCHARGE OF INDUSTRIAL WASTES:
(A) It is unlawful for anyone to discharge or permit the
discharge of any industrial wastes into any public sewer unless
prior approval by the City is obtained, as provided in Section
8-4-12 (B)if such industrial wastes have any of thefollowing
characteristics:
1. A standard five (5) day bichemical oxygen demand
greater than four hundred (400) milligrams per liter (mg/1); or
fifty (50) pounds in any one day;
2. A chemical oxygen demand greater than five hundred
(500) mg/1; or eighty five (85) pounds in any one day;
3. Wastes containing more than four hundred (400) mg/1
of suspended solids or fifty (50) pounds in any one day;
4. A flow of fifty thousand (50,000) gallons or more per
average work day or a flow greater than five percent (50) of the
flow carried by the treatment facility receiving the waste;
5. Chlorine demand of more than twenty (20) mg/1;
6. Wastewater at a flow rate and/or pollutant discharge
which is excessive over relatively short time periods so that
there is a treatment process upset and subsequent loss of
treatment efficiency;
7. Wastes containing harmful substances as enumerated in
Section 8-4-10;
8. Food wastes and garbage, etc;
9. Any liquid or vapor having a temperature higher than
twenty-seven (27) degrees centigrade, eighty (80) degrees
fahrenheit;
10. Any soluable waste or wastes having a pH lower than
6.0 or higher than 9.0 or having any other corrosive property
which reasonably could be hazardous to structures, equipment or
personnel of the City such as but not limited to, battery or
plating acids and wastes, copper sulfate, chromium salts and
compounds or salt brine.
11. Any water or waste containing a toxic or poisonous
substance in sufficient quantity to injure or interfere with any
wastewater treatment process, to constitute a hazard to humans or
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to create any hazard to receiving waters or the effluent of the
wastewater treatment plants. Liquids containing copper, zinc or
similar toxic substances at the point of discharge to the City
sewer shall not exceed the following limits:
PARAMETER
MAXIMUM MONTH
AVERAGE DAILY
MAXIMUM
INSTANTEOUS
Aluminum 3.00 mg/1 5.00 mg/1
Arsenic 0.03 mg/1 0.05 mg/1
Total Ammonia as
Nitrogen 25.00 mg/1 50.00 mg/1
Cadmium 0.01 mg/1 0.02 mg/1
Chromium (Hexavelent) 0.05 mg/1 1.00 mg/1
Chromium (total) 1.00 mg/1 2.00 mg/1
Copper 0.30 mg/1 0.50 mg/1
Cyanide (total) 0.20 mg/1 0.50 mg/1
Flouride 2.00 mg/1 2.70 mg/1
Iron 2.00 mg/1 5.00 mg/1
Lead 0.05 mg/1 0.10 mg/1
Nickel 0.30 mg/1 0.50 mg/1
Zinc 0.30 mg/1 0.50 mg/1
Mercury 0.03 mg/1 0.05 mg/1
Silver 0.03 mg/1 0.05 mg/1
12. Any material which exerts or causes:
(a) Concentrations of inert suspended solids, such
as, but not limited to, fuller's earth, lime slurries, lime
residue, or fly ash which are so high as to constitute a danger to
the wastewate treatment plant.
(b) Concentrations of dissolved solids such as, but
not limited to, sodium chloride, calcium chloride or sodium
sulfate, which are so high as to constitute a danger to the
wastewater treatment plant;
13. Any wastes containing chlorinated hydrocardons in
concentrations greater than 9.5 mg/1;
14. Any water or wastes which the Public Works Director
determines will by itself or with other water or wastes in the
public sewer system, release obnoxious gases; or develop color or
undesirable intensity; or form suspended solids in objectionable
concentrations; or create any other condition deleterious to
life, structures, or treatment processes;
15. (a) Waters or wastes containing substances in such
concentrations that they are not amendable to treatment or
reduction by wastewater treatment processes employed or are
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amenable to treatment only to such degree that the wastewater
treatment plant effluent cannot meet the requirements of any other
agency having jurisdiction over discharge to the receiving waters.
(b) It is unlawful for anyone to discharge or permit.
the discharge of industrial wastes as enumerated in Section 8-4-12
unless prior written approval is obtained from the City. If any
industrial wastes are discharged or are proposed to be discharged
into a public sewer, which wastes contain the substances or
possess the characteristics enumerated in Section 8-4-11, and
which, in the judgement of the City may have a deleterious effect
upon the wastewater treatment processes, equipment or receiving
waters, or which otherwise create a hazard to life or create
malodors, the City may:
1. Reject the waste; or
2. Require preliminary treatment to an
acceptable condition for discharge to the public sanitary sewer
system and/or sampling and metering manholes and equipment and/or
may;
3. Require reduction of the standard five (5)
day biochemical oxygen demand to less than four hundred (400)
mg/1; and or;
4. Require reduction of the suspended solids
content to less than four hundred (400) mg/1; and/or;
5. Require reduction in chemical oxygen demand
to less than five hundred (500) mg/1; and/or;
6. Require regulation of the quantities of
organic and inorganic loads and/or rates of discharge; and/or;
7. Require payment of a charge and fee for the
cost and expenses of processing such water or wastes so admitted
into the sewer system and any other costs or charges that would be
and are incurred by the City in the maintenance, operation,
replacement and repair of the sewer system and wastewater
treatment facilities caused by such waters or wastes into the
system.
(c) Plans, specifications and other information
relating to the construction or installation of preliminary
treatment and other facilities required by this Chapter shall be
submitted by the industry to the City.
The Industry shall comply with the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) pretreatment regulations as published in
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the Federal Register, Volume 38, Number 215, dated November 8,
1973. No construction or installation thereof shall commence
until written approval of the plans and specifications by the
City. Every facility for the preliminary treatment or handling
of industrial wastes shall be constructed in accordance with the
approved plans and specifications, and shall be installed and
maintained at the expense of the occupant or owner of the property
discharging the industrial wastes.
1. Any person constructing a preliminary
treatment facility, as required by the City shall also install at
his sole expense, and maintain a sampling and metering manhole for
checking and investigating the discharge from the preliminary
treatment facility to the public sewer. Such sampling and
metering manhole shall be placed in a location approved by the
City and in accordance with specifications approved by the City.
2. Wastes requiring pretreatment for pH control
and adjustment, temperature control and adjustment of dissolved
oxygen must be continuously metered, and a fail-safe guarantee
including alarms and holding ponds must be provided to assure
quality of effluent.
3. The City may require any person constructing
a preliminary treatment facility to provide flow measurement.
(d) The City Council shall, in writing notify the
occupant of any property which it has reason to believe is
producing industrial wastes that such person shall comply with the
requirements of this Ordinance. No later than eighteen (18)
months after notification by the City, the occupant or owner of
the property discharging the industrial wastes shall have
completed construction of all facilities required by this
Ordinance and Chapter. Said occupant or owner shall submit
periodic notice (at intervals not to exceed 6 months) to the City
regarding specific actions taken to achieve full compliance with
the requirements of this Ordinance and Section. The City may
extend such requirements, upon agreement of State and Federal
authorities, for reasonable cause, but no such extension of time
shall excuse the payment of the charges imposed by Section 8-4-2.
If the required facilities have not been completed by the required
date the City may shut off any sewer service from the City to the
occupant, in addition to other penalities provided by this
Ordinance and Chapter; provided, no such service shall be
terminated until written notice of a least ten (10) days has been
given by the City.
(e) Every facility for preliminary treatment or
handling of industrial wastes shall be subject to inspection by
the City or its authorized representative, who shall determine
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whether or not such facility has been constructed and is being
maintained in operation.
8-4-13: TAP -INS OR HOOKUPS TO THE CITY OF McCALL SEWER
SYSTEM:
(A) General: The term tap -in or hookup shall be defined as a
service connection constructed from an existing sewer lateral,
main or interceptor sewer to the property line. Responsibilty for
construction and cost of the tap -in or hookup shall be the
property owners, whose property is being connected to the public
sewer system, or the person causing said connection to be made.
Upon completion and acceptance by the City, the tap -in or hookup
shall become a part of the public sewer system.
(B) Permit require: It shall be a violation of this Section
for any person to construct or cause the construction of a tap -in
or hookup without first obtaining a tap -in or hookup permit from
the City.
(C) Inspection: Prior to any work or alteration on a public
sewer line as part of a tap -in or hookup, the proposed tap -in or
hookup must be inspected and approved by the City Public Works
Director. Request for inspection must be made to the City at
least twenty-four (24) hours prior to the proposed tap -in or
hookup.
(D) Failure to Inspect: Should the applicant or his duly.
authorized agent connect facilities to the sewer system without
the facilities being inspected and approved by the City, the party
responsible for the connections shall be required at his own
expense to excavate the pipeline facilities constructed and
disconnect the tap -in or hookup from the sewer line, in order that
a proper inspection can be made, whereupon compliance with Section
8-4-13 (B) will be required if no permit has been previously
issued.
(E) Construction Specifications: Construction of the tap -in
or hookup shall conform to the City's "sewer tap or hookup"
specifications, available at the McCall City Hall, and issued to
the applicant at the time of permit application. Only plumbers
licensed in accordance with the laws of the State of Idaho, shall
be authorized to make the actual tap -in or hookup to the City
sewer line.
8-4-14: WATER SAVING DEVICES:
All new construction and/or alterations, additions to existing
facilities shall install and maintain in good working order "water
saving devices." Water closets using a maximum of four (4)
14
gallons per flush will be required and a shower head reduction
device for all showers will be required.
All existing sewer users are encouraged to utilize the "water
closet dams" and shower head reduction devices.
8-4-15: PENALTIES:
Any person, firm, or corporation violating any of the
provisions of this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in an
amount not exceeding three hundred dollars ($300.00) or be
imprisoned in the County jail for a period not exceeding six (6)
months, or be both so fined and imprisoned.
8-4-16: CIVIL REMEDY:
In addition to, and exclusive of the criminal remedy provided
by this Ordinance, any person, firm, company, corporation,
partnership or association violating any of the provisions of this
Ordiance and by such violation causing the City additional costs
to collect, transmit and treat sewage produced within the City's
sewer service area, or causing the City to be subjected to civil
penalties imposed by State or Federal agencies, or causing the
City to lose, or jeopardize the holding of, any permit for the use
of the Payette River in conjunction with its sewerage treatment
system shall be subjected to the full remedies available to the
City pursuant to State and Federal law.
8-4-16 (A): SEVERABILITY:
If any one or more sections or provisions of this act, or the
application thereof to any person, firm, corporation, or
circumstance, shall ever be held by any court of competent
jurisdiction to be invalid, the remaining provisions of this act
and the applicaton thereof to persons, firms, corporations, or
circumstances other than those to which it is held to be invalid
shall not be affected thereby, it being the intention of the City
Council to enact the remaining provisions of this ordinance
notwithstanding such invalidity.
PASSED AND APPROVED THIS THE
1983.
ATTEST:
CITY CLERK
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