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RESOLUTION NO.59-8,3:
RESOLUTION ADOPTING SANITARY SEWER USE
RULES AND REGULATIONS
RESOLVED by the CITY COUNCIL of the City of Burlingame,
WHEREAS, Ordinance 1250 authorized the adoption of
Sanitary Sewer Use - Rules and Regulations by Resolution after
a public hearing, and
WHEREAS, the Director of Public Works has prepared and
submitted these Rules and Regulations, and
WHEREAS, a public hearing was held on July 5, 1983;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Rules and
Regulations are hereby adopted.
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Mayor
I, EVELYN H. HILL, City Clerk of the City of Burlingame,
do hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was introduced
at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the 5th day of
July ,1983, and was adopted thereafter by the following
vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEN: AMSTRUP, BARTON, CROSBY, MARTIN
NOES: COUNCILMEN: NONE
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: MANGINI
C2ty Clerk
Section 1.0
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Section 2.0
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Section 3.0
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Section 4.0
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SANITARY SEWER USE
RULES AND REGULATIONS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- General Provisions
- Authority
- Purpose and Policy
- Definitions
- Abbreviations
- Construction Regulations
- Approval of Plans for Sewerage Construction
- Permits and Fees
- Construction Requirements
- Inspection
- Inspection of Lateral Sewers
- Discharge Regulations
- Prohibitions on Discharges
- Other Prohibited Materials
- Excessive Sewer Maintenance Expense
- Damage to Facilities
- Hospital Wastes
- Food Wastes
- Limitations on Wastewater Strength
- Limitations on other Pollutants
- Holding Tank Waste
- Limitation on Point of Discharge
- Discharge Report, Wastewater Discharge Permits and
Administration
- Discharge Reports
- Permit for Industrial Wastewater Discharge
- Administration
- Monitoring Facilities
- Inspection and Sampling
- Pretreatment
- Confidential Information
- Charges and Fees
Section 5.0
- Enforcement
5.1
- Accidental Discharges
5.2
- Enforcement
5.3
- Revocation of Permit
5.4
- Notification of Violation
5.5
- Submission of Time Schedule
5.6
- Show Cause Hearing
5.7
- Inspectors
Section 6.0
- Abatement
6.1
- Public Nuisance
6.2
- Abatement
6.3
- Correction of Violations:
- Collection of Costs: Injunction
6.4
- Civil Liabilities and Penalties
6.5
- Falsifying of Information
Section 1.0 - General Provisions
1.1 Authority: These Sanitary Sewer Use Rules are adopted by
Resolution No. - 83 in accordance with Chapter 15.10 of the
Burlingame Municipal Code.
1.2 Purpose and Policy: These Sanitary Sewer Use Rules and Regulations
set uniform requirements for discharges into the wastewater collection
and treatment system and enable the City of Burlingame to comply
with the administrative provisions of the Clean Water Grant
Regulations, the water quality requirements set by the Regional
Water Quality Control Board and the applicable effluent limitations,
national standards of performance, toxic and pretreatment effluent
standards, and all other discharge criteria which are required or
authorized by State or Federal law, and to derive the maximum public
benefit by regulating the quality and quantity of the wastewater
discharged into the City of Burlingame's sewer system.
These Rules and Regulations provide a means for determining waste-
water volumes, constituents and characteristics, the setting of
charges and fees, and the issuance of permits to certain users.
Revenues derived from the application of these Pules and Regulations
shall be used to defray the City's cost of operating and maintaining
adequate wastewater collection and treatment systems and to provide
sufficient funds for capital outlay, bond service costs, capital
improvements, and depreciation. Charges and fees, as hereinafter
referred to, are and have been established pursuant to the City
of Burlingame Ordinances or Resolutions.
These Rules and Regulations are not intended to be inconsistent
with or repeal any provisions of the Municipal Code or any amend-
ments thereto, and in the event that any provision of these Rules
and Regulations is found to be inconsistent with any provision of
the said Code, the provisions of the Code shall apply.
1.2.1 Violation Unlawful: No person shall connect to, construct or install
or provide, maintain or use any means of sewage disposal from any
building except by connection to a public sewer in the manner spec-
ified by these Rules and Regulations.
1.3 Definitions:
ACT or "The Act". The Federal Water Pollution Control Act,
also known as the Clean Water Act, PL 92-500, and any amendments
thereto; as well as any guidelines, limitations, and standards
promulgated by the Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to
the Act.
"Agency" - City of Burlingame.
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3. "Applicant" means the person making application for a permit
for a sewer or plumbing installation and shall be the owner of
premises to be served by the sewer for which a permit is requested
or his authorized agent.
4. "Beneficial Uses" - Uses of the waters of the State that may be
protected against quality degradation including domestic, municipal,
agricultural and industrial supply, power generation, recreation,
aesthetic enjoyment, navigation and the preservation and enhance-
ment of fish, wildlife and other acquatic resources or reserves,
and other uses, both tangible or intangible as specified by
Federal or State Law.
5. BOD or"Biochemical Oxygen Demand" shall mean the measure of decomp-
osable organic material in domestic or industrial wastewaters
as represented by the oxygen utilized in decomposition over a
period of incubation of five days at 20 degrees C. and as deter-
mined by the appropriate procedure in "Standard Methods".
6. "Building" means any structure used for a residence, place of
business, recreation or other purpose of human habitation.
7. "Building Sewer" shall mean that portion of any sewer conveying
wastewater from the premises of a user to a community sewer,
beginning at the plumbing or drainage outlet of any building and..
and running to the lateral sewer at or near the property line.
8. "City" shall mean the City of Burlingame.
9. "COD or Chemical Oxygen Demand" shall mean the measure of
chemically decomposable material. in domestic or industrial
wastewater as represented by the oxygen utilized as determined
by the appropriate procedure described in "Standard Methods".
10. "Combined Sewer" means a sewer receiving both surface runoff
and sewage.
11. "Community Sewer" means a sewer owned and operated by the
City tributary to a treatment facility operated by the City.
12. "Compatible Pollutant" - Biochemical oxygen demand, suspended
solids, pH and fecal coliform bacteria, plus additional poll-
utants identified in the City's National Pollutant Discharge
Elimination System (NPDES) Permit if the City's treatment works
was designed to treat such pollutants, and in fact does remove
such pollutants to a substantial degree.
13. "Contamination" means an impairment of the quality of the waters
of the State by ;caste to a degree which creates a hazard to the
public health through poisoning or through the spread of disease.
Contamination shall include any equivalent effect resulting from
the disposal of wastewater, whether or not Waters of the State
are affected.
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14. "Contractor" means an individual, firm, corporation, partnership or association
duly licensed by the State of California to perform the type of work to be done
under the permit.
15. "Department" means the Director and Department of Public Works of the City.
16. "Director" means the Director of Public Works of the City or his designated
representative.
17. "Discharger" shall mean any person who discharges or causes a discharge to a
public sewer.
18. "Dissolved Solids" or dissolved matter shall mean the solid matter in solution
in the wastewater and shall be obtained by evaporation of a sample from which
all suspended matter has been removed by filtration as determined by the pro-
cedures in "Standard Methods".
14. "Domestic Wastewater" shall mean the water -carried wastes and wastewater produced
from non-commercial or non -industrial activities and which result from normal
human living processes.
20. "Effluent" shall mean the liquid outflow of any facility designed to treat, convey
or retain wastewater.
21. "Engineer" shall mean the Director of Public Works.
22. "Grab Sample" shall mean a sample which is taken from a waste stream on a one-time
basis with no regard to the flow in the waste stream and without consideration of
time.
23. "Gravity Separation Interceptor" shall mean any facility designed, constructed
and operated for the purpose of removing and retaining dangerous, deleterious
or prohibited constituents from wastewater by differential gravity separation
before discharge to the public sewer.
24. "Holding Tank Waste" means any waste from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical
toilets, campers, trailers, septic tanks, and vacuum -pump tank trucks.
25. "House Connection" shall mean the sewer connecting the building sewer or building
waste drainage system to the public sewer for the purpose of conveying domestic
wastewater.
26. "Incompatible Pollutant" shall mean any pollutant which is not a "compatible
pollutant" as defined in these Rules and Regulations.
27. "Industrial Connection Sewer" shall mean the sewer connecting the building sewer
or building waste drainage system to the public sewer for the purpose of conveying
industrial wastewater.
28. "Industrial Wastewater" shall mean all water -carried wastes and wastewater of the
community excluding domestic wastewater and uncontaminated water, and shall include
all wastewater from any producing, manufacturing, processing, institutional,
commercial, agricultural, or other operation where the wastewater discharged includes
significant quantities of wastes from non -human origin.
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29. "Inspector" shall mean a person authorizedby the Director of Public 'Works to
inspect wastewater generation, conveyance, processing and disposal facilities.
30. "Lateral Sewer" means the portion of a sewer lying within a public right-of-way
or easement between a City cleanout and the main sewer to which a building sewer
is connected.
31. "Main Sewer" means a public sewer designed to accommodate more than one lateral
sewer.
32. "Major Contributing Industry" shall mean any wastewater contributor identified
in the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Manual in any of Divisions A,B.D.E,
and I that: (1) has a discharge flow of 50,000 gallons or more per average work
day (if seasonal, the average shall be computed on the period of use),or (2)
has a flow or pollutant loading greater than five percent of the total flow to
the P.O.T.'W.
33. "Manager" means the City Manager of the City.
34. "Outlet" means the end of a house plumbing system three feet outside the foundation
of the building.
35. "Peak Flow Rate: shall mean the average rate at which wastewater is discharged to
a public sewer during the highest 30 minute flow period in the preceding 12 months.
36. ""Permit" means any written authorization required pursuant to this or any other
regulation of the City for the installation of any sewer or the discharge of waste
into the sewer system.
37. "Plumbing System" means all plumbing fixtures and traps or soil, waste, special
waste and vent pipes, and all sanitary sewer pipes within a building and extending
to the building sewer connection three feet outside the building wall.
38. "Pollution" shall mean the man-made or man-induced.alteration of the chemical
physical, biological, and radiological integrity of the water.
39. "Premises" means a single-family dwelling, duplex, triplex, quadplex, apartment
house, commercial building, industrial building or other structure used or useful
for habitation or other occupancy of human beings.
40. "Pretreatment or Treatment" shall mean the reduction of the amount of pollutants,
or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater to a less
harmful state prior to or in lieu of discharging or otherwise introducing such
chemical or biological processes, or process changes other means, except as
prohibited by 40 CFR Section 403.6(d).
41. "Publically Owned Treatment Works (POTW)" shall mean a Treatment Works as defined
by Section 212 of the Act, (33 U.S.C. 1292) which is owned in this instance by
the City. This definition includes any sewers that convey wastewater to the POTW
treatment plant, but does not include pipes, sewers or other conveyances not
connected to a facility providing treatment. For the purposes of this ordinance,
"POTW" shall also include any sewers that convey wastewaters to the POTIN from persons
outside the City who are, by contract or agreement with the City users of the City's
POT':].
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42. "Public Sewer" shall mean any sewer dedicated to public use and whose use is
controlled by a public corporation.
43. "Sanitary Sewer" means a sewer which carries sanitary sewage to which storm, surface
and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
44. "Sewage" means a combination of water -carried waste from residences, business
building, public building, institutions and industrial establishments.
45. "Sewage Pumping Plant" means any facility designed and constructed to raise waste-
water in elevation or to overcome head losses due to pipeline friction.
46. "Sewer" means a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
47. "Sewerage" means any and all facilities used for collecting, conveying, pumping,
treating and disposinq of wastewater.
48. "Sewerage System" shall mean a network of wastewater collection, conveyance,
treatment and disposal facilities interconnected by sewers and owned by the City.
49. "Side Sewer" means the sewer line beginning at the house outlet and terminating at
the main sewer and includes the building sewer and lateral sewer.
50. "Single-family unit" means and refers to the place of residence for a single family.
Property improved for multi -family purposes shall constitute the number of units
that the facilities thereon provide in number of single-family units. When such
improvements are for other than residential purposes, the number of units shall be
determined by dividing the total number of persons regularly using or occupying
said premises by four. When said property is unsubdivided, it shall be deemed to
have four lots to the acre, unless the Council, in its discretion, specially fixes
some other number of lots therefor.
51. "Standard Methods" shall mean the current edition of "Standard Methods for the
Examination of Water and Wastewater" as published by the American Public Health
Association.
52. "Storm Sewer or Drain" means a sewer which carries storm and surface or ground -
waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes.
53. "Street" means any public highway, road, street, avenue, alley, way, public place,
public easement or right-of-way.
54. "Suspended Solids" or Suspended Matter" shall mean the insoluble solid matter
suspended in wastewater that is separable by laboratory filtration in accordance
with the procedures described in "Standard Methods".
55. "Toxic Pollutant" means any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic
in regulations promulgated by the administer of the Environmental Protection Agency
under the provision of GWA 307 (a) or other acts.
56. "Trunk Sewer" shall mean a sewer constructed, maintained and operated by the City
that conveys wastewater to City's treatment facilities and into which lateral and
collecting sewers discharge.
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57. "Uncontaminated Water" shall mean any wasted water of the community not contaminated
or polluted with wastewater and which is suitable or could readily be made suitable
for discharge to the municipal storm water drainage system.
58. "Wastewater" means the liquid and nater -carried industrial or domestic wastes from
dwellings, commercial building, industrial facilities, and institutions, whether
treated or untreated, which is contributed into or permitted to enter the POTW.
1.4 Abbreviations. The following abbreviations shall have the designated meanings:
BOD
- Biochemical Oxygen Demand
CFR
- Code of Federal Regulations
COD
- Chemical Oxygen Demand
EPA
- Environmental Protection Agency
L
- Liter
mg
- Milligrams
mg/1
- Milligrams per Liter
NPDES
- National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
POTW
- Publicly Owned Treatment Works
sIC
- Standard Industrial Classification
SWDA
- Solid Waste Disposal Act, 42 U.S.C. 6901 et. seg.
USC
- United States Code
TSS
- Total Suspended Solids
Section 2.0 Construction Regulations.
2.1 Approval of Plans for Sewerage Construction. No person, other than
employees of the City, persons contracting to do work for the City, or
maintenance workers of the City shall construct or cause to be constructed,
or alter or cause to be altered, any public sewer, lateral sewer, house
connection or industrial connection sewer, sewage pumping plant,
pollution control plant or other sewerage facility within the City
where existing or proposed wastewater flows will discharge directly
or indirectly to facilities of the City without first obtaining
approval of sewerage construction from the City.
2.2 Permit Required: Construction of Sewer or Sewer Connection.
a No person shall construct a building sewer or lateral sewer or
make any connection with or opening into, use, alter or disturb any
public sewer or appurtenances of perform any work on any lateral or
building sewer without first obtaining a written permit from the
City and paving all fees and connection charges therefor.
(b) A person legally entitled to apply for and receive a permit
shall make such application on forms provided by the City for that
purpose. He shall give a description of the character of the work
proposed to be done and the location, ownership, occupancy and use
of the premises in connection therewith. The Director may require
plans, specifications or drawings and such other information as he
may deem necessary.
(c) If the Director determines that the plans, specifications, drawings,
descriptions or information furnished by the applicant are in compliance
with the ordinances, rules and regulations of the City, he shall issue
the permit applied for upon payment of the required fees.
2.21 Compliance with Permit. After approval of the application evidenced
by the issuance of a permit, no change shall be made in the location
of the sewer, the grade, materials, or other details from those
described in the permit or as shown on the plans and specifications
for which the permit was issued except with written permission from
the department, the inspector or other authorized representatives.
2.22 Agreement. The applicant's signature on an application for any permit
shall constitute an agreement to comply with all of the provisions,
terms and requirements of the ordinances, rules, and regulations of
the City, and with the plans and specifications he has filed with his
application, if any, together with such corrections or modifications
as may be made or permitted by the City, if any. Such agreement shall
be binding uoon the applicant and may be altered only by the City upon
written request for the alteration from the applicant.
2.23 All Costs Paid by Owner. All costs and expenses incident to the
installation and connection of any sewer or other work for which a
permit has been issued shall be borne by the owner. The owner shall
indemnify the City from any loss or damage that may directly or
indirectly be occasioned by the work.
2.24 Excavation Permit. A separate permit must be secured from the City,
the County or any other person having jurisdiction thereover by the
owners or contractors intending to excavate in a public street for the
purpose of installing sewers or making sewer connection.
2.25 Liability. The City and its officers, agents and employees shall not
be answerable for any liability or injury or death to any person or
damage to any property arising during or growing out of the performance
of any work by any such applicant. The applicant shall be answerable
for and shall save the City and its officers, agents and employees
harmless from any liability imposed by law upon the City or its
officers, agents or employees, including all costs, expenses, fees
and interest incurred in defending same or in seeking to enforce this
provision. Applicant shall be solely liable for any defects in the
performance of his work or any failure which may develop therein.
Section 2.3 Construction Requirements.
2.31 Purpose. This section is intended to provide rules and regulations
for the use and construction of sanitary sewer facilities hereafter
installed, altered or repaired. This section shall not apply retro-
actively and, in the event of, an alteration or repair hereafter made,
it shall apply only to the new materials and methods used therein.
Construction of building sewers and lateral sewers shall be in accord-
ance with the requirements of this section.
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2.32 Minimum Size. The minimum size of a building sewer shall be six-inch
diameter; provided, however, that in any building designed or to be
used exclusively for residential occupancy of six units or less, the
minimum size may be four -inch diameter.
2.33 Protection of Excavation. All excavations for a lateral sewer
installation shall be adequately guarded with barricades or lights
so as to protect the public from hazard. Streets, sidewalks, park-
ways and other property disturbed in the course of the work shall be
restored in a manner satisfactory to the City and the County or any
other person having jurisdiction thereover.
2.34 Subdivisions. The requirements of any ordinance of the City enacting
rules and regulations covering subdivisions, insofar as they relate
to public sewer construction, are incorporated in these Rules and
Regulations and become a part hereof and shall be complied with by
any person constructing, extending or connecting to any public sewer.
Section 2.4 Inspection.
2.41 All Work to be Insoected. All sewer construction work, building sewers,
plumbing and drainage systems shall be inspected by an inspector
acting for the City to insure compliance with all requirements of the
City. No sewer shall be covered at any point until it has been inspected
and passed for acceptance. No sewer shall be connected to the City's
public sewer until the work covered by the permit has been completed,
inspected and approved by the inspector. If the test proves satisfactory
and the sewer has been cleaned of all debris accumulated from construct-
ion operations, the inspector shall issue a certificate of satisfactory
completion.
2.42 Notification. It shall be the duty of the person doing the work
authorized by permit to notify the department that said work is
ready for inspection. Such notification shall be given not less than
twenty-four hours before the work is to be inspected. It shall be
the duty of the person doing the work to make sure that the work will
stand the tests required by the City before giving the above notification.
2.43 Condemned Work. When such work has been inspected and the work
condemned and no certification of satisfactory completion given, a
written notice to that effect shall be given instructing the owner
of the premises, or the agent of such owner to repair the sewer or
other work authorized by the permit in accordance with the ordinances,
rules and regulations of the City.
2.44 Testing. All buildings sewers and lateral sewers shall be tested in
the presence of the inspector by filling the line with water or air
and inspecting for excessive leakage. Fittings, plugs, water and
labor for testing shall be furnished by the person constructing the
sewer. If the existing lateral is to remain it shall be tested as
specified above. All lines showing excessive leakage shall be
repaired or
replaced at the expense of the person doing the work and shall be
done at the direction and to the satisfaction of the inspector.
Section 2.5 Maintenance of Lateral Sewers. Lateral sewers shall be maintained by
the City subject to compliance with these requirements.
Section 3.0 Discharge Regulations.
3.1 Prohibitions on Discharges. Except as provided in Section 15.10.030
of the Municipal Code no person shall discharge or cause to be discharged,
to a public sanitary sewer the following wastes:
A) Any liquids, solids or gases which by reason of their nature or
quantity are, or may be, sufficient either alone or by interaction
with other substances to cause fire or explosion or be injurious
in any other way to the POTW or to the operation of the POTW. At
no time, shall two sucessive readings on an explosion hazard meter,
at any point in the system be more than five percent (5%) nor any
single reading over ten percent (10%) of the lower explosive limit
of the meter. Prohibited materials include, but are not limited to,
gasoline, kerosene, napha, benzene, toluene, xylene, ethers, alcohols,
ketones, aldehydes, peroxides, chlorates, perchlorates, bromates,
carbides, hydrides and sulfides and any other substances with the
City, the State or EPA has notified the user is a fire hazard or a
hazard to the system.
B) Any waste containing toxic or poisonous solids, liquids, or cases
in such quantity that alone, or in combination with other waste
substances, may create a hazard to humans,animals or the local
environment, interfere detrimentally with wastewater treatment
processes, cause a public nuisance or cause any hazardous condition
to occur in the sewerage system.
C) Any waste having a off lower than 5.5, higher than 9.0, or having
any corrosive or detrimental characteristic that may cause injury to
wastewater treatment or maintenance personnel.
D) Any solids or viscous substances of such size of in such quantity
that they may cause flow obstruction in the sewer or be detrimental
to proper wastewater treatment plant operations. These objectionable
substances include, but are not limited to, asphalt, dead animals,
offal, ashes, sand, mud, straw, industrial process shavings, metal,
glass, rags, feathers, tar, plastics, wood, whole blood, paunch
manure, bones, hair and fleshings, entrails, paper dishes, paper
cups, milk containers, or other similar paper products, either
whole or ground.
E) Any rainwater, storm water, groundwater, street drainage, subsurface
drainage, roof drainage, yard drainage, water from yard fountains,
ponds or lam sprays or any other uncontaminated water.
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F) Any water added for the purpose of diluitng wastes which would
otherwise exceed applicable maximum concentration limitation.
G) Any nonbiodegradable cutting oils, commonly called soluble oil,
which form persistent water emulsions.
H) Any excessive concentrations of nonbiodegradable oil, petroleum
oil or refined petroleum products.
I) Any dispersed biodegradable oils and fats, such as lard, tallow
or vegetable oil in excessive concentrations that would tend to
cause adverse effects on the sewerage system.
J) Any unreasonably large amount of undissolved or dissolved solids.
K) Any wastes with excessively high BOD, COD, or decomposable organic
content.
L) Any strongly odorous waste or waste tending to create odors.
M) Any wastes containing over 0.1 milligram/liter of dissolved sulfides.
P1) Any wastes with a pH high enough to cause alkaline incrustations
on sewer walls.
0) Any substance promoting or causing the promotion of toxic gases.
P) Any waste having a temperature of 150 degrees F. or higher, at point
of discharge or cause of POT!d influent to exceed 104 deg. F.
Q) Any wastes requiring an excessive quantity of chlorine or other
chemical compound used for disinfection purposes.
R) Any excessive amounts of chlorinated hydrocarbon or organic phosphorus
type compounds.
S) Any excessive amount of deionized water, steam condensate or distilled
water.
T) Any waste containing substances that may precipitate, solidify or
become viscous at temperature between 50 degrees F. and 100 degrees F.
U) Any waste producing excessive discoloration of wastewater or
treatment plant effluent.
V) Any garbage or waste that is not ground sufficiently to pass through
a 3/8 -inch screen.
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W) Any wastes containing excessive quantities of iron, boron,
chromium, phenols, plastic resins, copper, nickel, zinc, lead,
mercury, cadmium,selenium, arsenic or any other objectionable
materials toxic to humans, animals, the local environment or to
the biological or other wastewater.
X) Any blow -down or bleed water from cooling towers or other
evaporation coolers exceeding one-third of the makeup water.
Y) Any single pass cooling water.
Z) Any quantities of radioactive material wastes.
aa) Recognizable portions of the human anatomy.
bb) Contents of a swimming pool.
3.2 Other Prohibited Materials. No person shall discharge to any
public sewer any wastes, if in the opinion of the City such wastes
may have an adverse or harmful effect on sewers, maintenance personnel,
wastewater treatment plant personnel or equipment, treatment plant
effluent quality, public or private property or may otherwise endanger
the public, the local environment or create a public nuisance. The
City in determining the acceptability of specific wastes, shall
consider the nature of the waste and the adequacy and nature of the
collection, treatment and disposal system available to accept the
waste.
The City shall from time to time prepare a list of the maximum
permissible quantities or concentrations of certain constituents in
industrial wastewater flows and otherwise issue detailed directions
for meeting the requirements of these Rules and Regulations.
3.3 Excessive Sewer Maintenance Expense. No person shall discharge or
cause to be discharged to a public sewer any waste that creates a
stoppage, plugging,breakage, any reduction in the sewer capacity or
any other damage to sewers or sewerage facilities of the City. Any
sewer or sewerage maintenance expenses or any other expenses attributable
thereto including excessive preventive maintenance cleaning will be
charged to the offending discharger by the City. Any refusal to pay
such maintenance expenses duly authorized by the City shall constitute
a violation of these Rules and Regulations.
3.4 Damage to Facilities. No person shall maliciously, willfully, or
negligently break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface or tamper with
any structure, appurtenance or equipment which is part of the sewerage
works or any sampling device.
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3.5 Hospital Wastes. Hospitals, clinics, offices of medical doctors, and
convalescent homes:
A) May discharge through a City approved grinder installation with
inlet size and design features suitable for its intended use and so
constructed that all particles pass through a maximum 3/8 -inch
opening, wastes of the following categories.
1.) Wet organic kitchen wastes from food preparation
and disposal but excluding all paper and plastic items.
2.) Disposal hypodermic needles, syringes and associated articles
following their use.
3.) Infectious wastes, defined as:
a) Laboratory and surgical operating room wastes except as
excluded in (B) (2) below.
b) Wastes from outpatient areas and emergency rooms similar to
to those included in (a) above.
c) Solid wastes generated in the rooms of patients who are not
isolated because of a suspected or diagnosed communicable
disease.
B) Shall not discharge to the sewer by any means:
l.) Equipment, instruments, utensils and other materials of a
disposable nature that may harbor or transmit phathogenic
organisms and that are used in the rooms of patients having
a suspected or diagnosed communicable disease which by the
nature of the disease is required to be isolated.
2.) Recognizable portions of the human anatomy.
3.) Wastes excluded by other provisions of these Rules and Regulations
except as specifically permitted in (A) above.
4.) All solid wastes not included in (A) above.
"Nothing in this Section shall be construed to limit the authority of
the Health Officer of San Mateo to define wastes as being infectious
and, with the concurrence of the City, to require that they not be
discharged to the sewer.
3.6 Food ;tastes Restaurants, caterers and food processors:
A) 4aY discharge through a City approved grease trap or separation tank
with size and design features suitable for it's intended use and
volume.
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B) Shall maintain and clean the grease trap on a regular schedule
sufficient to keep the trap operating as designed. The City shall
have reasonable access for inspection of the grease trap.
3.7 Limitations on Wastewater Strength No person shall discharge waste-
water containing in excess of:
0.1 mg/1 arsenic
0.2 mg/l cadmium
2.0 mg/l copper
1.0 mg/1 cyanide
1.0 mg/l lead
1.01 mg/l mercury
1.0 mg/1 nickel
0.2 mg/1 silver
0.5 mg/l total chromium
3.0 mg/l zinc
The City shall lower the concentration limitations for the above
constituents if it is evident that the wastewater from any one or
number of dischargers is causing the effluent from the Water Quality
Control Plant to exceed the limits set forth in the City's NPDES
permit or effecting plant operations.
3.8 3.8 Limitation of Other Pollutants. Any pollutants, including oxygen
demanding pollutants BOD, etc.) released at a flow rate and/or
pollutant concentration which a user knows or has reason to know
will cause interference to the POTW. In no case shall a slug load
have a flow rate or contain concentration or qualities of pollutants
that exceed for any time period more than five (5) times the average
twenty-four (24) hour concentration quantities, or flow during normal
operation.
3.9 Holding Tank Waste. No person shall discharge any holding tank waste
into a community sewer unless he has been issued a permit by the City.
Unless otherwise allowed by the City, under the terms and conditions of
the permit, a separate permit must be secured for each separate
discharge. This permit will state the specific location of discharge,
the time of day the discharge is to occur, the volume of the discharge
and the wastewater constituents and characteristics. If a permit is
granted for discharge of such waste into a community sewer, the user
shall pay the applicable charges and fees and shall meet such other
conditions as required by the City.
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged directly or in-
directly to a public sewer any wastes originating from recreational
vehicles, boats, campers, mobile homes, trailers, portable toilets,
chemical toilets, or any temporary sanitation facility except as
designated by the Director. The City shall designate the location,
time, quantity and quality of discharge of wastes originating from
portable sanitation facilities.
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3.10 Limitation on Point of Discharge. No person shall discharge any
substance into a manhole or other opening in a community sewer
other than through an approved building sewer, unless he has been
issued a permit by the City. If a permit is issued for such direct
discharge the user shall pay the applicable charges and fees and
shall not meet such other conditions as required by the City.
Section 4.0 Discharge Report, Wastewater Discharge - Permits and Administration.
4.1 Discharge Reports..The City may require that any person discharging
or proposing to discharge wastewater into a community sewer file a
periodic Discharge Report. The Discharge Report may include, but not
be limited to, nature of process, volume, rate of flow, mass emmission
rate, production quantities, hours of operations, number and class-
ification of employees, or other information which relates to the
generation of waste including wastewater discharge. Such reports
may also include the chemical constituents and quantity of liquid or
gaseous materials stored on site even though they are not normally
discharged. In addition to Discharge Reports, the City may require
information in the form of Wastewater Discharge Permit applications
and self-monitoring reports.
4.2 Permit for Industrial Wastewater Discharge. No person shall discharge
or cause to be discharged any industrial wastewaters directly or
indirectly to sewage facilities owned by the City without first
obtaining a City permit for industrial wastewater discharge.
The permit for industrial wastewater discharge may require pre-
treatment of industrial wastewaters before discharge, restriction
of peak flow discharges, discharge of certain wastewaters only to
specified sewers, relocation of point of discharge. prohibition of
certain wastewater components restriction of discharge to certain
hours of the day, payment of additional charges to defray increased
cost to the Cite created by the wastewater discharge and such other
conditions as may be required to effectuate the purpose of these
Rules and Regulations.
No person shall discharge industrial wastewaters in excess of the
quantity or quality limitations set by the Permit for Industrial
Wastewater Discharge. Any person desiring to discharge wastewaters
or use facilities which are not in conformance with the Industrial
Wastewater Permit should apply to the City for an amended Permit.
State requirements and limitations on discharges shall apply in any
case where they are more stringent than federal requirements and
limitations or those in these Rules and Regulations.
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Upon the promulgation of the federal categorical pretreatment standards
for a Particular industrial sub -category, the federal standards for
a particular industrial sub -category, if more stringent than limitations
imposed under these Rules and Regulations for sources in that sub-
category, shall immediately supersede the limitations imposed under
these Rules and Regulations The Director shall notify all effected
users of the applicable reporting requirements under CFR Section
403.12
4.21 Permit Conditions. Wastewater Discharge Permits shall be expressly
subject to all provisions of these Rules and Regulations and all other
applicable regulations, user charges and fees established by the City.
Permits may contain the following:
a) The unit charge or schedule of user charges and fees for the
wastewater to be discharged to a community sewer:
b) Limits on the average and maximum wastewater constituents and
characteristics.
c) Limits on average and maximum rate and time of discharge or
requirements for flow regulations and equalization.
d) Requirements for installation and maintenance of inspection
and sampling facilities.
e) Specifications for monitoring programs which may include
sampling locations, frequency of sampling, number, types and
standards for tests and reporting schedule.
f) Compliance schedules.
g) Requirements for submission of technical reports or discharge
reports.
h) Requirements for maintaining and retaining plant records
relating to wastewater discharge as specified by the City, and
affording City access thereto.
i) Requirement for notification of the City for any new introduction
of wastewater constituents or any substantial change in the
volume or character of the wastewater constituents being
introduced into the wastewater treatment system.
j) Requirements for notification of slug discharges.
k) The permits duration shall be for a specified time period not
to exceed five years. The terms and conditions of the permit
may be subject to modification by the City during the term of
the permit as limitations or requirements as identified are
modified or other just cause exists. The user shall be informed
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of any proposed changes in his permit at least 30 days prior to the
effective date of change. Any changes or new conditions in the permit
shall include a reasonable time schedule for compliance.
4.22 Permit Application. Users seeking an Industrial 44astewater Discharge
Permit shall complete and file with the City, an application in the
form prescribed by the City, and accompanied by the applicable fees.
The applicant may be required to submit, in units, and terms appropriate
for evaluation, the following information.
a) Name and address of applicant.
b) Volume of wastewater to be discharged.
c) Wastewater constituents and characteristics including but not
limited to those mentioned in 3.0 as determined by a laboratory
approved by the City.
d) Time and duration of discharge.
e) Average and 30 -minute minute peak wastewater flow rates, including
daily, monthly and seasonable variations if any.
f) Site plans, floor plans, mechanical and plumbing plans and details
to show all sewers and appurtenances by size, location and elevation.
g) Description of all activities, facilities and plant process on
the premises including types of materials which are or could be
discharged.
h) Each product produced by type, amount, and rate of production.
i) Number and type of employees, and hours of work.
j) Any other information as may be deemed by the City to be necessary
to evaluate the permit application.
4.23 Transfer of a Permit. Wastewater Discharge Permits shall be issued tc
a specific user for a specific operation. A wastewater Discharge
Permit shall not be reassigned or transferred or sold to a new owner,
new user, different premises, or a new or changed operation.
4.3 Administration Except as otherwise provided herein, the City shall
administer, implement, and enforce the provisions of these Rules and
Regulations. Any powers granted to the City may be delegated by the
City to persons acting in the beneficial interest of, or employ, of
the City.
4.4 Flonitorino Facilities. The City shall require to be provided and
operated at the user's own expense, monitoring facilities to allow
inspection, sampling, and flow measurement of the building sewer and/or
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internal drainage systems. The monitoring facility should normally
be situated on the user's premises, but the City may, when such a
location would be impractical or cause undue hardship on the user,
allow the facility to be constructed in the public street or sidewalk
area and located so that it will not be obstructed by landscaping or
parked vehicles.
There shall be ample room in or near such sampling manhole or
facility to allow accurate sampling and preparation of samples for
analysis. The facility, sampling, and measuring equipment shall be
maintained at all times in a safe and proper operating condition at
the expense of the user.
Whether constructed on public or private property, the sampling and
monitoring facilities shall be provided in accordance with the City's
requirements and all applicable local construction standards and
specifications. Construction shall be completed within 90 days
following written notification by the City.
4.5 Inspection and Samplinq. The City shall inspect the facilities of any
User to ascertain whether the process of these Rules and Regulations
is being met and all requirements are being complied with. Persons
or occupants of premises where wastewater is created or discharged
shall allow the City or their representative ready access at all
reasonable times to all parts of the premises for the purposes of
inspection, sampling, records examination or in the performance of
any of their duties. The City, Approval Authority and (where the NPDES
State is the Approval Authority the EPA shall have the right to set
up on the User's property such devices as are necessary to conduct
sampling inspection, compliance monitoring and/or metering operations.
Where a User has security measures in force which would require
proper identification and clearance before entry into their premises,
the User shall make necessary arrangement with their security guards
so that upon presentation of suitable identification, personnel from
the City, Approval Authority and EPA will be permitted to enter, without
delay, for the purposes of performing their specific responsibilities.
4.6 Pretreatment. Users shall provide necessary wastewater treatment as
required to comply with these Rules and Regulations and shall achieve
compliance with all Federal Categorical Pretreatment Standards within
the time limitations as specified by the Federal Pretreatment Regul-
ations. Any facilities required to pretreat wastewater to a level
acceptable to the City shall be provided, operated, and maintained
at the User's expense.
4.7 Confidential Information. Information and data on a User obtained from
reports, questionnaires, permit applications, permits and monitoring
programs and from inspections shall be available to the public or other
governmental agency without restriction unless the User specifically
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requests and is able to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the City
that the release of such information would divulge information,
processes or methods of production entitled to protection as trade
secrets of the User.
When requested by the person furnishing the report, the portions of
a report which might disclose trade secrets or secret processes
shall not be made available for inspection by the public but shall
be made available upon written request to governmental agencies for
uses related to these Rules and Regulations, the National Pollutant
Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permit, State Disposal System
Permit and/or the Pretreatment Proarams; provided, however, that such
portions of a report shall be available for use by the State or any
State Agency in judicial review of enforcement proceedings involving
the person furnishing the report. Wastewater constituents and
characteristics will not be recognized as confidential information.
Information accepted by the City as confidential shall not be
transmitted to any governmental agency or to the general public by
the City until and unless a ten-day notification is given to the
User.
4.8 Charges and Fees.
4.81 Purpose It is the purpose of this section to provide for the recovery
of costs from users of the City's Wastewater Disposal System for the
implementation of the Program established herein. The applicable
charges or fees shall be set forth in the City's schedule of charges
and fees which is adopted by resolution, and is subject to periodic_
change to reflect changes in cost of operating the program.
4.82 Charges and Fees. The City may adopt charges and fees which may
include:
a) Fees for reimbursement of costs of setting up and operating
the City's Pretreatment Program.
b) Fees for monitoring, inspections and surveillance procedures.
c) Fees for reviewing accidental discharge procedures and construction.
d) Fees for permit applications.
e) Fees for filing appeals.
f) Fees for consistent removal (by the City) of pollutants otherwise
subject to federal pretreatment standards.
g) Other fees as the City may deem necessary to carry out the
requirements contained herein; these fees relate solely to the
matters covered by these Rules and Regulations and are separate
from all other fees chargeable by the City.
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Section 5.0 Enforcement.
5.1 Accidental Discharges.
5.11 notification of Discharge. Dischargers shall notify the City
immediately upon accidentally discharging wastes in violation of
these Rules and Regulations to enable countermeasures to be taken
by the City to minimize damage to the community sewer, treatment
facility, treatment processes and the receiving waters.
This notification shall be followed within 15 days of the date of
occurrence by a detailed written statement describing the causes of
the accidental discharge and the measures being taken to prevent
future occurrence.
Such notification will not relieve dischargers of the liability for
any expense, loss or damage to the sewer system, treatment plant,
or treatment process, or for any fines imposed on the City on account
thereof under Section 13350 of the California Water Code or for
Violations of Section 5650 of the California Fish and Game Code.
5.12 Notice to Employees. In order that employees of dischargers be
informed of the City requirements, dischargers shall make available
to their employees copies of these Rules and Regulations together
with such other wastewater information and notices which may be
furnished by the City, from time to time, directed toward more
effective water pollution control. A notice shall be furnished and
permanently posted on the discharger's bulletin board advising
employees who to call in case of an accidental discharge in violation
of Rules and Regulations.
5.13 Preventive Measures. Any direct or indirect connection or entry
point for deleterious wastes to the Discharger's plumbing or drainage
system should be eliminated. Where such action is impractical or
unreasonable, the user should appropriately label such entry points
to warn against discharge of such wastes in violation of these Rules
and Regulations.
5.2 Enforcement. The City may suspend a permit for industrial wastewater
discharge when such suspension is necessary in order to stop an actual
or threatened discharge which presents or may present an imminent or
substantial endangerment to the health or walfare of persons, to the
environment, to the City's sewerage system, causes interference to
the City's '.later Quality Control Plant or causes the City to violate
any condition of its NPDES Permit.
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Any discharger notified of a suspension of his industrial wastewater
permit shall immediately cease and desist the discharge of all
industrial wastewater to the sewerage system. In the event of a
failure of the discharger to comply voluntarily with the suspension,
the City shall take such steps as deemed necessary, including
immediate severance of the sewer connection, to prevent or minimize
damage to the City's Water Quality Control Plant system or endanger-
ment to any individuals.
The City shall reinstate the permit for industrial wastewater
discharge upon proof of the elimination of the non -complying
discharge. A detailed written statement submitted by the User
describing the causes of the harmful contribution and the measures
taken to prevent any future occurrence shall be submitted to the City
within 15 days of the date of the occurrence.
5.3 Revocation of Permit Any user who violates the following conditions
of these Rules and Regulations or applicable state and federal
regulations is subject to having his permit revoked in accordance
with the procedures of these Rules and Regulations.
a) Failure of a User to factually report the wastewater constituents
and characteristics of his discharge.
b) Failure of the User to report significant changes in operations
or wastewater constituents and characteristics.
c) Refusal of reasonable access to the User's premises for the purpose
of inspection or monitoring.
d) Violation of conditions of the permit.
5.4 Notification of Violation. Whenever the City finds that any User
has violated or is violating these Rules and Regulations, wastewater
contribution permit, or any prohibition, limitation of requirements
contained herein, the City may serve upon such person a written notice
stating the nature of the violation. Within 30 days of the date of
the notice, a plan for the satisfactory correction thereof shall be
submitted to the City by the User.
5.5 Submission of Time Schedule When the City finds that a discharge of
wastewater has been taking place in violation of prohibitions or
limitations prescribed in these Rules and Regulations, or wastewater
source control requirements, effluent limitations or pretreatment
standards, or the provisions of a Wastewater Discharge Permit, the
City may require the User to submit for approval a detailed time
schedule of specific actions which the User shall take in order to
prevent or correct a violation of requirements.
5.6 Show Cause Hearing The City may order any User who causes or allows
an unauthorized discharge to enter the Water Quality Control Plant
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to show cause before the City Council why the proposed enforcement
action should not be taken. A notice shall be served on the User
specifying the time and place of a hearing to be held by the City
Council regarding the violation, the reasons why the action is to
be taken, the proposed enforcement action, and directing the User
to show cause before the City Council why the proposed enforcement
action should not be taken. The notice of the hearing shall be
served personally or by registered or certified mail (return receipt
requested) at least ten (10) days before the hearing. Service
may be made on any agent or officer of a corporation.
5.61 At any hearing held pursuant to these Rules and Regulations, testimony
taken must be under oath and recorded stenographically. The transcript,
so recorded, will be made available to any member of the public or
any public or any party to the hearing upon payment of the usual
charges thereof.
5.62 After the City Council has reviewed the evidence, it may issue an
order to the User responsible for the discharge directing that,
following a specified time period, the sewer service be discontinued
unless adequate treatment facilities, devices or other related app-
urtenances shall have been installed on existing treatment facilities,
devices or other related aopurtenances are property operated. Further
orders and directives as are necessary and appropriate may be issued.
5.7 Inspectors, Adequate identification will be provided by the City for
all inspectors and other authorized personnel, and these persons
shall identify themselves when entering any property for inspection
purposes or when inspecting the work of any contractor.
Inspection of every facility that is involved directly or indirectly
with the discharge of wastewater in the City's sewerage systems may
be made by the City as deemed necessary. These facilities shall.
include but not be limited to the sewers; sewerage pumping plants;
pollution control plants; all industrial processes; industrial waste-
water generation conveyance and pretreatment facilities, devices and
connection sewers; and all similar sewerage facilities. Inspections
may be made to determine that such facilities are maintained and
operated and are adequate to meet the provisions of these Rules and
Regulations.
Access to all of the above facilities or to other facilities directly
or indirectly connected to the City's sewerage systems shall be
given to authorized personnel of the City at all reasonable times
including those occasioned by emergency conditions. Any permanent
or temporary obstruction to easy access to the sewerage facility to
be inspected shall promptly be removed by the facility user or
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owner at the written or verbal request of the City and shall not
be replaced.
No person shall interfere with, delay, resist or refuse entrance to
an authorized City's inspector attempting to inspect any wastewater
generation, conveyance or treatment facility connected directly or
indirectly to the City's sewerage systems.
5.71 Power of Inspector. The officers, inspectors, manager and duly
authorized employees or contractors of the department shall carry
evidence establishing his position as an authorized representative
and upon exhibiting the proper credentials and identification shall
be permitted to enter in and upon any and all buildings, industrial
facilities and properties for the purposes of inspection, re -inspection,
observation, measurement, sampling, testing or otherwise performing
such duties as may be necessary in the enforcement of the provisions
of this chapter.
Section 6.0 Abatement.
6.1 Public Nuisance. As an alternative method of enforcing the provisions
of these and any other rule or regulation of the City, the City Manager
shall have the power to disconnect the user or subdivision sewer
system from the sewerage works. Upon disconnection, the City shall
estimate the cost of disconnection from the reconnection to the system
and such user shall deposit the cost, as estimated of disconnection
and reconnection before such user is recommended to the system. The
City shall refund any part of the deposit remaining after payment of
all costs of disconnection and reconnection.
6.2 Abatement. During the period of such disconnection, habitation of
such premises by human beings shall constitute a public nuisance,
whereupon the City shall cause proceedings to be brought for the
abatement of said 'premises by human beings during the period of
such disconnection. In such event, and as a condition of reconnection,
there is to be paid to City a reasonable attorney's fee and cost of
suit arising in said action.
6.3 Correction of Violations: Collection of Costs:
Injunction In order to enforce the provisions of these Rules and
Regulations, the City may correct any violation thereof. The cost
of such correction may be added to any sewer service charge payable
by any person violating these Rules and Regulations or the owner or
tenant of the property upon which the violation occurred, and the
City shall have such remedies for the collection of such costs as it
has for the collection of sewer service charges. The City may also
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petition the Superior Court for the issuance of a preliminary or
permanent injunction, or both, as may be appropriate, restraining
any person from the continued violation of these Rules and Regulations.
6.4 Civil Liabilities and Penalties. Any person who intentionally or
negligently violates any provision of the requirements, or conditions
set forth in permits duly issued, or who discharges wastewater which
causes pollution, or violates any cease and desist order, prohibition,
effluent limitation, national standard of performance, pretreatment
or toxicity standard, shall be liable civilly to liabilities imposed
by the City against which the violation occurrs. Said civil liability
may be in the sum of not to exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000)
for each day in which such violation occurs.
The City may petition the Superior Court to impose, assess and recover
such sums. In determining such amount, the court shall take into
consideration all relevant circumstances, including, but not limited
to, the extent of harm caused by the violation, the nature and
persistence of the violation, the length of time over which the
violation occurs, and corrective action, if any.
6.5 Falsifying of Information. Any person who knowingly makes any false
statements, representation, record, report, plan or other document
filed with the City or who falsifies, tampers with, or knowingly
renders inaccurate any monitoring device or method required under
these Rules and Regulations is hereby declared to be in violation of
them and subject to the Civil Liabilities imposed under the require-
ments of these Rules and Regulations.
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