HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 634-1972ORDINANCE NO. 6~4
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 363 ENTITLED
"AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SOUTH SAN FRAH~CIS'C0
REGULATING THE USE OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SEWERS
AND DRAINS, PRIVATE DISPOSAL OF SEWAGE, USE OF
GARBAGE GRINDERS, AND THE DISCHARGE OF WATER AND
WASTES INT0 THE PUBLIC SEWER SYSTEM, PUBLIC DRAINS,
WATERCOURSES AND CONTIGUOUS SHORE WATERS OF SAID
CITY, AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS"
The City Council of the City of South San Francisco does
ordain as follows:
Section I. Amendment of Section 3.3 of Ordinance 363.
Section 3.3 is hereby amended to read:
Section 3.3. When required by the Superintendent, the
owner of any property served by a building sewer or sewers carry-
ing industrial wastes shall, at his expense, install and maintain
suitable control manholes in accordance with plans approved by the
Superintendant in each such building sewer to facilitate observation,
sampling, and measurement of the wastes. Each control manhole shall
not be locked, barred, or covered with objects or materials and must
be open to inspection 24 hours a day, without prior owner notification.
Section II. Amendment of Section 4.5 of Ordinance 363.
Section 4,5 is hereby amended to read:
4.5. The admission into the public sewers of any waters
or wastes having an average daily flow greater than two percent (2%)
of the average daily flow at the sewage treatment plant, or having any
of the following characteristics, shall be subject to the review of
the Superintendent:
a. Temperature in excess of one hundred and fifty degrees
(150°) Fahrenheit (approximately sixty-five and six-tenths degrees
(65.6°) Centigr~de)~
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b. Suspended solids, or matter which upon dilution with
water or sewage results in the formation of suspended solids, in ex-
cess of five hundred (500) parts per million.
c. Biochemical Oxygen Demand in excess of four hundred
(400) parts per million.
d. Floatable grease of animal or vegetable origin in
excess of fifty (50) parts per million and of mineral origin in
excess of fifteen (15) parts per million, or disperses grease in
excess of six hundred (800) parts per million.
e. A pH of less than five and five-tenths (5.5) or more
than ten and five-tenths (10.5).
f. Dissolved sulfides in excess of one (1) part per
million.
Section III. Section 4.5-1 is hereby added to Ordinance 363.
Section 4.5-1. The characteristics of any industrial waste
discharged into the sewerage system shall not exceed the numerical
limits set forth below:
Le ad
Mercury
Copper
Iron
Cyanide and nitrates
Chlorine
Formaldehy de
Magnesium
Nickel
Selenium
Silver
Nitrogen as a nitrate
Aluminum
Antimony
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1.0 ppm
0 . 1 "
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2
2
O. 05 "
20 "
5
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Barium 10 ppm
Benzene (Phenol) 1 "
Beryllium 1 "
Bromine Chlorine, iodine
as a total 10 "
Cadmium 0.1 "
Chromium 0.5 "
Cobalt 1 "
Fatty Acids 5 "
Zinc 1 "
Total Solvents 1 "
Section IV. Amendment of Section 4.6 of Ordinance 363.
Section 4.6 is hereby amended to read:
Section 4.6. When private treatment facilities are provided
for any waters or wastes to meet the requirements of this ordinance,
they shall be maintained in a satisfactory and effective manner of
operation by the person discharging such waters or wastes, all at his
own expense.
Self-installed monitoring devices shall be open to the City
Inspector at all times without prior owner notification.
Ail storage areas, outdoor work sites and yard dump and wash
areas shall be kept and maintained in such a manner as to prevent any
floatable, suspended, or setteable solids, dissolved matter or toxic
material to enter into the City's sewer system.
Section V. Amendment of Section 4.13 of Ordinance 363.
Section 4.13 is hereby amended to read:
Section,4.13. Any individual or industrial concern shall
not discharge into the City sewerage system any waters or wastes
having a median tolerance limit (TLm) lower than twenty-five percent
(25%) as determined by a 96-hour fish bioassay.
Section VI. Amendment of Section 5 of Ordinance 363.
Section 5 is hereby amended to read:
Section 5. Violations and Appeals.
5.1. The discharger shall be notified by the Superintendent
of the results of test analyses which indicate noncompliance with the
provisions of this ordinance.
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In the event that results indicate noncompliance with the
provisions of the ordinance, the discharger shall submit to the
Superintendent a plan for remedial action to be taken by the dis-
charger with time schedule within thirty (30) days' notice of non-
compliance. The plan for remedial action and time schedule are
subject to the approval of the Superintendent.
5.2. Remedial steps to be undertaken by the discharger
may include one or more of the following:
a. Improvements or changes in operating procedures
to eliminate or reduce the wastes to acceptable limits.
b. More frequent cleaning, proper maintenance, or
better operation of existing facilities.
c. The installation of pretreatment plant or works.
5.3. In the event of non-cooperation or intentional neglect,
the Superintendent shall request the City's Director of Ecological
Development to institute a Cease and Desist hearing concerning the
noncompliance of the discharger.
A Cease and Desist hearing panel, consisting of the City
Manager and Director of Ecological Development, shall give reason-
able notice to the discharger to show cause why he should not be
ordered to cease and desist from further acts of noncompliance with
the provisions of this ordinance.
Should the hearing panel at the time of the hearing find
the discharger to be in noncompliance, the panel may at its option:
a. Invoke the penalty provisions of this ordinance.
b. Direct the Superintendent to enter upon the dis-
charger's property and construct such works as may be
necessary, at the discharger's expense, to arrest the
acts' of noncompliance.
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c. Direct the Superintendent to suspend sewer service.
d. Certify the discharger to the Regional Water Quality
Control Board for legal action.
5.4. Appeals. In the event a discharger wishes to appeal
the decision of the hearing panel, he shall file a notice of appeal
within seven (7) days following the decision of the panel. The
appeal.shall then be heard by the City Council at its next regularly
held session.
Section VI. Amendment of Section 8 of Ordinance 363.
Section 8 of Ordinance 363 is hereby amended to read:
Section 8. Penalties.
8.1. Any individual or industrial concern who shall
continue any violation beyond the time limits or other action as
provided for in Section 5, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof shall be subject to a fine of not more than
Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00)', or by imprisonment in the County Jail
for a period of not more than three (3) months, or by both such fine
and imprisonment for each violation. Each day in which any such vio-
lation shall continue shall be deemed a separate offense.
8.2. Any person violating any of the provisions of this
ordinance shall become liable to City for any and all expense, loss,
or damage occasioned City by reason of. 'such violation.
Section VII. This ordinance is hereby declared to be an
emergency measure for the immediate preservation of the public safety
and the following is a statement of the facts constituting such
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emergency: On August 10, 1972, the California Water Quality Control
Board ordered the City of South San Francisco to cease and desist
from issuing any further building permits to industrial dischargers
based on violations of State Water Quality Control standards of 1970.
In addition, the Water Quality Control Board has required this City
amend Ordinance 363 so as to require industrial dischargers to
satisfy more stringent effluent standards.
Section VII. PUBLICATION. This ordinance shall be
published once, as required by law, in the Enterprise-Journal, a
newspaper of general circulation published in the City of South
San Franci.~ co.
Passed and adopted as an ordinance of the City of South
San Francisco at a regular
City of South San Francisco this
by the following vote:
meeting of the City Council of the
28 day of August. , 19 72
AYES, COUNCILMEN Patrick w ~rn, COrdon T~ Robiitt, William'A. B°rba
andWarren ~teinkan~p
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NOES,
ABSENT, "
F. Frank Mammini
City O%erk
As Mayor of the City of South San Francisco, I do hereby
approve the foregoing ordinance this 28 day of August , 19 72 .
Mayor Pr'o Tern
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