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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 637-1972 ORDINANCE NO. 657 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 363 ENTITLED, "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO REGULATING THE USE 0F PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SEWERS AND DRAINS, PRIVATE DISPOSAL OF SEWAGE, USE OF GARBAGE GRINDERS, AND THE DISCHARGE OF WATER AND WASTES INTO 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 0rdinanee 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 q.5 of 0rdina $63. Section q.$ is hereby amended to read: Section ~.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°) Centigrade). · -- I I I ! II '11 b. Suspended solids, or matter which upon dilution with water or sewage results in the formation of suspended solids, in excess 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.$). f. Dissolved sulfides in excess of one (1) part per million. SECTION III. Section 4.5-1. Section 4.5'-1 is hereby added to Ordinance 363. The Characteristics of any industrial waste discharged into the sewerage system shall not exceed the numerical limits set forth below: Lead Mercury Copper Iron Cyanide and nitrates Chlorine Formaldehyde Magnesium Nickel Selenium Silver Nitrogen as a nitrate Aluminum Antimony Arsenic 1.0 0.1 1 15 2 2 5 1 1 5 0.05 20 $ 5 1 - 2 - I I I 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 ~.6 of Ordinance S6S. Section ~.6 is hereby amended to read: Section q.6. When private treatment facilities are pro- vided 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. All storage a~eas, outdoor work sites and yard dump and wash areas shall be kept and maintained in such a manner as to pre- vent any floatable, suspended, or setteable solids, dissolved matter or toxic material to enter into the City's sewer system. 'SECTION V. Amendment of Section q.lS of Ordinance S6S. Section q.l$ is hereby amended to read: 'Section q.lS. 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 S6S. Section 5 is hereby amended to read: - S - 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. 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. $. In the event of non-cooperation or intentional neglect, the Superintendent shall request the City's Director of Ecological Development to institute .a Cease 'and Desist hearing con- cerning the noncompliance of the discharger. A Cease and Desist hearing panel, consisting of the 'City Manager and Director of Ecological Development, shall give 'reason- able notice to the discharger to show cause why he should not be' ordered to cease and desist from further acts of noncompliance 'with the provisions of this ordinance. I I I1'11 Should the hearing panel at the time of the hearing find the discharger to be in noncompliance, the panel may at its option:~ a. Invoke the penalty provisions of this ordinance. b. Direct the Superintendent to enter upon the dis- charger's property and construct such works as may be neces- sary, at the discharger's expense, to arrest the acts of non- comp li an ce. c. Direct the Superintendent to suspend sewer service. d. Certify the discharger to the Regional Water Quality Control Board for legal action. -$. 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 S6S 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 pemson 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. PUBLICATION AND EFFECTIVE DATE: This Ordinance shall be published once in the Enterprise- Journal~ a newspaper of general circulation in the City of South San Francisco, as required by law~ and shall become effective thirty (30) days from and after its adoption. Introduced this 5th day of September ~ 1972' . Passed and adopted as an Ordinance of the City of South San Francisco at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of South San Francisco this 18th day of 'September , 1972 by the following vote: AYES, COUNCILMEN Patrick E. Ahern, Gordon T. Boblitt, F. Frank Mammini and Warren Steinkamp ..... NOES, " None ABSENT " William A. Borba As Mayor of the City of South San Francisco, I do hereby approve the foregoing Ordinance this 18th day of' Se'~tember'' , 1'972 .