HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 1161-1995ORDINANCE NO. 1161-95
AN ORDINANCE OF THE SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO CITY
COUNCIL AMENDING SECTION 14.08.020 and
14.08.110 OF THE SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO MUNICIPAL
CODE RELATED TO WATER QUALITY CONTROL
The City Council of the City of South San Francisco does
ordain as follows:
BEC?ION 1. Section 14.08.020 of the South San Francisco
Municipal Code is hereby amended to include a definition of the
term "In-Flow" and to read in its entirety as follows:
14.08.020 Definitions.
(a) Act. The Federal Water Pollution ContrOl Act, also known
as the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. Section 1251 et seq., as amended.
(b) Authorized Representative of Industrial User.
authorized representative of an industrial user may be:
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(1) A principal executive officer of at least the level of
vice president, if the industrial user is a corporation;
(2) A general partner or proprietor if the industrial user is
a partnership or proprietorship, respectively;
(3) A duly authorized representative of the individual
designated above if such representative is responsible for the
overall operation of the facilities from which the indirect
discharge originates.
(c) Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD). The quantity of oxygen
utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under
standard laboratory procedure, five days at twenty degrees
centigrade expressed in terms of weight and concentration as
milligrams per liter.
(d) Pretreatment Standards. Pretreatment includes national
categorical pretreatment standards, national prohibited discharge
standards, and the city's local limits.
(e) Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD). The equivalent quantity
of oxygen utilized during oxidation of organic and inorganic matter
in wastewater under the conditions of the COD test described in
standard methods, expressed in milligrams per liter.
(f) Contamination. Impairment of the quality of the waters
of the state by waste to a degree which creates a hazard to the
public health through poisoning or through the spread of disease.
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(g) Cooling Water. The water discharged from any use such as
air conditioning, cooling or refrigeration, or to which the only
pollutant added is heat.
(h) Department of Environmental Services. The San Mateo
County department of environmental services, or any successor.
(i) Direct Discharge. The Discharge of treated or untreated
.wastewater directly to the waters of the state.
(j) Domestic or Residential Premises. Of or pertaining to
single-family, duplex, or multiple family dwelling.
(k) Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental Protection Agency, or one of
officials.
(EPA). The U.S.
its duly authorized
(1) Garbage. Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and
dispensing of foods, and from the handling, storage and sale of
produce. "Properly ground garbage" is the waste from the
preparation, cooking and dispensing of foods which have been ground
to such a degree that all particles may be carried freely under the
flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers.
(m) Grab Sample. 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.
(n) Grease. Greases, oils, fats, fatty acids, waxes, soaps
or other matter which is so determined in accordance with the
standard methods examination for grease in polluted waters.
(o) Holding Tank Waste. Any waste from holding tanks such as
vessels, chemical toilets, campers, trailers, septic tanks, and
vacuum-pump tank trucks.
(p) Indirect Discharge. The discharge or the introduction of
nondomestic pollutants from any source regulated under Section
307(b), (c) or (d) of the Clean Water Act (CWA), into the water
quality control facilities (including holding tank waste discharged
into the system).
(q) Industrial User. A source of indirect discharge
(corresponding definition 40 CFR 403.8).
(r) Industrial Waste. The gaseous, liquid and solid wastes
from any producing, manufacturing or personal service industries,
or from any processing operation of whatever nature, including the
washing of vehicles, machines and equipment.
(s) Inflow. Water other than wastewater that enters a sewer
system from sources, such as but not limited to, roof leaders,
cellar drains, yard drains, area drains, drains from springs and
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swampy areas, manhole covers, cross connections between storm
sewers and sanitary sewers, catch basins, cooling towers, storm
waters, surface runoff, street wash waters, for drainage. Inflow
does not include, and is distinguished from, infiltration as
defined in 40 CFR 35.2005.
(t) Interference. A discharge which, alone or in Conjunction
with a discharge or discharges from other sources, both inhibits or
disrupts the POTW, its treatment processes or operations, or its
sludge processes, use or disposal; and therefore, causes a
violation of the POTW's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination
System (NPDES) permit or prevents sewage sludge use or disposal in
compliance with Section 405 of the Clean Water Act, the Solid Waste
Disposal Act (SWDA), the Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substances
Control Act, and the Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries
Act.
(u) Mass Emission Rates. Pounds per day in waste or waste
discharge of designated materials.
(v) National Categorical Pretreatment Standard. Any
regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by the
EPA in accordance with Section 307(b) and (c) of the Act (33 U.S.C.
1317) which applies to the standards specified in 40 CFR Chapter I,
Subchapter N, Parts 405-471).
(w) National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)
Permit. A Permit issued pursuant to Section 402 of the Act (33
U.S.C. 1342).
(x) National Prohibitive Discharge Standard or Prohibitive
Discharge Standard. Any regulation developed under the authority
of Section 307(b) of the Act (33 U.S.C. 1347) and 40 CFR Section
403.5.
(y) Natural Outlet. Any outlet into a watercourse, pond,
ditch, lake, bay, ocean or other body of surface water, or into the
ground water.
(z) New Source. Any building, structure, facility or
installation from which there is, or may be, a discharge of
pollutants, the construction of which began after the publication
of proposed pretreatment standards pursuant to Section 307(c) of
the Clean Water Act which will be applicable to such source if such
standards are promulgated, provided certain location and
construction criteria are met.
(aa) Pass Through. Discharge through the POTW to navigable
waters which, alone or in conjunction with discharges from other
sources, is a cause of a violation of the NPDES permit.
(bb) Person. Any individual, partnership, copartnership,
firm, company, corporation, association, joint stock company, trust
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estate, governmental entity or any other legal entity, or their
legal representatives, agents or assigns. Any person who
contributes, causes or permits the contribution of wastewater into
the water quality control plant is a user.
(cc) pH. The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the
concentration of hydrogen ions expressed in grams per liter of
solution.
(dd) Pollution. The manmade or man-induced alteration of the
chemical, physical, biological, or radiological integrity of water.
(ee) Pollutant. Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator
residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical
wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked
or discharged equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, industrial,
municipal or agricultural waste discharged into water.
(ff) Pretreatment or Treatment. The reduction of the amount
of pollutants, the elimination 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 pollutants into the wastewater treatment system. The
reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical or
biological processes, or process changes by other means, except as
prohibited by 40 CFR Section 403.6(d).
(gg) Pretreatment Program. A program to protect the water
quality control facilities, its workers and the environment from
adverse impacts that may occur when hazardous or toxic wastes are
discharged into the sewage system.
(hh) Pretreatment Requirements. Any substantive or procedural
requirement related to pretreatment, other than a national
pretreatment standard imposed on an industrial user.
(ii) Publicly Owned Treatment Work (POTW) A treatment works
as defined by Section 212 of the Act (33 U.S.C. 1292) which is
owned in this instance by the cities of South San Francisco and San
Bruno.
(jj) Sanitary Sewage. Domestic or domestic-like sewage.
(kk) Sewage. (See Wastewater) Water-carried and liquid
wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and
industrial establishments, together with such groundwaters, surface
waters, and stormwaters as may be present, or any combination of
such wastes and waters.
(11) Sewage Facilities. The arrangement of devices and
structures used for the transportation, treatment and disposal of
sewage, including but not limited to, intercepting sewers, sewage
treatment works, pumping plants, outfall sewers and appurtenances
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constructed, operated and maintained by the city for sewage
disposal purposes.
(mm) Sewer. A pipe or conduit for carrying water, sewage
and/or wastewater; and the following:
(1) "Building sewer" means a sewer conveying wastewater from
the premises of a user to a public sewer.
(2) "Public sewer" means a sewer which is controlled by the
city or other agency.
(3) "Sanitary sewer" means a sewer for domestic, commercial
and industrial waste to which stormwaters, surface waters and
groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
(4) "Side sewer" means a sewer conveying the wastewater of a
discharge from a residence, building or other structure to a public
sewer, including direct connections where permitted.
(5) "Storm sewer" means a sewer which carries storm and
surface waters but from which sewage and polluted industrial,
commercial and institutional wastes are required to be excluded.
(nn) Significant Industrial User.
(1) Ail categorical industrial
Categorical pretreatment Standard).
users (see National
(2) Any noncategorical industrial user that (A) discharges
25,000 gallons or more per day of process wastewater, or (B)
contributes a process wastestream which makes up five percent or
more of the average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity of
the treatment plant, or (C) has a reasonable potential, in the
opinion of the city, to adversely affect the POTW (i.e.,
inhibition, pass through of pollutants, sludge contamination, or
endangerment of POTW and collection system workers).
(oo) Standard Industrial Classification (SIC). A
classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, office of
Management and Budget, 1972, or any successor.
(pp) Standard Methods. The latest United States Environmental
Protection Agency approved edition of "Standard Methods for the
Examination of Water and Wastewater" prepared and published jointly
by American Public Health Association, American Water Works
Association, and the Water Pollution Control Federation on methods
deemed equivalent by the superintendent and the water quality
control board for the San Francisco Bay region, herein referred to
for definitions, laboratory procedures of analysis, tests
(including test samples) and measurements.
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(qq) Storm Sewer. A sewer which carries storm and surface
waters to San Francisco Bay but from which sewage, polluted
industrial, commercial and institutional wastes are required to be
excluded.
(rr) Stormwater. Any flow occurring during or following any
form of natural precipitation and resulting therefrom.
(ss) Suspended Solids. 'The total suspended matter that floats
on the surface of, or is suspended in, water, wastewater or other
liquids, and which is removable by laboratory filtering.
(tt) Superintendent. The superintendent of the water quality
control plant who is charged with certain duties and
responsibilities by this chapter, or the superintendent's
authorized representative.
(uu) Toxic Pollutant. Any pollutant or combination of
pollutants listed as toxic in regulations promulgated by the
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under the
provision of Section 307(a) of the Act (33 U.S.C. 1317) or other
acts.
(w) upset. An incident in which one or more pollutants cause
the removal efficiency for a treatment process at the POTW to be
dramatically reduced.
(ww) Waste. Ail waste substances, liquid, solid, gaseous or
radioactive, associated with human habitation, or of human or
animal origin, or from any producing, manufacturing, personal
service industry, or processing operation of whatever nature.
(xx) Wastewater. .The liquid and water-carried industrial or
domestic wastes from dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial
facilities, and institutions, whether treated or untreated, which
is contributed into or permitted to enter the water quality control
facilities.
(yy) Water Quality Control Facilities. A wastewater treatment
works as defined by Section 212 of the Act (33 U.S.C. 1292), which
is owned by the city. This definition includes any sewers that
convey wastewater to the water quality control plant, but does not
include pipes, sewers or other conveyances not connected to a
facility providing treatment. For the purposes of this chapter,
water quality control facilities shall also include any sewers that
convey wastewaters to the plant from persons outside the city who
are, by contract or agreement with the city, users of the city's
water quality control facilities. The portion of the facilities
designed to provide treatment to wastewater is the water quality
control plant.
(zz) Waters of the State or Watercourse. Ail streams, lakes
ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs,
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reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems, drainage systems and all
other bodies or accumulations of water, surface or underground,
natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained
within, flow through, or border upon the State or any portion
thereof.
SECTION 2: Section 14.08.110 of the South San Francisco
Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
14.08.110 Sewer Design and Construction.
Ail new sewers and connections to new and existing sewers
shall be properly designed and constructed to prevent inflow and in
accordance with the Uniform Building Code then in effect and other
applicable City ordinances. Any new connections from inflow
sources into the sewage facilities is prohibited. The applicant
for a permit to construct sewers or connections shall furnish the
Chief Building Inspector with a copy of the wastewater discharge
permit.
SECTION 3:
SEVERANCE
In the event any section or portion of this ordinance shall be
determined invalid or unconstitutional, such section or portion
shall be deemed severable and all other sections or portions hereof
shall remain in full force and effect.
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SECTION 4: PUBLICATION AND EFFECTIVE DATE.
This ordinance shall be published once, with the names of
those City Councilmembers voting for or against it, 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.
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Introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council of the
City of South San Francisco, held the 8th day of
March , 1995.
Adopted as an Ordinance of the City of South Francisco at a
regular meeting of the City Council of the City of South San
Francisco, held the 22nd day of March , 1995, by the
following vote:
AYES-.
NOES:
ABSTAIN:
ABSENT:
Councilmembers Jack Drago, Joseph A. Fernekes, John R. Penna,
Rnb~rta C~rri Teglia and Mayor Robert Yee
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ATTEST:
City Clerk
As Mayor of the City of South San Francisco, I do hereby
approve the foregoing Ordinance this 22nd day of March ,
1995.
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