HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 501 COUI7TY SANITATION DISTRICT NO.
OF ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
ORDINANCE N0. 55O1
AN ORDINANCE FROVibSRc 4LE3rAM) REGULATIONS
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General
The provisions of this ordinance relate on1 to conneetions
made tq trunk sewers owned and operate so e y or o n y y
County Sanitation Districts of Orange County: namely, Count
Sanitation Districts Nos. 1, 2& 3, 5 6 and 11. It is not appli-
oaia le owls owned By Cities or other governmental subdivisions
which are within the boundaries of a County Sanitation District.
The provisions, application for permit and permit, under this
ordinance do not relate to lines on private property, i.e, house or
industrial connections, private laterals, etc., except as they
affect the District 's interest as to quality and characteristics of
sewage; and size and depth of sewer at connection line junction.
Sewer line construction on private property is under the Jurisdiction
of (1) the County of Orange for unincorporated territory or (2) the
Jurisdiction of the City or other governmental agency where the
property is located.
Definitions
In addition to the definitions as set up in Ordinance No. 1
and made a part hereof, the following definitions shall be added:
"Domestic Sewa e" "Domestic Sewage" shall mean the water
borne wastes derived from the ordinary living processes and of such
volume and character as to permit satisfactory disposal into a
public sewer.
"Industrial Waste" "Industrial Waste" shall mean any and all
liqui or so was a substance, not sewage, from any producing,
manufacturing or processing operation of whatever nature.
"Trunk Sewer Manholes" "Trunk Sewer Manholes" shall mean those
manho es, 00na ruc a an are a part of the structure of the County
Sanitation District 's trunk sewer system.
"Connection Manholes" "Connection Manholes" shall mean a
manhole constructed U= main line of a District trunk sewer, not
as a part of the original construction, or a manhole built adjacent
thereto, for the purpose of permitting sewage to flow into a District
trunk sewer.
"Industrial Waste Treatment Plant or Facility" "Industrial
Waste Treatment Pan or ac y s a mean any works or device
for the treatment of industrial waste, prior to the discharge into
District trunks.
"Pretreatment" "Pretreatment" shall mean treatment prior to
dischargeinnto a-county Sanitation District trunk sewer by means of
an industrial waste treatment plant or facility.
"The District" or "District" "The District" or "Distriet"
shall mean county n a on s rict No. 5 of Orange County,
California.
"Public Co oration" "Public Corporation" shall mean any city,
district-or o er puIle agency duly organized under the laws of the
State of California.
"Connecting Sewer" "Connecting Sewer", for the purposes of
this ordinance, a mean that portion of any sewer owned and/or
maintained by a permittee located within 50 feet (by linear measur-
ment) from the point of connection to the District trunk sewer.
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General Provisions
Public Corporations having power to maintain public sewerage
works shall be the only persons or entities entitled to a permit.
No person, firm or corporation shall uncover, make any connections
with or opening into, use, alter or disturb any public sewer or
appurtenace thereof belonging to the District without first obtaining
a written permit from the District.
No permit granted pursuant to this ordinance shall be assignable
without the written permission of the District and any purported
assignment without such written permission shall automatically suspend
said permit as hereinafter provided.
The permit shall be in two parts: First, for the purpose of
authorizing connection to a District trunk sewer under conditions set
forth in said permit; and secondly, for discharging sewage and indus-
trial wastes into District sewerage facilities in 'accordance with the
rules, regulations and ordinances of the District as to character-
istics, quality and quantity of sewage .
The second part of the permit may be suspended if a permittee is
acting in violation of any provision of the ordinances, rules or
regulations of the District thirty days after receiving a formal
written notice of such violation and a demand for correction thereof
by the District. Such formal written notice shall be given only upon
recommendation of the General Manager and approval of the directors of
the District. For each day a permittee whose permit has been sus-
pended continues to discharge sewage or industrial wastes into a
District sewerage facility in violation of the ordinances, rules or
regulations of the District, it shall be charged the sum of $100.06
per day or any part of a day.
No formal written notice of violation shall be authorized unless
the General Manager of the District has first given an informal
written notice of violation to the subject permittee at least fifteen
days in advance of action by the Board of Directors.
The same noticing procedure set forth hereinabove shall apply
for Intermittent or sporadic violators and in lieu of a suspension of
permit, the District directors may impose a fine of not less than
$100.00 per day or any part of a day for intermittent violations.
The amount of the fine may be directly related to increased treatment
costs occasioned to the District by reason of such violations and/or
damage caused to the sewerage facilities of the District by such
violations. In such cases the formal written notice of violation
shall set forth the fine to be imposed for violations after the
thirty-day correction period.
Procedure for Acquiring Permit
The permittee, an applicant for a permit or his agent shall make
application on a form furnished by the District. The permit appli-
cation shall be supplemented by such plans, specifications and other
information considered pertinent in the judgment of the General
Manager of the District. A permit and inspection fee of 425.00 shall
be paid to the District at the time the application is filed.
GENERAL INFORMATION CONCERNING CONNECTIONS TO
DISTRICT TRUNK LINES
Connections Made to District Trunk Sewer Manholes
If a connection is made to a District trunk sewer manhole, it
must be made at an elevation generally just above the invert, or at an
elevation indicated to best suit the conditions of entry at the time
the plans are approved.
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Connections Made to Connection Manholes
Connection manholes, constructed with plans and specifications
on file in the office of the General Manager, fmay be required at the o .'
option of the District, determined upon the volume of sewage flow
involved, needs for sampling points, or to prevent unnecessary con-
struction in highways. If it is required that the applicant construct
a connection manhole over or adjacent to a trunk sewer, the same .
requirements as in the paragraph preceding must apply where the sewage
enters the trunk sewer.
NO CONNECTION SHALL BE MADE DIRECTLY TO A DISTRICT TRUNK SEWER
LINE EXCEPT AT A DISTRICT OR CONNECTION MANHOLE.
Industrial Wastes
Whenever an applicant seeks a permit for a connection which will
principally discharge industrial wastes, the District may as a con-
dition to granting such permit require that industrial wastes be
discharged separately from sanitary sewage into an inspection box or
manhole which must be so located as to be easily accessible to the
District inspectors.
Whenever the District finds that industrial waste requires treat-
ment prior to disposal in order to prevent harmful effects in the
trunk sewer line or treatment plant facilities, it may require the
installation of an industrial treatment plant or facility prior to
acceptance of the industrial waste for disposal. If subsequent
inspection indicates that damage to the sewer line or treatment plant
facilities is resulting from such discharge, permission shall be
revoked until such time as the harmful effects have been eliminated.
(See provisions for suspension of permit and/or. fining of permitter.)
Tests and Inspections
For the purpose of securing compliance with the ordinances,
rules or regulations of the District, District inspectors shall make
periodic tests of samples of industrial waste or effluent obtained
from the place or places of discharge or deposit, periodic inspections
from the industrial waste treatment plants or facilities and such
other testa as they may deem necessary. For the purpose of making
such tests or inspections, the District inspector shall be permitted
at all reasonable hours to enter any industrial building, industrial
waste treatment plant or facility or any premise or place where
industrial wastes or effluents are being or are proposed to be dis-
charged or deposited or where there may be a violation of the Dis-
trict's ordinances, rules or regulations.
Maintenance and Inspection
The public corporation located within the District and owning a
sewer line or lines constructed to enable discharge of domestic sewage
and/or industrial wastes into the District trunk sewer lines shall be
responsible for maintenance of theline or lines so owned and connected
and shall bear all costs for said maintenance.
Standards for Sewage and Industrial Wastes
1. No user, including all permittees and all public corporations
having power to maintain sewerage facilities shall discharge, cause
or permit the discharge into a District sewerage facility of any
sewage, waters, vapors or industrial wastes that has any one of the
following:
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a. Any gasoline, benzene, naptha, fuel oil, or other
flammable or explosive liquid, solid or gas.
b. Any ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal,
glass, rags, feathers, tar, plastics, wood, paunch
manure, or any other solid or viscous substance
capable of causing obstruction to the flow in sewers
or other interference with the proper operation of the
sewage works.
c. Any sewage or industrial wastes containing a toxic or
poisonous substance in sufficient quantity to injure
or interfere with sewage treatment process, constitute
a hazard to humans or animals, or create any hazard in
the receiving waters of the sewage treatment plant.
d. Any noxious or malodorous gas or substance capable of
creating a public nuisance.
2. A permitee may discharge sewage and industrial wastes into
a district sewerage facility providing the characteristics of said
sewage or industrial wastes do not exceed the limitations herein-
after set forth:
a. gn$ liquid or vapor having a temperature higher than
5 F.
b. Any sewage or industrial wastes which may contain
more than 200 parts per million, by weight, of fat,
oil, or grease.
c. Any properly shredded garbage, providing no particle
is greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
d. Any sewage containing over 0.5 parts per million of
dissolved sulphides.
e. Any sewage or industrial wastes having a pH lower
than 6.5 or higher than 9.0, or having any other
corrosive property capable of causing damage or
hazard to structures, equipment, and personnel of the
sewage works.
f. Any sewage or industrial wastes containing suspended
solids of such character and quantity that unusual
attention or expense is required to handle such
materials in trunk sewers or at the sewage treatment
plant.
Enforcement The provisions of these regulations may be enforced by
civil action at law and/or by injunction. In this connection, these
regulations shall be construed as a contract between County Sanitation
tction District No. 5 of Orange County and each permittee.
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Validity
If any article, section, subsection, . sentence, clause or phrase
of this Ordinance, or the application of any thereof to any person,
entity, public corporation or circumstance be held to be invalid for
any reason, such invalidity shall not affect the validity of any
other provision or application of any of the remaining provisions or
portions of this Ordinance; and to this end the Board of Directors
of County Sanitation District No. 5 of Orange County, California
hereby declares that it would have adopted this Ordinance and each
and every article, section, subsection, sentence, clause and phrase
thereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more other articles
sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases, or the appli-
cation of any thereof to any person, entity, public corporation or
circumstance be declared invalid,
Effective Date
The Chairman of the Board of Directors shall sign this Ordinance
and the Secretary of the Districts shall attest thereto and certify
to the passage of this Ordinance, and shall cause the same to be
published once in the Ne ort Harbor News Press ,
a newspaper o genera c rcu a on, printed,
pu s e an c rcu a •e in County Sanitation District No- 5 of
Orange County, California, within fifteen (15) days after the date
of the passage of this Ordinance by said Board of Directors, and
said Ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days after its adoption
by the Board of Directors of said County Sanitation District.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of Directors of County Sani-
tation District No. 5 of Orange County, California, at a regular
adjourned meeting held on the 5th day of February, 1958.
James B. Stoddard
Chairman
Board of Directors
ATTEST: County Sanitation District No. 5
Orange County, California
Secretary Ora Mae Merritt
Board of Directors
County Sanitation District No. 5
Orange County, California
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA)
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COUNTY OF ORANGE )
I, ORA MAE MERRITT, Secretary of the Board of Directors of
County Sanitation District No. 5 of orange County, California,
do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 501 was
passed and adopted at a regular adjourned meeting of the Board of
Directors of County Sanitation District No. 5 on the 5th day
of February, 1958 by the following roll call vote, to wit:
AYES: Directors
NOES: Directors
ABSENT: Directors
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed
the official seal of County Sanitation District No. 5 of Orange
County, California, this 5th day of February, 1958.
Secretary, Board of Directors
County Sanitation District No. 5
Orange County, California
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