Ordinance Number 63ORDINANCE N0. 63
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO
ESTABLISHING THE REQUIREMENTS FOR DOMESTIC SEW-
AGE DISPOSAL AND FOR INDUSTRIAL WASTE DISPOSAL;
ESTABLISHING THE REGULATIONS THEREFORE AND THE
FEES IN CONNECTION THEREWITH.
The City Council of the City of San Juan Capistrano does ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. To promote the public health and general welfare of the City
of San Juan Capistrano, the City operates a system of sewers which serves homes,
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industries and commercial establishments within the City. The purpose of this
Ordinance is to establish certain standard specifications for the construction
of sanitary sewers in the City of San Juan Capistrano, to establish standard
requirements for the design and processing of private contract sewer plans, to
establish limitations and regulations for the disposal of industrial wastes and
to establish fees and permit procedures to assist in the administration of this
Ordinance and the maintenance of the sanitary system of the City.
SECTION 2.Standards and Specifications for Sanitary Seaters _ Fees.
The City Council may, by resolution, adopt standard specifications for
the construction of sanitary sewers in the City of San Juan Capistrano and, by
resolution adopt standard requirements for the design and processing of private
contracb Sewer plans. Such resolution or resolutions may establish permit and
other fees in connection with plan checks, inspections and easements and such
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fees shall be in addition to service charges, connection fees, industrial waste
fees and any other charges established directly or indirectly by this Ordinance.
SECTION 3. Connection Charges and Sewer Service Charges.
The City Council may, by resolution, adopt sewer connection charges and
sewer service charges. Any such charges shall be in addition to other sewer
or industrial waste charges or fees authorized by this Ordinance.
SECTION 4. Industrial Wastes - Statement of Policy.
All liquid wastes originating within the City's boundaries will be removed
by the City's sewerage system provided the wastes will not (1) damage structures,
(2) create nuisances such as odors, (3) menace public health, (4) interfere with
sewage treatment processes, or (9) impose abnormal costs on the City for collecting
and disposing of the wastes.
Storm waters or uncontaminated waters of any origin are not considered ap_
propriate for discharge to the City's sewers. Uncontaminated waters shall be
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defined as suitable for discharge to storm drains or waterways, or waste
waters which may be made acceptable for such discharge by reasonable pro -
treatment.
Since the amounts of certain types or components of industrial wastes
which the sewage treatment system can properly absorb are limited, and
since the amounts of such wastes produced may be, from time to time, in-
creased through growth of industry, it may become necessary for the City
to modify its restrictions on particular industries as the changing situ-
ation requires.
SECTION 5. Limitations on Industrial Wastes.
(a) Material which will settle out in the sewers, such as sand or
metal filings, will not be discharged to the sewers. Waste waters containing
such materials must be passed through sand traps or other suitable structures,
properly designed and maintained, before discharge to the sewer.
(b) Moderate amounts of dispersed grease and oil can usually be tolerated,
but sewer stoppages occur from grease accumulations, and excessive amounts
of oil may cause difficulties at the treatment plant. Industries therefore
may not use the sewers as a means for disposal of oil and grease, and steps
must be taken to remove these substances from waste waters insofar as prac-
ticable. In the case of industries with large volumes of waste waters
containing oils of a hydrocarbon nature, the floatable oil content will be
limited to 10 parts per million. Industries with wastes containing animal
or vegetable oils or fats mixed with other suspended matter rendering sepa-
ration difficult, may in some cases be allowed higher concentrations of
floatable oil or grease, up to 25 parts per million. Dispersed oil and
grease, will, in general, be allowed in concentrations up to 600 ppm provided
that dilution of the waste in sewage does not cause the oil or grease to
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separate on the surface or collect on the walls of the sewer. Total oil
determinations in oil field or refinery waste waters will be made by the
procedure of Kirshman and Pomeroy, Anal., Chem. 2, 793 (1949). Determination
in other wastes will be made by the procedures described in the latest edition
of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Sewage" published by
the American Public Health Association, except where wastes of unusual char-
acter make other procedures necessary. Definition of floatable oil and
grease, and instructions for determination of these, are available on request
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from the City Engineer.
(c) Unreasonable or unnecessarily large amounts of suspended and settle-
able solids will not be discharged to the sewer.
(d) Wastes having high concentrations of organic matter :nays in some
cases, cause excessive putrefaction or sulfide formation. In such cases,
suitable restrictions will be imposed, or the industry will be charged the
cost of corrective treatment.
(e) Wastes of strong.odors, such as mercaptans, will not be discharged
to the sewer.
(f) Dissolved sulfides in wastes discharged to the sewer must not exceed
a concentration of 0.1 ppm.
(g) Acids will not be discharged to the sewer unless neutralized to pH
value of 6 or above. Highly alkaline wastes will usually be accepted, except
where they may cause incrustation of sewers. Nitric acid requires special
consideration, and the City Engineer should be consulted concerning such dis-
charges.
(h) Compounds which may give off toxic or flammable gases in amounts
considered dangerous by the City Engineer will not be permitted in the sewers.
(i) Concentrations of chemical compounds, including cyanides, chromium
compounds, radioactive wastes, and any other materials which may be toxic to
sewage treatment processes or injurious to beneficial water uses at the place
of discharge of treated sewage effluents, shall be limited to levels to be
fixed by the City Engineer.
(j) Blowdown or bleed from cooling towers or other evaporative coolers
equalling not morethan half of the evaporation loss (one-third of the makeup),
are acceptable in the sewer. Where cooling is accomplished by using only heat
exchange, without utilizing evaporative cooling, the waste water most not be
discharged to the sewer.
(k) The sanitary sewers in the City are not designed to carry storm waters.
Industries must, therefore, segregate sewage and industrial wastes from roof
and yard runoff, with the roof and yard runoff going to suitable storm water
channels.
(1) Temperatures of industrial waste discharges will generally be limited
to 1200F. Where the quantity of discharge represents a significant portion of
the flow in a particular sewer, it may be necessary to lower the limit to reduce
sulfide generation in the sewer.
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(m) Chemical solutions containing nitric acid or salts thereof in concen-
trations above 5 percent by weight must not be discharged to the sewer as they
interfere with sewage treatment processes. Industries desiring to dispose of
such wastes may consult the City Engineer as to permissible disposal methods.
SECTION 6. Industrial Wastes - Permit Procedures.
The City authorizes the discharge of liquid industrial wastes to the sewers
subject to continuing compliance with provisions as set forth in Section 4 and
subject to the limitations of Section 5. If subsequent inspection indicates
continued non-compliance with any of these provisions, permission will be
revoked.
To facilitate inspection and control of industrial wastes, especially
chemical industries (such as metal finishing, plating, and pickling), the
City Engineer may require an industry to separate industrial wastes from the
sanitary wastes (rest rooms, shower, drinking fountains, etc.) until such
industrial wastes have passed through a sampling manhole (which may also serve
as a junction manhole with sanitary wastes), the manhole to be located off
premises.
An industry seeking to connect to a City Sewer will make application to
the City Engineer. Complete plans, specifications, and descriptions of the
proposed connection will be submitted to the City Engineer, together with the
following information:
a. Name and address of applicant
b. Type of industry
c. Qnantity and character of effluent
d. Type of pretreatment proposed
Upon receipt of such plans, specifications and descriptions, the City
Engineer, if he shall find that the proposed connection complies with the
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requirements of the City, shall approve the proposed connection and so certify
upon the plans. Two sets of the approved plans shall be retained in the City
Engineer's office. After such approval the City Engineer or his representative
shall inspect the actual work, and for that purpose will require at least forty-
eight hours notice crier to the inspection. The inspection will be completed
within forty-eight hours of such notice.
In the event of establishment in the City of a new industry which would
add to the amount of any particular deleterious material to be discharged to
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the City sewers, it may be necessary for the City Engineer at that time to
require new applications from all industries discharing that particular
deleterious material.
No industrial wastes will be discharged by tank truck to manholes on
sewers, unless written permission is first obtained from the City Engineer.
SECTION 7. Violation of any of the provisions of this Ordinance or of
any of the resolutions authorized hereunder shall constitute a misdemeanor
and shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500.00)
or not to exceed six (6) months in the County Jail or both sijch fine and im-
prisonment. Each day of violation shall be considered a separate offense
and shall be punishable as such.
SECTION 8. This Ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days from and
after its passage, and before the expiration of fifteen (15) days after the
passage thereof, shall be published once in the Coastline Dispatch, a news-
paper published in the County of Orange, State of California, together with
the names of the members of the City Council voting for and against the
same.
PASSED AND ADOPTED BY the City Council of the City of San Juan Capistrano
at its regular meeting held on the 25th day of March, 1963.
Mayor of the City of d
San Juan Capistrano
ATTEST:
City Clerk
State of California )
County of Orange ) ss.
City of San Juan Capistrano)
I, ERNEST A. THOMPSON, City Clerk -Administrator of the City of San Juan
Capistrano, California, do hereby certify that the attached and foregoing
Ordinance was duly and regularly adopted by the said City Council at a regular
meeting thereof held on the 25th day of March, 1963, and passed by a majority
vote of said Council.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set may hand and seal this 25th day
of March, 1963.
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AYES: Councilmen: Bathgate, Cliff, Durnford, Oliv res, Buchheim
NOES: Councilmen: None
ABSENT: Councilmen: None
(SEAL)
City Clerk of the City of San Juan
Capistrano