Title 13 — PUBLIC SERVICES Chapter 13.04 - SEWER SERVICE SYSTEM Article I - General…

For the purpose of this chapter, the words, terms, and phrases used herein shall have the meanings defined in this article, unless the context clearly indicates a different meaning.

"Applicant" means any person, or group of persons, applying for sewer service.

"Board" means the board of supervisors.

"Capacity" means all or a portion of the total volume of sewage expressed in terms of gallons per day, average day, maximum month (GPDADMM), which the CSA is entitled to collect and discharge into the Pleasanton collection system, and which may be allocated to users.

"Commercial user" means any nonresidential user that discharges sewage into the sewerage system.

"County" means the county of Alameda.

"CSA" means the County Service Area R-1967-1, county of Alameda, state of California.

"CSA sewer" means any sewer serving as a part of the CSA sewerage system.

"Developer" means any person who applies to the county for permission to build, improve, expand, or convert any premises or tract of land to a use which requires the use of, or expanded use of, the sewerage system.

"Director" means the director of public works for the county or the authorized representative thereof.

"District" means the Dublin-San Ramon Services District.

"Existing users" means all users discharging into the sewerage system on the effective date of this chapter.

"Flow" means the movement of a quantity of sewage or other liquid past a given point or through a given section of sewer.

"Gallons per day (GPD)" means the volume, measured in gallons per day, of an flow.

"Garbage" means solid wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.

"Local costs" means costs which are borne in the entirety by the CSA and include all expenses incurred up to the point of delivery of sewage to the Pleasanton collection system.

"New users" means all persons who commence discharging into the sewerage system after the effective date of this chapter.

"Occupant" means and includes any individual, firm, corporation or other organization owning, renting, leasing or otherwise occupying any premises.

"Person" includes any firm, association, corporation, partnership or governmental agency.

"Pleasanton collection system" means the city of Pleasanton sewerage system.

"Premises" means any lot, parcel of land, building or establishment.

"Regional costs" means sewage costs which are shared by the CSA with other agencies, including all wastewater treatment, transportation (conveyance), and discharge costs.

"Reservation agreement" means an agreement reserving sewage capacity to parcels of land in the CSA. The agreement is executed by the applicant and director on a form provided by the director.

"Residential discharge equivalent (RDE)" means a sewage discharge equal in volume to the discharge from a typical single-family dwelling. The same shall be two hundred eighty (280) GPD flow. It shall also be assumed that one RDE is equivalent to the volume typically discharged from a group of plumbing fixtures equaling twenty-one (21) fixture units as said units are defined and employed in the Uniform Plumbing Code for the sizing of wastewater piping, unless supporting discharge data proves otherwise.

"Residential user" means any noncommercial user that discharges sewage into the sewerage system.

"Service lateral" means the pipe between the trunk line and the user's side sewer connection at the edge of the street or easement, or at a point designated by the director.

"Sewage" means water carrying wastes from residences and commercial establishments, or any combination of such wastes and waters.

"Sewer" means a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.

"Sewerage system" means all CSA sewers and facilities operated for carrying, collecting, pumping, and disposing of sewage.

Shall; May. The term "shall" is mandatory; the term "may" is permissive.

"Side sewer" means a pipe connecting to a service lateral from a house or other structure.

"Single-family dwelling" means any residential unit designed to house one family.

"Standard methods" of testing means the measurements, tests and analyses of the characteristics of water and wastes as determined in accordance with the most recent edition of the Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Waste-Water, published jointly by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation. If particular testing standards are not provided in the Standard Methods, the procedures contained in Title 40, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 136, as amended, shall apply. In the event specific value limits have been established,

such values shall be determined from twenty-four (24) hour composite samples that are representative of the waste. However, if intermittent discharges are made that are not representative of the twenty-four (24) hour discharge, sampling requirements shall be determined on a case-by-case basis.

"State" means the state of California.

"Stormdrains" means those pipes, canals, and conduits provided to carry storm and surface waters and unpolluted wastewater.

"Treatment plant" means the district wastewater treatment facilities defined by the district as treatment works.

"Trunk line" or "trunk sewer" means a main sewer line to which two or more service laterals are connected and which serves the primary purpose of transporting sewage from service laterals to the treatment plant.

"Uncommitted capacity" means the total capacity to which the CSA is entitled, less the sum of the following:

1.

That capacity being used by existing users;

2.

That capacity committed under connection permits outstanding but not connected to the sewerage system; and

3.

That capacity committed to future use by reservations with the CSA.

"User" means a person who uses the sewerage system by discharging sewage therein.

"Volume" means the wastewater flow occurring over a specified period of time.

"Wastewater" has the same meaning as the term sewerage.

(Prior gen. code §§ 7-250.0—7-250.39)

The purpose of this chapter is to establish standards and conditions, and to provide revenues, relating to the use and management of the sewerage system, and to establish uniform requirements for discharges into the wastewater collection and the treatment system used jointly with other public entities. This chapter also serves as a vehicle enabling the CSA to comply with and meet applicable laws, regulations, standards and conditions established by federal and state law, or by agencies thereof in implementation of such law.

(Prior gen. code § 7-251.0)

All premises generating sewage shall be connected to the CSA sewerage system except as otherwise provided herein. The maintenance and use of any means of sewage disposal except as allowed herein shall be unlawful and is hereby deemed to constitute a public nuisance.

(Prior gen. code § 7-251.1)

A.

It shall be unlawful to construct any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool, holding tank or other facility intended or used for the disposal of sewage in any manner outside the sewage system, unless approval has been granted by the board.

1.

Applications for private disposal of sewage shall be made to the director who shall forward the request, together with the director's recommendation, to the board for approval, conditional approval, or disapproval.

2.

No private system for sewage disposal shall be approved unless said system meets the minimum requirements of the Alameda County health department and any applicable provisions of board policies regulating such private system of sewage disposal.

B.

Every premises which has plumbing fixtures and which is more than two hundred (200) feet from the sewerage system or an extension thereof, may apply for a private disposal permit. (See Section 15.16.050).

C.

All privies, privy vaults, septic tanks, cesspools, holding tanks, or other facilities used for the private disposal of sewage pre-existing at the time of adoption of this chapter shall be permitted, subject to their continuous operation in a safe and healthy manner. Any pre-existing private disposal facility which fails, and/or becomes a nuisance in fact shall be immediately repaired, replaced or abandoned, and the director shall have all enforcement powers provided herein to require repair or replacement of the same or connection to the sewerage system. Any replacement private system for sewage disposal shall require board approval as if the same constituted a new system.

(Prior gen. code § 7-251.2)

In the event of any conflicts or inconsistencies between the provisions of this chapter and the provisions of the Uniform Plumbing Code or other building or construction codes as adopted by the board, the provisions of such codes shall control over this chapter.

(Prior gen. code § 7-251.3)

Every person who connects, or causes to be connected, any leader, leaderpipe, drain pipe, or gutter from any building to or with any public sewer, and causes rain or drainage waters to flow into such sewer from such pipe or gutter, is guilty of a misdemeanor and is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceeding three months, or by a fine not exceeding two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00), or by both.

(Prior gen. code § 3-115.0)