Burbank Municipal Code Art. 1 General Provisions

A. Purpose: This chapter sets forth uniform requirements for discharges to the publicly owned treatment works (POTW), sewer system and storm drain system for the City of Burbank and enables the City to comply with all applicable State and Federal laws, including the Clean Water Act (33 United States Code 1251 et seq.) and the general pretreatment regulations (40 Code of Federal Regulations Part 403).

B. Objectives: The objectives of this chapter are:

1. To prevent the introduction of pollutants into a POTW that will interfere with its operation;

2. To prevent the introduction of pollutants into a POTW that will pass through a POTW, inadequately treated, into receiving waters, or otherwise be incompatible with a POTW;

3. To protect both POTW personnel who may be affected by wastewater and sludge in the course of their employment and the general public;

4. To promote reuse and recycling of industrial wastewater and sludge from a POTW;

5. Prevent any discharge which may interfere with the operation of the storm drain system or pollute the waters of the State;

6. To provide for fees, charges, and penalties for the equitable distribution of the cost of operation, maintenance, and improvement of the POTW, related programs, and the storm drain system;

7. To provide for monitoring and enforcement activities; and

8. To enable the City to comply with its national pollutant discharge elimination system permit conditions, sludge use and disposal requirements, and any other Federal or State laws to which the POTW and storm drain system are subject. [Formerly numbered Section 25-2. Amended by Ord. No. 3677, eff. 8/20/05; 3137, 3035, 2589.]

A. DEFINITIONS: Unless explicitly indicated otherwise, for the purpose of this article, the following words and phrases are defined and shall be defined as follows:

ACT or the ACT: Shall mean the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.

APPROVAL AUTHORITY: Shall mean the California Environmental Protection Agency, State Water Resources Control Board, and the California Regional Water Quality Control Board - Los Angeles Region. If any of these agencies changes its name, the authority granted in this code will be transferred to the newly named agency.

AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE: Of the User shall mean:

(1) If the User is a corporation:

(a) The president, secretary, treasurer, or a vice-president of the corporation in charge of a principal business function, or any other person who performs similar policy or decision-making functions for the corporation; or

(b) The manager of one or more manufacturing, production, or operating facilities, provided the manager is authorized to make management decisions that govern the operation of the regulated facility including having the explicit or implicit duty of making major capital investment recommendations, and initiate and direct other comprehensive measures to assure long-term environmental compliance with environmental laws and regulations; can ensure that the necessary systems are established or actions taken to gather complete and accurate information for individual wastewater discharge permit requirements; and where authority to sign documents has been assigned or delegated to the manager in accordance with corporate procedures.

(2) If the User is a partnership or sole proprietorship: a general partner or proprietor, respectively.

(3) If the User is a Federal, State, or local governmental facility: a director or highest official appointed or designated to oversee the operation and performance of the activities of the government facility, or their designee.

(4) The individuals described in paragraphs 1 through 3, above, may designate a Duly Authorized Representative if the authorization is in writing, the authorization specifies the individual or position responsible for the overall operation of the facility from which the discharge originates or having overall responsibility for environmental matters for the company, and the written authorization is submitted to the City.

AVERAGE DAILY FLOW: Shall mean the number of gallons of sewage discharged into the public sewers during a twenty-four (24) hour period.

BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES: or BMPs: Shall mean schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices to implement the prohibitions set forth in Section 8-1-501.1-3. BMPs also include treatment requirements, operating procedures, and practices to control plant site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge or waste disposal, or drainage from raw materials storage.

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND or BOD: “Shall mean the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures for five (5) days at 20° Celsius, measured in milligrams per liter as described in Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, a joint publication of the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association, and the Water Environment Federation.

BUILDING SEWER: Shall mean that part of the sewer piping beginning two (2) feet from the exterior wall of a building structure or foundation and extending to a connection with the public sewer.

CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD or CATEGORICAL STANDARD: Shall mean any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by EPA in accordance with Sections 307(b) and (c) of the Act (33 U.S.C.1317) which apply to a specific category of users and which appear in 40 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter N, Parts 405-471.

CESSPOOL: Shall mean an excavation or underground structure which receives any discharge of a drainage system and is constructed to retain organic matter and solids discharged therein, but which permits the liquids to seep through the bottom and sides.

CHIMNEY: Shall mean a vertical section of a sewer pipe extending either from a tee set ninety (90) degrees to the main line, or from a wye. All Chimneys will be suitably reinforced with concrete. Chimneys constructed with a wye shall include a one-eighth bend set vertically.

CITY: Shall mean the City of Burbank or its duly authorized representatives.

CLARIFIER: Shall mean a device or structure which separates and retains suspended solids, settleable solids, deleterious, or undesirable matter from wastes prior to discharge into the public sewer.

CONTROL MECHANISM: Shall mean wastewater discharge permit, wastewater discharge authorization, or special agreement.

DIRECTOR: Shall mean the Public Works Director of the City of Burbank or their designee.

DOMESTIC WASTEWATER (DOMESTIC SEWAGE): Shall mean water bearing wastes derived from the ordinary living processes and of such character as to permit satisfactory disposal to, and treatment in, a POTW.

EFFLUENT: Shall mean the liquid flowing out of any facility operated for treatment of sewage or industrial waste.

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY or EPA: Shall mean the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or, where appropriate, the Regional Water Management Division Director, or other duly authorized official of said agency.

EXISTING SOURCE: Shall mean any source of discharge, the construction or operation of which commenced prior to the publication by EPA of proposed categorical pretreatment standards, which will be applicable to such source if the standard is thereafter promulgated in accordance with Section 307 of the Act.

FOOD SERVICE ESTABLISHMENT: Shall mean a facility engaged in preparing food for consumption by the public such as a restaurant, commercial kitchen, caterer, hotel, school, hospital, prison, correctional facility, or care institution.

GRAB SAMPLE: Shall mean a sample which is taken from a wastestream without regard to the flow in the wastestream and over a period of time not to exceed fifteen (15) minutes.

GREASE INTERCEPTOR: Shall mean an interceptor of at least 750 gallons capacity to serve one or more fixtures and which shall be remotely located.

GREASE TRAP: Shall mean a device designed to retain grease from one to a maximum of four fixtures.

GROSS FLOOR AREA: Shall mean the area included within the exterior of the surrounding walls of a building or portions thereof, exclusive of courts.

INDIRECT DISCHARGE: Shall mean the introduction of pollutants into a POTW from any nondomestic source regulated under Section 307(b), (c), or (d) of the Act.

INDUSTRIAL WASTE PRETREATMENT: Shall mean any works or device for the treatment of industrial waste prior to discharge into the public sewer.

INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER (INDUSTRIAL WASTE): Shall mean any water bearing waste excluding domestic wastewater.

INSTANTANEOUS MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE DISCHARGE LIMIT: Shall mean the maximum concentration of a pollutant allowed to be discharged at any time, determined from the analysis of any sample collected, independent of the industrial flow rate and the duration of the sampling event.

INTERCEPTOR SEWER: Shall mean a collecting sewer that intercepts and collects the sewage from a number of building sewers or local public sewers.

INTERFERENCE: Shall mean a discharge, which alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, inhibits or disrupts a POTW, its treatment processes or operations or its sludge processes, use or disposal; and therefore, is a cause of a violation of the City’s NPDES permit or of the prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal in compliance with any of the following statutory/regulatory provisions or permits issued thereunder, or any more stringent State or local regulations: Section 405 of the Act; the Solid Waste Disposal Act, including Title II commonly referred to as the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA); any State regulations contained in any State sludge management plan prepared pursuant to Subtitle D of the Solid Waste Disposal Act; the Clean Air Act; the Toxic Substances Control Act; and the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act.

LOT: Shall mean any piece or parcel of land, as bounded, defined or shown upon the latest map, plat or deed recorded in the office of the County Recorder of Los Angeles County, provided, however, that in the event any building or improvements appurtenant to said building covers more area than a “lot,” as herein defined, the term “lot” shall be deemed to be and include all such pieces or parcels of land upon which said buildings or improvements are wholly or partly located.

MAINTENANCE HOLE: Shall mean an access structure to a public sewer or storm drain, usually located in a street, alley or right-of-way, usually covered by a flat metal hatch.

MEDICAL WASTE: Shall mean cultures and stocks of infectious agents and associated biologicals, including cultures from medical and pathological laboratories, cultures and stocks of infectious agents from research and industrial laboratories, wastes from the production of biologicals, discarded live and attenuated vaccines, and culture dishes and devices used to transfer, inoculate, and mix cultures; pathological wastes, including tissues, organs, and body parts that are removed during surgery or autopsy; waste human blood and products of blood, including serum, plasma, and other blood components; sharps that have been used in patient care or in medical, research, or industrial laboratories, including hypodermic needles, syringes, pasteur pipettes, broken glass, and scalpel blades; contaminated animal carcasses, body parts, and bedding of animals that were exposed to infectious agents during research, production of biologicals, or testing of pharmaceuticals; wastes from surgery or autopsy that were in contact with infectious agents, including soiled dressings, sponges, drapes, lavage tubes, drainage sets, underpads, and surgical gloves; laboratory wastes from medical, pathological, pharmaceutical, or other research, commercial, or industrial laboratories that were in contact with infectious agents, including slides and cover slips, disposable gloves, laboratory coats, and aprons; dialysis wastes that were in contact with the blood of patients undergoing hemodialysis, including contaminated disposable equipment and supplies such as tubing, filters, disposable sheets, towels, gloves, aprons, and laboratory coats; discarded medical equipment and parts that were in contact with infectious agents; biological waste and discarded materials contaminated with blood, excretion, exudates or secretion from human beings or animals who are isolated to protect others from communicable diseases; and such other waste material that results from the administration of medical care to a patient by a health care provider and is found to pose a threat to human health or the environment.

MUNICIPAL SERVICE BILL: Shall mean a bill that is sent to a person for any municipal services rendered to that person, property, or location.

NATIONAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD, PRETREATMENT STANDARD or STANDARD: Shall mean any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by the EPA in accordance with section 307 (b) and (c) of the Act, which applies to Industrial Users. This term includes prohibitive discharge limits established pursuant to 40 CFR 403.5.

NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM PERMIT (NPDES PERMIT): Shall mean a permit issued pursuant to Section 402 of the Act.

NEW SOURCE: Shall mean:

(1) Any building, structure, facility, or installation from which there is (or may be) a discharge of pollutants, the construction of which commenced after the publication of proposed pretreatment standards under Section 307(c) of the Act which will be applicable to such source if such standards are thereafter promulgated in accordance with that section, provided that:

(a) The building, structure, facility, or installation is constructed at a site at which no other source is located; or

(b) The building, structure, facility, or installation totally replaces the process or production equipment that causes the discharge of pollutants at an existing source; or

(c) The production or wastewater generating processes of the building, structure, facility, or installation are substantially independent of an existing source at the same site. In determining whether these are substantially independent, factors such as the extent to which the new facility is integrated with the existing plant, and the extent to which the new facility is engaged in the same general type of activity as the existing source, should be considered.

(2) Construction on a site at which an existing source is located results in a modification rather than a new source if the construction does not create a new building, structure, facility, or installation meeting the criteria of Section (1)(b) or (c) above but otherwise alters, replaces, or adds to existing process or production equipment.

(3) Construction of a new source as defined under this paragraph has commenced if the owner or operator has:

(a) Begun, or caused to begin, as part of a continuous onsite construction program

(i) any placement, assembly, or installation of facilities or equipment; or

(ii) significant site preparation work including clearing, excavation, or removal of existing buildings, structures, or facilities which is necessary for the placement, assembly, or installation of new source facilities or equipment; or

(b) Entered into a binding contractual obligation for the purchase of facilities or equipment which are intended to be used in its operation within a reasonable time. Options to purchase or contracts which can be terminated or modified without substantial loss, and contracts for feasibility, engineering, and design studies do not constitute a contractual obligation under this paragraph.

NONCONTACT COOLING WATER: Shall mean water used for cooling which does not come into direct contact with any raw material, intermediate product, waste product, or finished product.

NORTH AMERICAN INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM (NAICS) CODE: Shall mean a classification pursuant to the North American Industry Classification System Manual issued by the United States Office of Management and Budget.

PASS THROUGH: Shall mean a discharge which exits a POTW into waters of the United States in quantities or concentrations which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the City’s NPDES permit, including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation.

PEAK FLOW: Shall mean the maximum thirty (30) minute rate of wastewater flow to be generated from the premises as estimated by the Director.

PERSON: Shall mean any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company, corporation, association, joint stock company, trust, estate, governmental entity, or any other legal entity; or their legal representatives, agents, or assigns. This definition includes all Federal, State, and local governmental entities. The masculine gender shall include the feminine, the singular shall include the plural where indicated by the context.

PH: Shall mean a measure of the acidity or alkalinity of a solution, expressed in standard units.

PHENOLS: Shall mean all organic compounds which contain a phenolic group as measured and detected by EPA Method 420.1.

POLLUTANT: Shall mean dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, filter backwash, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, medical wastes, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, municipal, agricultural and industrial wastes, and certain characteristics of wastewater (e.g., pH, temperature, TSS, turbidity, color, BOD, toxicity, or odor).

POLLUTION: Shall mean an impairment in the quality of the underground or surface waters by sewage or industrial waste which adversely affects the use of such waters for domestic, industrial, agricultural, or other beneficial purposes.

PRETREATMENT: Shall mean the reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater prior to, or in lieu of, introducing such pollutants into a POTW. This reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical, or biological processes; by process changes; or by other means, except by diluting the concentration of the pollutants unless allowed by an applicable pretreatment standard.

PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS: Shall mean any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment imposed on a user, other than a pretreatment standard.

PROHIBITED DISCHARGE STANDARDS or PROHIBITED DISCHARGES: Shall mean absolute prohibitions against the discharge of certain substances; these prohibitions appear in Section 8-1-501 of this chapter.

PUBLIC SEWER: Shall mean any sewer, other than a portion of building sewer within the street or public right of way, which has been constructed in a public street, alley, walk, or other public place, or in an easement.

PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS or POTW: Shall mean a 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 devices or systems used in the collection, storage, treatment, recycling, and reclamation of sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid nature and any conveyances which convey wastewater to a treatment plant.

RULES, POLICIES AND GUIDELINES: Shall mean rules, policies and guidelines prescribed by the Director governing the disposal of industrial wastewater to the sanitary sewer, storm drain systems of the City of Burbank or to the Waters of the State.

SEPTIC TANK: Shall mean a watertight receptacle which receives the discharge from a sewer system, which retains solids, digests organic matter, and permits the liquids to discharge into the soil through a cesspool, leach-field or other method.

SEPTIC TANK WASTE: Shall mean any sewage from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets, campers, trailers, and septic tanks.

SEWAGE: Shall mean human excrement and gray water (household showers, dishwashing operations, etc.).

SANITARY SEWER: Shall mean the conduit that carries wastewater in the sanitary sewer system.

SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM: Shall mean all of the property involved in the collection, treatment and disposal of wastewater of the community including land, sewers and appurtenances, pumping stations, treatment works and equipment.

SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER: Shall mean:

(1) A user subject to categorical pretreatment standards; or

(2) A user that:

(a) Discharges an average of twenty-five thousand (25,000) gpd or more of process wastewater to the POTW or public sewer (excluding sanitary, noncontact cooling, and boiler blowdown wastewater);

(b) Contributes a process wastestream which makes up five (5) percent or more of the average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the POTW; or

(c) Is designated as such by the City on the basis that it has a reasonable potential for adversely affecting the POTW’s operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement.

(d) All Industrial Users subject to Categorical Pretreatment Standards under 40 CFR 403.6 and 40 CFR chapter I, subchapter N

(3) The Control Authority may determine that an Industrial User subject to categorical Pretreatment Standards under § 403.6 and 40 CFR chapter I, subchapter N is a Non-Significant Categorical Industrial User rather than a Significant Industrial User on a finding that the Industrial User never discharges more than 100 gallons per day (gpd) of total categorical wastewater (excluding sanitary, non-contact cooling and boiler blowdown wastewater, unless specifically included in the Pretreatment Standard) and the following conditions are met:

(i) The Industrial User, prior to the Control Authority’s finding, has consistently complied with all applicable categorical Pretreatment Standards and Requirements;

(ii) The Industrial User annually submits the certification statement required in § 403.12(q) together with any additional information necessary to support the certification statement; and

(iii) The Industrial User never discharges any untreated concentrated wastewater.

(4) Upon a finding that a user meeting the criteria in Subsection (2) has no reasonable potential for adversely affecting a POTW’s operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement, the City may at any time, on its own initiative or in response to a petition received from a user, and in accordance with procedures in 40 CFR 403.8(f)(6), determine that such user should not be considered a significant industrial user.

SIGNIFICANT NONCOMPLIANCE: Shall mean a violation by a significant industrial user that meets one or more of the following criteria, or any user whose violation(s) meets criteria (3), (4) or (8):

(1) Chronic violations of wastewater discharge limits, defined here as those in which 66 percent or more of all of the measurements taken for the same pollutant parameter during a 6 month period exceed (by any magnitude) a numeric Pretreatment Standard or Requirement, including instantaneous limits, as defined by 40 CFR 403.3(l);

(2) Technical Review Criteria (TRC) violations, defined here as those in which 33 percent or more of all of the measurements taken for the same pollutant parameter during a 6 month period equal or exceed the product of the numeric Pretreatment Standard or Requirement including instantaneous limits, as defined by 40 CFR 403.3(l) multiplied by the applicable TRC (TRC=1.4 for BOD, TSS, fats, oils and grease, and 1.2 for all other pollutants except pH);

(3) Any other violation of a Pretreatment Standard or Requirement as defined by 40 CFR 403.3(l) (daily maximum, long-term average, instantaneous limit, or narrative standard) that the Director determines has caused, alone or in combination with other Discharges, Interference or Pass Through, (including endangering the health of POTW personnel or the general public);

(4) Any discharge of pollutants that have caused imminent endangerment to human health, welfare or to the environment or has resulted in the Director’s exercise of their emergency authority under Section 8-1-509.7 to halt or prevent such a discharge;

(5) Failure to meet, within ninety (90) days of the scheduled date, a compliance schedule milestone contained in a wastewater discharge permit or enforcement order for starting construction, completing construction, or attaining final compliance;

(6) Failure to provide, within 45 days after the due date, any required reports, including baseline monitoring reports, reports on compliance with categorical pretreatment standard deadlines, periodic self- monitoring reports, and reports on compliance with compliance schedules;

(7) Failure to accurately report noncompliance; or

(8) Any other violation or group of violations, which may include a violation of Best Management Practices, which the Director determines will adversely affect the operation or implementation of the local Pretreatment program.

SLUG LOAD or SLUG: Shall mean any discharge of a non-routine, episodic nature, including but not limited to an accidental spill or a non-customary batch discharge, which has a reasonable potential to cause interference or pass through, or in any other way violate the City’s regulations, local limits or permit conditions.

SOLID WASTES: Shall mean wastes that are not water-carried and that are suitable for disposal with refuse at sanitary landfill refuse disposal sites.

STANDARD LABORATORY PROCEDURE: Shall mean the procedures as set forth in the Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, a joint publication of the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association, and the Water Environment Federation.

STATE: Shall mean the State of California.

STORM DRAIN SYSTEM: Shall mean all of the property involved in the operation of the storm drainage collection, treatment and disposal system in the City of Burbank, including conduits, natural or artificial drains, channels and watercourses, together with appurtenances, pumping stations and equipment.

STORM WATER: Shall mean any flow occurring during or following any form of natural precipitation, and resulting from such precipitation, including storm water runoff, surface runoff, snowmelt runoff and drainage.

SUSPENDED SOLIDS: Shall mean the total suspended matter that floats on the surface of, or is suspended in, water, wastewater, or other liquid, and which is removable by laboratory filtering, measured in milligrams per liter as described in Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, a joint publication of the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association, and the Water Environment Federation.

TAP: Shall mean the forming of a connection to a public sewer after the sewer is in place.

TRADE SECRETS: Shall mean any formulas, plans, processes, tools, mechanisms, procedures, compilations of information, or other materials or methods which are not patented, which are known only to certain individuals within a commercial concern and are used to fabricate, produce or compound an article of trade or a service having commercial value, and which provide an opportunity for a business advantage over competitors.

USER or INDUSTRIAL USER: Shall mean a source of indirect discharge.

WASTEWATER DISCHARGE AUTHORIZATION: Shall mean the revocable permission to discharge wastewater to the public sewer subject to technically based limits on wastewater constituents and characteristics.

WASTEWATER DISCHARGE PERMIT: Mean the periodically renewable, revocable permission to discharge non-residential wastewater to the public sewer subject to technically based limits on wastewater constituents and characteristics.

WASTEWATER: Shall mean liquid and water-carried industrial wastes and sewage from residential dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial and manufacturing facilities, and institutions, whether treated or untreated, which are contributed to a POTW.

WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT or TREATMENT PLANT: Shall mean that portion of a POTW which is designed to provide treatment of municipal sewage and industrial waste.

WATERCOURSE: Shall mean a natural or artificial channel for the flow of storm or surface waters.

WATERS OF THE STATE: Shall mean all saline waters, streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, 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 of California or any portion thereof.

WYE SADDLE: Shall mean a short pipe fitting with a shoulder at one end to allow the application of a fitting to a hole tapped in the public sewer forming a forty-five (45) degree angle to the public sewer pipe.

B. ABBREVIATIONS: The acronyms of sets of letters set forth in this subsection, when used in this chapter, shall stand for and be understood and may be accepted or used as abbreviations for those terms or phrases set forth opposite each:

BOD - Biochemical Oxygen Demand CFR - Code of Federal Regulations CRWQCB - California Regional Water Quality Control Board EPA - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency gpd - gallons per day mg/l - milligrams per liter NPDES - National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System POTW - Publicly Owned Treatment Works RCRA - Resource Conservation and Recovery Act NAICS - North American Industry Classification System TSS - Total Suspended Solids U.S.C. - United States Code.

[Formerly numbered Section 25-1. Amended by Ord. No. 16-3,889, eff. 1/20/17; 13-3,848, 3784, 3739, 3721, 3677, 3137, 3035, 2589.]

A. Facilities: This chapter shall apply to all sanitary sewer and storm drain facilities in the City, including public sewers, building sewers, industrial/commercial connection sewers, interceptors, the storm drain system, sewage and industrial waste treatment plants, sewage pumping plants, and their appurtenances.

B. Discharges: This chapter shall apply to all discharges to the sanitary sewer or storm drain system of the City. [Formerly numbered Section 25-2.1. Amended by Ord. No. 3677, eff. 8/20/05; 3137, 3035; 2589.]

A. General: Liquid wastes originating within the City shall be removed by the City sanitary sewer system unless the wastes damage structures, create nuisances such as odors, menace public health, safety and welfare, impose unreasonable collection, treatment or disposal costs on the City, violate requirements prescribed by government agencies, interfere with wastewater treatment processes, or detrimentally affect the environment, as determined by the Director. No person shall introduce or cause to be introduced into the POTW or public sewer any pollutant or wastewater which causes pass through or interference. These general prohibitions apply to all users of the POTW and/or public sewer whether or not they are subject to categorical pretreatment standards or any other Federal, State, or local pretreatment standards or requirements.

B. Sewer Connection Required: Every building or structure in which plumbing fixtures are installed, and every premises having piping thereon which conveys wastewater or other liquid waste, shall be connected to the sanitary sewer system.

C. Highest and Best Use: The highest and best use of the City sewer system is the conveyance, treatment and disposal of domestic wastewater.

D. Water Reclamation: In compliance with requirements of applicable Federal and State agencies, the City is committed to a policy of wastewater reclamation and reuse in order to provide an alternate source of water for nonpotable use and to reduce costs of wastewater treatment and disposal. [Formerly numbered Section 25-2.3. Amended by Ord. No. 3677, eff. 8/20/05; 3137, 3035, 2589.]

A. Policy: It is the policy of the City of Burbank to assure that the highest and best use of the POTW and public sewer system is for the collection, treatment and disposal of domestic wastewater, and that the highest and best use of the storm drain system is for the collection and disposal of storm water. The use of the sanitary sewer system for industrial wastewater is a privilege which is subject to the requirements of this article, and all applicable Federal, State, or local regulations.

B. Scope: This section provides for the regulation of dischargers to the POTW, the public sewers, the storm drain system, and waters of the State through the issuance of control mechanisms containing specific discharge requirements and through enforcement of general discharge prohibitions; authorizes monitoring and enforcement activities; imposes reporting requirements on specific permittees; and sets fees for the recovery of program costs. This section shall apply to all dischargers within the City of Burbank and to all persons outside the City of Burbank who discharge to the City’s sewer system. Except as otherwise provided herein, the Director shall administer, implement and enforce the provisions of this section. [Amended by Ord. No. 3677, eff. 8/20/05; 3137.]

Private sewage and industrial waste pretreatment systems and facilities shall produce effluents for discharge to the City sanitary sewer that meet requirements of the Director as described in this chapter and/or a wastewater discharge permit. If the discharge is to a storm drain system, the requirements of the CRWQCB and applicable sections of this code must be met. [Formerly numbered Section 25-105. Amended by Ord. No. 3677, eff. 8/20/05; 3137, 3035, 2589.]

APPURTENANCES:

All building sewers, clarifiers, sewage and industrial waste pretreatment facilities, sewage pumping plants and their appurtenances shall be maintained in good operating condition and in conformity with applicable law by the owner of the property which such facilities serve. [Formerly numbered Section 25-106. Amended by Ord. No. 3677, eff. 8/20/05; 3137, 3035, 2589.]

All fees, penalties, refunds, reimbursements, and charges of any kind collected by the City pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be specified in the Burbank Fee Resolution, as amended by the Council from time to time. Whenever applicable throughout this chapter, reference shall be made to the Burbank Fee Resolution in lieu of any reference to specific fee amounts. [Added by Ord. No. 3035. Amended by Ord. No. 3677, eff. 8/20/05; 3137.]

The Director may prescribe from time to time as the Director deems necessary or desirable, rules, policies and guidelines, not in conflict with this chapter, relating to conditions of service and application, administration, and interpretation of rates in the Burbank Fee Resolution, and the provisions set forth in this chapter. Upon any failure to comply with the rules, policies and guidelines of the Director, or to pay rates or to pay any fee, charge, or penalty prescribed by this chapter or as may be provided in the Burbank Fee Resolution, sewer service may be disconnected until the rules, policies and guidelines have been complied with and all appropriate fees, charges, or penalties have been paid. [Added by Ord. No. 3035. Amended by Ord. No. 3677, eff. 8/20/05; 3137.]