Coalinga Municipal Code Ch. 3 Sewer Services

For the purposes of this chapter, unless otherwise apparent from the context, certain words and phrases used in this chapter are defined as follows:

(a) "Business establishment" shall mean and include railroad depots, bus depots, laundries, restaurants, places of amusement, and any and all other commercial or business establishments or other institutions equipped with sanitary plumbing facilities.

(b) "Living unit" shall mean a living quarter, whether located in a single house or other permanent place of abode, where one (1) single-family resides.

(§§ 6 and 7, Ord. 308)

All structures with plumbing facilities shall use the sanitary sewer system of the City, and applications for such service shall be made on forms prescribed by the City.

(§ 1, Ord. 362, as amended by Ord. 490, eff. July 7, 1982)

No person shall connect any lot or parcel of property to the sanitary sewer system of the City without a permit first being obtained from the City. No such permit shall be issued unless the following charges, where applicable, have been paid:

(a) Single-family residential (R-1) district property. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c) of this section, if the property is zoned single-family residential (R-1) district, the charge shall be one hundred twenty-five dollars ($125.00).

(b) Other than single-family residential (R-1) district property. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c) of this section, if the property involved is zoned other than single-family residential (R-1) district, the charge shall be three hundred seventy-five dollars ($375.00) per acre, or fraction thereof, but in no case less than one hundred twenty-five dollars ($125.00).

(c) Church property. All property used for church purposes shall be charged at the rate of one hundred twenty-five dollars ($125.00) for each building requiring a sewer connection.

(d) Sewerage construction. Plans for sewerage construction shall meet all design requirements of the City and shall also meet the design requirements as established from time to time by the City Engineer. Inspections of all sewerage construction shall be made by personnel of the City in the manner established by the City Engineer.

(§ 2, Ord. 362, as amended by § 1, Ord. 387, § 1, Ord. 437, eff. September 4, 1974, and Ord. 490, eff. July 7, 1982)

Funds received from sewer connection charges shall be deposited in the Sewer Fund and shall be used for the benefit of the sanitary and storm sewer systems of the City.

(§ 3, Ord. 362)

All persons using the sanitary sewer system of the City shall pay for such service at the following rates:

(a) Monthly rates.

(b) Annual rates. Public schools shall be charged on the basis of average daily attendance as follows:

Such charges shall be calculated on an annual basis, based on the previous year's average daily attendance, and divided by twelve (12) to determine the monthly rate.

In addition to the charges set forth in this subsection, public schools having dormitories or other buildings located on school property and being used or available for student residential purposes shall be charged for sewer services at the rate of thirty-five cents ($0.35) per month, per room.

(§§ 1 and 2, Ord. 308, as amended by § 1, Ord. 431, § 1, Ord. 432, eff. January 17, 1974, and § 2, Ord. 513, eff. July 17, 1986)

All charges for sewer services, as set forth in Section 6-3.05 of this chapter, shall be paid at the same time as water and gas utility charges are paid to the City, and such charges shall be billed upon the same statements mailed to customers. In any case where utility charges are billed to different persons for the same location, the sewer service charges shall be billed to the person charged for domestic water service.

(§ 3, Ord. 308)

At the time of the payment of the current utility bill, any apartment house owner or operator may receive credit for any apartment in the apartment house which has remained vacant for a period of thirty (30) days prior thereto by filing an affidavit with the City Clerk so stating. No sewer service charge shall be collected for living units or places of business which have remained vacant for a period of thirty (30) days or more. Vacancies shall be deemed to commence form the date of the request for the shutoff of domestic water service to the particular house or place of business.

(§§ 4 and 5, Ord. 308)

The provisions of this chapter shall not apply while contract sewer charges are being paid.

(§ 7, Ord. 308)

The City Manager may make such rules and regulations as may be necessary or desirable to aid in the administration and enforcement of the provisions of this chapter.

(§ 2, Ord. 350, and § 4, Ord. 362, as added by § 2, Ord. 387)

No person shall place, deposit, or discharge, or cause to be placed, deposited, or discharged, into the sewer system of the City, either directly or indirectly:

(a) Any industrial or other waste, water, liquid, or other substance having a temperature greater than one hundred fifty (150) degrees Fahrenheit;

(b) Any liquid waste material containing more than one hundred (100) parts of oil, grease, or petroleum per million parts, determined by weight;

(c) Any gasoline or other petroleum product or any other substance which, by reason of its nature or quantity, may cause a fire or explosion in the sewage system;

(d) Any solid or viscous substance which might cause an obstruction to the sewer, including, but not limited to, sand, earth, cement, broken glass, plastics, ashes, feathers, wood, metal, hair or rags;

(e) Any waste with a hydrogen-ion concentration or pH rating less than five and five-tenths (5.5) or greater than nine and five-tenths (9.5) pH adjustment utilizing ammonia, unless approved by the City Engineer;

(f) Any material which will be retained on a screen having eight (8) meshes per inch each way;

(g) Any industrial waste containing toxic or poisonous substances, such as herbicides or insecticides, which are sufficient in quantity to interfere with the biologic processes at the sewage treatment plant; or which might harm workmen or other people at the sewage treatment plant, or in the sewer system, or in the treated waste effluent; or which might harm persons, livestock, or plants utilizing the treated wastewater;

(h) Any malodorous substance, such as hydrogen sulfide, or any other substance which will cause offensive odors in the sewer system or at the sewage treatment plant;

(i) Any garbage, meat processing waste, animal skins, intestines, fleshings, or paunch materials, except when suitably ground;

(j) Any wastewater discharge containing in excess of:

or any other toxic material which may interfere with biological processes;

(k) Any substance which is not amenable to treatment by the processes employed at the treatment plant;

(l) Any substance containing radioactive material in sufficient quantity to interfere with any treatment process or constitute a hazard to humans or animals;

(m) Slugs consisting of any discharge of water, sewage, or industrial waste which, in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow, exceeds for any fifteen-minute period more than five (5) times the average concentration of flows during normal operation over a twenty-four-hour period; or

(n) Any rainwater, stormwater, groundwater, street drainage, subsurface drainage, or yard drainage, including evaporative type air cooler discharge water, into any sewerage facility which is directly or indirectly connected to the sewage facilities of the City.

(Ord. 490, eff. July 7, 1982)

Supplemental rules and regulations and future charges shall be adopted by the Council by resolution, and copies of such rules and regulations and future charges shall be maintained at all times in the Office of the City Clerk and shall be available for inspection by the general public.

(§ 1, Ord. 513, eff. July 17, 1985)