Contra Costa County Municipal Code Art. 420-6.12 Abandonment

(a) Onsite wastewater treatment systems and cesspools must be promptly abandoned under a permit issued by the health officer if:

(1) The system or cesspool is replaced with a connection to a sanitary sewer, a new onsite wastewater treatment system or a sewage collection system.

(2) The system or cesspool was constructed in violation of any applicable laws or regulations; or

(3) Use of the system or cesspool has ceased.

(b) Pit privies must be promptly abandoned under a permit issued by the health officer if:

(1) The pit is filled with human waste to a point that is twenty-four inches or less below the surface of the ground adjacent to the pit; or

(2) The pit privy was constructed in violation of any applicable laws or regulations.

(Ord. No. 2018-25 § III, 9-11-18)

(a) A sewage holding tank system must be promptly abandoned under a permit issued by the health officer if:

(1) The system is replaced with a connection to a sanitary sewer, an onsite wastewater treatment system or another sewage holding tank system;

(2) The system was constructed in violation of any applicable laws or regulations; or

(3) Use of the system has ceased.

(b) Vault privies. A vault privy must be promptly abandoned under a permit issued by the health officer if the vault privy was constructed in violation of any applicable laws or regulations.

(Ord. No. 2018-25 § III, 9-11-18)