Fowler Municipal Code Ch. 3 Sewage Disposal

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) "Dispose" shall mean to dispose of in any manner, treat by any process, store, hold, establish, or maintain any method or system of disposal, treating, processing, or holding of industrial waste.

(b) "Health Officer" shall mean the Health Officer of the County and his deputies and assistants.

(c) "Industrial plant" shall mean and include, but not be limited to, wineries, distilleries, slaughterhouses, reduction works, oil refineries, seed oil processing plants, dried fruit and other food processing, canning, or packing plants, manufacturing plants, and plants of a similar nature.

(d) "Industrial waste" shall mean and include sewage, feculent matter, offal, winery slops, stillage, lees, distillery water, oils, and any fluid or semifluid containing any chemical or other solids, whether of vegetable, animal, or mineral origin, and which have been produced or formed as a result of or incidental to the operation of any industrial plant.

(e) "Person" shall mean and include any individual, firm, copartnership, joint venture, association, and corporation, whether as owner, lessee, agent, or employee of another.

(Ord. 400 § 1)

It shall be unlawful for any person to dispose of any industrial waste other than through a sewer system operated by a public agency or other than in strict conformity with the terms of a permit for the disposal of such industrial waste previously issued by the Health Officer.

(Ord. 400 § 2)

Upon an application made to the Health Officer, upon a form prescribed by him, for a permit to dispose of industrial waste, the Health Officer shall make a full investigation of the proposal. If he finds that the proposed method of disposing of such industrial waste is such that there will not be maintained or created a hazard to the public health or a public nuisance, he shall issue a permit therefor and may impose such terms, conditions, and restrictions as in his opinion may be reasonably necessary to prevent the maintenance or creation of a hazard to the public health or a public nuisance. The Health Officer may from time to time modify such conditions and restrictions as the public health and welfare may require.

(Ord. 400 § 3)

The provisions of this chapter may be enforced by appropriate injunctive proceedings.

(Ord. 400 § 4)