Mount Shasta Municipal Code Part I Administration

The purpose of this chapter is to provide for the maximum possible beneficial public use of the City’s facilities through adequate regulation of sewer construction, sewer use, and industrial wastewater discharges; to provide for equitable distribution of the City’s costs; and to provide procedures for complying with requirements placed upon the City by other regulatory agencies. (Ord. CCO-99-05, 1999; Ord. 331 § 101, 1975)

(A) This chapter shall be interpreted in accordance with the definitions set forth in Part V hereto.

(B) The provisions of this chapter shall apply to the direct or indirect discharge of all liquid carried wastes to facilities of the City. This chapter among other things provides for the regulation of sewer construction in areas within the City, the quantity and quality of discharged wastes, the degree of waste pretreatment required, the setting of waste discharge fees to provide for equitable distribution of costs, the approval of plans for sewer construction, the issuance of permits for industrial wastewater discharge and of other miscellaneous permits and the establishment of penalties for violation of this chapter. (Ord. CCO-99-05, 1999; Ord. 331 § 102, 1975)

(A) The City operates the Mt. Shasta Water Pollution Control Facility serving homes, industries and commercial establishments within the City limits and within the area immediately adjacent to the City of Mt. Shasta.

(B) The following basic City policies apply to regulate waste discharges within the area served and will also apply to other discharges that are tributary to the City’s facilities.

(C) Generally, liquid wastes originating within the area served will be removed by the City’s sewerage system; provided, that the wastes will not (1) damage structures, (2) create nuisances such as odors, (3) menace public health, (4) impose unreasonable collection, treatment or disposal costs on the City, (5) interfere with wastewater treatment processes, (6) exceed quality requirements set by regulatory government agencies, or (7) detrimentally affect the local environment.

(D) The highest and best use of the City’s sewerage system is the conveyance, treatment and disposal of domestic wastewater.

(E) To comply with stated policies of the Federal government and to permit the City to meet increasingly higher standards of treatment plant effluent quality, provisions are made in this chapter for the regulation of industrial wastewater discharges. This chapter establishes quantity and quality limitations on industrial wastewater discharges which may adversely affect the City’s sewerage system or effluent quality. Methods of cost recovery from industrial wastewater dischargers are also established where the discharges impose inequitable collection, treatment or disposal costs on the City.

(F) Recovery and reuse procedures established by industrial wastewater dischargers to meet the limitations set on their discharges will be preferred by the City over those procedures designed solely to meet wastewater discharge limitations. Methods providing for beneficial reuse of otherwise wasted resources shall be the approved method of industrial wastewater treatment wherever feasible.

(G) Optimum use of the facilities of the City may necessitate that the Director of Public Works require that certain industrial wastewaters be discharged during periods of low flow in the sewerage system of the City. (Ord. CCO-99-05, 1999; Ord. 331 § 103, 1975)

(A) No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any rainwater, stormwater, groundwater, street drainage, subsurface drainage, or yard drainage, including evaporative type air cooler discharge water, to any public or private sewer which directly or indirectly connects to the wastewater treatment facilities of the City.

(B) No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged to any public or private sewer which directly or indirectly connects to the City’s wastewater treatment facility any toxic or other waste, if in the opinion of the Director of Public Works such wastes may have an adverse or harmful effect on sewers, maintenance personnel, wastewater treatment plant personnel or equipment, treatment plant effluent quality, public or private property, or may otherwise endanger the public or the local environment or create a public nuisance. The Director of Public Works, in determining the acceptability of specific wastes, shall consider the nature of the waste and the adequacy and nature of the collection, treatment, and disposal system available to accept the waste.

(C) No person, firm or corporation shall injure, break or remove any portion of any manhole, rodhole, flush tank, catch basin or any part of the sewer system or throw or deposit or cause to be thrown or deposited in any sewer opening or receptacle connecting with the sewer system any garbage, offal, dead animals, vegetables, parings, ashes, cinders, rags or other matter or thing whatsoever except feces, urine, the necessary water closets, paper, liquid, house or mill slops. (Ord. CCO-99-05, 1999; Ord. 22, 1912)

This chapter regulating sewer construction, sewer use and industrial wastewater discharges shall supersede all previous ordinances and policies of the City governing items covered in this chapter. (Ord. CCO-99-05, 1999; Ord. 331 § 104, 1975)