Mountain House Municipal Code Ch. 4 Sewer System Overflows

(a) SSOs may cause threat and injury to public health, safety, and welfare of life and property and are hereby declared public nuisances. Furthermore, sewer lateral failures and SSOs caused by FSEs alone or collectively are the responsibility of the private property owner or FSE, and individual(s) as a responsible officer or owner of the FSE.

(b) FSEs found to have contributed to a sewer blockage, SSOs, or any sewer system interferences resulting from the discharge of wastewater or waste containing FOG shall be ordered to install and maintain a grease interceptor and may be subject to a nuisance abatement order to prevent any future health hazards created by sewer line failures and blockages, SSOs or any other sewer system interferences.

(c) If the City must act immediately to contain and/or clean up an SSO caused by blockage of a private sewer lateral or private sewer system of an FSE, or because of the failure of the property owner or FSE to abate the condition causing an immediate threat of injury to the health, safety, welfare, or property of the public, the City costs for such abatement shall be entirely borne by the property owner or operator of the FSE, and individual(s) as a responsible officer(s) or owner(s) of the FSE(s) and may constitute a debt to the City and become due and payable upon the City's request for reimbursement of such costs.

(Ord. 2024-23, § 1(Exh. A), 2024)