Article I — General Provisions

A.

Sections 50022.1 to 50022.8 of the California Government Code define procedures for the city to adopt state and federal codes by reference.

B.

This chapter and Chapter 14.10 shall supplant all prior Code provisions, amendments thereto, and policy statements relating to the rules and regulations for the operation of the city sewer system and matters incidental thereto.

(Ord. No. 1105 N.S., § 2 (Exh. A), 12-1-2020)

The wastewater discharge regulations in this chapter and in Chapter 14.10 set uniform requirements for discharges of domestic and industrial waste in the city sewer system to enable the city to comply with the administrative provisions of the clean water regulations, water quality requirements set by the water quality control board and the applicable effluent limitations, national standards of performance, pretreatment effluent standards, and any other discharge criteria that are required or authorized by state and federal law, and to derive the maximum public benefit by regulating the quality and quantity of wastewater discharged into those systems.

Establishing Rules and Regulations. Except as provided otherwise, the director of public works shall administer, implement, and enforce the provisions of this chapter. The director is hereby authorized to establish any rules and regulations necessary for the enforcement of this chapter and may delegate and appoint employees of the city to act on his or her behalf.

Constitutionality. If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the chapter or application of such provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected.

Conflict with State Law. Any provision in this chapter that conflicts with the provisions of the California Health and Safety Code, Streets and Highways Code, Government Code, or any other California Code shall be automatically superseded by the provisions in said code until such time as this chapter can be revised.

(Ord. No. 1105 N.S., § 2 (Exh. A), 12-1-2020)

A.

It is unlawful for any person to place, deposit or permit to be deposited in an unsanitary manner upon public or private property within the city, or in any area under the jurisdiction of the city, any domestic or industrial sewage.

B.

It is unlawful for any person to discharge to any waters of the state any sewage, industrial wastes, or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with provisions of this chapter.

C.

It is unlawful for any person to dump or discharge into the city sewer system any raw or chemically treated wastewater from septic tanks or chemically treated wastewater from portable toilets, or any raw or chemically treated sewage from any industrial or unidentified liquid waste or any hazardous waste except as provided by Chapter 14.10.

D.

Except as provided in Article III of this chapter, it is unlawful for any person to construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool, seepage pit or other facility intended or used for the disposal of sewage except for permitted and approved septic tank, leach-field and seepage pit systems.

E.

No building, industrial facility or other structure shall be occupied until the owner of the premises has complied with all rules and regulations of the city. Any industrial or commercial facility is prohibited from discharging pollutants which may:

Pass through an individual disposal system, and is untreated or partially treated;

Interfere with any individual disposal system treatment works; and/or

Contaminate any individual disposal system's sludge.

F.

All privately owned building laterals and private sewage disposal systems and appurtenances from all points of the property to the city sewer, shall be maintained by the property owner in a safe and proper operating condition; and all devices or safeguards which are required by this chapter for the operation thereof shall be maintained in good working order.

To determine compliance with this chapter the city may require any plumbing system, new or existing, to be reinspected.

The director may require a property owner to submit to the city a video of the private lateral and appurtenances. If the city determines that the private lateral or any portion thereof, has become unsanitary or a threat to health or property, the city shall order in writing that plumbing be removed or placed in a safe and sanitary condition. Any such order shall fix a reasonable time limit for compliance. No person shall use or maintain defective plumbing after receiving such notice.

G.

All users of the sewer system shall prevent the discharge of prohibited substances as described in Chapter 14.10 into the laterals or other sewer lines connected with the city sewer and sewer treatment system, and all users shall take such reasonable and necessary measures as may from time to time be prescribed by the city council to make

effective enforcement of this prohibition. More stringent requirements imposed by the water quality control board shall be controlling.

H.

Excessive Sewer Maintenance/Damage to Facilities. Any person(s) who discharges or causes to be discharged into the city's sewerage facilities either directly or indirectly, any waste or wastewater which is prohibited, creates a blockage, breakage, permanent reductions to sewer capacity, causes excessive maintenance expenses, creates detrimental effects to the POTW, causes the violation of a discharge requirement or regulation imposed by a regulatory agency, or causes any other damage to city facilities, shall be liable for all damages and costs occasioned thereby, including any penalty assessed by a regulatory agency. The damages, cost, or penalty assessed shall be deemed a debt to the city and shall be charged to the user.

(Ord. No. 1105 N.S., § 2 (Exh. A), 12-1-2020)

"Acreage" means a parcel of land that is the gross acres of said parcel before existing improved streets have been deducted.

"Act" means the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 (PL 92-500) (33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.) and any amendments thereto including the Clean Water Act of 1977, as well as any regulations, guidelines, limitations, and standards promulgated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to the Act.

"Applicant" means the person applying for a permit for a sewer or plumbing installation and shall be the owner or authorized agent of the premises to be served by the sewer for which a permit is requested.

"Approval authority" means the state water resources control board.

"Authorized" or "duly authorized representative of the user" means:

If the user is a corporation:

a.

The president, secretary, treasurer, or a vice-president of the corporation in charge of a principal business function, or any other person who performs similar policy or decision-making functions for the corporation; or

b.

The manager of one or more manufacturing, production, or operation facilities, provided the manager is authorized to make management decisions that govern the operation of the regulated facility including the explicit or implicit duty to make major capital investment recommendations; initiate and direct other comprehensive measures to assure long- term environmental compliance with environmental laws and regulations; ensure that necessary systems are established and actions taken to gather complete and accurate information to comply with wastewater discharge permit requirements; and sign documents in accordance with corporate procedures.

If the user is a partnership or sole proprietorship: a general partner or proprietor, respectively.

If the user is a federal, state, or local governmental facility: a director or highest official appointed or designated to oversee the operation and performance of the activities of the governmental facility, or their designee.

The individuals described in paragraphs 1 through 3 of this subsection may designate a duly authorized representative if the authorization is in writing; the authorization specifies the individual or position responsible for either the overall operation of the facility from which the discharge originates or the overall environmental matters of the company; and the written authorization is submitted to the city.

"Beneficial uses" means uses of the waters of the state that may be protected against quality degradation including, but not limited to, domestic, municipal, agricultural and industrial supply, power generation, recreation, athletic enjoyment, navigation, and the preservation and enhancement of fish, wildlife, and other aquatic resources or reserves and other uses, both tangible or intangible, as specified by federal or state law.

e waters of the state that may be protected against quality degradation including, but not limited to, domestic, municipal, agricultural and industrial supply, power generation, recreation, athletic enjoyment, navigation, and the preservation and enhancement of fish, wildlife, and other aquatic resources or reserves and other uses, both tangible or intangible, as specified by federal or state law.

"Best management practices (BMPs)" means the activity schedules, prohibited practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices needed to implement the prohibitions listed in subsections 14.10.040.A. and B.1.— 23. BMPs include treatment requirements, operating procedures, and practices to control plant site runoff, spillage, leaks, sludge disposal, waste disposal, and drainage from raw materials storage.

"Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD)" means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at twenty degrees centigrade, expressed in terms of weight and concentration (milligrams per liter).

"Building" means any structure used for human habitation or a place of business, recreation, or other purpose containing sanitary facilities.

"Building sewer" means that portion of any sewer beginning at the building drain, two feet from the building, of any building or facility and running to the city sewer main, a private sewage disposal system, or a public right-of-way or easement.

"Capacity charge" means the amount charged for connection to the city's sewer system for the purpose of mitigating the impacts of new development. A reasonable relationship must be demonstrated between the use of the fee and the type of development on which the fee is imposed.

"Categorical industrial user" means an industrial user subject to a categorical pretreatment standard or categorical standard.

"Categorical pretreatment standard" or "categorical standard" means any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by the Environmental Protection Agency in accordance with Sections 307(b) and (c) of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1317) that apply to a specific category of industrial users, including those standards promulgated in 40 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter N, as amended from time to time.

"Cesspool" means an unlined excavation in the ground that receives the discharge of a drainage system or part thereof, so designed as to retain the organic matter and solids discharging therein, but permitting the liquids to seep through the bottom and sides.

"City" means the City of El Paso de Robles, County of San Luis Obispo, State of California.

"City attorney" means an attorney appointed by the city council to represent the city.

"City council" means the five city council members elected at large from within the city boundaries and empowered as a group acting in public meetings to legislate in all matters related to the city's jurisdiction established by the laws

of the state.

"City engineer" means the engineer appointed by, and acting for, the city council. The city engineer shall be a registered civil engineer.

"City inspector" means the inspector acting for the city council and may be the engineer or inspector appointed by the director of public works.

"Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)" means an annual document of the United States government that codifies federal agency rules, regulations, and guidelines.

"Commercial establishment" means any building used to conduct private or public wholesale or retail transactions involving the exchange of services, commodities, or financial business. Such facilities normally produce domestic wastes but may also produce some industrial wastes.

"Connector" means any owner or renter of any premises connected to the sewer system.

"Contractor" means an individual firm, corporation, partnership, or association duly licensed by the state to perform the type of work to be done under the permit.

"Control authority" means the city.

"Conventional pollutants" means pollutants which are usually found in domestic and/or commercial wastes such as suspended solids, biological oxygen demand, and oil and grease of animal or vegetable origin.

"Cooling water" means the blow-down or bleed water from cooling towers, which is water discharged from any use, such as air conditioning, cooling, or refrigeration, during which the only pollutant added to the water is heat.

"County" means the County of San Luis Obispo in the State of California.

"Director" means the city public works director or his or her authorized representative.

"Discharge" means to pump, place, deposit, permit, or cause to flow.

"Domestic septage" is the liquid or solid material removed from a septic tank, cesspool, or similar treatment works that holds only domestic sewage. Domestic septage does not include liquid or solid material removed from these systems that receives either commercial process wastewater or industrial wastewater and does not include grease removed from a restaurant grease trap.

"Domestic wastes" means liquid waste and solid waterborne wastes derived from the ordinary living processes of humans of such character as to permit satisfactory disposal, without special treatment, into the public sewer or by means of a private disposal system.

"Dwelling unit" means a single unit providing complete, independent living facilities for one or more persons, which may include permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking, and sanitation.

"Enforcement response plan" means the plan prepared by the director in compliance with the requirements of 40 CFR 403.8(f)(5) and Section 14.10.680 of this Code describing the process for investigating and responding to instances of industrial user noncompliance.

"EPA" or "Environmental Protection Agency" means the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

"Existing source" means any source of discharge, the construction or operation of which commenced prior to the EPA's publication of proposed categorical pretreatment standards, which will be applicable to such sources if the

standard is thereafter promulgated in accordance with Section 307 of the Act.

"FOG" means fats, oils, and grease.

"Food service establishment (FSE)" means a place where food or drink is prepared for sale or service on the premises or elsewhere, including bakeries, cafeterias, churches, grocery stores, residential kitchens used for commercial purposes, convenience stores, farmer's markets, barbeques and mobile food units.

"Garbage" means solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage, and sale of produce.

"General permit" means a permit issued by the director to significant industrial users (SIUs) within the same category that have similar types of operations, generate similar types of wastes, are subject to the same effluent monitoring and restrictions, and are more appropriately controlled under a general permit than under individual permits.

"Grab sample" means a sample which is taken from a wastestream without regard to the flow in the wastestream and over a period of time not to exceed fifteen minutes.

"Grease control device" or "GCD" means equipment designed to remove, hold, and prevent the passage of fats, oils, or grease (FOG) to the sanitary sewer systems such as a grease interceptor, grease trap or a hydromechanical grease interceptor.

"Grease interceptor, grease trap, hydromechanical grease interceptor" means a device, unit or installation for separating and retaining waterborne fats, oils and greases or grease complexes as well as settleable solids prior to the discharge of wastewaters to the sewer system.

"Hauled waste" means domestic septage, as defined above, commercial wastewater pumped from a septic tank that is similar in character to domestic waste, high organic strength winery or brewery waste, and recreational vehicle waste pumped from a septic tank.

"Hazardous waste" means a waste defined in Section 66261.3 of Title 22 of the California Code of Regulations. "Hazardous waste" includes extremely hazardous waste, acutely hazardous waste, RCRA hazardous waste, non- RCRA hazardous waste, and special waste.

"Health department" means a state or county health department.

"High strength winery or brewery waste" means process wastewater from wineries or breweries that exceeds the city's local limits for pH, biochemical oxygen demand, or total suspended solids.

"Indirect discharge" means the introduction of pollutants into the publicly owned treatment works (POTW) from any non-domestic source regulated under Section 307(b), (c), or (d) of the Act.

"Industrial user (IU)" means a user that is a source of indirect discharge that has the potential to discharge non- domestic wastewater to the POTW, or a commercial, industrial, or government user that has a sewer connection for domestic wastewater discharge only.

"Industrial wastewater" means any non-domestic liquid or solid wastes from any commercial, industrial, or institutional establishment. Industrial waste is distinct from domestic waste.

"Infectious waste" means waste which contains pathogenic organisms that can invade the tissues of the body and cause disease.

"Instantaneous limit" means the maximum concentration of a pollutant allowed to be discharged at any time, determined from the analysis of any discrete or composited sample collected, independent of the industrial flow rate

and the duration of the sampling event.

"Interference" means any discharge that, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, inhibits, disrupts, or damages the POTW, its treatment processes or operations, or its sludge processes, use or disposal; and therefore, is a cause of a violation of the city's national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit (including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation) or of the prevention of sewage sludge use or disposal in compliance with any of the following statutory/regulatory provisions or permits issued thereunder, or any more stringent state or local regulations: Section 405 of the Clean Water Act; the Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA) including Title II, more commonly referred to as the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA); any state regulations contained in any state sludge management plan prepared pursuant to Subtitle D of the SWDA; the Clean Air Act; the Toxic Substances Control Act; and the Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act.

"Lateral" or "sewer lateral" means a privately owned, operated, and maintained sewer line connecting a building or private facility to the city's main sewer. The lateral includes that portion of the line located within the public right-of- way.

"Leach field" means a conventional septic effluent treatment and absorption system which consists of a network of perforated pipes buried in gravel-filled trenches.

"Local limit" means the specific discharge limits developed and enforced by the city upon industrial or commercial facilities to implement the general and specific discharge prohibitions listed in 40 CFR 403.5(a)(1) and (b).

"Main sewer" means a public sewer designated to accommodate more than one sewer lateral, in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, that is controlled by public authority.

"Manufactured housing communities, mobile home parks or special occupancy parks" means those properties regulated by the Mobile Home Parks Act and its implementing regulations (Division 13, Parts 2.1 and 2.3 of the Health and Safety Code and Title 25, Division I, Chapters 2 and 2.2 of the California Code of Regulations).

"Medical waste" means isolation wastes, infectious agents, human blood and blood products, pathological wastes, sharps, body parts, contaminated bedding, surgical wastes, potentially contaminated laboratory wastes, and dialysis wastes.

"Monthly average" means the sum of all daily discharges measured during a calendar month divided by the number of daily discharges measured during that month.

"Monthly average limit" means the highest allowable average of "daily discharges" over a calendar month, calculated as the sum of all "daily discharges" measured during a calendar month divided by the number of "daily discharges" measured during that month.

"Natural outlet" means any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake, or other body of surface or groundwater.

"New source" means:

Any building, structure, facility, or installation, the construction of which commenced after the publication of proposed pretreatment standards under Section 307(c) of the Act, from which there is (or may be) a discharge of pollutants, and to which the proposed pretreatment standards would apply if promulgated, provided that:

a.

The building, structure, facility, or installation is constructed on a site at which no other source is located; or

b.

The building, structure, facility, or installation totally replaces the process or production equipment that causes the discharge of pollutants at an existing source; or

c.

The production or wastewater generating processes of the building, structure, facility, or installation are substantially independent of an existing source at the same site. In determining whether these are substantially independent, factors such as the extent to which the new facility is integrated with the existing plant, and the extent to which the new facility is engaged in the same general type of activity as the existing source, should be considered.

Construction on a site at which an existing source is located results in a modification rather than a new source if the construction does not create a new building, structure, facility, or installation meeting the criteria of subsections 1.b. or c. of this paragraph, but otherwise alters, replaces, or adds to existing process or production equipment.

Construction of a new source as defined under this paragraph has commenced if the owner or operator has:

a.

Begun, or caused to begin, as part of a continuous onsite construction program:

(1)

Any placement, assembly, or installation of facilities or equipment; or

(2)

Significant site preparation work including clearing, excavation, or removal of existing buildings, structures, or facilities necessary for the placement, assembly, or installation of new source facilities or equipment; or

b.

Entered into a binding contractual obligation for the purchase of facilities or equipment which are intended to be used in its operation within a reasonable time. Options to purchase, contracts that can be terminated or modified without substantial loss, and contracts for feasibility, engineering, and design studies do not constitute a contractual obligation under this paragraph.

"Noncontact cooling water" means water used for cooling which does not come into direct contact with any raw material, intermediate product, waste product, or finished product.

"Non-significant categorical industrial user." See definition of "significant industrial user" under this section.

"NPDES permit" or "national pollutant discharge elimination system permit" means the regulatory agency document issued by either the federal or state agency that is designed to control all point source pollutant discharges.

"Pass through" means any discharge which exits the POTW into waters of the United States in quantities or concentrations which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, causes a violation of any requirement of the POTW's NPDES permit, including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation.

"Permit" means any written authorization required pursuant to this chapter or Chapter 14.10 or any other rule, regulation, or ordinance of the city for the installation of any sewage facilities.

"Person" means any individual, partnership, co-partnership, firm, company, corporation, association, joint stock company, trust, estate, governmental entity, or any other legal entity, or their legal representatives, agents, or assigns. This definition includes all federal, state, and local governmental entities.

"pH" means the scale of 1 to 14 which measures acidity and alkalinity, 7.0 being neutral, 0—6.9 being acidic, and 7.1 —14 being basic or alkaline. Technically, it is the logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen ions expressed in pH units.

"Plumbing system" means all plumbing fixtures and traps; soil, waste, special waste, and vent pipes; and all sanitary sewer pipes within a building and extending to the building sewer connection three feet outside the building wall.

"Pollutant" means dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, filter backwash, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, medical wastes, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, municipal, agricultural and industrial wastes, and certain characteristics of wastewater (e.g. pH, temperature, TSS, turbidity, color, BOD, chemical oxygen demand toxicity, or odor).

"Pretreatment" means the reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater to a less harmful state prior to or in lieu of discharging or otherwise introducing such pollutants into the city's sewerage system. The reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical, or biological processes, or by process changes, or by other means, except by diluting the concentration of the pollutants unless allowed by an applicable pretreatment standard.

"Pretreatment requirements" means any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment, other than a pretreatment standard, imposed on a user.

"Pretreatment standard or standards" means any prohibited discharge standard, categorical pretreatment standard, or local limit.

"Private sewer" means a sewer serving a private developed property that accommodates one or more buildings and is connected with a public sewer main.

"Private wastewater system" means any sewer systems, other than a sewer lateral, owned and/or operated by a property owner - whether a private person or public agency - homeowner's association, common interest development. These include sewer mains, manholes, lift stations, and any pretreatment devices. Examples of private wastewater systems include but are not limited to systems located within properties used as hospitals, convention centers, retreat centers, manufactured housing communities, mobile home parks or special occupancy parks.

"Process wastewater" means any water, which during manufacturing or processing, comes into direct contact with, or results from the production or use of, any raw material, intermediate product, finished product, by-product, or waste product.

"Prohibited discharge standards" or "prohibited discharges" means absolute prohibitions against the discharge of certain substances. These prohibitions appear in Sections 14.10.040—14.10.070 of Chapter 14.10.

"Publicly owned treatment works" or "POTW" is defined by the Act and includes any devices and systems owned by the city and used in the storage, treatment, recycling, and reclamation of municipal sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid nature. It also includes sewers, pipes, and other conveyances that convey wastewater to a treatment plant. The term also means the municipality as defined in Section 502(4) of the Act, which has jurisdiction over the indirect discharges to, and the discharges from, such a treatment works.

"RCRA" means the Federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, codified at 42 U.S.C. § 6901 et seq., and its implementing regulations.

"Septage" means "domestic septage," as defined above.

"Septic system" means a water-tight receptacle that receives the discharge of wastewater, designed and constructed so as to retain solids, digest organic matter through a period of detention, and allow the liquids to discharge into the soil outside of the tank into a leach field.

"Sewage" means "wastewater."

"Sewage system, sewerage system" and "sewer system" means all city facilities for the collection, pumping, treatment, and disposal of sewage.

"Sewer" means a pipe or conduit that transports wastewater, into which storm, surface, and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.

"Shall" means mandatory.

"Significant industrial user (SIU)" means any user of the city's sewerage system that is:

A user subject to categorical pretreatment standards; or

A user that:

a.

Discharges an average of twenty-five thousand gallons or more per day of process wastewater to the POTW (excluding sanitary, noncontact cooling, and boiler blowdown wastewater); or

b.

Contributes a process wastestream which makes up five percent or more of the average daily dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the POTW treatment plant; or

c.

Is classified as a categorical industry as regulated under federal categorical pretreatment standards; or

d.

Is designated as such by the city on the basis that it has a reasonable potential for adversely affecting the POTW's operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement.

The city may determine that a user subject to categorical pretreatment standards is a non-significant categorical industrial user rather than a SIU on a finding that the user never discharges more than one hundred gallons per day (gpd) of total categorical wastewater (excluding sanitary, non-contact cooling, and boiler blowdown wastewater, unless specifically included in the pretreatment standard) and the following conditions are met:

a.

The user, prior to city's finding, has consistently complied with all applicable categorical pretreatment standards and requirements;

b.

The user annually submits the certification statement required in Section 14.10.610 [see 40 CFR 403.12(q)], together with any additional information necessary to support the certification statement; and

c.

The user never discharges any untreated concentrated wastewater.

Upon a finding that a user meeting the criteria in subsection 2. of this paragraph has no reasonable potential for adversely affecting the POTW's operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement, the city may at any time, on its own initiative or in response to a petition received from a user, and in accordance with procedures in 40 CFR 403.8(f)(6), determine that such user should not be considered a significant industrial user.

"Slug load" or "slug" means any discharge at a flow rate or concentration that could cause a violation of the prohibited discharge standards in Sections 14.10.040—14.10.070 of Chapter 14.10. A slug discharge is any discharge of a nonroutine, episodic nature, including but not limited to an accidental spill or a non-customary batch discharge, which has a reasonable potential to cause interference or pass through, or in any other way violate the POTW's regulations, local limits, or permit conditions.

"Small brewery" means a brewery that meets all of the following criteria:

Produces less than fifteen thousand barrels of beer per year; and

Generates an average of less than forty thousand gallons of wastewater per month.

"Small winery" means a winery that meets all of the following criteria:

Processes less than one hundred sixty tons of grapes per year; and

Produces less than ten thousand cases of wine per year; and

Produces a cumulative total of less than twenty-six thousand gallons of wine per year.

"Standard industrial classification (SIC)" means the compilation of industrial groups and their economic activities as printed by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget in its Standard Industrial Classification Manual.

"Stormwater" means any flow occurring during or immediately following any form of natural precipitation.

"Street" means any public highway, road, street, avenue, alleyway, place, easement, or right-of-way.

"Suspended solids" or "total suspended solids" means the total suspended matter that floats on the surface of, or is suspended in, water, wastewater, or other liquids and which is removable by laboratory filtering.

"User" means any person, domestic or non-domestic, who discharges, or causes a discharge of, waste or wastewater, directly or indirectly, into the city's sewer system.

"Waste" includes sewage and any and all other liquid, solid, gaseous, or radioactive substances associated with human habitation, of human or animal origin, or from any production, manufacturing, or processing operation of whatever nature, including such waste placed within containers of whatever nature prior to, and for the purpose of, disposal.

"Wastewater" means the liquid and water-carried wastes and sewage from residential dwellings; commercial buildings; industrial and manufacturing facilities; and institutions, whether treated or untreated, which are discharged into, or permitted to enter, the city's sewer system.

"Wastewater constituents and characteristics" means the individual chemical, physical, bacteriological, and radiological parameters including volume and flow rate and such other parameters that serve to define, classify, or measure the contents, quality, quantity, and strength of wastewater.

"Wastewater treatment plant" or "treatment plant" means that portion of the POTW that is designated to provide treatment of municipal sewage and industrial waste.

"Water quality control board" means the California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Coast Region.

"Watercourse" means a channel in which a flow of water occurs either continuously or intermittently.

"Waters of the state" means all streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems, drainage systems, and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface or underground, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained within, flow through, or border upon the state or any portion thereof.

(Ord. No. 1105 N.S., § 2 (Exh. A), 12-1-2020)