Pomona Municipal Code § 62-523 Pretreatment plans

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Cross reference— Environment, ch. 18.

Should there exist the available sewage treatment capacity, industrial wastes that are acceptable as to analysis and population equivalent but in excess of the proportional amount for a certain industry, may be accepted for disposal under a special permit whereunder the industry shall agree to bear the entire cost of such excess disposal. If such disposal facilities should become overloaded, the director of public works/city engineer may, with the approval of the state agency having jurisdiction, upon 90 days' notice of intention, terminate any such special permit.

(Code 1959, § 27-35; Ord. No. 910, § 350)

Any industry which lies within or partly within the city for which sewerage is available and whose wastes have been determined to cause no damage to the system or unjustifiable expense to other users shall have a right to a proportional use of any available capacity of such sewerage and treatment plant maintained by the city.

(Code 1959, § 27-46; Ord. No. 910, § 351)

Proportional use, as used in this division, is the amount per capita of domestic sewage, normal as to volume, suspended solids and biochemical oxygen demand which shall be equated to the basis of $1,000.00 of assessed valuation and shall constitute one unit of industrial waste. Any industry whose wastes are in compliance with this division and for which there exist available sewerage and disposal capacity may discharge to the sewers as many such units of waste as there are whole units of $1,000.00 each in such industry's assessed valuation as lies wholly within the city or in the assessed valuation of such part thereof as may lie within the city limits.

(Code 1959, § 27-47; Ord. No. 910, § 351)

Cross reference— Definitions generally, § 1-2.

(a) Every person applying for a building permit for construction of a new industrial building or structure or for an addition or alteration to an existing building or structure shall secure a signed statement for the director of public works/city engineer as to requirements for disposal of industrial liquid wastes, industrial sewage, and other waste materials from such building or structure. The person for whom such building or structure is to be constructed shall furnish the director of public works/city engineer such plans, information, data, statements or affidavits as the director of public works/city engineer may require for determination of the nature and quantity of the wastes involved and the facilities to be provided for the disposal thereof.

(b) Upon completion of his examination of the data submitted, the director of public works/city engineer shall promptly issue a statement made in accordance with one of the following conditions, which shall be incorporated in the approved plans and made a part of the building permit:

(1) Disposal of all industrial wastes, industrial sewage or other waste materials shall be made by connection to the public sewer in accordance with this division, and plans for the facilities required shall be submitted to and approved by the director of public works/city engineer and a permit issued before construction of such waste disposal facilities is started.

(2) Connection to the public sewer is not feasible; the applicant has certified that the wastes involved consist only of domestic sewage, uncontaminated cooling water, or other innocuous materials; and disposal shall be made into septic tanks, cesspools or other similar facilities to be approved by the county health officer and constructed in accordance with the California Plumbing Code.

(3) Connection to the public sewer is not feasible; the proposed use of the building or structure will produce wastes containing impurities which cannot be reduced to safe or reasonable limits by any known processes; disposal of such wastes in the manner proposed may create a menace to the public health or safety, create a public nuisance, pollute underground water supplies, or cause serious damage to public or private property; and no permit for disposal of such wastes can be issued under this division.

(Code 1959, § 27-50; Ord. No. 910, § 355)

(a) Any person who makes, causes, permits, or allows to be made any connection to a sanitary sewer for the disposal of any industrial waste shall first file an application with the director of public works/city engineer in the manner provided in this subdivision and be issued a permit therefor. Such permit shall be for a single industrial sanitary sewer connection.

(b) Any person who makes, causes, permits, or allows to be made any industrial connection to a sanitary sewer without first having filed an application with the director of public works/city engineer and being issued a permit therefor is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(c) Any person who makes, causes, permits, or allows to be made any industrial connection to a sanitary sewer and who fails, refuses or neglects to apply for and be issued a permit therefor by the director of public works/city engineer shall be assessed an additional 100 percent of the fixed fee for such permit, which penalty shall be added thereto and shall be collected with the fee.

(Code 1959, §§ 27-36, 27-42, 27-43; Ord. No. 910, §§ 360, 366, 367)

Every person or his duly authorized representative applying for a permit to make a connection to a sanitary sewer for the purpose of discharging industrial wastes shall file with the director of public works/city engineer an application in duplicate, signed and setting forth the following:

(1) The name and address of the applicant.

(2) The name and official status of the authorized representative, if any.

(3) The character and analysis of waste proposed to be discharged.

(4) The volume and rate, periodic or otherwise, of discharge.

(5) The location of the point of discharge.

(6) A scale drawing or print of the plant layout showing in outline all equipment producing industrial wastes, buildings, and railroad sidings or spurs, if any. Such drawing or print shall be attached to and be a part of each copy of the application as filed.

(7) The applicant agrees to provide at his expense any manhole necessary for adequate sampling and measurement as referred to in section 62-395 should such sampling and measurement be deemed necessary by the director of public works/city engineer.

(Code 1959, § 27-37; Ord. No. 910, § 361)

(a) If pretreatment is required to make the waste acceptable, the applicant for a permit to dispose of industrial liquid waste or industrial sewage shall be accompanied by four copies of suitable plans showing the method of collection and pretreatment proposed to be used. A permit shall not be issued until such plans or required modification thereof have been checked and approved by the director of public works/city engineer and any other affected governmental agency.

(b) Whenever, in the opinion of the director of public works/city engineer, special field investigation is required or when plans for construction of any industrial sewer or industrial waste pretreatment facilities must be checked and approved, the applicant shall deposit a sum estimated by the director of public works/city engineer to cover the cost of checking the plans and based on the following schedule:

(1) For sewage treatment plants or industrial liquid waste pretreatment plants or other facilities, the fee shall be set by resolution of the city council times the estimated number of manhours required for checking the plans and making field examinations.

(2) An amount equal to ten percent of the amounts in subsection (b)(1) of this section to cover indirect costs.

(3) In no case shall the fee be less than the amount set by resolution of the city council.

(Code 1959, §§ 27-38, 27-39; Ord. No. 910, §§ 362, 363; Ord. No. 2322, § 1 (part))

The fixed fee, payable in advance, for a permit to discharge any industrial waste into a sanitary sewer shall be as follows:

(1) For each permit for an industrial connection to a sanitary sewer, the sum as computed in section 62-399(a) through (c).

(2) For each special permit to discharge into a sanitary sewer any industrial waste exceeding in volume the allowed proportional amount, per section 62-503, the sum it will cost the city to expand its facilities to the nearest industrial outfall line.

(Code 1959, § 27-40; Ord. No. 910, § 364; Ord. No. 2322, § 1 (part))

If, after due investigation, the director of public works/city engineer determines that the proposed wastes will be in compliance of all applicable laws, ordinances and regulations, he shall so inform the applicant and furnish him a statement of the amount of charges to be levied for treating such wastes.

(Code 1959, § 27-41; Ord. No. 910, § 365; Ord. No. 2322, § 1 (part))

The prescribed fees and deposits having been deposited in the manner provided in this subdivision, the director of public works/city engineer may issue a permit, provided that sewerage and disposal capacity are available and it has been determined that the wastes conform to the provisions of all applicable laws, ordinances and regulations and that the volume of waste that is in excess of the allowed proportional amount will not cause overloading of the disposal plant.

(Code 1959, § 27-44; Ord. No. 910, § 368)

Permits issued under this subdivision are not transferable from one location to another, and discharge of wastes shall be made strictly in accordance with all provisions contained in the permit, at the location specifically designated therein.

(Code 1959, § 27-45; Ord. No. 910, § 369)

The discharge of industrial wastes into a sanitary sewer shall be governed as follows:

(1) All wastes, however harmless, shall be reduced to a minimum in volume and strength, and fluctuations of temperature and flow shall be evened out by adequate storage before discharge.

(2) All wastes, when necessary, shall be pretreated by screening, sedimentation, neutralization, or other improved methods to produce a quality and character of waste that shall conform to section 62-504.

(3) Pretreatment of industrial wastes shall be at the source and at the expense of the agency producing such waste.

(Code 1959, § 27-51; Ord. No. 910, § 354)