Poway Municipal Code Art. VI Miscellaneous Provisions

No person shall install or permit to be installed an interconnection between a drinking water supply and any equipment or connection of any kind, class, or description which may contain water or any liquid or substance unfit for human or domestic consumption. The Director shall make or cause to be made inspections to determine if such conditions exist, and if such interconnections are discovered the Director shall require the City to discontinue water service unless the condition is abated within a reasonable period of time fixed by the Director. No device shall be sold in the City which provides such an interconnection as a means of operation unless the water supply is adequately protected.

(CC § 68.240; Ord. 29 § 1, 1981)

No opening shall be provided in any drainage system or in any septic tank, settling tank, seepage pit, cesspool or other subsurface disposal unit or system for the purpose of receiving the surface drainage from any yard or building.

(CC § 68.241; Ord. 29 § 1, 1981)

No person shall cover or cause to be covered any septic tank, settling tank, seepage pit, cesspool, subsurface tile line system, or other subsurface disposal system or unit prior to its approval by the Director as provided in this chapter.

(CC § 68.242; Ord. 29 § 1, 1981)

It is unlawful for any person to connect any house sewer line or other plumbing to a septic tank, settling tank, cesspool, seepage pit or other subsurface sewage disposal unit or system hereafter installed, constructed or reconstructed, unless such septic tank, settling tank, cesspool, seepage pit or other subsurface sewage disposal unit or system has been approved by the Director as provided in this chapter.

(CC § 68.243; Ord. 29 § 1, 1981)

No privy vault, privy, cesspool, or water closet shall be allowed by the owner or other person in charge of the premises upon which the same may be situated to become foul or offensive; and when, in the opinion of the Director any such privy, vault, or closet or cesspool shall need cleaning or disinfecting, it shall be the duty of said Director to notify such owner or other person having control to abate the same by such disinfecting or cleaning as in the judgment of said Director may be necessary, or in the case of a defective or offensive cesspool the owner, if deemed necessary by the Director, shall connect the premises to an available public sewer or construct a new sewage disposal system that meets the requirements of this chapter.

(CC § 68.244; Ord. 29 § 1, 1981)