Tracy Municipal Code Art. 1 General Provisions

(a) The purpose of this chapter is to provide uniform requirements for discharges into the City wastewater collection and treatment system and also to protect the local environment from the disposal of other undesirable wastes or materials.

(b) This chapter enables the City to:

(1) Comply with the administrative provisions of the Clean Water Grant Regulations, the water quality requirements set by the Regional Water Quality Control Board, national standards of performance, State and Federal toxic discharge and pretreatment standards and any other criteria which are required or authorized by State or Federal law related to waste disposal;

(2) Prevent the introduction of pollutants into the wastewater system which will interfere with the operation of the system, pass through the system inadequately treated, contaminate the resultant sludge or impair the opportunity to recycle products of the treatment process;

(3) Provide for the equitable distribution of costs related to wastewater treatment and collection. This includes collection of revenues necessary for the maintenance of adequate wastewater collection and treatment systems and to provide sufficient funds for capital outlay, bond service costs, capital improvements and depreciation;

(4) Provide for the issuance of permits to certain persons who are, by contract or agreement with the City, users of the City publicly owned treatment works (POTW).

(c) This article regulating waste disposal shall supersede all previous ordinances governing the items covered in this chapter. In the event there are any conflicts or inconsistencies between the provisions of this article and other provisions previously written in the City's Codes, the provisions of this chapter shall apply.

(d) The provisions of this chapter shall apply to the direct or indirect discharge of all liquid wastes carried to the City's publicly owned treatment works (POTW). Except as otherwise provided, the Director of Utilities enforces the provisions of this chapter.

(Prior code § 5-6.101; Ord. No. 1237, § 1(Att. A), 8-15-2017; Ord. No. 1275, § 1(Att. A), 11-19-2019)

(Prior code § 5-6.102; Ord. No. 1237, § 1(Att. A), 8-15-2017; Ord. No. 1275, § 1(Att. A), 11-19-2019)

Unless otherwise defined herein, terms shall be as adopted in the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, published by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association, and the Water Pollution Control Federation.

(Prior code § 5-6.102.1; Ord. No. 1237, § 1(Att. A), 8-15-2017; Ord. No. 1275, § 1(Att. A), 11-19-2019)

For purposes of this chapter, the following words, phrases, and abbreviations shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section unless the context specifically indicates otherwise.

"Act" or "the Act" means the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the Clean Water Act.

"Amalgam process wastewater" means any wastewater generated and discharged by a dental discharger through the practice of dentistry that may contain dental amalgam.

"Amalgam separator" means a collection device designed to capture and remove dental amalgam from the amalgam process wastewater of a dental facility

"Applicant" means any person or group of persons, who applies for sewer service or a wastewater discharge permit.

An "authorized representative" of an industrial user shall be:

(1) A responsible corporate officer such as a 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;

(2) A manager of one or more manufacturing, production, or operating facilities, provided, the manager is authorized to make management decisions which govern the operation of the regulated facility including having the explicit or implicit duty of making major capital investment recommendations, and initiate and direct other comprehensive measures to assure long-term environmental compliance with environmental laws and regulations; can ensure that the necessary systems are established or actions taken to gather complete and accurate information for control mechanism requirements; and where authority to sign documents has been assigned or delegated to the manager in accordance with corporate procedures;

(3) A duly authorized representative of a responsible corporate officer of the individual user if the authorization is made in writing by the responsible corporate officer; the authorization specifies either an individual or a position having responsibility for the overall operation of the facility from which the Industrial Discharge originates, such as the position of plant manager, operator of a well, or well field superintendent, or a position of equivalent responsibility, or having overall responsibility for environmental matters for the company; and the written authorization is submitted to the Control Authority;

(4) A general partner or proprietor if the company is a partnership or sole proprietorship respectively;

(5) If an authorization under paragraph (3) of this section is no longer accurate because a different individual or position has responsibility for the overall operation of the facility, or overall responsibility for environmental matters for the company, a new authorization satisfying the requirements of paragraph (3) of this section must be submitted to the Control Authority prior to or together with any reports to be signed by an authorized representative.

"Batch process" means a treatment process in which a tank or vessel is filled with wastewater (or solution), the wastewater (or solution) is treated to meet discharge standards and is then released into the sanitary system. A batch process is not continuous.

"Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD)" means that quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure five (5) days at twenty (20º) degrees centigrade expressed in terms of weight and concentration (milligrams per liter, mg/l).

"Bypass" means the intentional diversion of waste streams from any portion of an industrial user's treatment facility.

"Categorical pretreatment standard" is any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by EPA in accordance with sections 307(b) and (c) of the Act (33 U.S.C. section 1317) that apply to a specific category of users and that appear in 40 CFR chapter I, subchapter N, parts 405—471.

"Centralized waste treatment (CWT) facility" means any facility that treats (for disposal, recycling or recovery of material) any hazardous or non-hazardous industrial wastes, hazardous or non-hazardous industrial wastewater, and/or used material received from off-site. "CWT facility" includes both a facility that treats waste received exclusively from off-site and a facility that treats wastes generated on-site as well as waste received from off-site.

"Cesspool" means an underground reservoir, such as a cistern, well, or tank, used for receiving drainage or sewage from a residence.

"City" means the City of Tracy, City Manager or his designee, or the City Council of Tracy.

"Chemical oxygen demand (COD)" means the measure of chemically oxidizable material in domestic or other wastewaters as determined by appropriate testing procedures and expressed in terms of mass per volume (mg/l).

"Code" means the Tracy Municipal Code.

"Commercial user" means any user of the sewerage system, except those specifically classified as residential user or industrial user, whose premises are used to provide a product or service for retail or wholesale. Commercial shall include, but shall not be limited to retail stores, restaurants, office buildings, laundries, hotels, motels, healthcare facility, mobile businesses, and other private businesses and service establishments.

"Composite sample" means a collection of individual samples obtained at intervals during a specified period of time. Flow-proportioned composite samples are obtained by collecting incremental samples with volumes proportional to flow. The resulting mixture (composite sample) forms a representative sample of the waste stream discharged during the sample period.

"Compatible pollutant" means a combination of biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, pH, fecal coliform bacteria, plus other pollutants that the City's POTW facilities are designed to accept and/or remove. Some compatible pollutants may be considered incompatible when discharged in significant quantities.

"Control authority" means the division of the City of Tracy, Utilities Department, which administers the POTW pretreatment program.

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

"Council" means the City Council of the City of Tracy.

"Customer" means any person, firm, association, corporation, or governmental agency served or entitled to be served by the City, for or without compensation.

"Daily maximum limit" means the maximum allowable discharge limit of a pollutant during a calendar day. Where daily maximum limits are expressed in units of mass, the daily discharge is the total mass discharged over the course of the day. Where daily maximum limits are expressed in terms of a concentration, the daily discharge is the arithmetic average measurement of the pollutant concentration derived from all measurements taken that day.

"Dental amalgam" means an alloy of elemental mercury and other metal(s) that is used in the practice of dentistry.

"Dental discharger" means a facility where the practice of dentistry is performed, including, but not limited to, institutions, permanent or temporary offices, clinics, home offices, and facilities owned and operated by Federal, state or local governments, that discharges wastewater to the POTW.

"Developer" means any person, or group of persons, who requests the Council to extend its sewage collection facilities.

"Development" means a parcel of land on which dwelling units, commercial or industrial buildings or other improvements are built.

"Direct discharge" means the discharge of treated or untreated wastewater directly to the waters of the State of California.

"Director" means the Director of Utilities of the City or his authorized representative, acting within the scope of his assigned duties.

"Domestic user" means a user discharging domestic wastewater from a private dwelling.

"Domestic wastewater" means the liquid and solid and 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, including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking and sanitation. For the purpose of this article, a mobile home space shall be considered a dwelling unit. More than one dwelling unit per structure and/or lot shall be deemed multiple dwelling units.

"Enforcement Compliance Schedule Agreement (ECSA)" means a mutual agreement between the City and the user amending the permitted pretreatment practices and/or installation of equipment to insure permit compliance.

"Environmental Protection Agency" or "EPA" means the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, or where appropriate, the term may also be used as a designation for the Administrator or other duly authorized official of said agency.

"Fats, oils, and grease (FOG) means any substance such as vegetable or animal product that is used in, or is a byproduct of, the cooking or food preparation process, and that becomes or may become viscous, or solidifies or may solidify, with a change in temperature or other conditions.

"Finance Director" means the Finance Manager of the City of Tracy.

"Floor area" means the area included within the surrounding exterior walls of a building or portion thereof, exclusive of ramps, docks, vents, shafts, and courts. The floor area of a building, or portion thereof, not provided with surrounding exterior walls shall be the usable area under the horizontal projection of the floor or roof above.

"Food service establishment (FSE)" means food facilities defined in California Uniform Retail Food Facilities Law (CURFFL) Section 113789 of the Health and Safety Code, and any commercial or industrial entity within the boundaries of the sanitary sewer service area of the municipal wastewater control facility, operating in a permanently constructed structure such as a room, building, or place, or portion thereof, maintained, used, or operated for the purpose of storing, preparing, serving, or manufacturing, packaging, or otherwise handling food for sale to other entities, or for consumption by the public, its members or employees, and which has any process or device that uses or produces FOG, or grease vapors, steam, fumes, smoke or odors that are required to be removed by mechanical ventilation as required by Health and Safety Code Section 114149. An establishment that limits its food preparation activities to those defined as "limited food preparation" in Health and Safety Code Section 113818 is not considered a FSE when engaged only in reheating, hot holding or assembly of ready to eat food products, provided that the establishment has no wastewater discharge containing a significant amount of FOG.

"Grab sample" means a sample which is taken from a waste stream on a one-time basis with no regard to the rate of flow in the waste stream and without consideration of time.

"Holding tank waste" means any waste from holding tanks such as those located on or in vessels, chemical toilets, campers, trailers, septic tanks, and vacuum-pump tank trucks.

"Incompatible pollutant" means any pollutant which is not a compatible pollutant as defined herein.

"Indirect discharge" means the discharge or the introduction of pollutants from any non-domestic source regulated under section 307(b) or (c) of the Act (33 U.S.C. 1317) into the POTW (including holding tank waste discharged into the system).

"Industrial user" or "user" means any source of indirect discharge.

"Industrial wastewater" means all water-carried wastes and wastewater of the community, excluding domestic wastewater, and shall include all wastewater from any producing, manufacturing, processing, agricultural or other operation. These may also include wastes of human origin similar to domestic wastewaters.

"Inspector" means a person authorized by the Director to inspect any development discharging or anticipating discharge to wastewater conveyance, processing and disposal facilities.

"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.

"Institutional user" means any user, including any outside user, public or private, operating a nonprofit school, church, hospital, lodge or club.

"Interference" means a Discharge which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, both:

(1) Inhibits or disrupts the POTW, its treatment processes or operations, or its sludge processes, use or disposal; and

(2) Therefore is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the POTW's 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 the following statutory provisions and regulations or permits issued thereunder (or 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), and including 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.

"Mass emission rate" means the weight of material discharged to the sewer system during a given time interval. Unless otherwise specified, the mass emission rate shall mean pounds per day of a particular constituent or combination of constituents.

"May" means permissive.

"Milligrams per liter" means a unit of the concentration of water or wastewater constituent. It is 0.001 g of the constituent in 1,000 ml of water. It has replaced the formerly commonly used unit "parts per million," to which it is approximately equivalent in reporting the results of water and wastewater analysis.

"National pretreatment standard," "pretreatment standard" or "standard" means any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by the EPA in accordance with sections 307(b) and (c) of the Act which applies to industrial users. This term includes prohibitive discharge limits established pursuant to section 403.5 of this Act.

"New construction" means any structure planned or under construction for which a connection permit has not been issued.

"New source" means:

(1) any building, structure, facility or installation from which there is or may be a Discharge of pollutants, the construction of which commenced after the publication of proposed Pretreatment Standards under section 307(c) of the Act which will be applicable to such source if such Standards are thereafter promulgated in accordance with that section, provided that:

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

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

(iii) 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.

(2) 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 paragraphs (m)(1)(ii) or (m)(1)(iii) of this section, but otherwise alters, replaces, or adds to existing process or production equipment.

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

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

(A) Any placement, assembly, or installation of facilities or equipment; or

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

(ii) 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 or contracts which 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.

"Normal working day" means the period of time during which production and/or operation is taking place."Pass-through" means a 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, is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the POTW's NPDES permit (including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation).

"Permittee" means a person who has applied for and received permission to discharge pollutants into Tracy's sewerage system subject to the requirements and conditions established by the City.

"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 representative, agents or assigns. The masculine gender shall include the feminine and the singular shall include the plural where indicated by the context.

"Pesticides" means those compounds, including, but not limited to, DDT (dichlorodipheyltrichloroethane, both isomers), DDE (dichlorodiphenylethylene), DDD (dichlorodiphenyldichloroethane), aldrin, benzene hexachloride (alpha, beta and gamma isomers), chlordane, endrin, endrin aldehyde, 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD), toxaphene, alpha-endosulfan, beta-endosulfan, endosulfan sulfate, heptachlor, heptachlor epoxide, dieldrin.

"pH" means the logarithm of the reciprocal of the quantity of hydrogen ions in moles per liter of solution used in expressing both acidity and alkalinity on a scale ranging from zero to fourteen (14) where seven (7) represents neutrality, numbers less than seven (7) increasing acidity, and more than seven (7) increasing alkalinity.

"Pollutant" means any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked, or discharged equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal, and agricultural waste discharged into water.

"Pollution" means the man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical, biological, and the radiological integrity of water.

"Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB)" means those compounds, including, but not limited to, Aroclors, 1016, 1221, 1228, 1232, 1248, 1254, 1260, and 1262.

"Pretreatment or treatment" means the reduction of the amounts of pollutants, the concentration 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 a POTW. The reduction or alteration can be obtained by physical, chemical or biological processes or process changes or other means, except as prohibited by 40 CFR section 403.6(d).

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

"Priority pollutants" means a listing of the toxic pollutants identified by EPA as having the greatest environmental concern and as incompatible and requiring pretreatment prior to discharge in order to prevent interference with POTW's operation, sludge contamination or treatment system pass-through into receiving waters or into the atmosphere.

"Public agency" means the State of California and any city, county, district, other local authority or public body of or within this State.

"Publicly owned treatment works (POTW)" means a treatment works as defined by section 212 of the Act (33 U.S.C. 1292) which is owned in this instance by the City. This definition includes any devices and systems 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 only if they convey wastewater to a POTW Treatment Plants. For the purposes of this chapter, "POTW" shall also include any sewers that convey wastewaters to the POTW from persons outside the City who are, by contract or agreement with the City, users of the City's POTW.

"Public sewer" means a sewer owned and operated by the City. All public sewers must be constructed in accordance with Tracy's regulations and specifications for construction of sanitary sewers.

"RCRA" means Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (42 U.S.C. 6901, et seq.).

"Regulatory agencies" means those agencies affecting the operation of Tracy's sewer system, including, but not limited to, the following:

(1) United States Environmental Protection Agency, San Francisco and Washington, DC (EPA);

(2) California State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB); and

(3) California Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB).

"Regulatory compliance schedule agreement (RCSA)" means an agreement between the City and permittee to implement pretreatment practices and/or install equipment to ensure compliance with future revised categorical pretreatment standards or revised discharge limitations.

"Routine sampling" means sampling conducted prior to any enforcement action(s) initiated by the City. Sampling shall consist of either grab or composite sampling which may be conducted at the Director and/or designee's discretion.

"Sanitary sewage" means the portion of sewage exclusive of industrial wastes and stormwaters.

"Sanitary sewer" means a sewer to which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.

"Sanitary waste" means domestic wastewater.

"Sewage" means water carrying wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such other waters as may be present, or any combination of such wastes and water. Also see wastewater.

"Sewage facilities" means any and all facilities used for collecting, conveying, pumping, treating and disposing of wastewater.

"Sewage works" means all sewer and facilities operated for carrying, collecting, pumping, treating, and disposing of sewage; also POTW.

"Sewer" means a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.

"Sewer lateral" means a pipe or pipe and appurtenances that conveys wastewater from the plumbing of a structure to a sewer main.

"Sewer main or main sewer" means a sanitary sewer pipe owned and controlled by the City of Tracy. The sewer main does not include any portion of the sewer lateral.

"Shall" means mandatory.

"Side sewer" means a connection with a sewer lateral from a house or other structure; also building sewer.

"Significant industrial user" means, except as provided in subsection (3) of this definition:

(1) All industrial users subject to categorical pretreatment standards under 40 CFR 403.6 and 40 CFR chapter I, subchapter N; and

(2) Any other industrial user that: discharges an average of twenty-five thousand (25,000) gallons per day or more of process wastewater to the POTW (excluding sanitary, non-contact cooling and boiler blowdown wastewater); contributes a process waste stream which makes up five (5) percent or more of the average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the POTW treatment plant; or is designated as such by the Control Authority as defined in 40 CFR 403.12(a) on the basis that the industrial user has a reasonable potential for adversely affecting the POTW's operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement (in accordance with 40 CFR 403.8(f)(6)).

(3) The City may determine that an industrial user subject to categorical pretreatment standards under section 403.6 and 40 CFR chapter I, subchapter N is a non-significant categorical industrial user rather than a significant industrial user on a finding that the industrial user never discharges more than 100 gallons per day 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:

(i) The industrial user, prior to the City's finding, has consistently complied with all applicable categorical pretreatment standards and requirements;

(ii) The industrial user annually submits the certification statement required in 40 CFR section 403.12(q) together with any additional information necessary to support the certification statement; and

(iii) The industrial user never discharges any untreated concentrated wastewater. (iv) Upon finding that an industrial user meeting the criteria in subsection (1) of this definition has no reasonable potential for adversely affecting POTW's operation or for violation of any pretreatment standards or requirement, the City may at any time, on its own initiative or in response to a petition received from an industrial user, and in accordance with 40 CFR 403.8(f)(6), determine that such industrial user is not a significant industrial user.

(4) Has, in his wastes, toxic pollutants in toxic amounts as defined in the standards issued under section 307a of the Federal Act;

(5) Is found by the City to have a significant impact, either singularly or in combination with other contributing industries, on the POTW or sewage collection system;

(6) Is otherwise subject to Federal categorical pretreatment standards under 40 CFR 403.6 and 40 CFR chapter I, subchapter N; or

(7) Has a discharge of wastewater which may contain, at any given time, any of the components as referred to in section 5.24.110, Limitations on Radioactive Wastes, and in section 5.24.060, Limitations on Wastewater Strength.

"Significant noncompliance" if the violation meets one or more of the following criteria:

(1) Chronic violations of wastewater discharge limits, defined here as those in which sixty-six (66) percent or more of all of the measurements taken during a six (6) month period exceed (by any magnitude) a numeric Pretreatment Standard or Requirement, including instantaneous limits, as defined by 40 CFR 403.3(l);

(2) Technical review criteria (TRC) violations, defined here as those in which thirty-three (33) percent or more of all of the measurements for each pollutant parameter taken during a six (6) month period equal or exceed the product of the numeric Pretreatment Standard or Requirement including instantaneous limits, as defined by 40 CFR 403.3(l) multiplied by the applicable TRC (TRC = 1.4 for BOD, TSS, fats, oil, and grease, and 1.2 for all other pollutants except pH);

(3) Any other violation of a Pretreatment Standard or Requirement as defined by 40 CFR 403.3(l) (daily maximum, longer-term average, instantaneous limit, or narrative Standard) that the Control Authority determines has caused, alone or in combination with other discharges, interference or pass-through (including endangering the health of POTW personnel or the general public);

(4) Any discharge of a pollutant that has caused imminent endangerment to human health, welfare or to the environment or has resulted in the POTW's exercise of its emergency authority to halt or prevent such a discharge;

(5) Failure to meet, within ninety (90) days after the schedule date, a compliance schedule milestone contained in a local control mechanism or enforcement order for starting construction, completing construction, or attaining final compliance;

(6) Failure to provide, within forty-five (45) days after the due date, required reports such as baseline monitoring reports, ninety (90) day compliance reports, periodic self-monitoring reports, and reports on compliance with compliance schedules;

(7) Failure to accurately report noncompliance;

(8) Any other violation or group of violations which the Control Authority determines will adversely affect the operation or implementation of the local pretreatment program.

"Slug discharge or slug load means any discharge at a flow rate or concentration which could cause a violation of the general discharge prohibitions contained in TMC 5.24.050. A slug discharge is any discharge of a non-routine, 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; also batch dump.

"Standard industrial classification (SIC)" means a classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification Manual issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget, 1972.

"State" means the State of California.

"Storm sewers or storm drains" means a sewer which carries storm and surface water but excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes.

"Stormwater" means any flow occurring during or following any form of natural precipitation and resulting therefrom.

"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.

"Temporary user" means any discharger who is granted temporary permission by the City to discharge unpolluted water, storm drainage or ground water to the City's sewerage facilities.

"Total organic carbon (TOC)" means the measure of total organic carbon in domestic or other wastewater as determined by the appropriate testing procedure.

"Total halomethane" means the sum of all quantifiable values greater than 0.01 milligrams per liter of the following components: bromodichloromethane, dibromochloromethane, chloroform, bromoform, methylene chloride, chloromethane, and bromomethane. Halomethane means a methane molecule having one or more halogen atoms attached to it, including, but not limited to, bromodichloromethane, dibromochloromethane, chloroform, bromoform, methylene chloride, chloromethane, and bromomethane. Halogen atom means fluorine, chlorine, bromine, or iodine.

"Total oil and grease" means the hexane extractable material recovered by the oil and grease method which may include non-volatile petroleum hydrocarbons, waxes, animal fats, mineral and vegetable oils, soaps, sulfur compounds, organic dyes, chlorophylls.

"Total toxic organics (TTO)" means the summation of all quantifiable values greater than 0.01 milligrams per liter for the toxic organics listed in 40 CFR 401.15.

"Toxic pollutant" means any pollutant or combination of pollutants listed as toxic in regulations promulgated by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under the provision of CWA 307(a) or other Acts.

"Unpolluted water" means water to which no constituent has been added either intentionally or accidentally.

"User" means any person who contributes, causes or permits the contribution of wastewater into the City's POTW.

"User charge" means a charge established and levied by the City that provides for the operation and maintenance expenses, capital expansion, capital recovery and adequate reserves for the sewage treatment works upon residential, commercial and industrial users in proportion to the use of the treatment works by their respective class.

"Waste" means sewage and any and all other waste substances, liquid, solid, gaseous or radioactive, associated with human habitation or of human or animal nature, including such wastes placed within containers of whatever nature prior to and for the purpose of disposal.

"Wastehauler" means any person carrying on or engaging in vehicular transport of waste as part of, or incidental to, any business for the purpose of discharging said waste into the City's system.

"Waste manifest" means that form required by regulatory bodies such as EPA, the Department of Transportation, the California Department of Health Services, the City of Tracy and/or the United States Government for all generators and/or transporters who transport, or offer for transport, hazardous, universal, or liquid waste for off-site treatment, recycling, storage or disposal.

"Wastewater" means the liquid and water-carried industrial or domestic wastes from dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities, and institutions, together which may be present, whether treated or untreated, which is contributed into or permitted to enter the POTW. Also see sewage.

"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 quality and quantity of wastewater.

(1) Abbreviations. The following abbreviations shall have the designated meanings:

(2) Word Usage. Words used in this article in the singular may include the plural and plural the singular. Use of masculine shall include feminine and use of feminine shall include masculine.

(Ord. 1119 §§ 1, 2, 2008; prior code § 5-6.102.2; Ord. No. 1237, § 1(Att. A), 8-15-2017; Ord. No. 1275, § 1(Att. A), 11-19-2019)