West Covina Municipal Code § 23-213 Steam exhaust and boiler blow-off

Except as provided by section 23-208, a person shall not place, throw or deposit, or cause or permit to be placed, thrown or deposited in any public or house connection sewer, any dead animal, offal, or garbage, fish, fruit or vegetable waste, or other solid matter, or materials or obstructions of any kind whatever of such nature as shall clog, obstruct or fill such sewer, or which shall interfere with or prevent the effective use or operation thereof. A person shall not cause or permit to be deposited or discharged into any such sewer, any water or sewage or liquid waste of any kind containing chemicals, greases, oils, tars, or other matters in solution or suspension, which may, by reason of chemical reaction or precipitation, clog, obstruct or fill the same, or which may in any way damage or interfere with or prevent the effective use thereof, or which may necessitate or require frequent repair, cleaning out or flushing of such sewer to render the same operative or which may obstruct or cause an unwarranted increase in the cost of treatment of the sewage.

(Code 1960, § 5227)

(a) A person shall not discharge uncontaminated cooling water or clear wash water, that is, nonseptic or incapable of becoming a public nuisance, into the public sewer where it is possible as determined by the city engineer, to dispose of such wastes into a stream channel or storm drain in accordance with the regulations of the county flood control district.

(b) For the purpose of this section, "storm drain" also includes a storm drain under the jurisdiction of the city engineer.

(Code 1960, § 5227.1)

Garbage resulting from the preparation of any food or drink prepared and served or proposed to be served in any individual dwelling unit may be ground and discharged into a main line sewer if it complies as to method of discharge and fineness with the provisions of this article.

(Code 1960, § 5227.2)

Garbage resulting from the preparation of food or drink may not be discharged into any main line sewer unless it is ground to a fineness sufficient to pass through a three-eighths (⅜) inch screen.

(Code 1960, § 5227.4)

No person owning or operating a private or public automobile wash rack shall permit any water or effluent therefrom to flow into any public sewer or house connection sewer unless such wash rack is roofed over and is equipped with a standard sand and grease interceptor approved by the city engineer. Drainage from wash rack shall be outletted into storm drain or drainage channel whenever practicable as determined by the city engineer.

(Code 1960, § 5227.5)

Any cellar drain or any shower in a basement or roofed shower in a yard shall be protected to prevent the admission of sand, detritus, and storm or surface water into the sewer. When necessary, in the opinion of the city engineer, a person shall trap such appurtenances by a sand interceptor constructed in accordance with provisions of this article.

(Code 1960, § 5227.6)

A person shall not connect any special waste pipe from any establishment directly to any public sewer or to any house connection sewer leading thereto, but such special waste pipe shall discharge into a water supplied sink or similar plumbing fixture, which may in turn be connected to the sewer.

(Code 1960, § 5227.7)

A person shall not cause, or permit the exhaust from any steam engine or the blow-off from any boiler to be discharged directly into any public sewer or to any house connection sewer leading thereto. Such exhaust or blow-off shall first be discharged into a watertight sump which may in turn be connected to the public sewer.

(Code 1960, § 5227.8)

A person shall not discharge into the public sewer effluent of a temperature exceeding one hundred forty (140) degrees Fahrenheit.

(Code 1960, § 5234)

Before any person shall discharge alkalis, acids or other corrosive or harmful wastes into the public sewer, he shall control the pH concentration to the extent which the city engineer finds adequate.

(Code 1960, § 5235)

All toxic chemical substances shall be retained or rendered acceptable before discharge into the public sewer.

(Code 1960, § 5236)

A person shall not discharge any petroleum products into the public sewer.

(Code 1960, § 5237)

Wastes shall be diluted when and in such amounts as required by the city engineer.

(Code 1960, § 5238)