HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD NO 1367 ORDINANCE NO..~L~d}/__, NEW SERIES
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 8.64 (SEWERS--
USE AND CONNECTIONS) OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE OF
THE CITY OF BAKERSFIELD.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Bakersfield that
Chapter 8.64 of the Bakersfield Municipal Code enacted on the 4th day
of June, 1913, entitled Sewers--Use and Connections, be and the same
is hereby amended to read as follows:
CHAPTER 8.64
SEWERS--USE AND CONNECTIONS
Sections:
8.64.010 Definitions.
8.64.020 Requirements for Sewage Disposed into Sewage System.
8.64.030 Discharge of Industrial Wastes.
8.64.040 Discharge of Industrial Wastes--Permit Required.
8.64.050 Discharge of Cooling System Water into Sewage System.
8.64.060 Discharge of Sw~ ..... ~ng Pools into Sewage System.
8.64.070 Maintenance of Sewer Connections.
8.64.080 Limits and Prohibition for Protecting the Sewage
Treatment Plant and Municipal Farm.
8.64.090 Payment of Damages Resulting from Violation of this
Chapter.
8.64.100 Authority to Shut Off Connections to Premises
Violating this Chapter.
8.64. 110 Penalty for Violation.
8.64.010 Definitions.
(a) "City" shall mean the City of Bakersfield, a municipal
corporation of the State of California.
(b) "City Engineer" shall mean the City Engineer of the City of
Bakersfield or his authorized representative.
(c) "Person" shall mean any individual, firm, company, association,
society, corporation or other legal entity.
(d) Normal Sanitary Sewage.
Cons tituents Permissible Range
Suspended Solids 110 - 400 ppm
B.O.D. 70 - 300 ppm
Chlorine Demand 5 - 15 ppm
Total Solids 400 - 1200 ppm
Conductivity (micromhos per 500 - 1400 micromhos
cm at 25°C.)
(e) "Industrial Wastes" shall mean the liquid wastes from
industrial processes as distinct from normal sanitary sewage. Any
sewage exceeding maximum limits of normal sanitary sewage shall be
classified as industrial waste.
(~ "Bio-chemical Oxygen Demand" shall mean the quantity of oxygen
utilized in the bio-chemical oxidation of organic matter under standard
laboratory procedure in five days at 20° Centigrade, expressed in
milligrams per liter.
(g) "Standard Methods" or "Standard Laboratory Procedure" shall
mean the procedures outlined in the latest edition of the book,
"Standard Methods for ~he Examination of Water and Sewage", published
by the American Public Health Association.
(h) "Suspended Solids" shall mean the solids in industrial wastes
which are removable by filtering as prescribed by Standard Methods of
the American Public Health Association.
(i) "pH" shall mean a measure of hydrogen-ion concentration or
acidity in which the neutral point of ?.0 and decreasing number
indicate '~reater acidity as prescribed by Standard Methods.
(3) "Sanitary Sewer System" or "Sewer System" shall mean all
facilities for collecting, pumping and transporting domestic or
industrial wastes of any nature, including all such facilities both
inside and outside of the city limits of Bakersfield owned, operated
and controlled by City.
8.64.020 Requirements for Sewage Disposed into Sewage Syst~-m.
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged into the
sanitary sewer system of the City any of the following materials, wastes
or waters:
(a) Any liquid or vapor having a temperature higher than 150°F.
or 65°C.
(b) Any waters or wastes which contain grease or oil or other
substance which will become discernibly viscous at temperatures be~ween
32° and 150OF.
(c) Any waters or wastes containing emulsified oil and grease
exceeding an average of 50.parts per m~ llion of ether soluble matter.
The maximum admissible concentration shall be not more than 100 ppm
for a period not to exceed 15 minutes in any one hour.
(d) Any gasoline, benzine, naptha, fuel oil, mineral oil or
other flaam~ble or explosive liquid, solid or gas.
(e) Any noxious or malodorous gas such as hydrogen sulphide,
sulphur dioxide, or nitrous oxide or other substance while either
singly or by interaction with other wastes, is capable of creating a
public nuisance or hazard to life or of preventing entry into sewers
for their maintenance and repair.
(f) Any household garbage that has not been properly comm~nuted
or triturated. Ail ground garbage shall be capable of passing through
a 1/2" mesh screen before being introduced in the sewer system.
(g) Any ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass,
rags, feathers, tar, plastics, wood, paunch manure, hair and fleshings,
entrails, lime slurry, lime residues, beer or distillery slops,
chemical residues, paint residues, unscreened cannery waste, bulk
solids, or any ot/~er solid or viscous substance capable Of causing an
obstruction to flow in sewers, or other interference with the proper
operation of the sewer system.
(h) Any waters or wastes, acid or alkaline in reaction, having
corrosive properties capable of causing damage or hazard to structures,
equipment, or personnel. Free acids and alkalies must be neutralized
at all times to within a permissible pH range of 5.5 to 8.5.
(i) Any cyanides in excess of 5 ppm by weight as CN.
(]) Any radioactive isotopes having a half life of more than 100
days except by special perm~ t.
(k) Any waters or wastes that for a duration of more than 15
minutes in any 3-hour period has a concentration greater than 5 times
that of "normal" sewage as measured by suspended solids, B.O.D. or
conductivity.
(1) Any waters of non-sewage or non-industrial waste origin, such
as waters from water well developments, storm water, etc., except by
special pe;%ait issued by the City Engineer. Each case shall be
examined on its own merits.
8.64.030 Discharge of Industrial Wastes.
No person shall place, deposit or discharge into the sanitary
sewer system of the City any of the following:
(a) Any industrial or other waste, water, liquid or other substance
in which the suspended solids exceed 2,000 parts per million,
determined by weight.
(b) Any waste with a Bio-chemical oxygen demand of more than
5,000 parts per million.
Ail industrial wastes shall meet the applicable specifications of
Sections 8.64.020 and 8.64.080.
Ail industrial wastes shall be pretreated before entering the
sanitary sewer system in such a way that they will be further treatable
and disposable by the system available to the City of Bakersfield.
Pretrea~nent shall be approved by the City Engineer.
8.64.040 Discharge of Industrial Wastes--Permit Required.
(a) No person shall discharge industrial wastes into the sanitary
sewage system of the City without first obtaining a permit so to do
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from the City Engineer. Such permit shall be known as an 'Industrial
Water Pea-mit". Application for such permit shall be made in writing
to the City Engineer and shall contain the following information:
(1) NAme and address of applicant.
(2) Location of connection or proposed connection urith sanitary
sewer system.
(3) Estimated gallonage of wastes proposed to be discharged and
statement as to approximate time of discharging same, together with
information as to peak loads, and such other sim~ 1ar data as the City
Engineer may require.
· (4) Statement of the character of the waste proposed to Be
discharged, including such detail in connection therewith as the City
Engineer may require.
(B) Bond Retuirement. T~e City Engineer may in his discretion
require that an applicant 'for an Industrial Waste Permit shall file a
Bond in an .amount deemed adequate By the City Engineer to indemnify
the City and any other person a~ainst all loss, expense, or damage
which may result from or arise out of the granting of the permit and
the discharge of Industrial wastes into the Sanitary Sewer System of
~he City. The City Engineer may require the Bond as a condition
precedent to the issuance of an industrial waste permit or at any time
after a permit is granted.
8.64.050 Dischar~e of Coolin~ System Water into Sanitary Sewer Sys tern.
(a) Water which has Been used as a cooling medium in any cool, r,
appliance, device or other apparatus, shall not in any ~Anner Be
discharged directly or indirectly into the sanitary sewer system of
the City,'. provided, however, that Bleed-off water from cooling towers,
not in excess of 15% of intake water, may Be discharged into the
sanitary sewer .system.
(B) No person shall Be permitted to maintain or use any connection
in violation of Section 8.64.050 (a) and any such connection in
existence at the tim of the effective date of this Code shall be
disconnected from the Sanitary Sewer System of the City.
8.64.060 Dischar~e of Sw4~mtn~ Pools into Sanitary Sewer System.
(a) Ail swi,,-,,;ng pools in the City of Bakersfield shall be equipped
with a filtration system which will pe.-~uit the reuse of the water in
said swi,-,,,~ng pools for a period of not less than one year.
(b) The discharge pipe from said swimming pools shall not be
larger than one inch and the water in said pools shall not be discharged
into the sanitary sewer system of said City more often than once a
year and not until a permit has been obtained from the City Engineer
who shall designate the time for the discharge of such water. In no
event shall such discharge of water from swi ..... lng pools be at a time
when the climatic temperature is higher than seventy degrees F.
(c) All swi~uu,ing pools existing at the effective date of this
ordinance shal'l be made to conform with the provisions of this ordi-
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8.64.070 Maintenance of Sewer Connections.
Ail property owners shall be required to maintain the sewer
connection from their respective property line to the City sewer.
8.64.080 Limits and Prohibition for Protectin~ the SewaKe
Treatment Plant and Municipal Farm.
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged into the
sanitary sewage system of the City any waters or wastes containing a
toxic or poisonous substance~ a high chlorine demand or suspended
solids in sufficient quantity to injure or interfere with any sewage
treatment process, constitute a hazard to humans or animals or create
any harmful effect or hazard to the Sewage Treatment Plant or the land
on which the sewage effluent is disposed. Such toxic substances shall
be limited to the average concentration for a 24-hour period, listed
hereinafter. At no time shall the hourly concentration exc. eed three
times the average concentration. If the concentrations listed are
exceeded, individual establishments will be required to pretreat their
sewage in an accepted manner, before discharging it into the sewer
system. Said pretreatment shall be approved by the City Engineer.
Limits of some toxic substances in sewage:
Iron, as Fe 20 ppm
Chromium (as hexavalent Ct) - - 5 ppm
Copper, as Cu 5 ppm
Zinc, as Zn 10 ppm
Chlorine demand - 120 ppm
Phenol 20 ppm
Chloride, as C1 -300 ppm
As other toxic substances not listed above are required to be
discharged into the sewer system, the limiting quantities of these
substances shall be set from info~--~tion derived from a responsible
source or by actual tests using accepted methods.
8.84.090 Payment of Damages Resultin~ from Violation of this
Chapter.
In the event that any person deposits any substance in any sewer,
sewer'pipe, manhole, septic tank connected with the sanitary sewer
system of the City in violation of the provisions of this chapter, in
addition to any other penalties provided by this chapter, such person
shall pay the City for the damage caused thereby and for the cost of
any cleaning of any portion of said sanitary sewage system made
necessary by reason thereof. The City Engineer shall determine the
amount of such damage and costs and shall mail to the occupant of the
premises wherein said substances were placed or deposited in said
sewer, sewer pipe, manhole, septic tank connected with the sanitary
sewer system a statement of the same.
8.64.100 Authority to Shut Off Connections to Prer~ses Violate-?
this Chapter.
The City Engineer shall have the authority to shut off any premises
from the use of the City sanitary sewer system where the occupant or
user of such premises is placing, discharging or conducting any water
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or wastes into the sanitary sewer system of the City in violation of
this chapter.
8.64.110 Penalty for Violation.
Any person, firm or corporation violating any provision of this
chapter shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and each such person
shall be deemed ~uilty of a separate offense for each and every day
or portion thereof during which any violation of any of the provisions
thereof is committed, continued or 'permitted and upon conviction of
any such violation such person shall be punishable by a fine of not
more than ~500.00 or by imprisonment of not more than 30 days or by
both such fine and imprisonment.
All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith be
and the same are hereby repealed.
It is the intention of the City Council that this ordinance,
and every provision thereof, shall be considered separable; and the
invalidity of any section, clause, provision, or part or portion of
any section, clause or provision of this ordinance shall not affect
the validity of any other portion of this ordinance.
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was passed and
adopted by the Council of the City of Bakersfield at a regular meeting
thereof held on the 26th day of June, 1961, by the following vote:
Council of the City of Bakersfield.
AP~'ROVED.'th'is [:26th day of June, 1961.
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Aff' av t of os ng ( r nan es
STATE OF C~IFORNIA, }
County of Ke~ ss.
MARIAN S. IRVIN, being duly sworn, deposes and says:
That she is the duly appointed, acting and qualified City Clerk of the City of Bakersfield; and that
on ........ ..t..h...e.....2...7..t._I.h....d...a.y.....o.~...J...u!!....e.., ............................ ,19~....1.... she posted on the Bulletin Board at
the City Hall, a full, true and correct copy of an ordinance passed by the Counci~ of said City at a
meeting thereof duly held on ..............~..h_e.....2..~.t...h.....~..a.~y....Q.~...~.~j~., .......... ,19...~_],, which ordinance
was numbered ...........~._.3...6_'~. ............... New Series, and entitled:
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 8.64 (SEWERS-
USE AND COHNECTIONS) OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE OF
THE CITY OF BAKERSFIELD.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
..2...7...t..h._..day of ............ ..~..u...n...e.~ ..................... , 19...6..~....
Notar,~ Publk in and for the County of Kern, State of Callfoflda