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ORDINANCE NO. NS-696 EXHIBIT 1
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARLSBAD,
CALIFORNIA AMENDING TITLE 13, CHAPTER 13.04 OF THE CARLSBAD
MUNICIPAL CODE PERTAINING TO SEWER LATERALS.
SECTION 1: That section 13.04.010 of the Carlsbad M al Code is amended to read
as follows:
"1 3.04.01 0 Definitions.
A. For the purposes of this chapter th wing words and phrases shall have the
Director of Public Works of the city or his
Carlsbad unless otherwise identified.
demanding immediate
tial public services.
from the handling,
acidified sample of a
ropriate procedure in
7. "Grease interceptor'' means a pretreatment device designed and installed to
8. "Industrial waste" means solid, liquid or gaseous substances discharged or
flowing from an industrial, manufacturing or commercial premises resulting from manufacturing,
processing, treating, recovery or development of natural or artificial resources of whatever nature.
9. "Industrial wastewater" means all water-carried wastes and wastewater of the
community excluding domestic wastewater and including all wastewater from any industrial
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production, manufacturing, processing, commercial, agricultural or other operation. These ma
also include wastes of human origin similar to domestic wastewater.
IO. "Joint sewer system" means the sewer system constructed joint
Sanitation District, the city and
entitled "Basic Agreement between Vista Sanitation District and the
Acquisition and Construction of a Joint Sewer System" (County Con
amendments and supplements thereto and as such sewer syst
certain map entitled "Map of Joint Sewer System--City o
Carlsbad for the
0. 1858-2129E) and all
specifically delineated on that
oard of supervisors of the Buena
Sanitation District as Document No. 381 247.
11. "Operator" me
12. "Owner" inch
guardian or other fiduciary, lesse
real property.
ct, the state, the United States of America or any
15. "Premises" means any lot, piece or parcel of land, building or establishment.
16. "Sewage" means the waterborne wastes derived from ordinary human living
ousehold aerobic units.
17. Sewer, Building or House. "Building or house sewer", also known as the
"lateral", or the "sewer lateral" means a pipe or conduit carrying sanitary sewage and/or industrial
wastes from a building to the public sewer or a common sewer.
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18. Sewer, Main. "Sewer main" means any public sewer used to collect and
sewage or industrial wastes to a publicly owned treatment works (POTW).
19. Sewer, Private. "Private sewer" refers to a privately owned
directly controlled by the city.
20. Sewer, Public. "Public sewer" means a publi ned treatment works
d its member agencies. This
astewater to the POTW plant, but
ot connected to the facility providing
onvey wastewater to the POTW from
(POW), which is owned in this instance by Encina Joint Pow
definition includes the sewer main and any sewers that co
does not include pipes, sewers or other conveyan
treatment. "Public sewer" also includes an
persons outside the cities of Carlsbad
District, the Buena Sanitation Distri
agreement with said cities an
Sanitary District, who are, by contract or
of the Encina Water Pollution Control Facility.
the collection, transport
concentration of any
longer than fifteen
uent or in quantity of flow exceeds for any period of duration
n five times the average twenty-four-hour concentration of
ater and Wastewater as published by the American Public Health Association,
24. "Suspended solids" or "SS" means solids that either float on the surface of, or
g and as determined by the appropriate procedure in standard methods.
25. "Toxic substances" means any substance whether gaseous, liquid or solid,
which when discharged to the sewer system in sufficient quantities may tend to interfere with any
sewage treatment process, or to constitute a hazard to human beings or animals, or to inhibit
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aquatic life or create a hazard to recreation in the receiving waters of the effluent
treatment plant.
26. "Wastewater" means any liquid waste of any kind er treated or not, and
which are discharged into or permitted to enter a public se
SECTION 2: That section 13.04.030 o d Municipal Code is amended to read
as follows:
A. Every lot that has sa quiring sewage disposal which is accessible to
ected to the public sewer within ninety days after
notified to do so by the Public Works Director."
a public sewer and is not con
the owner or person leg
mains dedicated to the City shall be the responsibility of the
City.
tenance of all privately-owned sewer mains, and all lateral lines, equipment and
connected to the City's sewer mains shall be the responsibility of the property
el occupanffuser. The property owner or occupanffuser is responsible for the
emoval of blockages in the sewer lateral from the property being served to the
he property owner or occupanffuser is responsible for the maintenance, repair, and
the sewer lateral from the sewer main to and including the building.
C. The city hereby grants a revocable license to any property owner who has obtained a
sewer connection permit pursuant to Chapter 13.1 0, or who, prior to the effective date of Chapter
13. IO, has legally connected his or her sewer lateral to the sewer main, to retain his or her current
sewer lateral placement within the city's right-of-way.
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D. Property owners must comply with Title 11, Chapter 11.16 of this code,
work or encroachments in public places), and any amendments thereto, prior
work in, or encroaching upon, the city’s right-of-way.”
SECTION 4: That Chapter 13.04 of the Carlsbad Muni
the addition of section 13.04.046 to read as follows:
II apply whenever, in the opinion of the
Director of the San Diego County nvironmental Health (DSDCDEH), an
emergency, as defined in this chap property, and the public health, safety, or
welfare shall require that repa easures to a building sewer be made or instituted
immediately.
upon which the emergency condition exists and the
n shall be jointly and severally liable to the city for all person creating SUC
actual costs incurred b abating said emergency condition.
f abating such emergency condition shall constitute a
ECTION 5: That section 13.04.050 of the Carlsbad Municipal Code is amended to read
“1 3.04.050 Restrictions relatinq to use of public sewers.
A. No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any stormwater, surface water,
groundwater, unpolluted industrial process water, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, or any waters
from an uncontaminated cooling system, swimming pool, decorative fountain or pond, into any
public sewer or any private sewer which is connected to the public sewer without written
permission in conformance with adopted regulations.
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B. No person shall enter, obstruct, uncover or tamper with any portion of the pu
or connect to it, or dispose anything into any sewer and/or sewer manhole w
permission of the Public Works Director.
C. No person or party shall remove or demolish any building uctures with plumbing
Director of such intention. All openings in or leading to the
such work shall be sealed watertight and inspected b
backfilled.
sewer line or lines caused by
cover, or obstruct access to, any
sewer manhole.
E. No person shall erect , structures, or buildings over public sewers
without the written per
scribed substances, waters or wastes into any public
sewers:
having a temperature higher than one hundred forty degrees
ater or waste which may contain more than 200 mg/l concentration of fats,
re than thirteen pounds of such substances per day after pretreatment by a
hichever is less, or containing substances which may solidify or become
s between thirty-two degrees and one hundred fifty degrees Fahrenheit;
3. Gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil, or other flammable or explosive liquid,
4. Toxic, noxious or malodorous liquid, solid, or gas deemed a public hazard and
nuisance;
5. Garbage that has not been properly shredded to a size of one-fourth inch or
less so that all particles will be carried freely under normal flow conditions in the public sewers;
6. Ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags, feathers, tar,
plastics, wood, paunch manure, paper substances or normally dry, solid wastes capable of
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causing obstruction to the flow in or damage to sewers or other interference with the pro
operation of the sewerage works;
7. Water or wastes having a pH lower than 5.5 or higher than
personnel of the sewerage works;
8. Water or wastes containing any substance icient quantity to discolor,
ge treatment process, constitute
or significantly lower the quality of the
injure, disrupt or interfere with the normal operation of a
a hazard to human or animal life, create a public nuis
receiving waters;
unusual attention or expense is req materials at a sewage treatment plant;
10. Any unusual v concentration of wastes constituting "slugs" as
defined in subsection (
for the purpose of diluting wastes which would otherwise exceed
a. The resulting effluent cannot meet the waste discharge requirements
b. The resulting sludge cannot meet limits for the chosen disposal method.
G. No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any fats and greases to the
sewer system if their concentration and physical dispersion results in separation and adherence to
sewer structures and appurtenances. If there is evidence of adherence of such materials to said
structures, or if such materials cause blockage in the sewer system, then the wastewater carrying
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such materials must be effectively pretreated by a pro
flow before its discharge to the sewer system. Grease,
when deemed necessary by the Public Works Direct
containing grease in excessive amounts, and flam
ingredients. All interceptors shall be of a type and cap
and shall be located as to be readily accessible for cl
1. Grease and oil interceptors
capable of withstanding abrupt and extreme chang
construction, watertight, and equipped with overs which when bolted in place
shall be gastight and watertight;
2. All grease, oil, ors shall be maintained in continuously
e maintaining of these interceptors,
a1 and disposal by appropriate means of the
rds of the dates, amounts, and means of disposal, which
efficient operation at all times by the
the owner shall be
captured material a
are subject to review b
harges or causes to be discharged into the public sewers any
solids shall be obligated to pay a
aste contains an excess over the
water or wastes ha
Where preliminary treatment facilities are provided for any wastewater as a
usly in satisfactory and effective
When required by the Public Works Director, the owner of any property served by a
ng and recording equipment, and
suitable control manhole in the building sewer to facilitate observation, sampling and
measurement of the wastes. Such manhole shall be readily accessible and safely located, and
shall be constructed in accordance with plans approved by the Public Works Director. The
manhole shall be installed and maintained by the owner at his expense.
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K. All measurements, tests, and analyses of the characteristics of water and w
which reference is made in subsections (9, (g), and (h) of this section sha
accordance wi andard Methods
for Examination of Water, Sewage and Industrial Wastes and e made at the control
manhole provided for in subsection (j) of this section, or up itable samples taken at said
control manhole. If no special manhole is available, the
the Public Works Director.”
ive thirty (30) days after its adoption and
ion of this ordinance and cause it to be
rculation in the City of Carlsbad within fifteen
the City Clerk, City of Carlsbad, shall c
published at least once in a news
(1 5) days after its adoption.
INTRODUCED AND a regular meeting of said City Council held on the
held on the , 2004 by the following vote, to wit:
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY
RONALD R. BALL, City Attorney
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