HomeMy WebLinkAbout1979-2298 REGULATING USE OF PUBLIC & PRIVATE SEWERS & DRAINS & THE DISCHARGE OF WATERS & WASTES INTO PUBLIC SEWER SYSTEM 410 ORDINANCE NO. c v ° 2 9
AN ORDINANCE relating to public services and utilities; regulating .
the use of public and private sewers and drains and
the discharge of waters and wastes into public sewer
systems; and amending Subsection 7.62,020 D,_7.62.040 H,
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7.62.050 A, 7,62.050 B, and 7.62.050 C, all of the City
• of Yakima Municipal Code,
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF YAKIMA:
Section 1. Subsection 7.62,020 D of the City of Yakima Municipal
Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
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"7,62.020 Use of public sewers required.
D, The owners of all houses, buildings, or properties
used for human occupancy, employment, recreation, or other
purposes, and abutting on any street, alley, or right-of-
way in which there is now located or may in the future be
located a public sanitary sewer of the City of Yakima, are
111 hereby required at the owners' expense to install suitable
toilet facilities therein, and to connect such facilities
directly with the proper public sewer in accordance with
the provisions of this ordinance, within ninety (90) days
after date of official notice to do so, provided that said
public sewer is within two hundred (200) feet of the proper-
. ty line."
Section 2. Subsection 7.62.040 H of the City of Yakima Municipal
Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
"7.62.040 Building sewers and connections.
H. No person shall make connection of roof downspouts,
foundation drains, areaway drains, or other sources of
surface runoff or groundwater to a building sewer or build-
ing drain which in turn is connected directly or indirectly
to a public sanitary sewer."
Section 3, Subsection 7.62,050 A of the City of Yakima Municipal
Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
i"7,62.050 Use of public sewers.
A. No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged
any unpolluted waters such as stormwater, groundwater,
• roof runoff, subsurface drainage, or cooling water to
any sewer."
Section 4. Subsection 7.62,050 B of the City of Yakima Municipal
Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
411 "7.62.050 Use of public sewers.
B. Stormwater and all other unpolluted drainage shall
be discharged to such sewers as are specifically desig-
nated as storm sewers or to a natural outlet approved.by
the Director of Public Works and other regulatory agencies,
111 Unpolluted industrial cooling water or process waters
may be discharged, on approval of the superintendent, •to-
a storm sewer or natural outlet."
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Section 5, Subsection 7,62,050 C of the City of Yakima Municipli,
Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
"7,62,050 Use of public sewers,
C. (1) No person shall discharge or cause to be
discharged any of the following described waters or wastes IP
to any public sewers, storm drains or ditches;
1, Any gasoline, benzene, naptha, fuel oil, or
other flammable or explosive liquid, solid,
or gas,
2, Any waters containing toxic or poisonous solids,
liquids, or gases in sufficient quantity, either
singly or by interaction with other wastes,
to injure or interfere with any waste treatment
process, constitute a hazard to humans or animals,
create a public nuisance, or create any hazard
in the receiving waters of the wastewater treat-
ment plant,
Any waters or wastes having a pH lower than
5,5 or tigher than 9.0, or having any other cor-
rosive property capable of causing damage or
hazard to structures, equipment, and personnel
of the wastewater works.
4. Solid or Viscous substances in quantities or
of such size capable of causing obstruction to
the flow in sewers, or other interference with
the proper operation of the wastewater facili-
ties such as, but not limited to, ashes, bones,
cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal,
glass, rags, feathers, tar, plastics, wood, un-
ground garbage, whole blood, paunch manure,
hair and fleshings, entrails and paper dishes,
cups, milk containers, etc,, either whole or
ground by garbage grinders.
(2) Septic tank or sewage treatment sludge accidentally
spilled shall be contained, pumped into a vehicle and trans-
ported to the assigned disposal site; provided, any spilled
materials which pose an immediate danger to the public and
cannot be handled in some other manner may be discharged
to storm or sanitary sewers by the authority of the Director
of Public Works, a police officer, a fire marshal, or fire
inspector or firefighter, or other government officer or
employee engaged in public safety or emergency services,
or who otherwise has jurisdiction over the area where the
spill occurs."
Section 6. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect
thirty days after its passage, approval and publication as provided
by law and by the City Charter.
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL, signed and approved this ,/.4)/
of 1979.
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