Chapter 13.07 STORM AND SANITARY SEWER REGULATIONS
Section 13.07.110 Prohibited discharges - Nature of director's discretion - Purview.
1. If any waters or wastes are discharged, or are proposed
to be discharged into the public
sewers, which waters contain the substances or possess the characteristics enumerated in Section
13.07.100, and which in the judgment of the director, may have a deleterious effect upon the
sewage works, processes, equipment or receiving waters, or which otherwise create a hazard to
life or constitute a public nuisance, the director may:
a. Reject
the wastes;
b. Require
Pretreatment to an acceptable condition for discharge into the public sewers.
To this end, the director may require pretreatment to (A) reduce the biochemical oxygen demand
to three hundred parts per million by weight, or (B) reduce the suspended solids to three hundred
fifty parts per million by weight;
c. Require
control over the quantities and rates of discharge; and/or
d. Require
payment to cover the added cost of handling and treating the wastes not
covered by existing taxes or sewer charges under the provisions of this chapter.
2. If the director permits the pretreatment or equalization
of waste flows, the design and
installation of the plants and equipment shall be subject to the review and written approval of the
director and subject to the requirements of all applicable codes, ordinances and laws. The
director may require a compliance schedule for the design, construction and installation of
equipment for such pretreatment works. No construction shall commence on such pretreatment
facilities until the written approval of the director is obtained. The costs of all pretreatment
facilities shall be paid by the person contributing the wastes. (Ord. 83/T-2039; S-39108,
1979).