Chapter 13.04
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sections:
13.04.020 Classification of premises as “cabin” or “apartment”.
13.04.030 Water and sewer department established.
13.04.040 Appointment and compensation of public works director and other personnel.
13.04.050 Duties of public works director.
13.04.060 Right of access for inspection.
13.04.070 Use of fire hydrants.
13.04.080 Damaging water and sewer system.
13.04.085 Repealed.
13.04.090 Installation of private utilities in city streets.
13.04.100 Liability for damage.
13.04.110 Violation – Penalty.
13.04.010 Definitions.
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this title shall be as set forth in this section.
A. “Accidental discharges” means the inadvertent and unavoidable discharge of any waters or wastes which contain the substances or possess characteristics as determined by the city to be detrimental to the sewer system or treatment facilities, including slug discharges.
B. “Apartment” means any single dwelling unit designed for occupancy in the same building with other units and having separate kitchen facilities in each said unit, and includes multiple residence units having such facilities.
C. “BOD” (denoting “biochemical oxygen demand”) means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory and sampling procedures in five days at 20 degrees centigrade, expressed in milligrams per liter.
D. “Building drain” means that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste, and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
E. “Cabin” includes motel and one- and two-room living quarters designed primarily for transients, provided more than two such units are served by one meter or sewage connection.
F. “City” means the city of Grandview.
G. “Commercial, business and industrial user” means a commercial, business or industrial establishment excluding grocery stores, bakeries, restaurants and drive-ins discharging domestic wastes or industrial wastes in volumes less than 5,000 gallons per day on an average annual flow basis and not constituting a significant load on the sewage treatment works. Wastes from such a user do not pass through a monitoring station. For the purposes of determining sewer rates, waste from such a user is assumed to have a strength of 200 mg/l BOD and 200 mg/l TSS.
H. “Domestic water” or “domestic water system” means that water, and water system in which it is carried, which is for human consumption and normal household and business or industrial uses provided from the city’s supply.
I. “Multiple dwelling unit” means a building or arrangement of buildings or portions thereof, used or intended to be used as the home of two or more families or householders living independently of each other.
J. “Single-family dwelling unit” means a building arranged or designed to be occupied by not more than one family or householder.
K. “Garbage” means solid wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage, and sale of produce.
L. “Properly shredded garbage” means the wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that has been shredded to such degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half inch (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.
M. “Grocery stores, bakeries, restaurants and drive-ins” means a commercial or business establishment engaged in the commercial preparation and selling of foods, which typically discharge wastes with strengths greater than the waste discharged by a residential user. For the purposes of determining sewer rates, waste from such a user is assumed to have strength of 400 mg/l BOD and 400 mg/l TSS.
N. “Industrial user” means industrial facility that generates industrial wastes and discharges those wastes to the sewer.
O. “Industrial wastes” means the liquid wastes from industrial processes, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
P. “Large industrial or commercial user” means an industry or commercial establishment discharging sewage or industrial wastes in excess of 5,000 gallons per day on an average annual flow basis, or as determined by the city to be discharging water, sewage, wastewater, or industrial waste with BOD, chemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, or chlorine requirements in such quantities as to constitute a significant load on the sewage treatment works. These users are required by the city to install a monitoring station, unless the discharge, even in excess of 5,000 gallons per day average flow, does not create a significant load on the sewage treatment works due to low BOD and TSS loads less than 200 mg/l, to be reviewed annually.
Q. “Milligrams per liter” (abbreviated as mg/l) means the weight of any substance expressed in milligrams contained within one liter.
R. “Natural outlet” means any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface water or ground water.
S. “Person” means any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation, or group.
T. “pH” means the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
U. “Public user” means school and government establishments. Correctional facilities are not considered to be a public user, but rather are considered a large industrial or commercial user. For purposes of determining sewer rate, waste from such a user is assumed to have a strength of 200 mg/l BOD and 200 mg/l TSS.
V. “Public works director” means the public works director of the city, or his authorized deputy, agent, or representative.
W. “Residential user” means single-family dwellings, multiresidential dwellings including multiplexes, apartments, condominiums, townhouses, manufactured housing parks and multi-unit residential complexes.
X. “Sanitary wastes” means waste generated by sanitation facilities such as toilets, water closets, urinals, lavatories, and sinks used by humans, or wastes with a high probability of carrying human pathogens. For purposes of determining sewer rates, waste from such a user is assumed to have a strength of 200 mg/l BOD and 200 mg/l TSS, and sewer rates cited throughout this chapter have been based upon this assumed average concentration for BOD and TSS.
Y. “Sewage” means a combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, together with such ground waters, surface waters, and storm waters as may be present.
Z. “Sewage treatment plant” means any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
AA. “Sewage works” means all facilities for collecting, pumping, treating, and disposing of sewage.
BB. “Sewer” means a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
CC. “Building sewer” means the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal.
DD. “Combined sewer” means a sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
EE. “Private sewer” means the sewer line and disposal system owned, constructed, installed, operated and maintained by a person where connection with the public sewer system is not required, and is not regulated by this title.
FF. “Public sewer” means a sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights, and is controlled by public authority.
GG. “Sanitary sewer” means a sewer which carries sewage and industrial waste, and to which storm waters, surface waters, and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
HH. Shall and May. The word “shall” is mandatory. The word “may” is permissive.
II. “Slug discharges” means any discharge of industrial wastes which in concentration of any given component or in quantity of flow is more than five times the average 24-hour concentration. Average 24-hour monitoring records from a similar period of operation shall be used to determine the average 24-hour concentration of flow under normal operations.
JJ. “Storm sewer” or “storm drain” means a sewer which carries storm waters, surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial wastes.
KK. “Suspended solids” means solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in, water, sewage, industrial wastes, or other liquids, which are removable by laboratory filtering, are determined by quantitative standard laboratory procedures, and are expressed in milligrams per liter.
LL. “TSS” (denoting “total suspended solids”) means solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in, water, sewage, industrial wastes, or other liquids, which are removable by laboratory filtering and sampling procedures, and are expressed in milligrams per liter or in pounds.
MM. “Watercourse” means a channel in which a flow of water occurs either continuously or intermittently. (Ord. 1660 § 1, 2003; Ord. 1429 § 2, 1995).
13.04.020 Classification of premises as “cabin” or “apartment”.
Any owner desiring his premises to come within the definition of “cabin” or “apartment” may petition the council for a determination of classification of use, and the council may by resolution classify said use within said definition. (Ord. 1429 § 2, 1995).
13.04.030 Water and sewer department established.
A water and sewer department of the city is established. The officers and other employees shall consist of a public works director and such other personnel as the city council may from time to time deem necessary for the efficient administration of the department. (Ord. 1429 § 2, 1995).
13.04.040 Appointment and compensation of public works director and other personnel.
The public works director of the water and sewer department, and such other personnel as the city council may from time to time authorize, shall be appointed by the mayor with the approval of the city council and shall hold such appointed position at the pleasure of the mayor with the approval of the city council. The public works director and such other personnel as may be authorized shall receive such salary as the mayor and city council may determine. (Ord. 1429 § 2, 1995).
13.04.050 Duties of public works director.
The duties of the public works director shall be to oversee and superintend the operation and maintenance of the sewer system and domestic water system, the making of repairs of all kinds, the construction of all extensions and additions, and all construction work of whatever nature whatsoever in connection with the present sewer and domestic water system and any new systems that may be established. The public works director shall at all times be subject to the direction and authority of the mayor and approval of the city council. (Ord. 1429 § 2, 1995).
13.04.060 Right of access for inspection.
In the event free access during proper hours to all buildings and premises served by the domestic water and sewage system is denied, the public works director or his employees shall obtain warrants for inspection of pipes, fixtures, and the manner in which domestic water is being used and the manner in which the provisions of this title are being complied with. (Ord. 1429 § 2, 1995).
13.04.070 Use of fire hydrants.
No person other than an authorized employee of the water and sewer department, the fire department, or street department, shall operate fire hydrants or interfere therewith in any way without first obtaining authority to do so from the public works director or his employees. (Ord. 1429 § 2, 1995).
13.04.080 Damaging water and sewer system.
No unauthorized person shall maliciously, willfully or negligently break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface or tamper with any structure, appurtenance or equipment which is a part of the domestic water system or the public sewer and sewage disposal system. No city water customer may turn on a water meter that has been shut off by the city for any purpose. (Ord. 1443 § 1, 1996; Ord. 1429 § 2, 1995).
13.04.085 Water usage for lawns, gardens and other irrigation purposes.
Repealed by Ord. 1601. (Ord. 1429 § 2, 1995).
13.04.090 Installation of private utilities in city streets.
All installations of underground power, light, telephone, natural gas or other private service or utility operating pursuant to franchise, and within the right-of-way of public ways on streets of the city, shall be installed and maintained at a depth of not less than four feet below the graded surface of said way or street, provided existing installations may be maintained at the present level until replaced. (Ord. 1429 § 2, 1995).
13.04.100 Liability for damage.
Any person who violates any of the provisions of this title shall become liable to the city for any expense, loss or damage occasioned by the city by reason of such violation. (Ord. 1429 § 2, 1995).
13.04.110 Violation – Penalty.
Any person who violates any of the provisions of this title shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $500.00. (Ord. 1443 § 2, 1996; Ord. 1429 § 2, 1995).