All users required to install a gravity separation interceptor shall comply with the following conditions:
(A) All interceptor chambers shall be immediately accessible at all times for the purpose of inspection, sampling, cleaning and maintenance. At no time shall any material, debris, obstacle or other obstruction be placed to prevent immediate access to the interceptor;
(B) Any interceptor legally and properly installed before the effective date of this chapter shall be acceptable as an alternative to the interceptor requirements of this chapter. The interceptor shall be effective in removing floatable and settleable material, and shall be immediately accessible for inspection, sampling, cleaning and maintenance.
(C) If the Director finds, either by engineering knowledge or by observation, that an interceptor is incapable of adequately retaining floatable and settleable material in the wastewater flow, is structurally incomplete or is undersized for the facility, the Director shall condemn such interceptor and declare that the interceptor does not meet the requirements of this section. The user shall be required to install, at the user's expense, an acceptable interceptor.
(D) All interceptors shall be equipped with a sample chamber located at the downstream end of the interceptor. The sample chamber shall have a minimum-24-square-inch clear opening for the temporary installation of the city's portable sampling equipment.
(`78 Code, § 13.08.160.) (Ord. 3346 § 3, 2022; Ord. 3111 § 3 (part), 2012; Ord. 2932 § 1, 2008; Ord. 2330 § 1 (part), 1997; Ord. 2195 § 1 (part), 1994.)