The following policies apply to all liquid waste discharges within the City's boundaries and to other discharges that are tributary to the City's facilities.
A. Generally, liquid wastes originating within the City will be removed by the City's sewerage system provided the wastes will not:
1. Damage structures;
2. Create nuisances such as odors;
3. Menace public health;
4. Impose unreasonable collection, treatment or disposal costs on the City;
5. Interfere with wastewater treatment processes;
6. Exceed quality requirements set by regulatory governmental agencies; or
7. Detrimentally affect the local environment.
B. The highest and best use of the City sewerage system is the conveyance, treatment and disposal of domestic wastewater. The use of the City's sewerage system for industrial wastewater discharges is subject to additional regulation by the City.
C. To comply with stated policies of the State and Federal Government and to permit the City (or its contracted disposal agency) to meet increasingly higher standards of treatment plant effluent quality, provisions of the County of Los Angeles Code, Title 20, Chapter 20.20, Sections 20.20.010 though 20.20.420, Definitions; Chapter 20.24, Sections 20.24.010 though 20.24.210, General Provisions; Chapter 20.32, Sections 20.32.440 and 20.32.640 through 20.32.690, Sanitary Sewers; and Chapter 20.36, Sections 20.36.010 though 20.36.550, Industrial Waste, are hereby adopted by reference and shall be referred to as the "Industrial Waste Code of the City of Culver City." One copy of the Industrial Waste Code of the City of Culver City shall be kept on file in the Culver City Clerk's Office for public inspection. In addition, whenever the Industrial Waste Code of the City of Culver City identifies the "County Engineer" as having the authority to make a determination, interpretation and/or vary from the provisions of the Code, no action shall be taken until the Culver City Public Works Director/City Engineer or her/his designee has expressly approved such modification.
D. Recovery and reuse procedures established by industrial wastewater dischargers to meet the limitations set on their discharges will be preferred by the City over those procedures designed solely to meet wastewater discharge limitations.
E. Optimum use of the facilities of the City may require that certain industrial wastewater be discharged during periods of low flow in the sewerage system of the City.
('65 Code, § 29-5 C.) (Ord. No. CS-535; Ord. No. CS-969 § 1; Ord. No. 2003-018 § 2)