A. Unless otherwise defined herein, terms related to water quality shall be as adopted in the latest edition of
Standard Methods for Examination of Water and Wastewater, published by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association and the Water Environment Federation. The testing procedures for waste constituents and characteristics shall be as provided in 40 CFR 136 (Code of Federal Regulations).
Standard Methods for Examination of Water and Wastewater, published by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association and the Water Environment Federation. The testing procedures for waste constituents and characteristics shall be as provided in 40 CFR 136 (Code of Federal Regulations).
B. Other terms not herein defined are defined as being the same as set forth in the latest adopted applicable editions of the California Codes applicable to building construction adopted pursuant to the California Building Standards Law.
C. Subject to the foregoing provisions, the following definitions shall apply in this Chapter:
"Best Management Practices" mean schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures and other management practices to prevent or reduce the introduction of FOG to the sewer facilities.
"Change in operations" means any change in the ownership, food types, or operational procedures that have the potential to increase the amount of FOG generated and/or discharged by Food Service Establishments in an amount that alone or collectively causes or creates a potential for SSOs to occur.
"City Council" means the City Council of the City of Fullerton.
"Composite sample" means a collection of individual samples obtained at selected intervals based on an increment of either flow or time. The resulting mixture (composite sample) forms a representative sample of the waste stream discharged during the sample period. Samples will be collected when a wastewater discharge occurs.
"Discharger" (also "user") means any person who discharges or causes a discharge of wastewater directly or indirectly to a public sewer.
"District" means the Orange County Sanitation District.
"Effluent" means any liquid outflow from the Food Service Establishment that is discharged to the sewer.
"Fats, oils, and grease" or "FOG" means any substance such as a vegetable or animal product that is used in, or is a byproduct of, the cooking or food preparation process, and that turns or may turn viscous or solidifies with a change in temperature or other conditions.
"FOG Control Program" means the FOG Control Program required by and developed pursuant to RWQCB Order No. R8-2002-0014, Section (c)(12)(viii).
"FOG Control Program Manager" means the individual designated by the City to administer the FOG Control Program. The FOG Control Program Manager is responsible for all determinations of compliance with the program, including approval of discretionary variances and waivers.
"FOG Wastewater Discharge Permit" means a permit issued by the City subject to the requirements and conditions established by the City authorizing the permittee or discharger to discharge wastewater into the City's facilities or into sewer facilities which ultimately discharge into a City facility.
"Food grinder" means any device installed in the plumbing or sewage system for the purpose of grinding food waste or food preparation by products for the purpose of disposing it in the sewer system.
"Food Service Establishment" means Facilities defined in California Uniform Retail Food Service Establishments Law (CURFFL) Section 113785, and any commercial entity within the boundaries of the City, operating in a permanently constructed structure such as a room, building, or place, or portion thereof, maintained, used, or operated for the purpose of storing, preparing, serving, or manufacturing, packaging, or otherwise handling food for sale to other entities, or for consumption by the public, its members or employees, and which has any process or device that uses or produces FOG, or grease vapors, steam, fumes, smoke or odors that are required to be removed by a Type I or Type II hood, as defined in CURFFL Section 113785.
"Grab sample" means a sample taken from a waste stream on a one-time basis without regard to the flow in the waste stream and without consideration of time.
"Grease control device" means any grease interceptor, grease trap or other mechanism, device, or process, which attaches to, or is applied to, wastewater plumbing fixtures and lines, the purpose of which is to trap or collect or treat FOG prior to it being discharged into the sewer system. "Grease control device" may also include any other proven method to reduce FOG subject to the approval of the City.
"Grease Disposal Mitigation Fee" means a fee charged to an Owner/Operator of a Food Service Establishment when there are physical limitations to the property that make the installation of the usual and customary grease interceptor or grease control device for the Food Service Establishment under consideration, impossible or impracticable. The Grease Disposal Mitigation Fee is intended to cover the costs of increased maintenance of the sewer system for inspection and cleaning of FOG and other viscous or solidifying agents that a properly employed grease control device would otherwise prevent from entering the sewer system.
"Grease interceptor" means a multi-compartment device that is constructed in different sizes and is generally required to be located, according to the California Plumbing Code, underground between a Food Service Establishment and the connection to the sewer system. These devices primarily use gravity to separate FOG from the wastewater as it moves from one compartment to the next. These devices must be cleaned, maintained, and have the FOG removed and disposed of in a proper manner on regular intervals to be effective.
"Grease trap" means a grease control device that is used to serve individual fixtures and have limited effect and which should only be used in those cases where the use of a grease interceptor or other grease control device is determined to be impossible or impracticable, or in conjunction with a grease interceptor or grease control device.
"Hot spots" mean areas in sewer lines that have experienced sanitary sewer overflows or that must be cleaned or maintained frequently to avoid blockages of the sewer system.
"Infiltration" means water entering a sewer system, including sewer service connections, from the ground through such means as defective pipes, pipe joints, connections, or manhole walls.
"Inflow" means water entering a sewer system through a direct stormwater runoff connection to the sanitary sewer, which may cause an almost immediate increase in wastewater flows.
"Inspector" means a person, including a staff member of the Orange County Health Care Agency, authorized by the City to inspect any existing or proposed wastewater generation, conveyance, processing, and disposal facilities.
"Interceptor" means a grease interceptor.
"Interference" means any discharge which, alone or in conjunction with discharges from other sources, inhibits or disrupts the City's sewer system, treatment processes or operations; or is a cause of violation of the City's NPDES or Waste Discharge Requirements or prevents lawful sludge use or disposal.
"Limited Food Preparation Establishment" means an establishment engaged only in reheating, hot holding or assembly of ready to eat food products and as a result, there is a de minimus or no wastewater discharge containing a significant amount of FOG. A limited food preparation establishment does not include any operation that changes the form, flavor, or consistency of food. A Limited Food Preparation Establishment is not considered a Food Service Establishment for purposes of this Chapter.
"Manifest" means that receipt which is retained by the generator of wastes for disposing recyclable wastes or liquid wastes as required by the City.
"NPDES" means the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System; the permit issued to control the discharge of liquids or other substances or solids to surface waters of the United States as detailed in Public Law 92.500, Section 402.
"New construction" means any structure planned or under construction for which a sewer connection permit has not been issued, or which is being converted from a non-Food Service Establishment use to a Food Service Establishment.
"Orange County Health Care Agency" means the Orange County agency with oversight, inspection and regulatory authority over Food Service Establishments, particularly with respect to protection of the public health.
"Permittee" means a person who has received a permit to discharge wastewater into the City's sewer facilities subject to the requirements and conditions established by the City.
"Person" means any individual, partnership, firm, association, corporation or public agency, including the State of California and the United States of America.
"Public agency" means the State of California and/or any city, county, special district, other local governmental authority or public body of or within this State.
"Public sewer" means a sewer owned and operated by the City, or other local Public Agency.
"Regulatory agencies" shall mean those agencies having regulatory jurisdiction over the operations of the City, including, but not limited to:
1. United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region IX, San Francisco and Washington, DC (EPA).
2. California State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB).
3. California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Santa Ana Region (RWQCB).
4. South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD).
5. California Department of Health Services (DOHS).
"Remodeling" means a physical change or operational change causing generation of an amount of FOG that exceeds the current amount of FOG discharge to the sewer system by the Food Service Establishment in an amount that alone or collectively causes or creates a potential for SSOs to occur; or exceeding a cost of $50,000 to a Food Service Establishment that requires a building permit, and involves any one or combination of the following: (1) under slab plumbing in the food processing area, (2) a 30% increase in the net public seating area, (3) a 30% increase in the size of the kitchen area, or (4) any change in the size or type of food preparation equipment.
"Sample point" means a location approved by the City, from which wastewater can be collected that is representative in content and consistency of the entire flow of wastewater being sampled.
"Sampling facilities" mean structure(s) provided at the user's expense for the City or user to measure and record wastewater constituent mass, concentrations, collect a representative sample, or provide access to plug or terminate the discharge.
"Sanitary sewer overflow" or "SSO" means any overflow spill, release, discharge or diversion of wastewater from a sanitary sewer system, including: (1) overflows or releases of wastewater that reach waters of the United States; (2) overflows or releases of wastewater that do not reachwaters of the United States; (3) wastewater backups into buildings and on private property that are caused by blockages or flow conditions in a sanitary sewer, other than a building lateral. Wastewater backups into buildings caused by a blockage or other malfunction of a building lateral that is privately owned is an SSO when sewage is discharged off of private property into streets, storm drains, or waters of the State.
"Sewage" (see "Wastewater")
"Sewer facilities" (or "sewer system") means any property or facilities belonging to the City used in the transportation or disposal of wastewater, or sludge, and treatment reclamation and reuse facilities belonging to the Orange County Sanitation District or other public authority.
"Sewer lateral" means a building sewer as defined in the latest edition of the California Plumbing Code. It is the wastewater connection between the building's wastewater facilities and a public sewer system.
"Sludge" means any solid, semi-solid or liquid decant, subnate or supernate from a manufacturing process, utility service, or pretreatment facility.
"User" (also "discharger") means any person who discharges or causes a discharge of wastewater directly or indirectly to a public sewer system.
"Waste" means sewage and any and all other waste substances, liquid, solid, gaseous or radioactive, associated with human habitation or of human or animal nature, including such wastes placed within containers of whatever nature prior to and for the purpose of disposal.
"Waste minimization practices" means plans or programs intended to reduce or eliminate discharges to the sewer system or to conserve water, including, but not limited to, product substitutions, housekeeping practices, inventory control, employee education, and other steps as necessary to minimize wastewater produced.
"Wastehauler" means any person carrying on or engaging in vehicular transport of waste as part of, or incidental to, any business for that purpose.
"Wastewater" means the liquid and water-carried wastes of the community and all constituents thereof, whether treated or untreated, discharged into or permitted to enter a public sewer.
"Wastewater constituents and characteristics" mean the individual chemical, physical, bacteriological, and other parameters, including volume and flow rate and such other parameters that serve to define, classify or measure the quality and quantity of wastewater.
D. Words used in this Chapter in the singular may include the plural and the plural the singular. Use of the masculine shall include feminine and use of the feminine shall include masculine. Shall is mandatory; may is permissive or discretionary.
(Ord. 3051 § 1 (part), 2004).