13.16.070: GREASE INTERCEPTORS, GREASE TRAPS, GRIT TRAPS, LINT TRAPS, AND OIL/SAND INTERCEPTORS:
Grease, grit, lint, oil, and sand interceptors, or other necessary removal facilities, shall be installed on the premises by the user in all cases where a building is used as a hotel, boarding house, restaurant, laundry, vehicle wash operation, engine or machinery repair shop, cafeteria or restaurant, residential garage, and other facilities that produce grease, grit, oil, lint, or other materials which accumulate and cause or threaten to cause stoppages or impair the efficiency of the sanitary sewer or threaten the safety of its employees and when, in the opinion of the superintendent, they are necessary in other service lines for the proper handling of liquid wastes containing grease in excessive amounts, high concentrations of blood, fruit, vegetable or grain liquors, milk wastes, sand or other harmful ingredients, except that such interceptors will not be required for private living quarters or dwelling units.
All interceptors and traps shall be of a type and capacity approved by the city and shall be located so as to be readily and easily accessible for cleaning and inspection. They shall be constructed of impervious materials capable of withstanding abrupt and extreme changes in temperature and shall be of substantial construction, gastight, watertight, and equipped with easily removable covers.
All interceptors and traps shall be maintained by the user at his expense, in continuously efficient operation at all times.
Approval of proposed facilities or equipment by the superintendent does not in any way guarantee that these facilities or equipment will function in the manner described by their constructor or manufacturer; nor shall it relieve a person, facility, firm or corporation of the responsibility of enlarging or otherwise modifying such facilities to accomplish the intended purpose. (Ord. 2836 § 1, 2008)