HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 1983-038 CITY OF GRAPEVINE, TEXAS
ORDINANCE NO. 83-38
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CITY CODE OF THE CITY OF
GRAPEVINE, TEXAS, BY AMENDING CHAPTER 25, DIVISION 3,
RELATING TO INDUSTRIAL L1'ASTES BY AMENDING SECTIONS
25-60, 25-62, 25-63, 25-70, 25-71, 25-74 AND 25-83; PROVIDING A
PENALTY NOT TO EXCE�D THE SU1�7 OF T�VO HUNDRED
DOLLARS ($200.00) AND A SEPARATE OFFENSE SHALL BE
DEEMED COMMITTED UPON EACH DAY DURING UR ON WHICH
A VIOLATION OCCURS; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE;
PROVIDING AN EFFECTNE DATE AND DECLARING AN E-
17ERGENCY �
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF GRAPEVINE, TEXAS:
Section l. That Chapter 25, Division 3 of the City Code of the City of
Grapevine, Texas, relating to Industrial Wastes is hereby amended in the
following particulars and all other existing Sections, Subsections, Paragraphs,
Sentences, Definitions, Phrases and �Uords of said City Code are not amended,
but shall remain intact and are hereby ratified, verified and affirmed:
A. That Section 25-60 is amended by amending the definition of
Approving authority and by adding additional definitions of Industrial user
(between the definitions of Garbage and Industrial waste); Significant
industrial user (between Sanitary sewer and Slug) and Total toxic organics
(between To discharge and Trap) as follows:
Approving authority: The city manager or his duly author-
ized representative and Trinity River Authority if discharge is into
Trinity River Authority Treatment Facilities.
Industrial user: Any person, ineluding but not limited to,
any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association, munici-
pality, or any other legal entity, who discharges or desires to
discharge industrial wastes to the Central Regional Wastewater
System.
Signif icant industrial user: Any industrial user who is
connected or desires to connect to the City's domestic wastewater
collection system and meets at least one of the following criteria:
(i) Average industrial wastewater discharge rate greater than
50,000 gpd.
(ii) BOD and/or suspended solids concentrations in industrial
wastewater greater than 250 mg/1.
(iii) Industrial category regulated by National Pretreatment
Standards as promulgated by the United States Environ-
mental Protection Agency.
Total toxic organics: The sum of all detected concentra-
tions greater than 10 micrograms/liter for all organic compounds
classified as priority pollutants by the United States Environmental
Protection Agency.
B. That Section 25-62(a) :s amended by amending Sections 65-62(a)(1)
and 25-62(a)(2) to read as follows:
(1) Cyanide greater than one (1.0) mg/1;
(2) Fluoride other than that contained in the public water supply,
total not to exced 1.5 mg/1;
C. That Section 25-62(a) is further amended by adding four new
subsections, 25-62(a)(6), 25-62(a)(7), 25-62(a)(8), and 25-G2(a)(9) to
read as follows:
(6) Cyanides or Cyanogen Compounds (capable of liberating
hydrocyanic gas on acidification - not to exceed 0.2 mg/1
(7) Total toxic organics - not to exceed 1.000 mg/1;
(8) Phenol - not to exceed 0.005 mg/1
(9) Hydrogen-Sulfide - not to exceed 0.1 mg/1;
D. That Section 25-63 is amended by amending Subsections (b)(2),
(b)(5), and (b)(13) to read as follows:
(2) Barium 2.0 mg/l;
(5) Chromium (total) 3.5 mg/1;
(13) Zinc 2.5 mg/l;
E. That Section 25-70 is hereby amended by amending Section 25-
70(a)(3)(i) to read as follows:
(i) Pretreatment to an acceptable condition for dis-
charge to the publie sewers. Pretreatment shall
comply with all Federal Cate�orical Pretreatment
Standards as well as any applicable state standards.
F. That Section 25-71 is amended by adding a new Section 25-71(d) to
read as follows:
(d) Dilution is not an acceptable means of reducing
pollutant concentrations.
G. That Section 25-74 is hereby amended by amending Section 25-74
(d) and Section 25-74(e) to read as follows:
(d) The city shall select an independent firm or labora-
tory to determine flow, BOD, suspended solids and other chemical
analysis as necessary.
(e) The city is entitled to select the time of sampling at
its sole discretion so long as at least monthly samples are taken
and reported to the approving authority.
H. That Section 25-83 is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 25-83. Notice.
The city shall serve persons discharging in violation of this
division with written notice stating the nature of the violation and
providing a reasonable time limit for satisfactory compliance. Said
notice shall also be published in the city's legal newspaper.
Section 2. If any section, article, paragraph, sentence, clause, phrase or
word in this ordinance, or application thereto any person or circumstance is held
invalid or uneonstitutional by a Court of competent jurisdictiop such hoTding
shall not affect the validity of the remaining portion:: or" the ordinance; and the
City Council hereby declares it would have passed such remaining portions of the
ordinance despite such invalidity, which remaining portions shall remain in full
force and effect.
Section 3. Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be
fined in a sum not to exceed Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) and a separate
offense shall be deemed committed upon each day during or on which a violation
occurs or continues.
Section 4. The fact that the present ordinances and regulations of the
City of Grapevine, Texas, are inadequate to properly safebuard the health,
safety, morals, peace, and general welfare of the inhabitants of the City of
Grapevine, Texas, creates an emergency for the immediate preservation of
public business, property, health, safety, and general welfare of tYie public which
requires that this ordinance shall become effective from and after the date of
its passage and it is accordingly so ordained.
PASSED AND APPROVED on the 5th day of July , 1983.
Mayor, City of Grapevine
ATTEST:
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City Secretary
[SEAL]
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
City Attorney