HomeMy WebLinkAbout1894 ORDINANCE NO. 1894
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING CHAPTER
15.28 "WATER AND SEWERS" OF THE CITY OF PALM
SPRINGS MUNICIPAL CODE TO CAPTURE INDUSTRIAL
COOLING WATER OR UNPOLLUTED PROCESS WATER
IN CITY SEWERS FOR TREATMENT.
City Attorney's Summary
Under the current provision of the Palm Springs Municipal Code, industrial
cooling water or unpolluted process water is prohibited to be discharged to
the City's sanitary sewer system. This Ordinance will allow industrial
cooling water or unpolluted process water to be discharged to the City's
sanitary sewer system upon review and approval by the City.
WHEREAS, the City of Palm Springs ("City") intends to capture sources of water
discharge for treatment by the Desert Water Agency for further reclamation and
beneficial reuse; and
WHEREAS, Desert Regional Medical Center, Inc. ("DRMC") contacted the City to
request concurrence from the City to convey potential industrial unpolluted water
discharges to the City's sanitary sewer system; and
WHEREAS, the DRMC cooling tower system consists of one fluid cooler and two
evaporative condensers for the purpose of maintaining temperature control in operating
rooms, patient rooms, and the main building; and
WHEREAS, GSI Environmental conducted a study of the volume and quality of the
discharge water from the DRMC cooling tower system and found that the chemistry of
the discharge does not violate the City's sewer use regulations; and
WHEREAS, the City's sanitary sewer system has ample capacity to capture
industrial cooling water;
NOW THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Palm Springs hereby ordains
as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 15.28.040 of the Palm Springs Municipal Code is hereby
amended in its entirety to read as follows:
"Section 15.28.040 Improper effluents for sanitary sewers.
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any storm water, surface
water, groundwater, roof runoff, or subsurface drainage into any sanitary sewer."
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SECTION 2. Section 15.28.060 of the Palm Springs Municipal Code is hereby
amended in its entirety to read as follows:
"Section 15.28.060 Unpolluted industrial water.
A. Industrial cooling water or unpolluted process waters may be discharged,
upon approval of the director of public works or such other official with
responsibility over the Palm Springs sanitary sewer service, to the sewer
system upon a determination that the sewer system has available capacity
for such discharge, and such discharge does not contain prohibited and
regulated wastes, unless such wastes are intercepted with preliminary
treatment facilities prior to such discharge in accordance with Code
section15.28.090.
B. Any discharge for which approval is granted in accordance with section
15.28.060(A) shall be subject to periodic monitoring to occur at least once a
year to ensure there is no change to the quantity or quality of industrial
cooling water or unpolluted process waters being discharged."
SECTION 3. If any section or provision of this Ordinance is for any reason held to
be invalid or unconstitutional by any court of competent jurisdiction, or contravened by
reason of any preemptive legislation, the remaining sections and/or provisions of this
Ordinance shall remain valid. The City Council hereby declares that it would have
adopted this Ordinance, and each section or provision thereof, regardless of the fact
that any one or more section(s) or provision(s) may be declared invalid or
unconstitutional or contravened via legislation.
SECTION 4. The Mayor shall sign and the City Clerk shall certify to the passage
and adoption of this Ordinance and shall cause the same, or the summary thereof, to be
published and posted pursuant to the provisions of law and this Ordinance shall take
effect thirty (30) days after passage.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPT Y THE PALM INGS CITY COUNCIL
THIS 13t' DAY OF JULY, 2016.
ROBERT MOON, MAYOR
ATTEST:
MES THOMPSON, CITY CLERK
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CERTIFICATION
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE ) ss.
CITY OF PALM SPRINGS )
I, JAMES THOMPSON, City Clerk of the City of Palm Springs, hereby certify that
Ordinance No. 1894 is a full, true and correct coy, and was introduced at a regular
meeting of the Palm Springs City Council on the 6t day of July, 2016, and adopted at a
regular meeting of the City Council held on the 13th day of July, 2016, by the following
vote:
AYES: Councilmember Foat, Councilmember Kors, Mayor Pro Tern Mills, and
Mayor Moon.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Councilmember Roberts.
ABSTAIN: None.
MES THOMPSON' CITY
CLERK
City of Palm Springs, California
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