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DATE: July 13, 2016 CONSENT CALENDAR
SUBJECT: SECOND READING AND ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE NO. 1894
AMENDING THE PALM SPRINGS MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO
ACCEPTANCE OF INDUSTRIAL COOLING WATER OR UNPOLLUTED
PROCESS WATER INTO THE CITY'S SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM
FOR TREATMENT.
FROM: David H. Ready, City Manager
BY: Office of City Clerk
SUMMARY:
The City Council will consider adoption of Ordinance No. 1894.
RECOMMENDATION:
Waive the reading of the ordinance text in its entirety and adopt Ordinance No. 1894,
"AN ORDINANCE 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."
STAFF ANALYSIS:
On July 6, 2016, Ordinance No. 1894 was introduced for first reading, as noted below:
ACTION: Waive the reading of the ordinance text in its entirety and introduce by title
only for first reading Ordinance No. 1894, "AN ORDINANCE 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."
Motion Councilmember Foat , seconded by Councilmember Roberts,
and carried 4-0 on a roll call vote; Mayor Pro Tern Mills absent.
Item No 1• E .
ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE NO. 1894
July 13, 2016
Page 2 of 2
This report provides for the City Council to waive further reading and adopt the
ordinance. The ordinance shall be effective 30-days from adoption.
mes Thompson David H. Ready,
City Clerk City Manager
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Attachments:
Ordinance No. 1894
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ORDINANCE NO. 1894
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF PALM SPRINGS 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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Ordinance No. 1894
Page 2
SECTION 2. Section 15.28.060 of the Palm Springs Municipal C p ode 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 ADOPTED BY THE PALM SPRINGS CITY COUNCIL
THIS 13`" DAY OF JULY, 2016.
ROBERT MOON, MAYOR
ATTEST:
JAMES THOMPSON, CITY CLERK
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Ordinance No. 1894
Page 3
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 copy, 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:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
JAMES THOMPSON, CITY CLERK
City of Palm Springs, California
05
CITY OF PALM SPRINGS
NOTIFICATION
City Council
Meeting Date: July 13, 2016
Subject: Ordinance No. 1894
AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION
I, Kathie Hart, Chief Deputy City Clerk, of the City of Palm Springs, California, do hereby
certify that a copy of the attached Ordinance Summary was published in the Desert Sun on
July 22, 2016.
1 declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.
V- �0 Y
Kathie Hart, MMC
Chief Deputy City Clerk
AFFIDAVIT OF POSTING
I, Kathie Hart, Chief Deputy City Clerk, of the City of Palm Springs, California, do hereby
certify that a copy of the attached Ordinance Summary and Ordinance was posted at City
Hall, 3200 E. Tahquitz Canyon Drive, on the exterior legal notice posting board and in the
Office of the City Clerk on July 21, 2016.
1I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.
1L"aAi
Kathie Hart, MMC
Chief Deputy City Clerk
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The Desert Sun
750 N Gene Autry Trail Certificate of Publication
Palm Springs, CA 92262 RECEIY IJ R IHG
760-778-45781 Fax 760-778-4731 CITY OF P A LM
State Of California ss: Z61I JUL 27 pM 9` 06
County of Riverside JANES THOn� t
CITY CLERK
Advertiser: CITY OF PALM SPRINGS/LEGALS
PO BOX 2743
PALM SPRINGS CA 92263
Order# 0001450172
I am over the age of 18 years old, a citizen of
the United States and not a party to, or have
interest in this matter. I hereby certify that the
attached advertisement appeared in said
newspaper(set in type not smaller than non
pariel)in each and entire issue of said No 1081 -
ORDINANCE NO.1894 ,
newspaper and not in any supplement thereof AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL IN THE CITY OF
On the following dates,t0 wit: PALM SPRINGS; CALIFORNIA,DET AMENDING THE PALM
SPRINGS M WATER
O CODE TO TEDCAPTURE INDUSTRIAL
COOLING WATER OR UNPOLLUTED PROCESS WATER
Newspaper. The Desert Sun IN CITY SEWERS FOR TREATMENT
City Attision o Summary
Under the current prowslonof Me Palm Springs
Municipal Code, industrial cooling water or unpol/he
7/22/2016 ad process water is prohibited to ba disMarged to the
Ci1T�'s sanitary sewer system. This Ordinance will allow
industrial cooling water or unpollut, process water
to be d(schbrged to the ChYs sanitary sewer system
upon reviewand approval byq the Clryry
CERTIFICA110N
. STATE OF CALIFORNIA. )
I acknowledge that I am a principal clerk of the COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE )s.
CITY OF PALM SPRINGS I
printer of The Desert Sun, printed and I,JAMES THOMPSON,City Clerk of the.City of Palm Springs,hereby
certi{y that Ordinance No. 1894 is a full,true and correct copy,and was intra-
published weekly in the City of Palm Springs, dNte at a regular meeting of the Palm Springs City Council on the 6th day of
July,2016,and adopted at an ad11'ourrsed regular meeting of the City Council
County of Riverside, State of California. The held on the 13th day of July,N116,bythe following vote:
AYES: Coundlmember Foat.Councilmember Kors,and Mayor Moon
Desert Sun was adjudicated a Newspaper of NOES: - None
-ABSENT: Councllmember Roberts and Mayor Pro TemI
general circulation on March 24, 1988 by the All None
tMyE�S TP&HOM5PpSrOyrN�.CRY CLERK
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Superior Court of the County of Riverside, R LA 161WIed1m/2T/28T6 alif«nia
State of California Case No. 191236. -
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I declare under penalty of perjury that the
foregoing is true and correct. Executed on
this 22nd day of JULY, 2016 in Palm
Springs, California.
Declarant
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ORDINANCE NO. 1894
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING THE 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.
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 copy, and was introduced at a regular
meeting of the Palm Springs City Council on the 6`" day of July, 2016, and adopted at
an adjourned regular meeting of the City Council held on the 13`h day of July, 2016, by
the following vote:
AYES: Councilmember Foat, Councilmember Kors, and Mayor Moon
NOES: None
ABSENT: Councilmember Roberts and Mayor Pro Tern Mills
ABSTAIN: None
ES THOMPSON, CITY CLERK
ity of Palm Springs, California
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."
Ordinance No. 1894
Page 2
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 ADOPTED BY THE PALM SPRINGS CITY COUNCIL
THIS 13th DAY OF JULY, 2016.
ROBERT MOON, MAYOR
ATTEST:
JAMES THOMPSON, CITY CLERK
Ordinance No. 1894
Page 3
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 copy, 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, and Mayor Moon
NOES: None
ABSENT: Councilmember Roberts and Mayor Pro Tern Mills
ABSTAIN: None
JAMES THOMPSON, CITY CLERK
City of Palm Springs, California