Agenda packet — Oxnard City Council, May 20, 2025 (part 3 of 5)

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APPROP BUDGET YTD EXPENDED MTD EXPENDED ENCUMBRANCES BUDGET USED 51160 CITY PAID EMPLOYEE BENEFITS 0 0 31.23 .00 .00 -31.23 100.0% 54010 UTILITY EXPENSE-ELECTRIC 72,000 72,000 64,806.78 860.31 .00 7,193.22 90.0% 54020 UTILITY EXPENSE - GAS 0 0 3,383.88 528.85 .00 -3,383.88 100.0% 54030 UTILITY EXPENSE- WASTEWATER 4,588 4,588 1,844.73 169.53 .00 2,743.27 40.2% 54040 UTILITY EXPENSE WATER 10,493 10,493 8,166.29 782.06 .00 2,326.71 77.8% 54050 UTIL EXP REFUSE AND DISPOSE 21,336 21,336 26,564.34 2,589.80 .00 -5,228.34 124.5% 55010 BUILDING MAINT & REPAIR 120,857 120,857 64,223.21 17,095.79 4,878.91 51,754.88 57.2% 57110 TAXES AND FILING FEES 200 200 .00 .00 .00 200.00 .0% 59400 TELEPHONE CHGS HIPC 7,923 7,923 5,942.25 660.25 .00 1,980.75 75.0% 59600 INDIRECT PRORATED CST CHG 2,129 2,129 1,596.78 177.42 .00 532.22 75.0% TOTAL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FUND 239,526 239,526 176,716.24 22,864.01 4,878.91 57,930.85 75.8% 651 GOLF COURSE OPERATING FUND
50000 SALARIES - REGULAR 26,214 26,214 19,021.10 2,089.12 .00 7,192.90 72.6% 50168 LEAVE BANK CASH OUT 606 0 .00 .00 .00 .00 .0% 50400 VAC SICK COMP BUYBACK 0 0 159.35 53.20 .00 -159.35 100.0% 51000 CALPERS PENSION NORMAL COST 2,648 2,648 1,906.63 211.00 .00 741.37 72.0% 51010 CALPERS PENSION UAL 1,831 1,831 1,373.22 152.58 .00 457.78 75.0% 51030 RETIREMENT ENHANCEMENT PLAN 0 0 62.59 20.90 .00 -62.59 100.0% 51160 CITY PAID EMPLOYEE BENEFITS 4,526 5,132 3,495.10 318.68 .00 1,636.90 68.1% 51210 RETIREE HEALTH INS PLAN 0 0 62.59 20.90 .00 -62.59 100.0% 51300 WORKERS COMPENSATION 1,455 1,455 1,091.25 121.25 .00 363.75 75.0% 52400 MINOR EQUIPMENT 347,800 347,800 205,101.51 .00 .00 142,698.49 59.0% 53020 INTERNAL PHOTOCOPING COSTS 0 0 536.54 .00 .00 -536.54 100.0% 53200 PROF SERVICES - OTHER 4,067,821 4,750,687 2,330,493.74 2,991.73 36,357.57 2,383,835.69 49.8% 53210 SERVICES AUDIT 10,000 10,000 .00 .00 .00 10,000.00 .0% 53500 BANK CHARGES 106,517 165,056 113,798.91 .00 .00 51,257.09 68.9% 54010 UTILITY EXPENSE-ELECTRIC 234,000 234,000 175,941.74 .00 .00 58,058.26 75.2% 54040 UTILITY EXPENSE WATER 430,000 430,000 161,380.85 .00 .00 268,619.15 37.5% 54050 UTIL EXP REFUSE AND DISPOSE 15,000 15,000 905.77 .00 .00 14,094.23 6.0% 54070 INTERNET CHARGES 12,894 12,894 8,516.26 .00 .00 4,377.74 66.0% 54080 TELEPHONE CHGS 8,800 8,800 .00 .00 .00 8,800.00 .0% 55030 VEHICLE MAINTENANCE 35,052 35,052 27,163.00 .00 .00 7,889.00 77.5% 56040 CAPEX - MACHINERY/EQUIP 100,000 21,485 .00 .00 .00 21,485.00 .0% 57110 TAXES AND FILING FEES 24,502 24,502 .00 .00 .00 24,502.00 .0% 57500 PRINCIPAL PAYMENTS 148,986 148,986 148,985.96 .00 .00 .04 100.0% 57510 INTEREST & PENALTIES EXPENSE 10,355 10,355 10,354.10 .00 .00 .90 100.0% 58100 GENERAL LIABILITY INSURANCE 126,000 126,000 26,034.97 .00 .00 99,965.03 20.7% 59200 IT & DATA PROCESSING CHGS 1,675 1,675 1,256.22 139.58 .00 418.78 75.0% 59300 LIABILITY INSURANCE CHGS 1,503 1,503 1,127.25 125.25 .00 375.75 75.0% 283
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APPROP BUDGET YTD EXPENDED MTD EXPENDED ENCUMBRANCES BUDGET USED 59400 TELEPHONE CHGS HIPC 11,838 11,838 8,878.50 986.50 .00 2,959.50 75.0% 59600 INDIRECT PRORATED CST CHG 144,965 144,965 108,723.69 12,080.41 .00 36,241.31 75.0% 59800 TRANSFERS OUT - CIP 1,350,000 1,889,627 33,146.74 842.51 .00 1,856,480.38 1.8% 60300 INTERFUND ADVANCE OFFSET 0 0 -148,985.96 .00 .00 148,985.96 100.0% TOTAL GOLF COURSE OPERATING FUND 7,224,988 8,427,505 3,240,531.62 20,153.61 36,357.57 5,150,615.93 38.9% 652 GOLF COURSE CIP FUND
53200 PROF SERVICES - OTHER 0 123,679 5,324.00 .00 84,952.11 33,402.55 73.0% 53270 CONSTRUCTION SERVICES 0 426,550 .00 .00 .00 426,550.00 .0% 56010 CAPEX - BUILDINGS 1,350,000 1,860,000 .00 .00 .00 1,860,000.00 .0% 59000 TRANSFERS OUT (LABOR) 0 79,398 27,822.74 .00 .00 51,575.72 35.0% TOTAL GOLF COURSE CIP FUND 1,350,000 2,489,627 33,146.74 .00 84,952.11 2,371,528.27 4.7% 701 PUBLIC LIAB & PROP INSUR ISF
50000 SALARIES - REGULAR 174,683 174,683 123,319.58 13,716.73 .00 51,363.42 70.6% 50168 LEAVE BANK CASH OUT 4,035 0 .00 .00 .00 .00 .0% 50400 VAC SICK COMP BUYBACK 0 0 941.36 314.92 .00 -941.36 100.0% 51000 CALPERS PENSION NORMAL COST 17,643 17,643 12,358.11 1,371.12 .00 5,284.89 70.0% 51010 CALPERS PENSION UAL 18,914 18,914 14,185.53 1,576.17 .00 4,728.47 75.0% 51030 RETIREMENT ENHANCEMENT PLAN 20,977 20,977 15,372.52 1,779.99 .00 5,604.48 73.3% 51160 CITY PAID EMPLOYEE BENEFITS 36,641 40,676 27,156.52 2,584.85 .00 13,519.48 66.8% 51210 RETIREE HEALTH INS PLAN 0 0 232.71 77.60 .00 -232.71 100.0% 51300 WORKERS COMPENSATION 7,023 7,023 5,267.25 585.25 .00 1,755.75 75.0% 51400 AUTO ALLOWANCE 210 210 140.93 16.16 .00 69.07 67.1% 52000 POSTAGE 33 33 .00 .00 .00 33.00 .0% 52200 SUBSCRIPTIONS & PUBLS 275 275 300.00 .00 .00 -25.00 109.1% 52310 TRAINING-WORKSHOP-MTGS 500 500 848.00 .00 .00 -348.00 169.6% 52320 MILEAGE REIMBURSEMENTS 300 300 .00 .00 .00 300.00 .0% 52400 MINOR EQUIPMENT 700 700 .00 .00 .00 700.00 .0% 52900 MISC SUPPLIES 325 325 .00 .00 .00 325.00 .0% 53010 SERVICES PRINTING BINDING 600 600 .00 .00 .00 600.00 .0% 53200 PROF SERVICES - OTHER 270,000 270,000 191,726.48 23,798.09 78,129.68 143.84 99.9% 53220 SERVICES LEGAL SERVICES 15,113 15,113 .00 .00 2,515.00 12,598.00 16.6% 58050 LOSS CONTROL ACTIVITIES 110,000 110,000 .00 .00 .00 110,000.00 .0% 58200 PHYSICAL DMG INS NON AUTO 1,876,500 1,504,304 1,690,402.00 .00 .00 -186,098.00 112.4% 58300 EXCESS LIABILITY INS 3,670,000 2,714,584 3,192,292.00 .00 .00 -477,708.00 117.6% 284
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APPROP BUDGET YTD EXPENDED MTD EXPENDED ENCUMBRANCES BUDGET USED 58400 LIABILITY CLAIMS EXPENSE 2,896,962 5,824,574 4,036,982.48 875,008.85 .00 1,787,591.52 69.3% 58500 WORKERS COMP CLAIMS 4,324 4,324 .00 .00 .00 4,324.00 .0% 59200 IT & DATA PROCESSING CHGS 17,304 17,304 12,978.00 1,442.00 .00 4,326.00 75.0% 59300 LIABILITY INSURANCE CHGS 12,124 12,124 9,092.97 1,010.33 .00 3,031.03 75.0% 59400 TELEPHONE CHGS HIPC 1,136 1,136 852.03 94.67 .00 283.97 75.0% 59600 INDIRECT PRORATED CST CHG 155,073 155,073 116,304.75 12,922.75 .00 38,768.25 75.0% TOTAL PUBLIC LIAB & PROP INSUR IS 9,311,395 10,911,395 9,450,753.22 936,299.48 80,644.68 1,379,997.10 87.4% 702 WORKERS COMP INSUR ISF
50000 SALARIES - REGULAR 467,947 467,947 240,832.82 23,268.63 .00 227,114.18 51.5% 50168 LEAVE BANK CASH OUT 10,810 0 .00 .00 .00 .00 .0% 50400 VAC SICK COMP BUYBACK 0 0 1,583.99 531.08 .00 -1,583.99 100.0% 51000 CALPERS PENSION NORMAL COST 47,263 47,263 23,893.33 2,316.18 .00 23,369.67 50.6% 51010 CALPERS PENSION UAL 48,199 48,199 36,149.22 4,016.58 .00 12,049.78 75.0% 51030 RETIREMENT ENHANCEMENT PLAN 16,782 16,782 12,677.56 1,551.55 .00 4,104.44 75.5% 51160 CITY PAID EMPLOYEE BENEFITS 84,396 95,206 50,672.74 4,432.70 .00 44,533.26 53.2% 51210 RETIREE HEALTH INS PLAN 1,851 1,851 1,993.41 488.03 .00 -142.41 107.7% 51300 WORKERS COMPENSATION 17,400 17,400 13,050.00 1,450.00 .00 4,350.00 75.0% 51400 AUTO ALLOWANCE 210 210 149.00 16.16 .00 61.00 71.0% 52000 POSTAGE 63 63 .00 .00 .00 63.00 .0% 52310 TRAINING-WORKSHOP-MTGS 432 432 .00 .00 .00 432.00 .0% 52400 MINOR EQUIPMENT 65 65 .00 .00 .00 65.00 .0% 52900 MISC SUPPLIES 950 950 163.54 .00 336.46 450.00 52.6% 53020 INTERNAL PHOTOCOPING COSTS 200 200 .00 .00 .00 200.00 .0% 53200 PROF SERVICES - OTHER 342,000 342,000 185,936.74 22,880.92 165,711.04 -9,647.78 102.8% 54080 TELEPHONE CHGS 0 0 1,039.83 285.66 .00 -1,039.83 100.0% 57110 TAXES AND FILING FEES 475,000 475,000 157,194.19 .00 .00 317,805.81 33.1% 58050 LOSS CONTROL ACTIVITIES 175,000 175,000 71,102.06 4,191.95 78,915.43 24,982.51 85.7% 58300 EXCESS LIABILITY INS 710,000 710,000 641,422.00 .00 .00 68,578.00 90.3% 58500 WORKERS COMP CLAIMS 7,833,881 7,833,881 3,309,384.79 376,544.83 25,407.50 4,499,088.71 42.6% 59200 IT & DATA PROCESSING CHGS 44,098 44,098 33,073.47 3,674.83 .00 11,024.53 75.0% 59300 LIABILITY INSURANCE CHGS 30,042 30,042 22,531.50 2,503.50 .00 7,510.50 75.0% 59400 TELEPHONE CHGS HIPC 757 757 567.72 63.08 .00 189.28 75.0% 59600 INDIRECT PRORATED CST CHG 148,150 148,150 111,112.47 12,345.83 .00 37,037.53 75.0% TOTAL WORKERS COMP INSUR ISF 10,455,496 10,455,496 4,914,530.38 460,561.51 270,370.43 5,270,595.19 49.6% 725 CUSTOMER BILLING OPS ISF
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ORIGINAL REVISED AVAILABLE PCT 725 CUSTOMER BILLING OPS ISF APPROP BUDGET YTD EXPENDED MTD EXPENDED ENCUMBRANCES BUDGET USED 50000 SALARIES - REGULAR 958,671 958,671 573,482.44 68,013.41 .00 385,188.56 59.8% 50168 LEAVE BANK CASH OUT 22,146 0 .00 .00 .00 .00 .0% 50200 OVERTIME WAGES 0 0 10,816.17 1,956.25 .00 -10,816.17 100.0% 50400 VAC SICK COMP BUYBACK 0 0 5,047.76 1,709.97 .00 -5,047.76 100.0% 51000 CALPERS PENSION NORMAL COST 96,826 96,826 57,332.70 6,869.37 .00 39,493.30 59.2% 51010 CALPERS PENSION UAL 163,450 163,450 122,587.56 13,620.84 .00 40,862.44 75.0% 51030 RETIREMENT ENHANCEMENT PLAN 49,541 49,541 16,397.35 2,537.10 .00 33,143.65 33.1% 51160 CITY PAID EMPLOYEE BENEFITS 311,333 333,479 182,678.80 17,463.74 .00 150,800.20 54.8% 51210 RETIREE HEALTH INS PLAN 6,784 6,784 6,579.39 2,190.35 .00 204.61 97.0% 51300 WORKERS COMPENSATION 40,729 40,729 30,546.72 3,394.08 .00 10,182.28 75.0% 51400 AUTO ALLOWANCE 2,625 2,625 .00 .00 .00 2,625.00 .0% 52000 POSTAGE 275,256 275,256 184,063.72 23,935.28 64,140.45 27,051.83 90.2% 52200 SUBSCRIPTIONS & PUBLS 24,000 24,000 7,302.64 .00 .00 16,697.36 30.4% 52310 TRAINING-WORKSHOP-MTGS 1,000 1,000 .00 .00 .00 1,000.00 .0% 52330 EDUCATION REIMBURSEMENT 2,000 2,000 1,000.00 .00 .00 1,000.00 50.0% 52620 SUPPLIES OTHER 165 165 .00 .00 .00 165.00 .0% 52900 MISC SUPPLIES 6,000 6,000 2,989.77 272.85 3,782.43 -772.20 112.9% 53010 SERVICES PRINTING BINDING 74,258 74,258 43,645.58 5,633.03 20,155.24 10,457.18 85.9% 53020 INTERNAL PHOTOCOPING COSTS 4,815 4,815 2,201.30 162.20 55.90 2,557.80 46.9% 53200 PROF SERVICES - OTHER 68,959 68,959 34,807.06 9,928.61 41,187.07 -7,035.13 110.2% 53500 BANK CHARGES 438,164 438,164 233,529.15 33,511.07 155,087.59 49,547.26 88.7% 54080 TELEPHONE CHGS 551 551 366.45 101.65 .00 184.55 66.5% 55020 EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE 52,662 52,662 .00 .00 .00 52,662.00 .0% 57300 LEASE PMT CAP GROWTH FEES 28,820 28,820 5,536.08 .00 .00 23,283.92 19.2% 59200 IT & DATA PROCESSING CHGS 149,542 149,542 112,156.47 12,461.83 .00 37,385.53 75.0% 59300 LIABILITY INSURANCE CHGS 70,318 70,318 52,738.47 5,859.83 .00 17,579.53 75.0% 59400 TELEPHONE CHGS HIPC 24,358 24,358 18,268.47 2,029.83 .00 6,089.53 75.0% 59600 INDIRECT PRORATED CST CHG 139,822 139,822 104,866.56 11,651.84 .00 34,955.44 75.0% 59700 FACILITY CHG MAINTENANCE 56,809 56,809 42,606.72 4,734.08 .00 14,202.28 75.0% TOTAL CUSTOMER BILLING OPS ISF 3,069,604 3,069,604 1,851,547.33 228,037.21 284,408.68 933,647.99 69.6% 731 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ISF
50000 SALARIES - REGULAR 4,943,950 4,943,950 2,394,770.38 271,935.13 .00 2,549,179.62 48.4% 50100 SALARIES - TEMPORARY 65,420 65,420 34,058.50 2,070.00 .00 31,361.50 52.1% 50168 LEAVE BANK CASH OUT 114,205 0 .00 .00 .00 .00 .0% 50200 OVERTIME WAGES 54,666 54,666 75,239.77 8,163.50 .00 -20,573.77 137.6% 50400 VAC SICK COMP BUYBACK 0 0 20,370.60 6,602.17 .00 -20,370.60 100.0% 51000 CALPERS PENSION NORMAL COST 499,339 499,339 238,660.13 27,258.25 .00 260,678.87 47.8% 51010 CALPERS PENSION UAL 512,496 512,496 384,372.09 42,708.01 .00 128,123.91 75.0% 51030 RETIREMENT ENHANCEMENT PLAN 107,638 107,638 87,220.81 12,012.22 .00 20,417.19 81.0% 286
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APPROP BUDGET YTD EXPENDED MTD EXPENDED ENCUMBRANCES BUDGET USED 51160 CITY PAID EMPLOYEE BENEFITS 1,104,425 1,218,630 541,891.43 51,831.54 .00 676,738.57 44.5% 51210 RETIREE HEALTH INS PLAN 13,568 13,568 14,305.07 2,799.84 .00 -737.07 105.4% 51300 WORKERS COMPENSATION 192,947 192,947 144,710.28 16,078.92 .00 48,236.72 75.0% 51400 AUTO ALLOWANCE 4,200 4,200 2,980.41 323.08 .00 1,219.59 71.0% 52000 POSTAGE 0 0 2.07 2.07 .00 -2.07 100.0% 52310 TRAINING-WORKSHOP-MTGS 30,000 30,000 327.96 .00 .00 29,672.04 1.1% 52320 MILEAGE REIMBURSEMENTS -1 -1 .00 .00 .00 -1.00 .0% 52340 MEMBERSHIPS 0 0 1,000.00 .00 .00 -1,000.00 100.0% 52400 MINOR EQUIPMENT 1,244,503 1,244,503 178,304.64 31,678.66 957,503.75 108,694.61 91.3% 52900 MISC SUPPLIES 227,000 227,000 23,262.64 839.08 16,112.13 187,625.23 17.3% 53000 SOFTWARE EXPENSE 0 0 67,067.42 .00 8,103.11 -75,170.53 100.0% 53001 SOFTWARE SUBSCRIPTION 4,692,030 4,692,030 2,978,653.96 343,551.37 761,275.87 952,100.17 79.7% 53020 INTERNAL PHOTOCOPING COSTS 18,746 18,746 1,453.68 .00 .00 17,292.32 7.8% 53200 PROF SERVICES - OTHER 3,717,844 3,717,844 1,460,314.39 193,628.60 1,144,338.35 1,113,191.26 70.1% 53290 OUTSIDE SERVICES 0 0 112,102.87 .00 842,859.38 -954,962.25 100.0% 54070 INTERNET CHARGES 123,540 123,540 96,629.05 13,187.01 43,200.00 -16,289.05 113.2% 54080 TELEPHONE CHGS 615,300 615,300 276,451.95 2,897.02 7,570.96 331,277.09 46.2% 56040 CAPEX - MACHINERY/EQUIP 0 0 .00 .00 437,944.80 -437,944.80 100.0% 57000 RENTALS & LEASES 0 0 15,827.94 1,758.66 5,275.98 -21,103.92 100.0% 59300 LIABILITY INSURANCE CHGS 333,121 333,121 249,840.81 27,760.09 .00 83,280.19 75.0% 59500 FLEET EQUIP MAINT ISF CHG 2,472 2,472 2,803.47 314.77 .00 -331.47 113.4% 59600 INDIRECT PRORATED CST CHG 308,582 308,582 231,436.44 25,715.16 .00 77,145.56 75.0% 59700 FACILITY CHG MAINTENANCE 181,596 181,596 136,197.00 15,133.00 .00 45,399.00 75.0% 59800 TRANSFERS OUT - CIP 0 289,103 .00 .00 .00 289,103.36 .0% 59900 TRANSFERS OUT - DEBT 73,701 73,701 73,700.20 36,850.10 .00 .80 100.0% TOTAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ISF 19,181,288 19,470,391 9,843,955.96 1,135,098.25 4,224,184.33 5,402,251.07 72.3% 732 IT CAPITAL
53200 PROF SERVICES - OTHER 0 189,270 .00 .00 .00 189,270.00 .0% 56030 CAPEX - VEHICLES 0 42,155 .00 .00 .00 42,154.70 .0% 56050 CAPEX - INFRASTRUCTURE 0 99,833 .00 .00 .00 99,833.36 .0% TOTAL IT CAPITAL 0 331,258 .00 .00 .00 331,258.06 .0% 735 FACILITIES MAINTENANCE ISF
50000 SALARIES - REGULAR 2,580,731 2,555,769 1,696,001.82 189,913.24 .00 859,767.18 66.4% 50100 SALARIES - TEMPORARY 32,000 48,410 .00 .00 .00 48,410.00 .0% 287
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APPROP BUDGET YTD EXPENDED MTD EXPENDED ENCUMBRANCES BUDGET USED 50168 LEAVE BANK CASH OUT 59,615 0 .00 .00 .00 .00 .0% 50200 OVERTIME WAGES 35,000 55,000 53,992.38 4,721.71 .00 1,007.62 98.2% 50400 VAC SICK COMP BUYBACK 0 0 14,958.95 5,073.58 .00 -14,958.95 100.0% 50410 WORKERS COMP SALARY CONTINUE 0 0 5,976.60 3,441.07 .00 -5,976.60 100.0% 51000 CALPERS PENSION NORMAL COST 260,654 258,132 168,886.42 18,881.71 .00 89,245.58 65.4% 51010 CALPERS PENSION UAL 437,328 437,328 327,996.00 36,444.00 .00 109,332.00 75.0% 51030 RETIREMENT ENHANCEMENT PLAN 282,580 282,580 201,465.97 21,918.67 .00 81,114.03 71.3% 51160 CITY PAID EMPLOYEE BENEFITS 797,374 848,063 527,274.04 52,965.65 .00 320,788.96 62.2% 51210 RETIREE HEALTH INS PLAN 22,203 22,203 17,439.53 3,732.77 .00 4,763.47 78.5% 51300 WORKERS COMPENSATION 201,497 201,497 151,122.78 16,791.42 .00 50,374.22 75.0% 51400 AUTO ALLOWANCE 210 210 148.97 16.16 .00 61.03 70.9% 52300 UNIFORMS 11,200 11,200 550.71 .00 15,349.29 -4,700.00 142.0% 52310 TRAINING-WORKSHOP-MTGS 299 7,499 7,803.15 .00 816.85 -1,121.00 114.9% 52340 MEMBERSHIPS 0 835 835.32 .00 .00 .00 100.0% 52400 MINOR EQUIPMENT 405,116 405,116 157,369.50 11,201.16 159,466.78 88,279.72 78.2% 52600 SUPPLIES CUSTODIAL 80,000 80,000 49,093.47 12,756.42 28,345.80 2,560.73 96.8% 52610 SUPPLIES SAFETY 5,800 5,800 1,795.12 .00 2,604.88 1,400.00 75.9% 52900 MISC SUPPLIES 2,000 2,000 805.63 534.70 2,584.02 -1,389.65 169.5% 53020 INTERNAL PHOTOCOPING COSTS 750 750 2,936.36 .00 .00 -2,186.36 391.5% 53200 PROF SERVICES - OTHER 1,189,000 1,007,768 498,765.52 25,244.11 439,969.00 69,033.29 93.1% 54010 UTILITY EXPENSE-ELECTRIC 770,487 908,685 594,449.31 47,609.99 .00 314,235.69 65.4% 54020 UTILITY EXPENSE - GAS 65,945 65,945 50,401.94 9,767.53 .00 15,543.06 76.4% 54030 UTILITY EXPENSE- WASTEWATER 11,851 21,851 12,738.96 1,024.38 .00 9,112.04 58.3% 54040 UTILITY EXPENSE WATER 31,190 61,649 38,558.61 3,359.53 .00 23,090.39 62.5% 54050 UTIL EXP REFUSE AND DISPOSE 87,000 87,000 52,207.10 4,222.60 .00 34,792.90 60.0% 54080 TELEPHONE CHGS 20,487 20,487 16,202.58 3,282.80 .00 4,284.42 79.1% 56040 CAPEX - MACHINERY/EQUIP 0 15,000 .00 .00 .00 15,000.00 .0% 57000 RENTALS & LEASES 86,000 259,197 170,098.71 12,901.86 88,723.73 374.43 99.9% 57110 TAXES AND FILING FEES 6,000 6,000 5,973.00 .00 .00 27.00 99.6% 59200 IT & DATA PROCESSING CHGS 400,117 400,117 300,087.72 33,343.08 .00 100,029.28 75.0% 59300 LIABILITY INSURANCE CHGS 174,870 174,870 131,152.50 14,572.50 .00 43,717.50 75.0% 59400 TELEPHONE CHGS HIPC 25,233 25,233 18,924.75 2,102.75 .00 6,308.25 75.0% 59500 FLEET EQUIP MAINT ISF CHG 91,146 91,146 44,501.56 4,580.32 .00 46,644.44 48.8% 59600 INDIRECT PRORATED CST CHG 291,784 291,784 218,837.97 24,315.33 .00 72,946.03 75.0% TOTAL FACILITIES MAINTENANCE ISF 8,465,467 8,659,124 5,539,352.95 564,719.04 737,860.35 2,381,910.70 72.5% 741 FLEET SERVICES ISF
50000 SALARIES - REGULAR 1,194,675 1,194,675 870,260.19 96,203.17 .00 324,414.81 72.8% 50100 SALARIES - TEMPORARY 20,000 20,000 1,867.36 .00 .00 18,132.64 9.3% 50168 LEAVE BANK CASH OUT 27,597 0 .00 .00 .00 .00 .0% 288
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APPROP BUDGET YTD EXPENDED MTD EXPENDED ENCUMBRANCES BUDGET USED 50200 OVERTIME WAGES 25,000 25,000 24,609.54 2,594.49 .00 390.46 98.4% 50400 VAC SICK COMP BUYBACK 0 0 7,677.91 2,489.45 .00 -7,677.91 100.0% 51000 CALPERS PENSION NORMAL COST 120,662 120,662 86,691.89 9,541.25 .00 33,970.11 71.8% 51010 CALPERS PENSION UAL 179,983 179,983 134,987.22 14,998.58 .00 44,995.78 75.0% 51030 RETIREMENT ENHANCEMENT PLAN 105,307 105,307 70,509.13 9,279.30 .00 34,797.87 67.0% 51160 CITY PAID EMPLOYEE BENEFITS 293,564 321,161 219,621.02 21,478.12 .00 101,539.98 68.4% 51210 RETIREE HEALTH INS PLAN 20,969 20,969 15,641.08 3,199.90 .00 5,327.92 74.6% 51300 WORKERS COMPENSATION 83,579 83,579 62,684.28 6,964.92 .00 20,894.72 75.0% 51400 AUTO ALLOWANCE 210 210 149.03 16.16 .00 60.97 71.0% 51420 TOOL AND EQUIPMENT ALLOWANCE 6,150 6,150 6,150.00 .00 .00 .00 100.0% 52000 POSTAGE 200 200 108.41 .00 .00 91.59 54.2% 52110 REPAIR PARTS 1,260,000 1,260,000 729,953.33 89,312.02 408,878.76 121,167.91 90.4% 52300 UNIFORMS 36,000 36,000 16,009.05 2,432.36 16,750.02 3,240.93 91.0% 52310 TRAINING-WORKSHOP-MTGS 27,000 27,000 16,060.41 4,296.06 1,892.65 9,046.94 66.5% 52330 EDUCATION REIMBURSEMENT 0 0 90.00 .00 .00 -90.00 100.0% 52400 MINOR EQUIPMENT 30,000 30,000 3,889.61 2,762.84 16,210.39 9,900.00 67.0% 52610 SUPPLIES SAFETY 0 0 2,030.66 .00 3,919.54 -5,950.20 100.0% 52900 MISC SUPPLIES 27,800 27,800 17,316.02 3,296.52 25,187.16 -14,703.18 152.9% 53000 SOFTWARE EXPENSE 40,000 40,000 48,937.95 .00 .00 -8,937.95 122.3% 53020 INTERNAL PHOTOCOPING COSTS 3,000 3,000 1,016.17 .00 .00 1,983.83 33.9% 53200 PROF SERVICES - OTHER 543,079 543,079 285,829.89 30,782.85 156,323.12 100,925.99 81.4% 54080 TELEPHONE CHGS 4,997 4,997 4,218.18 894.60 .00 778.82 84.4% 54090 UNLEADED FUEL 1,400,000 1,400,000 802,917.41 102,587.78 536,409.39 60,673.20 95.7% 54091 COMPRESSED NATURAL GAS 576,000 576,000 388,021.73 46,234.95 325,280.22 -137,301.95 123.8% 54092 DIESEL FUEL 1,700,000 1,700,000 809,255.48 101,838.46 451,036.46 439,708.06 74.1% 55020 EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE 18,000 18,000 16,864.55 4,776.33 13,435.45 -12,300.00 168.3% 55030 VEHICLE MAINTENANCE 753,030 753,030 426,935.11 14,919.13 284,151.04 41,943.85 94.4% 55040 LUBRICANT 90,370 90,370 97,555.50 20,561.12 22,444.50 -29,630.00 132.8% 55050 TIRES 381,660 381,660 222,948.39 21,044.05 160,748.64 -2,037.03 100.5% 56040 CAPEX - MACHINERY/EQUIP 23,000 23,000 29,111.44 .00 .00 -6,111.44 126.6% 57110 TAXES AND FILING FEES 9,000 9,000 5,734.05 .00 .00 3,265.95 63.7% 59200 IT & DATA PROCESSING CHGS 164,669 164,669 123,501.78 13,722.42 .00 41,167.22 75.0% 59300 LIABILITY INSURANCE CHGS 78,754 78,754 59,065.47 6,562.83 .00 19,688.53 75.0% 59400 TELEPHONE CHGS HIPC 7,934 7,934 5,950.53 661.17 .00 1,983.47 75.0% 59500 FLEET EQUIP MAINT ISF CHG 0 0 2,983.64 .00 .00 -2,983.64 100.0% 59600 INDIRECT PRORATED CST CHG 339,971 339,971 254,978.28 28,330.92 .00 84,992.72 75.0% 59700 FACILITY CHG MAINTENANCE 420,363 420,363 315,272.25 35,030.25 .00 105,090.75 75.0% 60200 CAPITAL ASSET OFFSET 0 0 -23,911.52 5,199.92 .00 23,911.52 100.0% 60400 DEPRECIATION EXPENSE 0 0 385.18 385.18 .00 -385.18 100.0% TOTAL FLEET SERVICES ISF 10,012,523 10,012,523 6,163,877.60 702,397.10 2,422,667.34 1,425,978.06 85.8% 742 FLEET REPLACEMENT FUND
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City of Oxnard

YEAR-TO-DATE BUDGET REPORT
Report generated: 05/01/2025 14:09
User: jim.costello
Program ID: glytdbud

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EXPENSE- MARCH 2025
FOR 2025 09

ORIGINAL REVISED AVAILABLE PCT 742 FLEET REPLACEMENT FUND APPROP BUDGET YTD EXPENDED MTD EXPENDED ENCUMBRANCES BUDGET USED 56040 CAPEX - MACHINERY/EQUIP 0 572,042 .00 .00 .00 572,042.15 .0% 57000 RENTALS & LEASES 0 0 24,585.12 2,731.68 8,411.52 -32,996.64 100.0% 59800 TRANSFERS OUT - CIP 0 15,389 .00 .00 .00 15,389.00 .0% TOTAL FLEET REPLACEMENT FUND 0 587,431 24,585.12 2,731.68 8,411.52 554,434.51 5.6% 801 COFA DEBT SERVICE FUND
57500 PRINCIPAL PAYMENTS 5,295,698 5,295,698 783,883.76 .00 .00 4,511,814.24 14.8% 57510 INTEREST & PENALTIES EXPENSE 2,441,290 2,441,290 1,228,442.06 .00 .00 1,212,847.94 50.3% TOTAL COFA DEBT SERVICE FUND 7,736,988 7,736,988 2,012,325.82 .00 .00 5,724,662.18 26.0% 850 RIVERPARK JPA FUND
53200 PROF SERVICES - OTHER 0 191,094 .00 .00 .00 191,094.00 .0% 56020 CAPEX - IMPRV OTH. THN BLDGS 0 671,098 86,364.13 .00 .00 584,734.14 12.9% 59000 TRANSFERS OUT (LABOR) 0 0 5,362.94 .00 .00 -5,362.94 100.0% TOTAL RIVERPARK JPA FUND 0 862,192 91,727.07 .00 .00 770,465.20 10.6% 991 GOVERNMENTAL CAPITAL ASSETS FD
53600 HOUSING ASSIST LOAN GRANT 0 0 -1,327,704.72 .00 .00 1,327,704.72 100.0% 60200 CAPITAL ASSET OFFSET 0 0 -1,338,296.50 -816,632.99 .00 1,338,296.50 100.0% 60210 CAPITAL ASSET OFFSET - CIP 0 0 42,146.84 42,146.84 .00 -42,146.84 100.0% TOTAL GOVERNMENTAL CAPITAL ASSETS 0 0 -2,623,854.38 -774,486.15 .00 2,623,854.38 100.0% 996 GOVERNMENTAL DEBT SERVICE FUND
57510 INTEREST & PENALTIES EXPENSE 0 0 -404,287.76 .00 .00 404,287.76 100.0% 60500 DEBT OFFSET 0 0 -2,713,615.55 -384,507.50 .00 2,713,615.55 100.0% TOTAL GOVERNMENTAL DEBT SERVICE F 0 0 -3,117,903.31 -384,507.50 .00 3,117,903.31 100.0% GRAND TOTAL 984,101,305************ 453,203,009.53 52,692,460.95 186,731,313.16 896,491,541.92 41.7% ** END OF REPORT - Generated by James Costello **
290

FUND FUND DESCRIPTION SUBFUND SUBFUND DESCRIPTION ACCOUNT TYPE NET CHANGE ACCOUNT BALANCE '101 'GENERAL FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset (5,314,186.67) 98,448,769.90 'Fund Balance 5,558,120.99 (90,011,164.22)
'Liability (243,934.32) (8,437,605.68)
'104 'HALF CENT SALES TAX - MEAS O 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset (80,913.49) 27,969,829.10 'Fund Balance 82,566.34 (27,415,676.18)
'Liability (1,652.85) (554,152.92)
'105 'STREET MAINTENANCE (IUF) FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset (46,191.71) 233,267.93 'Fund Balance 46,191.71 (233,305.85)
'Liability 0.00 37.92
'114 'STORM WATER MANAGEMENT FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset 258,295.69 641,523.36 'Fund Balance (239,070.80) (622,509.84)
'Liability (19,224.89) (19,013.52)
'119 'PUBLIC SAFETY RETIREMENT FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset (925,504.42) 906,801.22 'Fund Balance 925,504.42 (907,765.47)
'Liability 0.00 964.25
'120 'MAINT ASSMNT DIST 2000 SPECIAL DISTRICTS ADMIN 'Asset (201,795.23) (1,307,995.70) 'Fund Balance 204,153.74 1,311,484.03
'Liability (2,358.51) (3,488.33)
2030 LMD 03 - RIVER RIDGE 'Asset (1,172.43) 78,188.55
'Fund Balance 4,786.61 (74,574.37)
'Liability (3,614.18) (3,614.18)
2100 LMD 10 - COUNTRY CLUB 'Asset (485.38) 28,687.36
'Fund Balance 887.93 (28,284.81)
'Liability (402.55) (402.55)
2110 LMD 11 - ST. TROPAZ 'Asset (258.88) (64.63)
'Fund Balance 258.88 64.63
2120 LMD 12 - STANDARD PACIFIC 'Asset (269.62) 36,031.35 'Fund Balance 976.16 (35,319.36)
'Liability (706.54) (711.99)
2130 LMD 13 - LE VILLAGE 'Asset (636.69) 26,462.99

CITY OF OXNARD BALANCE SHEET REPORT
Mar-25
291

FUND FUND DESCRIPTION SUBFUND SUBFUND DESCRIPTION ACCOUNT TYPE NET CHANGE ACCOUNT BALANCE

CITY OF OXNARD BALANCE SHEET REPORT
Mar-25
'120 'MAINT ASSMNT DIST 2130 LMD 13 - LE VILLAGE 'Fund Balance 1,118.55 (25,981.13) 'Liability (481.86) (481.86)
2140 LMD 14 - CALIFORNIA COVE 'Asset (259.36) 51,314.04 'Fund Balance 1,842.44 (49,730.96)
'Liability (1,583.08) (1,583.08)
2160 LMD 16 - CALIFORNIA LIGHTHOUSE'Asset (151.20) 14,387.92 'Fund Balance 2,910.96 (11,628.16)
'Liability (2,759.76) (2,759.76)
2230 LMD 23 - GREYSTONE 'Asset (380.94) 8,610.74
'Fund Balance 556.54 (8,115.14)
'Liability (175.60) (495.60)
2240 LMD 24 - VINEYARDS 'Asset (279.80) 26,118.75
'Fund Balance 1,451.21 (24,947.34)
'Liability (1,171.41) (1,171.41)
2250 LMD 25 - THE POINTE 'Asset (154.57) 26,083.21
'Fund Balance 1,542.27 (24,695.51)
'Liability (1,387.70) (1,387.70)
2270 LMD 27- ROSE ISLAND 'Asset (212.28) 21,812.70
'Fund Balance 2,073.46 (19,951.52)
'Liability (1,861.18) (1,861.18)
2280 LMD 28 - HARBORSIDE 'Asset (531.74) 75,534.82
'Fund Balance 4,759.66 (71,306.90)
'Liability (4,227.92) (4,227.92)
2300 LMD 30 - HAAS AUTOMATION 'Asset (95.42) 74,507.86
'Fund Balance 5,256.16 (69,347.12)
'Liability (5,160.74) (5,160.74)
2310 LMD 31 - RANCHO DE LA ROSA 'Asset (1,980.34) 69,337.40 'Fund Balance 6,987.68 (63,982.06)
'Liability (5,007.34) (5,355.34)
2320 LMD 32 - OAK PARK 'Asset (299.10) 44,466.31
292

FUND FUND DESCRIPTION SUBFUND SUBFUND DESCRIPTION ACCOUNT TYPE NET CHANGE ACCOUNT BALANCE

CITY OF OXNARD BALANCE SHEET REPORT
Mar-25
'120 'MAINT ASSMNT DIST 2320 LMD 32 - OAK PARK 'Fund Balance 1,950.09 (42,815.32) 'Liability (1,650.99) (1,650.99)
2330 LMD 33 - EL PASEO 'Asset (1,303.63) 58,138.13
'Fund Balance 3,017.15 (55,352.61)
'Liability (1,713.52) (2,785.52)
2340 LMD 34 - SUNRISE PT/SUNSET CV 'Asset (5,029.93) 57,587.59 'Fund Balance 5,154.98 (53,777.54)
'Liability (125.05) (3,810.05)
2360 LMD 36 - V ST CRUZ/V CARMEL 'Asset (4,434.43) 95,237.92 'Fund Balance 14,990.80 (83,101.55)
'Liability (10,556.37) (12,136.37)
2370 LMD 37 - PACIFIC BREEZE 'Asset (158.28) 152,955.81 'Fund Balance 1,112.46 (152,001.63)
'Liability (954.18) (954.18)
2380 LMD 38 - ALDEA DEL MAR 'Asset (3,039.13) 70,521.97 'Fund Balance 8,360.47 (63,585.63)
'Liability (5,321.34) (6,936.34)
2390 LMD 39 - EL SUENO PROMESA 'Asset (2,627.96) 202,163.13 'Fund Balance 13,607.49 (189,986.40)
'Liability (10,979.53) (12,176.73)
2391 LMD 39- D.R. HORTON 'Asset (1,015.30) 10,434.81
'Fund Balance 4,564.76 (6,472.55)
'Liability (3,549.46) (3,962.26)
2400 LMD 40 - CANTADA 'Asset (1,838.48) 108,648.03
'Fund Balance 3,370.62 (105,726.89)
'Liability (1,532.14) (2,921.14)
2410 LMD 41 - PACIFIC COVE 'Asset (1,406.80) 34,558.80
'Fund Balance 1,420.33 (33,985.27)
'Liability (13.53) (573.53)
2420 LMD 42 - CANTABRIA/CORONADO 'Asset (1,255.96) 232,136.24 293

FUND FUND DESCRIPTION SUBFUND SUBFUND DESCRIPTION ACCOUNT TYPE NET CHANGE ACCOUNT BALANCE

CITY OF OXNARD BALANCE SHEET REPORT
Mar-25
'120 'MAINT ASSMNT DIST 2420 LMD 42 - CANTABRIA/CORONADO 'Fund Balance 13,429.40 (219,962.80) 'Liability (12,173.44) (12,173.44)
2430 LMD 43 - GREENBELT 'Asset (16,415.24) 132,933.81
'Fund Balance 23,175.44 (125,787.09)
'Liability (6,760.20) (7,146.72)
2460 LMD 46 - DAILY RANCH 'Asset (1,809.74) 91,273.31
'Fund Balance 16,058.22 (76,824.83)
'Liability (14,248.48) (14,448.48)
2470 LMD 47 - SYCAMORE PLACE 'Asset (758.11) 97,284.39
'Fund Balance 3,088.85 (94,448.65)
'Liability (2,330.74) (2,835.74)
2490 LMD 49 - CAMERON RANCH 'Asset (1,267.20) (59,431.51) 'Fund Balance 663.70 59,888.01
'Liability 603.50 (456.50)
2500 LMD 50 - PV SENIOR HOUSING 'Asset (178.01) 40,073.90 'Fund Balance 919.27 (39,332.64)
'Liability (741.26) (741.26)
2510 LMD 51 - PFEILER 'Asset (2,307.99) 202,918.12
'Fund Balance 11,164.12 (193,156.34)
'Liability (8,856.13) (9,761.78)
2520 LMD 52 - WINGFIELD 'Asset (755.94) 238,985.47
'Fund Balance 697.74 (238,593.67)
'Liability 58.20 (391.80)
2530 LMD 53 - HUFF COURT 'Asset (491.36) 5,908.96
'Fund Balance 41.36 (5,908.96)
'Liability 450.00 0.00
2540 LMD 54 - MEADOWCREST 'Asset (200.40) 89,065.30
'Fund Balance 476.78 (88,788.92)
'Liability (276.38) (276.38)
2550 LMD 55 - WINGFIELD WEST 'Asset (523.03) 42,058.45
294

FUND FUND DESCRIPTION SUBFUND SUBFUND DESCRIPTION ACCOUNT TYPE NET CHANGE ACCOUNT BALANCE

CITY OF OXNARD BALANCE SHEET REPORT
Mar-25
'120 'MAINT ASSMNT DIST 2550 LMD 55 - WINGFIELD WEST 'Fund Balance 2,904.69 (39,601.79) 'Liability (2,381.66) (2,456.66)
2580 LMD 58 - WESTWIND 'Asset (358.73) 109,034.22
'Fund Balance 1,216.84 (108,176.11)
'Liability (858.11) (858.11)
2600 LMD 60 - ARTISAN 'Asset (156.37) 30,902.73
'Fund Balance 2,356.08 (28,703.02)
'Liability (2,199.71) (2,199.71)
3040 LMD 04 - MNDLY BAY/BEACH MAIN'Asset (1,126.58) 58,061.03 'Fund Balance 1,781.15 (57,406.46)
'Liability (654.57) (654.57)
4010 WATERWAYS 01- MANDALAY BAY 'Asset (20,279.68) 335,329.94 'Fund Balance 40,358.10 (304,441.94)
'Liability (20,078.42) (30,888.00)
4020 WATERWAYS 02- HARBOR ISLAND 'Asset (6,046.73) (71,161.60) 'Fund Balance 2,799.75 71,161.60
'Liability 3,246.98 0.00
6020 CFD 02 - WESTPORT 'Asset (61,732.12) 1,435,860.36
'Fund Balance 25,058.73 (1,433,971.33)
'Liability 36,673.39 (1,889.03)
6040 CFD 04 - SEABRIDGE 'Asset (75,552.24) 3,808,190.56 'Fund Balance 44,916.52 (3,805,302.98)
'Liability 30,635.72 (2,887.58)
6050 CFD 05 - RIVERPARK 'Asset (474,598.81) 2,758,653.15 'Fund Balance 354,233.51 (2,735,111.90)
'Liability 120,365.30 (23,541.25)
6060 CFD 09 - NORTHSHORE MANDALAY'Asset 0.00 513,997.71 'Fund Balance 0.00 (513,997.71)
6070 CFD 07- WAGON WHEEL 'Asset (291.33) 161,146.39
'Fund Balance 291.33 (161,146.39)
295

FUND FUND DESCRIPTION SUBFUND SUBFUND DESCRIPTION ACCOUNT TYPE NET CHANGE ACCOUNT BALANCE

CITY OF OXNARD BALANCE SHEET REPORT
Mar-25
'120 'MAINT ASSMNT DIST
6080 CFD 08 - SAKIOKA FARMS 'Asset 0.00 425,257.61
'Fund Balance 0.00 (425,257.61)
'181 'STATE GAS TAX FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset (28,110.53) 232,223.28 'Fund Balance 10,642.17 (206,967.14)
'Liability 17,468.36 (25,256.14)
'182 'TRAFFIC SAFETY FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset 77,585.10 6,545.16 'Fund Balance (77,585.10) (6,692.69)
'Liability 0.00 147.53
'185 'ROAD MAINT & REHAB ACT FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset 393,576.89 3,819,181.75 'Fund Balance (384,379.39) (3,809,984.25)
'Liability (9,197.50) (9,197.50)
'191 'ASSET SEIZURE FUND - FED 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset 55,353.86 200,321.67 'Fund Balance (57,664.02) (199,951.67)
'Liability 2,310.16 (370.00)
'192 'ASSET SEIZURE FUND - STATE 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset (60,053.76) 217,533.37 'Fund Balance 71,975.44 (205,262.74)
'Liability (11,921.68) (12,270.63)
'200 'FEDERAL GRANTS FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset (73,406.23) (2,007,481.87) 'Fund Balance 73,748.23 2,005,022.14
'Liability (342.00) 2,459.73
'201 'CDGB FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset (232,387.21) 5,981,409.91 'Fund Balance 319,127.00 (3,164,878.54)
'Liability (86,739.79) (2,816,531.37)
'202 'HOME FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset 408.75 8,746,341.35 'Fund Balance 486.25 (55,975.53)
'Liability (895.00) (8,690,365.82)
'203 'EMERGENCY SHELTER FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset (14,664.38) 49,276.78 'Fund Balance 14,664.38 (49,276.78)
'204 'ARPA 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset (410,768.45) 3,273,663.18 296

FUND FUND DESCRIPTION SUBFUND SUBFUND DESCRIPTION ACCOUNT TYPE NET CHANGE ACCOUNT BALANCE

CITY OF OXNARD BALANCE SHEET REPORT
Mar-25
'204 'ARPA 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Fund Balance 564,880.21 9,626,965.06 'Liability (154,111.76) (12,900,628.24)
'210 'STATE & LOCAL GRANTS FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset (3,701,080.75) 9,782,789.63 'Fund Balance 3,652,559.25 4,589,241.78
'Liability 48,521.50 (14,372,031.41)
'212 'TRANSPORT DEV ACT (TDA) FUND 9030 TDA ARTICLE 3 'Asset (8.00) 193,953.78 'Fund Balance 8.00 (191,847.12)
'Liability 0.00 (2,106.66)
9040 TDA ARTICLE 4 'Asset (81,186.75) 1,856,016.39
'Fund Balance 59,942.93 (36,062.39)
'Liability 21,243.82 (1,819,954.00)
9080 TDA ARTICLE 8A 'Asset (3,201.83) 21,390.62
'Fund Balance 3,201.83 (21,390.62)
'220 'STATE HOUSING (LHTFP) GRANT 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset (245,886.35) 478,842.51 'Fund Balance 247,506.35 192,405.53
'Liability (1,620.00) (671,248.04)
'230 'STATE TRAFFIC CONG RELIEF FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset 0.00 750,405.74 'Fund Balance 0.00 (750,405.74)
'301 'CAPITAL OUTLAY FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset 4,310,005.50 3,929,274.22 'Fund Balance (5,629,779.89) (1,933,158.56)
'Liability 1,319,774.39 (1,996,115.66)
'311 'PEG FEES FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset 71,224.47 5,336,164.46 'Fund Balance (71,224.47) (5,336,164.46)
'313 '2022 LEASE PURCH EQUIP FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset (621,562.33) 770,731.23 'Fund Balance 621,562.33 (769,091.18)
'Liability 0.00 (1,640.05)
'314 '2014 LEASE REV BOND FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset 19,623.81 1,957,199.79 'Fund Balance (19,623.81) (1,957,199.79)
'315 '2006 TAB HERO/SW/ORMOND FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset 12,587.79 1,239,559.08 297

FUND FUND DESCRIPTION SUBFUND SUBFUND DESCRIPTION ACCOUNT TYPE NET CHANGE ACCOUNT BALANCE

CITY OF OXNARD BALANCE SHEET REPORT
Mar-25
'315 '2006 TAB HERO/SW/ORMOND FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Fund Balance (12,587.79) (1,239,559.08) '316 '2019A LEASE REV BOND FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset 0.00 0.32 'Fund Balance 0.00 (0.32)
'320 'LOST PUBLIC SECTOR REV FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset (196,963.71) 28,939,867.36 'Fund Balance 143,574.95 (28,938,301.86)
'Liability 53,388.76 (1,565.50)
'350 'DEVELOPMENT IMPACT FEES FUND 8010 PARK FEES - QUIMBY RESERVE 'Asset 0.00 (94,965.97) 'Fund Balance 0.00 94,965.98
'Liability 0.00 (0.01)
8020 PARKS DEVELOPMENT FEES 'Asset 8,367.09 2,010,875.76 'Fund Balance (8,367.09) (2,010,875.76)
8030 STORM DRAIN FACILITY FEE 'Asset (556.33) 10,916,968.22 'Fund Balance 556.33 (10,916,968.22)
8040 CIRCULATION SYS IMPROV FEES 'Asset (41,601.00) 21,257,051.39 'Fund Balance 36,856.00 (21,256,922.32)
'Liability 4,745.00 (129.07)
8050 CAP GROWTH FEES-RESIDENTIAL 'Asset (57,954.06) 2,059,704.12 'Fund Balance 57,407.04 (2,059,704.12)
'Liability 547.02 0.00
8055 MOBILITY FEE 'Asset 1,939.01 576,234.08
'Fund Balance (1,939.01) (576,234.08)
8060 CAP GROWTH FEES-NONRESIDENTIAL'Asset (126.50) 2,718,867.21 'Fund Balance 126.50 (2,718,867.21)
8070 UTILITY UNDERGROUNDING IN LIEU'Asset 1,382.53 1,867,369.92 'Fund Balance (1,464.00) (1,867,369.92)
'Liability 81.47 0.00
8080 PUBLIC ART PROGRAM FEE 'Asset (172.73) 1,299,697.46 'Fund Balance 78.33 (1,299,697.45)
'Liability 94.40 (0.01)
298

FUND FUND DESCRIPTION SUBFUND SUBFUND DESCRIPTION ACCOUNT TYPE NET CHANGE ACCOUNT BALANCE

CITY OF OXNARD BALANCE SHEET REPORT
Mar-25
'350 'DEVELOPMENT IMPACT FEES FUND
'351 'QUIMBY FUND 8111 QUIMBY FEE - 5 POINTS NORTH 'Asset 0.00 1,356,910.14 'Fund Balance 0.00 (1,356,910.14)
8112 QUIMBY FEE - BRYCE CNYN SO 'Asset 0.00 5,015.41
'Fund Balance 0.00 (5,015.41)
8113 QUIMBY FEE - CABRILLO 'Asset 0.00 162,714.25
'Fund Balance 0.00 (162,714.25)
8114 QUIMBY FEE - CAL-GISLER 'Asset 0.00 1,187.17
'Fund Balance 0.00 (1,187.17)
8115 QUIMBY FEE - CARRIAGE SQUARE 'Asset 0.00 431,274.85 'Fund Balance 0.00 (431,274.85)
8116 QUIMBY FEE - CYPRESS 'Asset 0.00 40,833.35
'Fund Balance 0.00 (40,833.35)
8117 QUIMBY FEE - EAST VILLAGE 'Asset 0.00 713,139.22
'Fund Balance 0.00 (713,139.22)
8118 QUIMBY FEE - EL RIO 'Asset 0.00 15,029.35
'Fund Balance 0.00 (15,029.35)
8119 QUIMBY FEE - EL RIO WEST 'Asset 0.00 314,641.68
'Fund Balance 0.00 (314,641.68)
8120 QUIMBY FEE - FREMONT SOUTH 'Asset 0.00 259,453.01
'Fund Balance 0.00 (259,453.01)
8121 QUIMBY FEE - HOBSON PARK EAST 'Asset 0.00 462,368.58 'Fund Balance 0.00 (462,368.58)
8122 QUIMBY FEE - LA COLONIA 'Asset (2,066.25) 79,524.93 'Fund Balance 2,066.25 (79,524.93)
8123 QUIMBY FEE - MAR VISTA 'Asset 0.00 532,004.10
'Fund Balance 0.00 (532,004.10)
299

FUND FUND DESCRIPTION SUBFUND SUBFUND DESCRIPTION ACCOUNT TYPE NET CHANGE ACCOUNT BALANCE

CITY OF OXNARD BALANCE SHEET REPORT
Mar-25
'351 'QUIMBY FUND 8124 QUIMBY FEE - MARINA WEST 'Asset 0.00 134,179.93 'Fund Balance 0.00 (134,179.93)
8125 QUIMBY FEE - ORCHARD 'Asset 0.00 220,460.44
'Fund Balance 0.00 (220,460.44)
8126 QUIMBY FEE - OXNARD DUNES 'Asset 0.00 691,794.33
'Fund Balance 0.00 (691,794.33)
8127 QUIMBY FEE - OXNARD SHORES 'Asset 0.00 95,943.71
'Fund Balance 0.00 (95,943.71)
8128 QUIMBY FEE - PACIFIC AVE CMCRL 'Asset 0.00 363,874.31 'Fund Balance 0.00 (363,874.31)
8129 QUIMBY FEE - RIO LINDO 'Asset 0.00 161,852.20
'Fund Balance 0.00 (161,852.20)
8130 QUIMBY FEE - ROSE PARK 'Asset 0.00 1,628.19
'Fund Balance 0.00 (1,628.19)
8131 QUIMBY FEE - SEA VIEW ESTATES 'Asset 0.00 2,245,064.79 'Fund Balance 0.00 (2,245,064.79)
8132 QUIMBY FEE - SOUTH BANK 'Asset 0.00 56,307.78
'Fund Balance 0.00 (56,307.78)
8133 QUIMBY FEE - SOUTHWIND 'Asset 0.00 165,332.09
'Fund Balance 0.00 (165,332.09)
8134 QUIMBY FEE - VIA MARINA 'Asset 0.00 1,586,193.69
'Fund Balance 0.00 (1,586,193.69)
8135 QUIMBY FEE - WILSON 'Asset 0.00 760,295.62
'Fund Balance 0.00 (760,295.62)
8136 QUIMBY FEE - WINDSOR NORTH 'Asset 0.00 36,843.36
'Fund Balance 0.00 (36,843.36)
'360 'OTH. DEVPT FEES FUND 7010 AIR POLLUTION BUYDOWN FEE 'Asset (166,137.77) 340,383.33 300

FUND FUND DESCRIPTION SUBFUND SUBFUND DESCRIPTION ACCOUNT TYPE NET CHANGE ACCOUNT BALANCE

CITY OF OXNARD BALANCE SHEET REPORT
Mar-25
'360 'OTH. DEVPT FEES FUND 7010 AIR POLLUTION BUYDOWN FEE 'Fund Balance 166,137.77 (340,383.33) 7020 CUPA OPERATING PROGRAM 'Asset (59,139.15) 1,875,246.94 'Fund Balance 58,750.03 (1,875,154.64)
'Liability 389.12 (92.30)
7030 CUPA CAPITAL PROGRAM 'Asset 0.00 454,340.34
'Fund Balance 0.00 (454,340.34)
7040 AFFORDABLE RENTAL HOUSING 'Asset 0.00 1,427,941.15 'Fund Balance 0.00 (127,941.15)
'Liability 0.00 (1,300,000.00)
7050 HOUSING IN LIEU - FEES 'Asset (11,993.56) 15,717,024.05 'Fund Balance 12,329.59 (2,770,385.08)
'Liability (336.03) (12,946,638.97)
7060 HOUSING IN LIEU - CITY 'Asset 0.00 1,103,033.07
'Fund Balance 0.00 (453,033.07)
'Liability 0.00 (650,000.00)
'420 'HOUSING SUC AGCY FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset 63,620.51 36,293,595.36 'Fund Balance (63,620.51) (2,731,049.55)
'Liability 0.00 (33,562,545.81)
'429 'CDC SUCCESSOR AGENCY FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset (67,133.02) 10,900,148.32 'Fund Balance 65,036.83 12,558,694.84
'Liability 2,096.19 (23,458,843.16)
'481 'DOWNTOWN IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset (733.50) 4,453,814.06 'Fund Balance 733.50 (4,393,814.05)
'Liability 0.00 (60,000.01)
'500 'BOND ASSESSMENT DISTRICTS 5000 CFD 2000-3 'Asset 39,075.97 6,201,852.58 'Fund Balance (451.72) (2,399,916.19)
'Liability (38,624.25) (3,801,936.39)
5010 HUENEME RD ASSESS DIST 83-1 'Fund Balance 0.00 (0.42) 'Liability 0.00 0.42
301

FUND FUND DESCRIPTION SUBFUND SUBFUND DESCRIPTION ACCOUNT TYPE NET CHANGE ACCOUNT BALANCE

CITY OF OXNARD BALANCE SHEET REPORT
Mar-25
'500 'BOND ASSESSMENT DISTRICTS 5020 ROSE/CLARA ASSESS DIST 86-4 'Fund Balance 0.00 (0.18) 'Liability 0.00 0.18
5030 ROSE/101 ASSESS DIST 96-1 'Fund Balance 0.00 (0.08) 'Liability 0.00 0.08
5040 ROSE AVE/101 IFD 'Fund Balance 0.00 0.43
'Liability 0.00 (0.43)
5050 ASSESSMENT DISTRICT 2000-1 'Asset 4,405.48 2,322,655.32 'Fund Balance (4,405.48) (1,187,655.80)
'Liability 0.00 (1,134,999.52)
5060 RICE/101 INTER ASSESS DIST 'Asset 64,866.14 6,575,798.09 'Fund Balance (2,886.00) (436,883.66)
'Liability (61,980.14) (6,138,914.43)
5070 CFD 03-SEABRIDGE BONDED 'Asset (45.06) 18,815,691.03 'Fund Balance 45.06 (1,050,690.66)
'Liability 0.00 (17,765,000.37)
5080 OXNARD TWIN CENTER CFD 88-1 'Fund Balance 0.00 (0.32) 'Liability 0.00 0.32
5100 CFD-01 - WESTPORT BONDED 'Asset 58,970.26 6,144,528.07 'Fund Balance (2,501.06) (563,997.49)
'Liability (56,469.20) (5,580,530.58)
'541 'DEVELOPER/OTHER DEPOSITS FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset (121,401.73) 8,857,009.86 'Fund Balance 102,250.00 (7,291,110.07)
'Liability 19,151.73 (1,565,899.79)
'542 'PAYROLL CLEARING FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset (1,310,558.96) 3,649,221.58 'Fund Balance 136,082.30 2,509,304.66
'Liability 1,174,476.66 (6,158,526.24)
'545 'HOUSING AUTHORITY PAYROLL FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset (375,735.65) (309,081.69) 'Fund Balance 378,563.73 309,025.85
'Liability (2,828.08) 55.84
302

FUND FUND DESCRIPTION SUBFUND SUBFUND DESCRIPTION ACCOUNT TYPE NET CHANGE ACCOUNT BALANCE

CITY OF OXNARD BALANCE SHEET REPORT
Mar-25
'551 'OPD PROPERTY ROOM FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset 0.00 365,748.19 'Fund Balance 0.00 (279,686.23)
'Liability 0.00 (86,061.96)
'561 'OXNARD DOWNTOWN MGT DIST FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset 0.00 174,023.77 'Fund Balance 0.00 (174,023.58)
'Liability 0.00 (0.19)
'571 'CONTRIBUTIONS TRUST FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset (5,703.97) 2,673,948.51 'Fund Balance 5,278.97 (2,256,662.08)
'Liability 425.00 (417,286.43)
'586 'ENHANCED RETIREMENT PLAN FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset 0.00 116,651,766.91 'Fund Balance 0.00 (116,651,766.91)
'601 'WATER OPERATING FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset 9,240,257.82 307,013,507.80 'Fund Balance (9,680,878.02) (125,503,473.11)
'Liability 440,620.20 (181,510,034.69)
'602 'WATER CIP FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset 624,313.70 1,445,301.60 'Fund Balance (303,308.83) 54,405.35
'Liability (321,004.87) (1,499,706.95)
'603 'WATER DEVLPMT IMPACT FEES FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset (11,063.96) 20,567,741.99 'Fund Balance 8,271.96 (20,567,741.99)
'Liability 2,792.00 0.00
'605 'WATER CAP FACILITY FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset 1,569.83 1,832,402.39 'Fund Balance (1,910.83) (1,840,696.99)
'Liability 341.00 8,294.60
'606 'WATER RESOURCE FEE FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset (87.33) 2,054,505.62 'Fund Balance 87.33 (2,054,505.62)
'607 'WATER BONDS/WIFIA LOANS 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset 0.00 (114,428.25) 'Fund Balance 0.00 149,428.25
'Liability 0.00 (35,000.00)
'608 'WATER SECURITY-CONT PREV FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset (79,538.93) 406,193.35 'Fund Balance 69,049.38 361,664.29
303

FUND FUND DESCRIPTION SUBFUND SUBFUND DESCRIPTION ACCOUNT TYPE NET CHANGE ACCOUNT BALANCE

CITY OF OXNARD BALANCE SHEET REPORT
Mar-25
'608 'WATER SECURITY-CONT PREV FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Liability 10,489.55 (767,857.64) '609 'WATER BOND 2021A REV BOND FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset (10,309,958.00) 2,471,792.56 'Fund Balance 10,309,958.00 (2,386,991.26)
'Liability 0.00 (84,801.30)
'611 'WASTEWATER OPERATING FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset 719,158.73 331,043,504.91 'Fund Balance (703,558.40) (227,889,780.35)
'Liability (15,600.33) (103,153,724.56)
'612 'WASTEWATER CIP FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset 2,724,760.60 1,989,670.86 'Fund Balance (2,135,110.36) 1,292,545.06
'Liability (589,650.24) (3,282,215.92)
'613 'WASTEWATER CONNECTION FEE FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset 25,693.49 17,674,584.12 'Fund Balance (25,693.49) (17,674,584.12)
'617 'WASTEWATER BONDS/SRF LOANS 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset (2,182,163.76) (27,003,509.21) 'Fund Balance 2,182,163.76 27,003,509.21
'628 'WASTEWATER SEC-CONT PREV FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset 0.00 1,046,372.75 'Fund Balance 0.00 (1,046,372.75)
'631 'SOLID WASTE OPERATING FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset 1,068,945.18 62,114,620.04 'Fund Balance (1,524,863.95) (15,809,519.92)
'Liability 455,918.77 (46,305,100.12)
'632 'SOLID WASTE CIP FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Fund Balance 0.00 0.00 '634 'SOLID WASTE DEVELOPER FEE FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset 5,983.02 953,847.90 'Fund Balance (5,983.02) (953,847.90)
'638 'SOLID WASTE SEC - CONT PREV FU 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset 22.80 1,083,228.17 'Fund Balance (22.80) (1,083,228.17)
'641 'PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset (50,487.48) 599,906.36 'Fund Balance 51,023.48 (599,328.66)
'Liability (536.00) (577.70)
'651 'GOLF COURSE OPERATING FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset (423,757.57) 51,109,730.63 304

FUND FUND DESCRIPTION SUBFUND SUBFUND DESCRIPTION ACCOUNT TYPE NET CHANGE ACCOUNT BALANCE

CITY OF OXNARD BALANCE SHEET REPORT
Mar-25
'651 'GOLF COURSE OPERATING FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Fund Balance (126,180.61) (50,895,535.66) 'Liability 549,938.18 (214,194.97)
'652 'GOLF COURSE CIP FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset 842.51 0.00 'Fund Balance (842.51) 0.00
'701 'PUBLIC LIAB & PROP INSUR ISF 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset (165,152.30) 1,315,344.54 'Fund Balance 165,152.30 6,753,804.35
'Liability 0.00 (8,069,148.89)
'702 'WORKERS COMP INSUR ISF 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset 461,683.31 24,498,227.89 'Fund Balance (460,765.28) 17,105,269.45
'Liability (918.03) (41,603,497.34)
'725 'CUSTOMER BILLING OPS ISF 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset (533.26) 2,903,059.98 'Fund Balance (24,691.21) (21,601.83)
'Liability 25,224.47 (2,881,458.15)
'731 'INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ISF 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset 256,898.13 15,579,920.62 'Fund Balance (213,529.09) (7,169,680.56)
'Liability (43,369.04) (8,410,240.06)
'732 'IT CAPITAL 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Fund Balance 0.00 0.00 '735 'FACILITIES MAINTENANCE ISF 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset 127,098.33 5,792,894.41 'Fund Balance (137,122.41) 2,124,188.48
'Liability 10,024.08 (7,917,082.89)
'741 'FLEET SERVICES ISF 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset (92,431.83) 1,932,803.95 'Fund Balance 13,139.62 2,784,215.20
'Liability 79,292.21 (4,717,019.15)
'742 'FLEET REPLACEMENT FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset 0.00 583,104.79 'Fund Balance 2,731.68 (580,373.11)
'Liability (2,731.68) (2,731.68)
'801 'COFA DEBT SERVICE FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset 138.57 52,908.73 'Fund Balance (190,234.12) (52,908.73)
'Liability 190,095.55 0.00
305

FUND FUND DESCRIPTION SUBFUND SUBFUND DESCRIPTION ACCOUNT TYPE NET CHANGE ACCOUNT BALANCE

CITY OF OXNARD BALANCE SHEET REPORT
Mar-25
'850 'RIVERPARK JPA FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset 0.00 820,458.29 'Fund Balance 0.00 (820,458.29)
'991 'GOVERNMENTAL CAPITAL ASSETS FD 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset 774,486.15 2,132,970,174.83 'Fund Balance (774,486.15) (1,837,316,205.51)
'Liability 0.00 (295,653,969.32)
'996 'GOVERNMENTAL DEBT SERVICE FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset 0.00 19,408,656.21 'Fund Balance (384,507.50) 67,751,503.77
'Liability 384,507.50 (87,160,159.98)
'999 'TREASURY FUND 0000 UNDEFINED SUBFUND 'Asset (6,340,603.15) 478,808,834.42 'Liability 6,340,603.15 (478,808,834.42)
(blank) (blank) (blank) (blank) (blank)
#N/A (blank)
Grand Total 0.00 (0.00)
306

CITY COUNCIL AGENDA REPORT

INFORMATION/CONSENT AGENDA
AGENDA ITEM NO. K.7

DATE: May 20, 2025

TO: City Council

FROM: Alexander Hamilton, Fire Chief, (805) 385-7700, [email protected]

SUBJECT: Resolution Commending Fire Marshal Stephen McNaughten For Twenty-Three Years of Service to the City of Oxnard Fire Department.

RECOMMENDATION

That the City Council adopt a resolution commending Fire Marshal Stephen McNaughten for twenty-three years of service to the City of Oxnard Fire Department.

(This item did not originate in Committee.)

BACKGROUND

Stephen McNaughten began his career with the City of Oxnard Fire Department on September 3, 2001, as a Firefighter.

Over the course of more than two decades, he rose through the ranks with distinction, earning the respect of colleagues and the community alike through his professionalism, calm leadership, and steadfast dedication to public service. He was promoted to Fire Engineer in 2005, Fire Inspector in 2006, Fire Captain in 2009, Battalion Chief in 2017, and ultimately assumed the role of Fire Marshal in 2020.

STRATEGIC PRIORITIES

This agenda item is a routine operational item or does not relate to the five strategic priorities adopted by City Council on March 16, 2021.

FINANCIAL IMPACT

There is no financial impact.

COMMITTEE OUTCOME

This item did not originate in Committee.

Prepared by: Fara Ravan, Administrative Services Support Supervisor

ATTACHMENTS

1. Resolution McNaughten

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CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF OXNARD
RESOLUTION NO. _____________

A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF OXNARD COMMENDING

FIRE MARSHAL STEPHEN MCNAUGHTEN FOR HIS TWENTY-THREE YEARS OF

SERVICE TO THE CITY OF OXNARD FIRE DEPARTMENT
WHEREAS, Fire Marshal Stephen McNaughten has honorably served the Oxnard Fire Department and the residents of the City of Oxnard for twenty-three years, dedicating his career to public safety, community risk reduction, and fire prevention; and WHEREAS, over more than two decades of service, Fire Marshal McNaughten rose through the ranks with distinction, earning the respect of his peers and community through his professionalism, steady leadership, and unwavering commitment to duty; and WHEREAS, in his role as Fire Marshal, he led the Fire Prevention Bureau with vision and integrity, strengthening life safety through modernized code enforcement, fire investigations, community outreach, and oversight of complex development and construction projects; and WHEREAS, Fire Marshal McNaughten was a trusted voice in the department and throughout the region, known for his collaborative spirit, clear communication, and sound judgment on issues ranging from hazardous materials to public education; and WHEREAS, his leadership has left a lasting impact—ensuring that Oxnard’s Prevention Bureau is stronger, more professional, and better positioned to meet the growing needs of our City; and
WHEREAS, the City of Oxnard recognizes the significance of this milestone and expresses its deep gratitude to Fire Marshal McNaughten for his outstanding service, leadership, and contribution to the safety and well-being of the community. 308
Resolution No.

Page 2 ends

NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Oxnard commends and congratulates Battalion Chief and Fire Marshal Stephen McNaughten on the occasion of his retirement and extends best wishes for health, happiness, and fulfillment in all future endeavors.

PASSED AND ADOPTED this 20th day of May 2025, by the following vote:

AYES:

NOES:

ABSENT:

ABSTAIN:

________________________________
Luis A. Mc Arthur, Mayor

ATTEST: APPROVED AS TO FORM:
_____________________________ _________________________________ Lourdes A. López, City Clerk Stephen M. Fischer, City Attorney 309

CITY COUNCIL AGENDA REPORT

INFORMATION/CONSENT AGENDA
AGENDA ITEM NO. K.8

DATE: May 20, 2025

TO: City Council

FROM: Brenda Lopez, Interim Housing Director, (805) 385-8092, [email protected]

SUBJECT: Adoption of Ordinance No. 3058 Just Cause Evictions and Tenant Protections (Just Cause) Code Amendments.

RECOMMENDATION

That the City Council adopt Ordinance 3058 titled:

ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF OXNARD, CALIFORNIA AMENDING SECTIONS 27-3, 27-4 AND 27-10 AND ADDING SECTION 27-13 TO THE OXNARD CITY CODE PERTAINING TO JUST CAUSE EVICTIONS AND

TENANT PROTECTIONS

(The Community Services, Public Safety, Housing & Development Committee approved the amended recommendation, 3-0 on March 25, 2025.)

BACKGROUND

On April 29, 2025, the Oxnard City Council introduced and waived further reading of an ordinance amending Sections 27-3, 27-4 and 27-10 and adding Section 27-13 to the Oxnard City Code pertaining to Just Cause Evictions and Tenant Protections. On April 29, 2025, the City Council approved the introduction of the ordinance by a 6-1 vote.

If adopted, the ordinance would become effective in thirty days.

STRATEGIC PRIORITIES

This agenda item supports the Quality-of-Life strategy. The purpose of the Quality-of-Life strategy is to restore and increase quality services and programs that enrich Oxnard's diverse community, promotes safe neighborhoods, encourages community engagement, and supports our residents in their efforts to improve their quality of life.

FINANCIAL IMPACT

There is no financial impact.

COMMITTEE OUTCOME

The Community Services, Public Safety, Housing & Development Committee approved the amended recommendation, 3-0 on March 25, 2025.

Prepared by: Brenda Lopez, Interim Housing Director

ATTACHMENTS

1. Ordinance No. 3058

2. April 29, 2025 Staff Report without attachments
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311

CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF OXNARD
ORDINANCE NO. 3058
ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF OXNARD, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTIONS 27-3, 27-4 AND 27-10 AND ADDING SECTION 27-13 TO THE OXNARD CITY CODE

PERTAINING TO JUST CAUSE EVICTIONS AND TENANT PROTECTION WHEREAS, the Oxnard City Code (“OCC”) needs to be reviewed and amended periodically to address changes in state law, correct clerical errors, and establish or strengthen regulations; and WHEREAS, the proposed at-fault just cause amendment in this ordinance is intended to make it clear that an owner can't jump right to a notice to quit in the case of a swapped-out roommate but instead must give a reasonable opportunity to correct; and WHEREAS, the proposed no-fault just cause amendment in this ordinance is intended to clarify that owners who intend to take back possession and re-occupy a property must complete an affidavit and require it to be served to the tenant at the same time as the termination notice. It also clarifies that the required affidavit must be submitted to the City within five (5) business days of service. Lastly, the amendment clarifies the requirements under the existing ordinance for tenancies that predated our ordinance; and
WHEREAS, the proposed fee established addition in this ordinance is intended to authorize a fee for the administration and enforcement of the Just Cause Eviction ordinance just as there is a fee established for administration and enforcement of the Rent Stabilization ordinance; and WHEREAS, the City Council desires to enhance the City’s current Rent Stabilization and Just Cause Eviction ordinance.

NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF OXNARD DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:

Part 1. Subdivision (B) of Section 27-3 of the Oxnard City Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
“(B)(1) A breach of a material term of the lease, as described in paragraph (3) of Section 1161 of the California Code of Civil Procedure, including, but not limited to, violation of a provision of the lease after being issued a written notice to correct the violation. (2) A “breach of a material term” shall not include:
(a)1. The obligation to limit occupancy, provided that the additional occupant who joins the tenant of the residential real property thereby exceeding the limits on occupancy set forth in the lease is a dependent under age 18, or a replacement tenant who moved in after an approved tenant vacated the residential real property, so long as the additional replacement tenant does not exceed the limits set forth in the Uniform Housing Code.

2. The owner shall have the right to approve or deny the prospective additional or replacement tenant, who is not a minor dependent child, provided that the owner does not unreasonably withhold approval. If the owner fails to respond to the tenant in writing with a description of the 312
reasons for the denial of the request within a reasonable time from receipt of the tenant’s written request, the tenant’s request shall be deemed approved by the owner.

3. Notwithstanding any other provision of this ordinance, and notwithstanding any contrary provision of a rental agreement, an owner shall take no action to terminate a tenancy based on the tenant’s sublease of the unit if all of the following conditions are met:
(i) The original tenant continues to reside in the unit; (ii) The sublessee replaces a departed tenant, who had a right to occupy the rental unit under a rental agreement, on a one-for-one basis; and
(iii) The landlord has unreasonably withheld approval of the new tenant after a request was made by the tenant or, if no such request was made, the owner failed to provide the tenant with a reasonable opportunity to correct the violation.”
Part 2. Subdivision (A) of Section 27-4 of the Oxnard City Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
“(A) The intent to occupy the residential real property by the owner or their spouse, domestic partner, children, grandchildren, parents, or grandparents. (1) For leases entered into on or after the effective date of this article, this subsection shall apply only if the tenant agrees, in writing, to the termination; or if a provision of the lease allows the owner to terminate the lease because the owner, or their spouse, domestic partner, children, grandchildren, parents, or grandparents unilaterally decides to occupy the residential real property for a period of at least 24 months, commencing within 90 days of the termination of tenancy as affirmed by the owner in a written affidavit submitted to the city within five (5) business days of serving a tenant with a notice of termination on the affected tenant. (2) For leases entered into before the effective date of this ordinance, an owner may terminate a tenancy so that the unit may be occupied by the owner, or their spouse, domestic partner, children, grandchildren, parents, or grandparents without first obtaining the tenant's written permission and without a lease provision expressly providing for such a basis for termination.

The owner or qualifying relative must intend in good faith to occupy the real property as their primary residence for a period of at least 24 months, as affirmed by the owner in a written affidavit submitted to the city within five (5) business days of service of the notice on the affected tenant.
(3) The affidavit required by paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subdivision (A) must be on a form provided by the city and must, in addition to being submitted to the City, be provided to the tenant contemporaneously with the termination notice. The affidavit must include the following information.
(a) A statement that the owner or the owner's spouse, domestic partner, children, grandchildren, parents, or grandparents, intends in good faith to occupy the unit as to which the tenancy is to be terminated and to reside in that unit as their principal place of residence for a minimum of 24 months, commencing within 90 days of the termination of the tenancy; (b) The name, and the relationship to the owner, of the person for whose occupancy in the unit the tenancy is being terminated; and
(c) The address of the owner or owner's spouse's domestic partner's, child's, grandchild's, parent's, or grandparent's principal place of residence as of the date when the tenant was served the notice of termination.”
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Part 3. Section 27-10 of the Oxnard City Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
“(A) The city manager may adopt administrative procedures and regulations to implement the provisions of this article. Any regulation intended to clarify the meaning of any provision of this article, or to add substantive (as opposed to merely procedural) details necessary to its implementation, shall not become effective unless approved by resolution of the city council. If approved by the city council, the regulation shall be published in an appropriate location, along with any other regulations implementing this article, on the city's website. Any presentation to the city council pursuant to this subdivision (A) shall include:
(1) A succinct statement of why the regulation is necessary or desirable; (2) A succinct statement of what the regulation would do; (3) A succinct statement of how the proposed regulation is consistent with the intent of the ordinance provision to which it relates; and
(4) The complete text of the proposed regulation.
(B) It is illegal for an owner or representative to retaliate against a tenant for lawfully and peaceably exercising their legal rights, including but not limited to, the right to file a complaint with code compliance. No owner may take any action increasing any rental amount, reducing any service, causing the tenant to involuntarily quit the premises, or discriminating against the tenant because of the tenant’s use of any remedy provided by this article. (C) Any provision of a rental housing agreement that purports to waive any provision of this article is void as against public policy.
(D) An owner’s failure to comply with any requirement of this article is an affirmative defense in an unlawful detainer or other action brought by the owner to recover possession of the rental unit.”
Part 4. Section 27-13 is hereby added to Chapter 27 of the Oxnard City Code to read as follows:
“ Sec. 27-13. Fee Established
Owners subject to this article shall pay the Just Cause Eviction fee as established by city council resolution. The Just Cause Eviction program fee is to implement and enforce the provisions of this article.”
Part 5. Severability. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, part or portion of this ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision will not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The City Council declares that it would have adopted this ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, part or portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases, parts or portions be declared invalid or unconstitutional.

Part 6. Pursuant to Cal. Gov. Code Section 36933(c)(1), the City Attorney was designated to prepare, and the City Clerk published, a summary of this ordinance, and a certified copy of the ordinance was posted in the Office of the City Clerk a minimum of five days before the City Council’s adoption of the ordinance.
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Part 7. Within fifteen days after passage, the City Clerk shall cause this ordinance to be published one time in a newspaper of general circulation, published and circulated in the City.

Ordinance No. 3058 was first read on April 29, 2025, and finally adopted on May 20, 2025 2025, to become effective thirty days thereafter.

AYES:

NOES:

ABSENT:

ABSTAIN:

Luis Mc Arthur, Mayor
ATTEST:

Lourdes A. Lopez, City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:

Stephen M. Fischer, City Attorney
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REPORTS
AGENDA ITEM NO. M.3

DATE: April 29, 2025

TO: City Council

FROM: Brenda Lopez, Interim Housing Director, (805) 385-8092, [email protected]

SUBJECT: Just Cause Evictions and Tenant Protections (Just Cause) Code Amendments and Resolution Establishing Administrative Regulations to Implement the Rent Stabilization and Just Cause Ordinances. (20 minutes)

RECOMMENDATION

That the City Council:

1. Review and approve the first reading by title only and waive further reading of the proposed ordinance titled:
"ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF OXNARD, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTIONS 27-3, 27-4 AND 27-10 AND ADDING SECTION 27-13 TO THE OXNARD CITY CODE PERTAINING TO JUST CAUSE EVICTIONS AND TENANT PROTECTION"; and

2. Review and approve the proposed resolution establishing administrative regulations to implement the provisions of the Just Cause Evictions and Tenant Protections Ordinance and Rent Stabilization Ordinance. (The Community Services, Public Safety, Housing & Development Committee approved 3-0 on March 25, 2025.)

Please click the following link to view the required Measure M pre-recorded presentation video: https://youtu.be/zYu6E7mU8AI

BACKGROUND

On April 13, 2022, City Council approved the Just Cause Evictions and Tenant Protection (Just Cause) and Rent Stabilization Ordinances, which became effective on June 2, 2022. Key elements of the enacted ordinances include the limitation of annual rent increases, for specified properties to 4%, a mandate regarding tenant relocation assistance in cases of no-fault evictions of $5,000 or two months of rent, whichever, is greater, and the authorization for the city to enforce the ordinances through civil citations, misdemeanor prosecutions or civil injunction. Ordinance amendments were passed by City Council on January 25, 2024 and July 30, 2024 to provide additional tenant protections and provide clarifications on the Ordinances.

On March 25, 2025 staff introduced amendments to the Just Cause Ordinance and four administrative regulations applicable to the Just Cause and Rent Stabilization Ordinances to the Community Services, Public Safety, Housing & Development Committee (“Committee”). The intent of the administrative regulations is to provide clarity, while the proposed amendments will close loopholes making it easier for tenants, landlords, and City staff to implement the ordinances.

At this meeting, staff received input from the Committee, public, and various community stakeholders. There were a number of changes discussed to the ordinance and regulations, which are further described below. Based on the feedback received, consensus was reached on the proposed ordinance amendments and three of the four administrative regulations:

Registration, Right of First Refusal, and Ellis Act regulations. Staff did not advance the Fair Return Petition regulation, which was referred to as Exhibit B in the March 25th agenda item, to Council at this time. Instead, staff will collaborate 316
with the community stakeholders to further refine that regulation and will bring it to Committee at a later date.

DISCUSSION

The March 25, 2025 Committee staff report, without attachments, is included as Attachment 7. That staff report provides a summary of the ordinance amendments (Sections 27-3, 27-4, and Section 27-13) and a summary of each of the proposed regulations. That report should be read in conjunction with this staff report.

ORDINANCE AMENDMENTS

During the past two years, staff have observed emerging issues that hinder the effectiveness of the Just Cause Ordinance (Ord. No. 3012). In response, staff recommends strengthening the ordinance by amending Section 27-3 to address termination notices being issued for a change of a tenant and Section 27-4, which addresses when an owner intends to re-occupy a unit as allowed by the ordinance. In addition, the proposed amendments affect Section 27-10(B) and add Section 27-13, which creates consistency between the Rent Stabilization and Just Cause Ordinances related to fees associated with the implementation of the ordinances. The actual fees and methodology of fees for the program are not a part of this Council action.

The proposed ordinance amendments can be found in Attachment 1 (redline) and Attachment 2 (clean).

Ordinance Changes as a result of the Committee:

During the Committee meeting, drafting errors and changes related to providing additional clarity in the proposed ordinance amendments were identified. A redline of the amendments and corrections can be viewed in Attachment 1.

The changes since committee are summarized as follows:

Corrections to First Page of the Ordinance:

1. Title section:

Revised as follows: “ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF OXNARD, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTIONS 27-3, 27-4 AND 27-10 AND ADDING SECTION 27-13 TO THE OXNARD CITY CODE PERTAINING TO JUST CAUSE EVICTIONS AND TENANT PROTECTION”

2. 3rd paragraph:

Revised as follows: “It also clarifies that the required affidavit must be submitted to the City within five (5) business days of service.”

3. 5th paragraph:

Revised as follows: “WHEREAS, the City Council desires to enhance the City’s current modify the City’s Rent Stabilization and Just Cause Eviction ordinance.”

4. Part 1. Subdivision (B)(1) of Section 27-3:

Revised as follows: “(B)(1) A breach of a material term of the lease, as described in paragraph (3) of Section 11651 of the California Code of Civil Procedure, including, but not limited to, violation of a provision of the lease after being issued a written notice to correct the violation.”

5. Part 1. Subdivision (B)(2)(a)(1) of Section 27-3:

Revised as follows: "The obligation to limit occupancy, provided that the additional occupant who joins the tenant of the residential real property thereby exceeding the limits on occupancy set forth in the lease is a dependent under age 18, or a replacement tenant who moved in after an approved tenant vacated the residential real property, so long as the additional replacement tenant does not exceed the limits set forth in the Uniform Housing Code."

Corrections to Second Page of the Ordinance:

1. Part 2. Subdivision (A)(1) of Section 27-4:
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Revised as follows: “Commencing within 90 days of the termination of tenancy as affirmed by the owner in a written affidavit submitted to the city within five (5) business days of serving a tenant with a notice of termination on the affected tenant.”

2. Part 2. Subdivision (A)(2) of Section 27-4:

Revised as follows: “As affirmed by the owner in a written affidavit submitted to the city within five (5) business days of service of the notice on the affected tenant.

3. Part 2. Subdivision (A)(3)(a) of Section 27-4:

Revised as follows: “(a) A statement that the owner or the owner's spouse, domestic partner, children, grandchildren, parents, or grandparents, intends in good faith to occupy the unit as to which the tenancy is to be terminated and to reside in that unit as their principal place of residence for a minimum of 24 months, commencing within 90 days of the termination of the tenancy of the termination;

Corrections to Third Page of the Ordinance:

1. Part 3. Section 27-10(A)(3):

Revised as follows: “(3) A succinct statement of how the proposed regulation is consistent with the intent of the ordinance provision to which it relates relations; and”

ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATIONS

Oxnard City Code Sections 27-10(A) and 27-28.1 authorize the City Manager to adopt administrative regulations for the Just Cause and Rent Stabilization ordinances to enhance clarity and provide administrative guidance.

The clean version of the administrative regulations (Registration, Right of First Refusal, and Ellis Act) are part of the Resolution (Attachment6).

Three comment letters were received prior to the Committee meeting, with a majority of the comments pertaining to the Fair Return Petition Regulations, which was referred to as Exhibit B in the Committee report (Attachment 8) . Based on those letters, as well as public comments and discussions during the Committee meeting, the Fair Return Petition regulation is not before the Council at this time. As previously mentioned, staff will collaborate with community stakeholders to further refine the Fair Return Petition regulation and return to the Committee at a later date. As such, information concerning this regulation is not a part of the action before the Council on April 29, 2025.

Regulation Changes as a result of the Committee:

During the Committee meeting, drafting errors in the proposed administrative regulation exhibits were identified by public comment which staff have corrected. With the removal of the Fair Return Petition regulation, the lettering of the exhibits has changed since the Committee's review. A redline of the corrections can be viewed in Attachments 3, 4, and 5 and are summarized as follows:

A. Rent Stabilization and Just Cause Evictions and Tenant Protections (Just Cause) Registration Regulation, Exhibit A (Attachment 3)

Corrections to First Page of the Registration Regulation:

1. Regulation 1: Registration, 1.01 Purpose (3)
Revised as follows: “This regulation requires that all rental properties subject to Section 27-29 and/or Section 27-13 be registered with the City.”

2. Regulation 1: Registration, 1.02 Registration Required Section 1.02 (2)(a)(ii) Revised as follows: “The number of dwelling units, as defined in California Civil Code section 1940(c C), in the property as may be amended from time to time;”

B. Rent Stabilization and Just Cause Evictions and Tenant Protections (Just Cause) Regulations, Right of First Refusal 318
Regulation, Exhibit B (Attachment 4).

1. The only change to this Exhibit since Committee is relabeling it from Exhibit C to Exhibit B.

C. Just Cause Evictions and Tenant Protections (Just Cause) Regulations, Part 1, Ellis Act Regulations, Exhibit C (Attachment 5)

Correction to Third Page of the Ellis Act Regulation:

1. Since Committee, this Exhibit has been labeled from D to C.

2. Section 1.05 (5)(e)
Revised as follows: “Within ninety (90) days of the date of delivery to the city of the notice of intent to withdraw, the owner shall give written notice to the public entity and the affected tenant(s) of any extension of the date of withdrawal and the new date of withdrawal under paragraph 1.03.”

STRATEGIC PRIORITIES

FINANCIAL IMPACT

There is no financial impact.

COMMITTEE OUTCOME

On March 25, 2025 staff introduced draft amendments to the Just Cause Ordinance and draft administrative regulations for both the Just Cause and Rent Stabilization Ordinances to the Community Services, Public Safety, Housing & Development Committee. Written comments regarding this item were received from the Law Office of Barbara Macri- Ortiz, CAUSE, and Karl Lawson (Attachment 8). A majority of the written comments identified concerns with the Fair Return Petition regulation, as well as drafting errors in the proposed administrative regulation exhibits. Staff made the appropriate corrections which are described in detail within this report.

Based on the public comments and discussions during the meeting the Committee recommended only moving forward only with the Code Amendments and Registration, Right of First Refusal, and Ellis Act administrative regulations. Staff proposed to collaborate with community stakeholders to further refine the Fair Return Petition regulations and return to Committee at a later date. This action will provide staff the needed guidance to move forward on outstanding open cases.

The Community Services, Public Safety, Housing & Development Committee approved the amended recommendation, 3-0 on March 25, 2025.

Prepared by: Brenda Lopez, Interim Housing Director

ATTACHMENTS

1. Attachment 1 - Redline Code Amendments

2. Attachment 2 - Clean Code Amendments

3. Attachment 3 - Redlined Registration Regulations, Exhibit A

4. Attachment 4 - Redlined First Right of Refusal Regulations, Exhibit B

5. Attachment 5 - Redlined Ellis Act Regulations, Exhibit C

6. Attachment 6 - Resolution, with Exhibits A, B, and C

7. Attachment 7 - Committee Staff Report

8. Attachment 8 - Comment Letters

9. Attachment 9 - PowerPoint Presentation

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INFORMATION/CONSENT AGENDA
AGENDA ITEM NO. K.9

DATE: May 20, 2025

TO: City Council

FROM: Steve Naveau, Human Resources Director, (805) 385-7947, [email protected]

SUBJECT: Adoption of Ordinance No. 3060 Amendment to CalPERS Contract.

RECOMMENDATION

That the City Council adopt Ordinance No. 3060 titled: Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Oxnard Authorizing an Amendment to the Contract between the Board of Administration of the California Public Employees' Retirement System and the City Council of the City of Oxnard.

(The City Council approved the first reading of the ordinance by a vote of 7-0 on April 29, 2025.)

BACKGROUND

On April 29, 2025, the Oxnard City Council introduced and waived further reading of an ordinance to approve an amendment to the contract between the Board of Administration of the California Public Employees' Retirement System and the City Council of the City of Oxnard. On April 29, 2025, the City Council approved the introduction of the ordinance by a 7-0 vote.

If adopted, the ordinance would become effective in thirty days.

STRATEGIC PRIORITIES

This agenda item is a routine operational item or does not relate to the five strategic priorities adopted by City Council on March 16, 2021.

FINANCIAL IMPACT

According to CalPERS, the new second tier employer rate for new employees entering this tier will be 29.54% and the new employee rate that is paid for by the employee will be 14.75%. The current employer rate for PEPRA employees who will continue to receive this enhanced benefit is 34.10% and the employee contribution is 16.5%.

COMMITTEE OUTCOME

This item did not originate in Committee. This item introduced at the City Council meeting of April 29, 2025.

Prepared by: Steve Naveau, Human Resources Director, Luly Lopez, City Clerk

ATTACHMENTS

1. Ordinance No. 3060

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INFORMATION/CONSENT AGENDA
AGENDA ITEM NO. K.10

DATE: May 20, 2025

TO: City Council

FROM: Michael Wolfe, Public Works Director, (805) 385-8055, [email protected]

SUBJECT: Senate Bill 1 (SB1) Local Streets and Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account (RMRA) Project List for Fiscal Year 2025-26.

RECOMMENDATION

That the City Council adopt a resolution to:

1. Adopt the Fiscal Year 2025-26 project list of Senate Bill 1 (SB1) proposed projects that will be funded in part or solely with Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account revenues; and

2. Authorize the City Manager to take whatever actions are necessary and appropriate to carry out the purpose and intent of the resolution.

(Public Works and Transportation Committee approved 3-0 on April 22, 2025)

BACKGROUND

In 2017, the Governor approved Senate Bill 1 (SB 1) creating the Local Streets and Roads Program, which included the Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account (RMRA). This program provides approximately $5.4B annually to State and local agency transportation infrastructure projects.

State Reporting Guidelines, as described in Streets and Highways Code 2034(a)(1), require that local jurisdictions provide the California Transportation Commission (CTC) with an annual resolution identifying projects that may utilize RMRA.

The Resolution should include the project title, description, location, schedule, and estimated useful life for each project.

The resolution must also include projects previously listed that may continue to utilize prior RMRA in Fiscal Year 2025-

26. At year-end, the City will submit the annual reporting of expenditures, including additions or omissions to prior project lists, which is allowable through the CTC and State Guidelines.

Since RMRA began, the City has completed resurfacing projects utilizing RMRA. For example, Auto Center Commercial Neighborhood, Vineyard Avenue Resurfacing, Fremont North Resurfacing, Bryce Canyon Resurfacing, Citywide Thin Maintenance Overlay Phase II, Kamala Park and Bartolo Square South, East and West Gonzales Blvd and Hueneme Road have all been completed using RMRA, among other sources of funds.

Capital Improvement Program (CIP) Reference:

Project No. C2209 – Neighborhood Street Resurfacing CIP 2025-2029 – Adopted June 4, 2024 – Page 114.

Project No. C2205 - Arterial Street Resurfacing CIP 2025-2029 - Adopted June 4, 2024 - Page 100.

DISCUSSION

Staff recommends that the City Council adopt a Resolution proposing the projects listed below to use RMRA (Fund 185) 329
funding. These projects include both operational and CIP projects and are anticipated to expend approximately $5.3M of anticipated new RMRA FY 2025-26 funding, as well as any unspent, previously allocated RMRA funding:

Operational Projects:
• Public Works Road & Signal Maintenance - Provides as-needed ongoing maintenance for all City streets and traffic signal infrastructure by utilizing Public Works Streets Division Staff and Traffic Signal Operations Staff. • Annual Pavement System Upgrade - Ongoing planning project that uses a pavement management system to identify streets for potential repair and resurfacing. This effort is described in detail below.

CIP Projects:
• Neighborhood Street Resurfacing - CIP Project
• Arterial Street Resurfacing - CIP Project

The Arterial Street and Neighborhood Street Resurfacing projects recommended for RMRA use were selected based on the methodology described below. A Project Map showing the street locations is attached.

The City maintains approximately 1,036 lane miles of streets. Consultants have performed street inspections on a three- year rotation with a third of residential and collector streets inspected each year and 100% of arterial roads receiving annual inspections. These are referred to as Rotations A, B, & C.

The City’s street resurfacing consultant, Pavement Engineering Inc. (PEI), uses a Pavement Management System (PMS) to assist with tracking inventory, storing work history and furnishing budget estimates to optimize funding for improving the City’s pavement system using a software program called StreetSaver. The PMS also helps the City identify candidate streets for potential repair and maintenance and what sort of repair will be necessary. PEI uses a variety of measurements to determine the Pavement Condition Index, or PCI, of each road segment.

These measurements include:

1. How many cracks there are in a mile of pavement

2. How deep and long those cracks are

3. What the crack pattern is

4. What percentage of a road segment displays deficiencies

Crack/deficiency patterns include:

1. Alligator cracking

2. Block cracking

3. Longitudinal cracking

4. Transverse cracking

5. Distortions

6. Utility cuts/patches

7. Rutting/depressions

8. Weathering

The patterns and the percentage of roadway segments affected are entered into StreetSaver and a PCI is generated.

Engineers at PEI use that information to determine the most cost-effective repair strategy. PEI will take the cost and the life expectancy of the repair to determine the annual maintenance cost. This is the critical part, allocating the proper resources necessary annually for road maintenance.

Another critical factor is when the roadway should be paved. Incorrectly timed repairs can lead to additional repairs due to deferred maintenance. There is a point on each road segment where the right timing matches up with the appropriate 330
repair method to create a cost-effective pavement repair. Public Works staff then takes this information and considers how the timing of street repairs matches up with the timing of pipe replacement needs, and how the streets can be grouped in a way that maximizes cost-effectiveness and efficiency. This analysis is used to create the City’s Pavement Management Program, which is the method used to select projects to use RMRA funding. Please see the attached staff report from April 2, 2024 (Attachment 4), with additional information about the City’s pavement management program, which includes the five-phased PMP maps staff presented to the City Council for reference.

STRATEGIC PRIORITIES

This agenda item supports the Infrastructure and Natural Resources strategy. The purpose of the Infrastructure and Natural Resources strategy is to preserve and improve our roads, utilities, parks, trees, water supply and natural resources through effective planning, prioritization, and an equitable and efficient use of available funding.

FINANCIAL IMPACT

There is no direct financial impact in approving this item. The recommended action and resolution fulfill State requirements and do not appropriate funds through this item. Actual funding will be requested and appropriated during the budgeting process for FY 2025-26.

COMMITTEE OUTCOME

The Public Works and Transportation Committee approved 3-0 on April 22, 2025 to approve the staff recommendation and to forward the item for Council approval.

Prepared by: Morgan Kessler, City Engineer

ATTACHMENTS

1. RMRA Resolution 2025-26

2. RMRA Street List

3. RMRA Project Map 25

4. April 2, 2024 Citywide Pavement Management Program Overview Agenda Report

5. Proposed Construction Projects Phase I - V

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RESOLUTION NO.

RESOLUTION ADOPTING A LIST OF PROJECTS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2025-26 FUNDED BY SB 1: THE ROAD REPAIR AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT OF 2017

WHEREAS, Senate Bill 1 (SB 1), the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017 (Chapter 5, Statutes of 2017) was passed by the Legislature and signed into law by the Governor in April 2017 to address the significant multi-modal transportation funding shortfalls statewide; and

WHEREAS, SB 1 includes accountability and transparency provisions that will ensure the residents of our City are aware of the projects proposed for funding in our community and which projects have been completed each fiscal year; and

WHEREAS, the City must adopt by resolution a list of projects proposed to receive fiscal year funding from the Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account (RMRA), created by SB 1, which must include a description and the location of each proposed project, a proposed schedule for the project’s completion, and the estimated useful life of the improvement; and

WHEREAS, the City, will receive an estimated $5.3M in RMRA funding in Fiscal Year 2025- 26 from SB 1; and

WHEREAS, this is the ninth year in which the City is receiving SB 1 funding and will enable the City to continue essential road maintenance and rehabilitation projects, safety improvements, repairing and replacing aging bridges, and increasing access and mobility options for the traveling public that would not have otherwise been possible without SB 1; and

WHEREAS, the City has undergone a public process to ensure public input into our community’s transportation priorities (the project list); and

WHEREAS, the City used a Pavement Management System to develop the SB 1 project list to ensure revenues are being used on the most high-priority and cost-effective projects that also meet the communities priorities for transportation investment; and

WHEREAS, the funding from SB 1 will help the City maintain and rehabilitate multiple streets/roads, throughout the City this year and multiple similar projects into the future; and

WHEREAS, the 2023 California Statewide Local Streets and Roads Needs Assessment found that the City streets and roads are in an at-risk condition and this revenue will help us increase the overall quality of our road system and over the next decade will bring our streets and roads into a good condition; and

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WHEREAS, the SB 1 project list and overall investment in our local streets and roads infrastructure with a focus on basic maintenance and safety, investing in complete streets infrastructure, and using cutting-edge technology, materials and practices, will have significant positive co-benefits statewide.

NOW, THEREFORE IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED, ORDERED AND FOUND by the City Council of the City of Oxnard, as follows:

1. The foregoing recitals are true and correct.

2. The following previously proposed and adopted projects may also utilize Fiscal Year 2025-26 Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account revenues in their delivery. With the relisting of these projects in the adopted fiscal year resolution, the City is reaffirming to the public and the State our intent to fund these projects with Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account revenues:

Project
Title
Project
Description

Project Location
Estimated
Project
Schedule
Estimated
useful life
Neighborhood
Street
Resurfacing
Street overlay,
ADA
improvement,
concrete work,
traffic striping.

Streets are in the following
Neighborhoods: Rio West,
Cabrillo, Sea Air, Southwind, La
Colonia, Rose Park, Five Points
Northeast, and
Lemonwood/Eastmont
7/25-6/26 15 years
Arterial Street
Resurfacing
Street overlay,
ADA
improvement,
concrete work,
traffic striping.

Streets include North Ventura
Road, South Ventura Road, East
Pleasant Valley Road, West Fifth
Street, and North Oxnard
Boulevard.
7/25-6/26 15 years
Public Works
Road & Signal
Maintenance
City Staff provide
ongoing
maintenance to
roadways and
traffic signals
Citywide
All Citywide streets are included
in this operational project, which
provides as-needed and ongoing
maintenance for all City streets
and traffic signal infrastructure.

City streets and intersections may
include Channel Islands Blvd.,
Fifth Street, Gonzales Road,
Oxnard Blvd., Pleasant Valley
Road, Rice Avenue, Rose
Avenue, Saviers Road, Ventura
Road and Wooley Road. The
locations identified are subject to
7/25-6/26 7 years
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change.

Annual
Pavement
System
Upgrade
Inspection of City
Streets,
updating the
Pavement
Management
System to
develop a Streets
Master Plan
All Citywide streets are included
in this planning project such as
Channel Islands Blvd., Fifth
Street, Gonzales Road, Oxnard
Blvd., Pleasant Valley Road,
Rice Avenue, Rose Avenue,
Saviers Road, Ventura Road and
Wooley Road. The locations
identified are subject to change.
7/25-6/26 3 years

3. The City Council authorizes the City Manager to take whatever actions are necessary and appropriate to carry out the purpose and intent of this resolution.

PASSED AND ADOPTED this 20th day of May, 2025, by the following vote:

AYES:

NOES:

ABSENT:

ABSTAIN

__________________________
Luis Mc Arthur, Mayor
ATTEST:

_____________________________
Lourdes A. Lopez, City Clerk

APPROVED AS TO FORM:

_____________________________
Stephen Fischer, City Attorney
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City of Oxnard Project Location List Locations identified are subject to change NEIGHBORHOOD STREET RESURFACING – CIP Project
El RioWest Neighborhood
STREET NAME: FROM: TO:

LOUISIANA PL DETROIT DR CLEVELAND DR

CLEVELAND DR LOUISIANA PL IOWA PL

IOWA PL DETROIT DR CLEVELAND DR
COLONIA AV W. STROUBE ST RIVERPARK BLVD
Cabrillo Neighborhood
STREET NAME: FROM: TO:

TOPAZ CT

AMETHYST AV E END

WAVERLY CT N END DORIS AVE

OXFORD DR ONEIDA PL DORIS AVE

ONEIDA PL PATRICIA ST OXFORD DR

ONEIDA PL OXFORD DR ONEIDA CT

NATALIE PL PATRICIA ST OXFORD DR

LIONS GATE DR PATTERSON RD JOLIET PL

LENNOX CT CORONADO PL S END

LILAC WK EBONY DR LIONSGATE DR

JOLIET PL DEVONSHIRE DR IVANHOE PL

DEVONSHIRE DR JOLIET PL VENTURA RD
CORONADO PL 75' N/O DEVONSHIRE AV DORIS AV

DAFFODIL CT W END DAFFODIL WY

DAFFODIL WY LILAC WK DORIS AV

IVANHOE AVE EBONY DR OXFORD DR

KENSINGTON LN CORONADO PL PADDINGTON PL
KENT CT NOTTINGHAM DR W. END
Lemonwood Eastmont Neighborhood
STREET NAME: FROM: TO:

EL DORADO AV

EMERSON AVE JOYCE PL

BYRD DR IVES AVE KENNEDY PL

KENNEDY PL BYRD DR CHURCHILL DR

JOYCE PL KEPLER DR E END

IVES AV ROSE AVE CARNEGIE ST

HANCOCK PL KEPLER DR EL DORADO AV

GERSHWIN PL KEPLER DR E END

EL DORADO AV SAN MATEO ST CHANNEL ISLAND BL

DICKINSON PL KEPLER DR E END

CHURCHILL DR IVES AVE KENNEDY PL

ALEXANDER ST EMERSON AVE SAN MATEO PL

ALEXANDER ST SAN MATEO PL NAPOLEON AVE
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Five Points Northeast Neighborhood
STREET NAME: FROM: TO:

WAREHOUSE AVE

FACTORY LN COMMERICAL AVE

META ST FIFTH ST SEVENTH ST

FACTORY LN WAREHOUSE AVE WOOLEY RD

DRIFFILL BL OXNARD BL E END / ROYAL PALM GATE

DONLON AVE DRIFFILL BL WOOLEY RD
6TH ST OXNARD BL E/O META ST ALLEY
4TH ST OXNARD BL META ST

BONITA AVE THIRD ST S END

INDUSTRIAL AVE WOOLEY RD S END

WOOLEY SVC RD DONLON AVE - ALLEY FACTORY LN
Sea Air Neighborhood
STREET NAME: FROM: TO:

WALES DR NINTH ST OUTSAIL LN

TAFFRAIL LN DEVILFISH DR STERN LN

STERN CT STERN LN S END

STERN LN DEVILFISH DR NOVATO DR
RAFT LN 143' S/O NEW HAVEN PL OARFISH LN

RAFT LN TAFFRAIL LN DEVILFISH DR

RIALTO ST NINTH ST WOOLEY RD

RIALTO ST EIGHTH ST NINTH ST

RIALTO ST SEVENTH ST EIGHTH ST

PLATFORM PL OUTSAIL LN ESCALON DR

OUTSAIL LN W END ESCALON DR

OARFISH CT N END OARFISH LN

KELP ST DEVILFISH DR TAFFRAIL LN

DEVILFISH DR OARFISH LN STERN LN

CUTTER DR STERN LN WOOLEY RD
8TH ST RIALTO ST E END (GATE)
ESCALON DR OUTSAIL LN 75' N/O PLATFORM PL
Pleasant Valley Village Neighborhood
STREET NAME: FROM: TO:

B ST BRUCKER ST ROSA ST

SONOMA WAY J ST F ST

F ST BARD RD SONOMA WAY

EVERGREEN LN W CITY LIMIT J ST
Southwinds Neighborhood
STREET NAME: FROM: TO:

CARLISLE CT COURTLAND ST E END
COURTLAND ST CANTERBURY WAY 165' N/O CUESTA DEL MAR DR
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COURTLAND ST 165' N/O CUESTA DEL MAR DR HUENEME RD

CAMPBELL WY PERKINS RD CHARLES ST

CANTERBURY WY CAMPBELL WY COURTLAND ST

CANTERBURY WY COURTLAND ST CHARLES ST

C ST SB PLEASANT VALLEY RD CANTERBURY WY

ROLAND WY CLARA ST CUESTA DEL MAR
FAIRBOURNE PL 50' W/O DICKENS DR COURTLAND ST

CLARK CT COURTLAND ST E END
Rose Park Neighborhood
STREET NAME: FROM: TO:

SANTA LUCIA AV ROSE AVE E END

SAN GORGONIO AV ROSE AVE GIBRALTAR ST

LA PUERTA AV DRISKILL ST E END

GIBRALTAR ST CAMINO DEL SOL SANTA LUCIA AVE

VEGAS DR LA PUERTA AVE HAAZ WAY

KOHALA ST CAMINO DEL SOL SANTA LUCIA AVE
La Colonia Neighborhood Street
STREET NAME: FROM: TO:

COLONIA RD N JUANITA AVE S OXNARD

BONITA AVE COLONIA RD E THIRD ST

CAMPTON DR E FIRST ST E THIRD ST

CRAWFORD ST CAMPTON DR SARITA DR

E SECOND ST WILSON AVE SARITA DR

NAVARRO ST E FIRST ST E THIRD ST

JUANITA AVE COLONIA RD E THIRD ST

SARITA DR E SECOND ST CRAWFORD ST

MORRIS ST SARITA DR CAMPTON DR

E FIRST ST JUANITA AVE N ROSE AVE

HARDING AVE E FIRST ST E THIRD ST

E FIRST ST HARRISON AVE JUANITA AVE

COOPER RD N OXNARD BL JUANITA AVE

ANITA AVE COLONIA RD COOPER RD

MCKINLEY AVE COLONIA RD COOPER RD

ROOSEVELT AVE COLONIA RD COOPER RD

GARFIELD AVE COLONIA RD COOPER RD

GRANT AVE COLONIA RD COOPER RD

HAYES AVE COLONIA RD COOPER RD

FELICIA CT N MARQUITA ST N MARQUITA ST

HARRISON AVE COLONIA RD S END

SARITA DR E FIRST ST E SECOND ST
HAYES AVE 300' S/O SECOND ST THIRD ST
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Residential Resurfacing – Phase II – Various Streets
STREET NAME: FROM: TO:

NINTH ST C ST OXNARD BLVD
1ST ST C ST OXNARD BLVD

K ST SECOND ST FIFTH ST

W THIRDST K ST WEST END
ARTERIAL STREET RESURFACING – CIP Project
STREET NAME: FROM: TO:

OXNARD BLVD GONZALES RD TOWN CENTER DR

N VENTURA RD FIFTH ST VINEYARD AVE

S VENTURA RD CHANNEL ISLAND BLVD FIFTH ST

E FIFTH ST OXNARD BLVD VENTURA RD

J ST /HOBSON WAY /H ST WOOLEY RD SECOND ST

SECOND ST H ST A ST

PLEASANT VALLEY RD J ST OLDS RD

DEL NORTE BLVD FIFTH ST STURGIS RD
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CITY COUNCIL AGENDA REPORT

REPORTS
AGENDA ITEM NO. K.2

DATE: April 2, 2024

TO: City Council

FROM: Michael Wolfe, Public Works Director, (805) 385-8055, [email protected]

SUBJECT: Citywide Pavement Management Program Overview. (20 minutes)

RECOMMENDATION

That the City Council receive and file a report on the Citywide Pavement Management Program Overview.

(Public Works & Transportation Committee approved 3-0 on March 12, 2024.)

Please click the following link to view the required Measure M pre-recorded presentation video:
https://youtu.be/gJqiE9RCOlg

BACKGROUND

Oxnard’s streets and alleyways are among its most valuable assets, with a present replacement value of approximately $988.9M. Because of this high value, combined with the need to address continuous pavement wear and degradation, it is imperative to perform corrective and preventive maintenance via a strategic multi-year, multi-phase plan. This plan is implemented through individual construction projects utilizing a “toolbox” of paving methods. Such treatments generally include removal and replacement (R&R), cold milling with asphalt concrete (A/C) overlays, portland cement concrete (PCC) patching and reconstruction, and sealing (crack, slurry, cape, and micro-surfacing). Seals are typically seen as preventive maintenance (also commonly termed pavement preservation) techniques, as they do not add structural capacity to the existing pavement.

The City currently owns and maintains approximately 440.5 total centerline miles across all functional street classifications, as follows:

Arterial and Collector – 128.6 centerline miles
Residential – 246.8 lane miles centerline miles
Alley – 65.1 centerline miles

This equates to a total of 95,450,658 square feet of pavement in the City’s network, as calculated by the City’s pavement management software, StreetSaver. This application, sourced from and managed by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), is a planning tool used to monitor, analyze, and forecast Oxnard’s overall Pavement Management Program (PMP) and is critical to establishing a proper, phased multi-year paving cycle. Projections and computations regarding change in pavement condition versus annual funding investment are typically made over a 10-year span; for budget planning and capital project programming purposes, staff develops a phased paving project plan based on a rolling 5-year horizon, termed the Citywide Pavement Management Program.

It should be noted that the current lawsuit against the City filed by Aaron Starr and his political corporation “Moving Oxnard Forward” precludes the use of lease revenue bonds for funding pavement projects. Such bonding, commonly used for high-cost projects like street paving, is a financing mechanism traditionally used by all American cities, counties, 340
and states, that provide for funding consistency and predictability necessary for the development of a strategic, multi-year paving program. A funding source like this allows for both corrective and preventive paving work to be planned and executed predictably, with the goal of stretching the limited available funding as far as possible.

DISCUSSION

The key pavement health metric used by Oxnard is the Pavement Condition Index (PCI), which provides a snapshot of the pavement health of a road through a surface condition-based visual analysis algorithm. It is reported on a scale of 0 to 100 (0 being worst, 100 best). Oxnard’s PCI assessments are made yearly by a contracted pavement engineering consultant. According to the most recent PMP report (utilizing inspections from 2023), the average PCI of the City’s entire road network is 67; broken into roadway functional classifications, this equates to PCIs of 73 for Arterials, 69 for Collectors, 68 for Residential, and 29 for Alleys.

The Citywide Pavement Management Program is a planning and project programming roadmap for Oxnard’s paving needs over a rolling multi-year horizon, and is further broken down into project phases. Each phase is a collection of street locations that is determined by prioritization (explained below), anticipated budget, grouping of locations for construction efficiency, and other technical factors. The phases are implemented mainly through three discrete projects within the present Capital Improvement Program (CIP). Projects are separated into alleys, residential streets, and arterial streets as discussed in more detail below.

Planning over a multi-year horizon is critical for budgeting resources – both staff and financial. Adopting a capital pavement program allows Engineering staff to schedule projects according to anticipated revenues and staff workload capacity. This also makes the Council’s priorities clear to staff as grant opportunities arise that may be applicable to the planned projects.

Being a multi-year funding roadmap, there is flexibility such that new projects or street segments could be added as unforeseen year-to-year circumstances arise such as funding amounts, materials costs, accelerated pavement degradation, etc.

Prioritization

Since there are more needs than funding or staff resources to meet those needs, projects must be prioritized. A further consideration for prioritization is moving the overall pavement condition forward toward “good” (generally considered a PCI value of at least 70) and, once there, maintaining at least that level over time. City staff has developed a methodology for prioritizing and programming paving projects to meet these constraints. Generally, projects are divided into three subcategories, namely residential streets, arterial streets, and alleyways; these generally correspond with the three named paving projects in the CIP. Each subcategory has somewhat different prioritization parameters, as follows:

Project priorities for residential streets are determined by:

The average PCI and the number of lane miles are calculated for each neighborhood (Only for poor-condition streets, i.e. PCI<55). High priority is given to neighborhoods with low average Pavement Condition Index (PCI), a high number of lane miles, and a high concentration of pothole repair work.

Project priorities for arterial streets are determined by,

Average PCI and Average Daily Traffic (ADT), representing the number of vehicles using the street each day are calculated for each arterial project. High priority is given to arterial streets with low PCI, high ADT, and high number of pothole repairs.

Project priorities for alleys are determined by:

Low PCI, high population density, schools, parks, businesses, and the number of potholes repaired.

A high priority is given to alleys with low PCI, high pothole repair count, high population density, and close proximity to schools, parks, and businesses.
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A special case exists for the above prioritization system, namely locations where there are aging, buried cast iron pipes that are historically troublesome and prone to failure. These tend to be located in alleyways, and in these places the pipe ideally should be removed and replaced before the paving work occurs. For the present multi-phase paving plan, a number of the project locations (see attachments) for the first two phases recommend the replacement of cast iron pipe ahead of the paving work. To accomplish this, funding will need to be identified and programmed separately for the CIP project titled “Water Distribution: Neighborhood Street Cast Iron Pipe Replacement”.

A high degree of weight will be placed on locations requiring a significant amount of pothole repair work. The City’s pothole repair team is the same staff that does sidewalk repair, curb/gutter repair, street sign maintenance and repair, street striping, right-of-way clean-up, etc. Pothole repair work is temporary, costly, and requires dedicated resources (i.e. staffing and equipment) for little long-term benefit. As such, the more street segments with a high pothole repair need that can be addressed with long-term corrective/preventive paving work, the better the Public Works team can leverage its limited resources. As mentioned above, there are a range of pavement treatments available, and a “mix of fixes” is usually the ideal way to proceed with a given year’s paving project. Staff has determined that, for this present multi- phase plan, the most effective paving budget split will be approximately 80% for rehabilitation (A/C mill-and-overlays, PCC concrete) and 20% for preventive maintenance (also called pavement preservation, such as slurry seals, cape seals, and micro-surfacing). Over time, as the City’s overall PCI goes up, this split will change to reflect less of a “worst first” approach that prioritizes rehabilitation, to one of “keeping good pavements good” that emphasizes maintenance and preservation.

The concept of “mix of fixes” is important to elaborate on since at first glance it may seem counter-intuitive. It is easy to think that the best way to address paving work is to fix the worst street segments (that is, streets with the lowest PCI) first. However, that approach is flawed for two general reasons. First, the degradation of asphalt concrete is not linear. As PCI scores approach around 70-65 or less, asphalt concrete degrades exponentially. Second, the cost to do corrective work such as R&R and mill-and-overlay (generally used when the PCI is less than 65-70) is 6-10 times more than the cost to do preventive/preservation work such as seals and microsurfacing (normally used where the PCI is greater than 70). Said another way, if the worst streets are the only ones done in each phase, then the streets with higher PCIs will continue to degrade untreated down past a PCI of 70, and cost 6-10 times more to fix in the future. Therefore, it’s imperative to maximize the use of pavement preservation techniques in every phase; this approach results in the least-cost per square foot, and stretches the limited amount of funding for maximum benefit. This is why Public Works staff will make recommendations to conduct paving work on several street segments in each phase with higher PCIs than other streets that have lower PCIs.

Pavement Maintenance Program Phasing

A traditional pavement management program (PMP) is separated by fiscal years to include the identification of the total amount of paving work (e.g. street segments) that can be done in each fiscal year with the known or required funding amount. However, with the Aaron Starr lawsuit, bonding is not currently available to Oxnard. The City prevailed in the lawsuit at the trial court level, but Aaron Starr immediately filed an appeal. The appeal process could take a year for the case to be briefed and argued, and for the court to issue a ruling. As such, planning for street paving work must be modified until such time the lawsuit process is complete.

The City’s 2023 pavement management report indicates that $19.4M dollars (hard construction costs) should be spent each fiscal year to maintain the current PCI. When adding in the soft costs (design, inspection, material testing, etc) the estimated total amount per year is $23.3M dollars. However, with bond funding unavailable, the long-term planning for pavement rehabilitation and maintenance is hampered. The amount of new annual Gas Tax for CIP paving projects, in addition to the anticipated Measure O funding for alley work, amounts to $6.25M for next Fiscal Year instead of the $23.3M per year to maintain the current PCI. Therefore, Public Works has organized the PMP into phases rather than fiscal years. Using a phased approach allows for the flexibility to adjust funding amounts (higher or lower) to avoid unrealistic expectations from the public about when streets will be paved. It should be noted that any funds remaining once current paving construction projects are completed will be carried over to next fiscal year and can be used for Phase 1 work.

STRATEGIC PRIORITIES

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This agenda item supports the Infrastructure and Natural Resources strategy. The purpose of the Infrastructure and Natural Resources strategy is to preserve and improve our roads, utilities, parks, trees, water supply and natural resources through effective planning, prioritization, and an equitable and efficient use of available funding.

FINANCIAL IMPACT

There is no direct financial impact to receive and file this report and provide input. Depending on input and direction from the City Council during the annual Operating and CIP budget process, there are several issues to address. Presently, due to the City’s current inability to bond for projects resulting from the Aaron Starr lawsuit, the new funding specifically available for street paving for next Fiscal Year is solely from gas tax and anticipated Measure O revenue in the amount of approximately $6.25M. With this amount, the City can pave only one residential street project and a few alleyways identified in Phase 1. Should there be an opportunity to provide more funding, additional streets from Phase 1 may be included in this year’s project scope.

COMMITTEE OUTCOME

The Public Works and Transportation Committee approved 3-0 on March 12, 2024 to approve the staff recommendation and to forward the item to the City Council as a receive and file report.

Prepared by: Morgan Kessler, City Engineer

ATTACHMENTS

1. Proposed Arterial Street Construction Projects Phase I & Phase II

2. Proposed Arterial Street Construction Projects Phase III, Phase IV and Phase V

3. Proposed Alley Construction Projects Phase I and Phase II

4. Proposed Alley Construction Projects Phase III, Phase IV and Phase V

5. Proposed Residential Street Construction Projects Phase I & Phase II

6. Proposed Residential Street Construction Projects Phase III, Phase IV and Phase V

7. Presentation

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FREMONT

NORTH CARRIAGE
SQUARE

EAST VILLAGE

ROSE PARK

SEA VIEW

ESTATES

VIA MARINA

REDWOOD
BRYCE
CANYON
NORTH

BLACKSTOCK
NORTH

COLLEGE

ESTATES

BLACKSTOCK
SOUTH
BRYCE
CANYON
SOUTH

TERRACE

ESTATES PLEASANT
VALLEY

ESTATES
SILVER

STRAND PLEASANT
VALLEY

VILLAGE

SOUTHWINDS

GOLF COURSE

VICTORIA

ESTATES WINDSOR NORTH

RIVER RIDGE SIERRA LINDA

ORCHARD

CABRILLO

TEAL CLUB

FREMONT

SOUTH WILSON

FIVE POINTS

NORTHEAST

SEA AIR
HOBSON

PARK WEST HOBSON

PARK EAST

MARINA WEST BARTOLO
SQUARE
NORTH

CAL-GISLER BARTOLO
SQUARE
SOUTH

CYPRESS

RIVERPARK
EL RIO
WEST

SOUTH BANK
WAGON
WHEEL
OXNARD
SHORES

HOLLYWOOD

BY THE SEA

CHANNEL

ISLANDS
OXNARD
DUNES

VILLA CAPRI

SOUTHSHORE

ORMOND BEACH

COMMERCIAL AREA
EL RIO

RIO LINDO

AUTO CENTER

NYELAND ACRES

RICE AVENUE

COMMERCIAL
AREA

LEMONWOOD

EASTMONT

PACIFIC AVENUE

COMMERCIAL AREA

TIERRA VISTA

MAR VISTA

COLLEGE PARK OXNARD

PACIFIC

DIAMOND BAR

WEST VILLAGE

LA COLONIA

KAMALA PARK
Phase I
No Cast Iron Water Main
Phase II
No Cast Iron Water Main
Oxnard Neighborhoods
.
0 0.5 10.25 Miles
Proposed Alley Construction Projects Phase I & Phase II 344

FREMONT

NORTH CARRIAGE
SQUARE

EAST VILLAGE

ROSE PARK

SEA VIEW

ESTATES

VIA MARINA

REDWOOD
BRYCE
CANYON
NORTH

BLACKSTOCK
NORTH

COLLEGE

ESTATES

BLACKSTOCK

SOUTH BRYCE
CANYON
SOUTH

TERRACE

ESTATES PLEASANT
VALLEY

ESTATES
SILVER

STRAND PLEASANT
VALLEY

VILLAGE

SOUTHWINDS

GOLF COURSE

VICTORIA

ESTATES WINDSOR NORTH

RIVER RIDGE SIERRA LINDA

ORCHARD

CABRILLO

TEAL CLUB

FREMONT

SOUTH WILSON

FIVE POINTS

NORTHEAST

SEA AIR HOBSON

PARK WEST HOBSON

PARK EAST

MARINA WEST BARTOLO
SQUARE
NORTH

CAL-GISLER BARTOLO
SQUARE
SOUTH

CYPRESS

RIVERPARK
EL RIO
WEST

SOUTH BANK
WAGON
WHEEL
OXNARD
SHORES

HOLLYWOOD

BY THE SEA

CHANNEL

ISLANDS
OXNARD
DUNES

VILLA CAPRI

SOUTHSHORE

ORMOND BEACH

COMMERCIAL AREA
EL RIO

RIO LINDO

AUTO CENTER

NYELAND ACRES

RICE AVENUE

COMMERCIAL AREA

LEMONWOOD

EASTMONT

PACIFIC AVENUE

COMMERCIAL AREA

TIERRA VISTA

MAR VISTA

COLLEGE PARK OXNARD

PACIFIC

DIAMOND BAR

WEST VILLAGE

LA COLONIA

KAMALA PARK
Phase I
No Cast Iron Water Main
Cast Iron Water Main
Neighborhoods
Phase II
No Cast Iron Water Main
Cast Iron Water Main
Neighborhoods
.
0 0.5 10.25 Miles
Proposed Residential Street Construction Projects Phase I & Phase II 345

FREMONT

NORTH CARRIAGE
SQUARE

EAST VILLAGE

ROSE PARK

SEA VIEW

ESTATES

VIA MARINA

REDWOOD
BRYCE
CANYON
NORTH

BLACKSTOCK
NORTH

COLLEGE

ESTATES

BLACKSTOCK

SOUTH BRYCE
CANYON
SOUTH

TERRACE

ESTATES PLEASANT
VALLEY

ESTATES
SILVER
STRAND

PLEASANT
VALLEY

VILLAGE

SOUTHWINDS

GOLF COURSE

VICTORIA

ESTATES

WINDSOR NORTH

RIVER RIDGE SIERRA LINDA

ORCHARD

CABRILLO

TEAL CLUB

FREMONT

SOUTH WILSON

FIVE POINTS

NORTHEAST

SEA AIR
HOBSON

PARK WEST HOBSON

PARK EAST

MARINA WEST BARTOLO
SQUARE
NORTH

CAL-GISLER

BARTOLO
SQUARE
SOUTH

CYPRESS

RIVERPARK
EL RIO
WEST

SOUTH BANK

WAGON WHEEL
OXNARD
SHORES

HOLLYWOOD

BY THE SEA

CHANNEL

ISLANDS
OXNARD
DUNES
VILLA
CAPRI

SOUTHSHORE

ORMOND BEACH

COMMERCIAL AREA
EL RIO

RIO LINDO

AUTO CENTER

NYELAND ACRES

RICE AVENUE

COMMERCIAL AREA

LEMONWOOD

EASTMONT

PACIFIC AVENUE

COMMERCIAL
AREA

TIERRA VISTA

MAR VISTA

COLLEGE PARK
OXNARD

PACIFIC

DIAMOND BAR

WEST VILLAGE

LA COLONIA

KAMALA PARK
Proposed Arterial Street Construction Projects Phase I & Phase II Phase I
No Cast Iron Water Main
Cast Iron Water Main
Phase II
No Cast Iron Water Main
Cast Iron Water Main
Oxnard Neighborhoods
.
0 0.5 10.25 Miles
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FREMONT

NORTH CARRIAGE
SQUARE

EAST VILLAGE

ROSE PARK

SEA VIEW

ESTATES

VIA MARINA

REDWOOD
BRYCE
CANYON
NORTH

BLACKSTOCK
NORTH

COLLEGE

ESTATES

BLACKSTOCK

SOUTH BRYCE
CANYON
SOUTH

TERRACE

ESTATES PLEASANT
VALLEY

ESTATES
SILVER

STRAND PLEASANT
VALLEY

VILLAGE

SOUTHWINDS

GOLF COURSE

VICTORIA

ESTATES WINDSOR NORTH

RIVER RIDGE SIERRA LINDA

ORCHARD

CABRILLO

TEAL CLUB

FREMONT

SOUTH WILSON

FIVE POINTS

NORTHEAST

SEA AIR HOBSON

PARK WEST HOBSON

PARK EAST

MARINA WEST BARTOLO
SQUARE
NORTH

CAL-GISLER BARTOLO
SQUARE
SOUTH

CYPRESS

RIVERPARK
EL RIO
WEST

SOUTH BANK
WAGON
WHEEL
OXNARD
SHORES

HOLLYWOOD

BY THE SEA

CHANNEL

ISLANDS
OXNARD
DUNES

VILLA CAPRI

SOUTHSHORE

ORMOND BEACH

COMMERCIAL AREA
EL RIO

RIO LINDO

AUTO CENTER

NYELAND ACRES

RICE AVENUE

COMMERCIAL AREA

LEMONWOOD

EASTMONT

PACIFIC AVENUE

COMMERCIAL AREA

TIERRA VISTA

MAR VISTA

COLLEGE PARK OXNARD

PACIFIC

DIAMOND BAR

WEST VILLAGE

LA COLONIA

KAMALA PARK
Phase III
Neighborhoods
Phase IV
Neighborhoods
Phase V
Neighborhoods
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0 0.5 10.25 Miles
Proposed Residential Street Construction Projects Phase III, Phase IV & Phase V 347

FREMONT

NORTH CARRIAGE
SQUARE

EAST VILLAGE

ROSE PARK

SEA VIEW

ESTATES

VIA MARINA

REDWOOD
BRYCE
CANYON
NORTH

BLACKSTOCK
NORTH

COLLEGE

ESTATES

BLACKSTOCK

SOUTH BRYCE
CANYON
SOUTH

TERRACE

ESTATES PLEASANT
VALLEY

ESTATES
SILVER

STRAND PLEASANT
VALLEY

VILLAGE

SOUTHWINDS

GOLF COURSE

VICTORIA

ESTATES

WINDSOR NORTH

RIVER RIDGE SIERRA LINDA

ORCHARD

CABRILLO

TEAL CLUB

FREMONT

SOUTH WILSON

FIVE POINTS

NORTHEAST

SEA AIR
HOBSON

PARK WEST HOBSON

PARK EAST

MARINA WEST BARTOLO
SQUARE
NORTH

CAL-GISLER

BARTOLO
SQUARE
SOUTH

CYPRESS

RIVERPARK
EL RIO
WEST

SOUTH BANK

WAGON WHEEL
OXNARD
SHORES

HOLLYWOOD

BY THE SEA

CHANNEL

ISLANDS
OXNARD
DUNES
VILLA
CAPRI

SOUTHSHORE

ORMOND BEACH

COMMERCIAL AREA
EL RIO

RIO LINDO

AUTO CENTER

NYELAND ACRES

RICE AVENUE

COMMERCIAL AREA

LEMONWOOD

EASTMONT

PACIFIC AVENUE

COMMERCIAL
AREA

TIERRA VISTA

MAR VISTA

COLLEGE PARK
OXNARD

PACIFIC

DIAMOND BAR

WEST VILLAGE

LA COLONIA

KAMALA PARK
Proposed Arterial Street Construction Projects Phase III, Phase IV & Phase V Phase III
No Cast Iron Water Main
Cast Iron Water Main
Phase IV
No Cast Iron Water Main
Cast Iron Water Main
Phase V
No Cast Iron Water Main
Cast Iron Water Main
Oxnard Neighborhoods
.
0 0.5 10.25 Miles
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FREMONT

NORTH CARRIAGE
SQUARE

EAST VILLAGE

ROSE PARK

SEA VIEW

ESTATES

VIA MARINA

REDWOOD
BRYCE
CANYON
NORTH

BLACKSTOCK
NORTH

COLLEGE

ESTATES

BLACKSTOCK
SOUTH
BRYCE
CANYON
SOUTH

TERRACE

ESTATES PLEASANT
VALLEY

ESTATES
SILVER

STRAND PLEASANT
VALLEY

VILLAGE

SOUTHWINDS

GOLF COURSE

VICTORIA

ESTATES WINDSOR NORTH

RIVER RIDGE SIERRA LINDA

ORCHARD

CABRILLO

TEAL CLUB

FREMONT

SOUTH WILSON

FIVE POINTS

NORTHEAST

SEA AIR
HOBSON

PARK WEST HOBSON

PARK EAST

MARINA WEST BARTOLO
SQUARE
NORTH

CAL-GISLER BARTOLO
SQUARE
SOUTH

CYPRESS

RIVERPARK
EL RIO
WEST

SOUTH BANK
WAGON
WHEEL
OXNARD
SHORES

HOLLYWOOD

BY THE SEA

CHANNEL

ISLANDS
OXNARD
DUNES

VILLA CAPRI

SOUTHSHORE

ORMOND BEACH

COMMERCIAL AREA
EL RIO

RIO LINDO

AUTO CENTER

NYELAND ACRES

RICE AVENUE

COMMERCIAL
AREA

LEMONWOOD

EASTMONT

PACIFIC AVENUE

COMMERCIAL AREA

TIERRA VISTA

MAR VISTA

COLLEGE PARK OXNARD

PACIFIC

DIAMOND BAR

WEST VILLAGE

LA COLONIA

KAMALA PARK
Phase III
No Cast Iron Water Main
Cast Iron Water Main
Phase IV
No Cast Iron Water Main
Cast Iron Water Main
Phase V
No Cast Iron Water Main
Cast Iron Water Main
Oxnard Neighborhoods
.
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CITY COUNCIL AGENDA REPORT

INFORMATION/CONSENT AGENDA
AGENDA ITEM NO. K.11

DATE: May 20, 2025

TO: City Council

FROM: Michael Wolfe, Public Works Director, (805) 385-8055, [email protected]

SUBJECT: Resolution to Approve the Sewer System Management Plan Update.

RECOMMENDATION

That the City Council adopt a resolution to approve a Sewer System Management Plan Update for the Public Works Wastewater Division.

(This item did not originate in Committee as the prior plan was previously approved by the City Council.)

BACKGROUND

The City of Oxnard Water Resource Recovery Facility (WRRF) is a regional treatment facility that provides wastewater collection and treatment services to approximately 250,000 residents and businesses in the greater Oxnard area. Areas served include the City of Oxnard, the City of Port Hueneme, Naval Base Port Hueneme and Point Mugu, El Rio, Nyeland Acres, Las Posas, and the Channel Islands Beach Community Services District. The City’s collection system contains over 400 miles of underground sewer pipes ranging in size from 4 inches to 66 inches in diameter as well as 15 lift stations.

The Sewer System Management Plan (SSMP) is required to provide a structured framework for managing, operating, and maintaining the Oxnard Sanitary Sewer Collection system. The primary regulatory agency overseeing the SSMP is the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB). Specifically, the SSMP is a living planning document that identifies ongoing local sewer system management program activities, procedures, and decision-making at the scale necessary to address the size and complexity of the subject sanitary sewer system(s). The SSMP includes the following eleven elements:

1. Goal and Introduction

2. Organization

3. Legal Authority

4. Operation and Maintenance Program

5. Design and Performance Provisions

6. Spill Emergency Response Plan

7. Sewer Pipe Blockage Control Program

8. System Evaluation, Capacity Assurance, and Capital Improvements

9. Monitoring, Measurement, and Program Modifications

10. Internal Audits

11. Communication Program

DISCUSSION

The City’s initial SSMP was required and submitted to the State in 2006 under the existing waste discharge requirements 350
at the time. The SSMP was last approved by the City Council on April 3, 2012. The last update was uploaded to the California Integrated Water Quality System (CIWQS) in 2019.

In 2022, the SWRCB passed an updated general order for sanitary sewer systems - Order WQ 2022-0103-DWQ, Statewide Waste Discharge Requirements General Order for Sanitary Sewer Systems (Order). Section 5.5, Six-Year Sewer System Management Plan Update, of the Order, requires the SSMP to be updated every six years. The Order requires updated SSMP to be uploaded to CIWQS in May 2025. In general, there were few changes to the existing SSMP with the exception of (1) updated contact names, (2) updated capital improvements projects, (3) more detailed descriptions of record keeping and operations using GIS, and (4) an updated spill response plan. A summary of the changes in the SSMP can be found on page 1 of the Plan.

STRATEGIC PRIORITIES

FINANCIAL IMPACT

There is no direct financial impact to the approval of this resolution.

COMMITTEE OUTCOME

This item did not originate in Committee as the prior plan was previously approved by the City Council.

Prepared by: Timothy Beaman, Assistant Public Works Director, Jan Hauser, Wastewater Division Manager

ATTACHMENTS

1. SSMP Resolution

2. Ex. A Sewer System Management Plan Update - 2025

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CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF OXNARD
RESOLUTION NO.

A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF OXNARD APPROVING

A SEWER SYSTEM MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR THE WASTEWATER DIVISION WHEREAS, the California State Water Resources Control Board adopted Order Number 2006-0003-DWQ for Statewide General Discharge Requirements for sanitary sewer systems, on May 2, 2006; and
WHEREAS, the California State Water Resources Control Board adopted Order Number 2022-0103-DWQ for Statewide Waste Discharge requirements for sanitary sewer systems, on December 6, 2022; and
WHEREAS, General Order 2022-0103-DWQ supersedes the previous State Water Resources Control Board Order 2006-0003-DWQ and amendments thereafter; and WHEREAS, pursuant to General Order 2022-0103-DWQ, an enrollee (Oxnard Water Resource Recovery Facility) must:

A. Comply with federal and state prohibitions of discharge of sewage to waters of the State, including federal waters of the United States; B. Comply with specifications, notification, monitoring, reporting and recordkeeping requirements in General Order 2006-0003-DWQ that implement the federal Clean Water Act, the California Water Code, water quality control plans (including Regional Water Board Basin Plans) and policies; C. Proactively operate and maintain resilient sanitary sewer systems to prevent spills;
D. Eliminate discharges of sewage to waters of the State through effective implementation of a Sewer System Management Plan;
E. Monitor, track, and analyze spills for ongoing system-specific performance improvements;
F. Report noncompliance with General Order 2022-0103-DWQ per reporting requirements; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to General Order 2022-0103-DWQ an enrollee shall update its Sewer System Management Plan every six (6) years after the date of its last plan update due date. The Enrollee’s governing entity shall approve the updated plan.; and NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Oxnard resolves:

SECTION 1: The recitals are true and correct and are incorporated by this reference as though fully set forth herein.
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SECTION 2: In accordance with the California State Water Resource Control Board requirements the City herein approves the Sewer System Management Plan (2025) attached as Exhibit A and incorporated by this reference as though fully set forth herein.

SECTION 3: This Resolution shall be effective immediately upon adoption.

SECTION 4: The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Resolution, and shall maintain on file as a public record of this Resolution.

PASSED AND ADOPTED THIS ______ day of _________________, 2025, by the following vote:

AYES:

NOES:

ABSENT:

ABSTAIN:

Luis Mc Arthur, Mayor
ATTEST:

Lourdes A. López, City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:

Stephen M. Fischer, City Attorney
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EXHIBIT A
Sewer System Management Plan (2025)
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1 Summary of Changes

The following changes have been made in the 2025 Sewer System Management Plan (SSMP) Update from the previous version.

General Updated the SSMP to meet the new requirements in General Order for Sanitary Sewer Systems Order WQ 2022-0103-DWQ (Order)
Section 1 Updated required elements in the Order
Section 2 Updated Key Personnel
Section 3 No changes
Section 4 Included service area map; updated description of O&M procedures Section 5 New section. References city sewer design standards Section 6 Added references to our updated Spill Emergency Response Plan Section 7 Updated section to be compatible with new Order Section 8 Updated capital improvement projects
Section 9 No changes
Section 10 No changes
Section 11 No changes

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2 Table of Contents
List of Appendices ........................................................................................................................... 4 Acronyms and Abbreviations .......................................................................................................... 5

1. Goal and Introduction ............................................................................................................. 7

1.1 Regulatory Context ........................................................................................................... 7

1.2 Sewer System Management Plan Update Schedule ........................................................ 8

1.3 Sewer System Asset Overview ......................................................................................... 8

2. Organization .......................................................................................................................... 10 Table 2-1 City of Oxnard Key Personnel ............................................................................... 10 Table 2-2 SSO Reporting Responsibilities ............................................................................. 11

3. Legal Authority ...................................................................................................................... 12 Table 3-1 SSMP Summary of Legal Authority ....................................................................... 13

4. Operation and Maintenance Program .................................................................................. 14

4.1 Updated Map of Sanitary Sewer System ....................................................................... 14 Figure 4-1 Service Area ......................................................................................................... 15

4.2 Preventative Operation and Maintenance Activities ..................................................... 16 Table 4-1 Phase Cleaning Schedule ...................................................................................... 16 Figure 4-2 Phase Cleaning Inventory on GIS ......................................................................... 17 Figure 4-3 Hot Spot Cleaning Schedule ................................................................................. 18

4.3 Training ........................................................................................................................... 19

4.4 Equipment Inventory ..................................................................................................... 19

5. Design and Performance Provisions ..................................................................................... 20

6. Spill Emergency Response Plan............................................................................................. 20 Figure 6-1 SSO Emergency Response Plan ............................................................................ 21 Figure 6-2 SSO Reporting Requirements .............................................................................. 22

7. Sewer Pipe Blockage Control Program ................................................................................. 23

7.1 FOG Source Control Program ......................................................................................... 23

7.2 Six Elements of FOG Control .......................................................................................... 23

7.3 Legal Authority ............................................................................................................... 23

7.4 FOG Removal Devices .................................................................................................... 24

7.5 Inspection and Enforcement Authority .......................................................................... 24 357
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8.1 System Evaluation and Condition Assessment .............................................................. 25

8.2 Capacity Assessment and Design Criteria ...................................................................... 25

8.3 Prioritization of Corrective Action .................................................................................. 25

8.4 Capital Improvement Plan.............................................................................................. 26

9. Monitoring, Measurement and Program Modifications ...................................................... 27

10. Internal Audits.................................................................................................................... 27

11. Communication Program ................................................................................................... 28

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4 List of Appendices

I. State Water Resources Control Board; Order No. 2022-0103-DWQ II. City of Oxnard Municipal Code Chapter 19
III. City of Oxnard Water Resource Recovery Facility – Spill Emergency Response Plan (SERP) IV. Sewer System Management Plan Change Log

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5 Acronyms and Abbreviations

APWD Assistant Public Works Director
BMP Best Management Practices
Cal OES California Office of Emergency Services
CCTV Closed-Circuit Television
CIP Capital Improvement Program
City City of Oxnard
CIWQS California Integrated Water Quality System
CM City Manager
CPC California Plumbing Code
DS Data Submitter
FOG Fats, Oils and Grease
I/I Infiltration and Inflow
LM Laboratory Manager
LRO Legally Responsible Official
mgd million gallons per day
MRP Monitoring and Reporting Program
MS4 Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System
NOV Notice of Violation
NPDES National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
O&M Operations and Maintenance
PLSD Private Lateral Sewer Discharge
PWD Public Works Director
ROW Right-of-Way
R/R Rehabilitation or Repair/Replacement
RWQCB Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board
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SSMP Sanitary Sewer Management Plan
SSO Sanitary Sewer Overflow
SSS Sanitary Sewer Systems
SSS WDR Statewide General WDR for Sanitary Sewers
SWB State Water Resources Control Board
TSM Technical Services Manager
UPC Uniform Plumbing Code
WCM Wastewater Collections Manager
WDM Wastewater Division Manager
WDR Waste Discharge Requirements
WMM Wastewater Maintenance Manager
WOM Wastewater Operations Manager
WRRF Oxnard Water Resource Recovery Facility
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7 Sewer System Management Plan

1. Goal and Introduction
The purpose of this document is to provide the City of Oxnard Water Resource Recovery Facility (WRRF) with a system-wide living management plan for the operation, maintenance, and management of the WRRF’s sewer collection system. This document intends to be a day-to-day working management plan that also meets the Sewer System Management Plan (SSMP) required elements of California’s Statewide Waste Discharge Requirements for Sanitary Sewer Systems General Order 2022-0103-DWQ.

1.1 Regulatory Context
On December 6, 2022, the California State Water Resources Control Board adopted Statewide General Waste Discharge Requirements (SSS WDR) Order 2022-0103-DWQ for wastewater collection systems. The WDR requires that every public agency in California with more than one (1) mile of sanitary sewers that collect and/or convey untreated or partially treated wastewater to a publicly owned treatment facility to develop a Sewer System Management Plan (SSMP) outlining the management, operation, and maintenance practices needed to prevent and mitigate the impact of sanitary sewer overflows (SSOs). Public agencies that meet these criteria are required to create and implement their own SSMP based on the mandatory requirements of the Order and establish a statewide Monitoring and Reporting Program (MRP).

The MRP requires each local or regional sewer agency to appoint a legally responsible official and establish a monitoring and reporting organization to monitor and report all SSOs in accordance with the requirements of the WDR and to have the LRO certify the SSO report using the California Integrated Water Quality System (CIWQS) website in the timeframe required by the Order. If no SSOs occur during the course of any given month, the LRO is required to fill out, certify and send via the CIWQS website a “No Spill Certification” documenting that there were no SSOs for the month reported.

A copy of the SSS WDR is included in Appendix I.

This SSMP is organized similarly to paragraph D (Provisions) of the Order. Each section begins with a summary of the Order requirements, followed by these subsections:
• Compliance Summary – A description of how compliance was achieved; • Compliance Documents – A listing of source documents that support compliance and the location of these documents;
• Roles and Responsibilities – A listing of relevant staff roles and responsibilities.

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8 The Order includes eleven (11) mandatory elements that must be addressed in the SSMP. The SSMP includes eleven elements as listed below:
i) Goals
ii) Organization
iii) Legal Authority
iv) Operation and Maintenance Program
v) Design and Performance Provisions
vi) Spill Emergency Response Plan
vii) Sewer Pipe Blockage Control Program
viii) System Evaluation, Capacity Assurance and Capital Improvements ix) Monitoring, Measurement and Program Modifications
x) Internal Audits
xi) Communication Program
It is the SWRCB’s intent that Order WQ 2022-0103-DWQ be the primary regulatory mechanism for sanitary sewer systems statewide.

1.2 Sewer System Management Plan Update Schedule
The SSMP requires a full plan update every six (6) years, and a required plan audit every three (3) years. The next required full plan update is due by May 2, 2025, with the next required plan audit due by May 2, 2028. The last SMMP update was uploaded to CIWQS in 2019, with the last required plan audit completed in 2024.

1.3 Sewer System Asset Overview
The city owns and operates the WRRF and wastewater collection system under waste discharge requirements contained in R4-2024-0252 (Order), adopted by the Regional Water Quality Control Board – Los Angeles Region on May 23, 2024. The Order also serves as the WRRF’s National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permit No. CA0054097. This permit regulates the WRRF’s discharge of treated effluent into the Pacific Ocean, a water of the State and the United States.

The WRRF is a secondary treatment facility located at 6001 Perkins Road, Oxnard, California.

The plant has an average dry weather design capacity of 31.7 million gallons per day (mgd), with current flows of approximately 17 mgd. The WRRF treatment system consists of bar screening, aerated grit removal, primary clarification, bio-filtration, activated sludge, secondary clarification, flow equalization, chlorine disinfection and dechlorination. 363
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9 The wastewater system is a regional system that provides wastewater collection and treatment services to the approximately 250,000 residents within the City of Oxnard, the City of Port Hueneme, Naval Base Ventura County (Point Mugu and Port Hueneme), Channel Islands Beach Community Services District, and a number of unincorporated areas of Ventura County. Each of the regional or wholesale customers own, operate and maintain their respective sanitary sewer systems. Regional users are regulated through individual sewer use agreements. The system service area boundary can be found in Section 4.

The sanitary sewer system serves residential, commercial and industrial customers within the city boundary. Roughly 90% of the connections are residential, 6% commercial and 4% industrial, governmental, and regional users. All customers are responsible for the operation, maintenance and replacement of their privately owned sanitary sewer laterals up to and including the connection to the public sewer.

The City's sanitary sewer system is comprised of approximately 400 miles of both force and gravity collection system pipe ranging in size from 6-inches in diameter up to 66-inches in diameter. The majority of the gravity sewers, approximately 67 percent, are 8-inches in diameter. Additionally, the City’s sanitary sewer system consists of 15 lift stations and about 4.7 miles of associated force mains located throughout the city. The force mains range in size from 4-inch to 20-inch. All of the lift stations have a duty and a standby pump, and are tied into the wastewater Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system. Generally, the newer lift stations are configured with backup power and older lift stations have quick connections for mobile generators. The entire system is documented and managed through our Geographical Information System.

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10 2. Organization
The City’s Goals and Organization Structure addresses those mandatory SSMP provisions outlined in Section D, SWRCB Order No. 2022-0103- DWQ.

The organizational structure identifies the name of the responsible or authorized representative of the system, as described in Section D of SWRCB Order No. 2022-0103-DWQ. It identifies the administrative and maintenance positions responsible for implementing specific measures in the SSMP with up-to-date descriptions, names, responsibilities of personnel, contact information, and authority for each position. The organizational structure includes a chain of communication for reporting SSOs and lines of authority with contact information.

The following are key personnel responsible for the implementation of the City’s SSMP:
• The Legally Responsible Official as required in Section 5.1 of this General Order – Ray Trevino, Wastewater Collections Manager, (805) 271-2215 • The names and telephone numbers for management, administrative, and maintenance positions responsible for implementing specific measures in the City’s SSMP program:

Table 2-1 City of Oxnard Key Personnel
Name Title Contact Information
Alex Nguyen City Manager 805-385-7449
[email protected]
Michael Wolfe Public Works Director 805-385-8055
[email protected]
Timothy Beaman Assistant Public Works Director 805-385-8141 [email protected]
Jan Hauser Wastewater Division Manager 805-271-2205
[email protected]
Roberto Fuentes Wastewater Operations Manager 805-271-2203 [email protected]
Ray Trevino Wastewater Collections Manager 805-271-2215 [email protected]
Vacant Technical Services Manager 805-385-8153

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11 • The city maintains an Organizational Structure which meets the requirements of Section-D of SWRCB Order No. 2022-0103- DWQ. WRRF’s Spill Emergency Response Plan (SERP) describe the procedures for responding to SSOs and blockages. Section 5 of the SERP identifies responsibilities for reporting SSOs to the State and Regional Water Board, as well as other applicable agencies.

• The responsibilities for reporting SSOs to the various regulatory agencies are shown in Table 2-2. Detailed information on SSO reporting can be found in Section 5 of the SERP.

Table 2-2 SSO Reporting Responsibilities
Personnel Reporting Responsibilities
On-Call Crew
Member →
• Completes Work Order SSO Report Form
• Calls EOS if Category 1 or 2*
• Faxes RWQCB 24 hr report form*

* For Spills ≥ 1,000 gallons or enters storm drain waterway/ imminent and substantial danger to human health

↓
Legally Responsible
Officer →
• Electronically submits CIWQS Form (>1,000 gallons
or enters storm drain/ waterway/ imminent and
substantial danger to human health)
• Electronically submits CIWQS Short Form (all other
SSOs)
• Annual Report to RWQCB

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12 3. Legal Authority
The City of Oxnard Development Services provides a review of new connections to the City’s sanitary sewer system. Included in the review is the design of the service connections as well as the design of commercial and industrial connections which may include the requirement for pretreatment, sampling and/or grease interception.

Additionally, the city has implemented an industrial pretreatment program. Although the industrial pretreatment program is mainly intended to prevent discharges, from both industrial and commercial sources, that cause problems at the wastewater treatment plant, the program also is intended to prevent sewer system overflows through control of oil and grease. Multi- jurisdictional agreements with other agencies that contribute flow to the City’s sanitary sewer system are under review and will be revised to give the City of Oxnard authority to operate the pretreatment program within their jurisdiction. The revision(s) will give the city the ability to prevent illicit discharges to wastewater sanitary sewer system(s) maintained by others and ultimately transported and treated via the City’s wastewater facilities.

Elements of the City's SSMP are implemented through the City Code (Attached as Appendix II).

Chapter 19, Article 1, Sewage System: Wastewater Disposal provides the necessary legal authority to regulate the sanitary sewer system. Chapter 22, Article XII, Stormwater Quality Management provides the necessary legal authority related to discharge to the City’s stormwater system. Table 3-1 lists SSMP elements and the relevant sections of the City Code and/or other legal mechanisms.

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13 Table 3-1 SSMP Summary of Legal Authority
Requirement City Regulation/ Authority
Ability to prevent illicit discharges to the wastewater sanitary sewer system
Chapter 19, Article 1, Division 3,
Sections 19-25 through 19-32
Ability to require that sewers and connections be
properly designed and constructed
Chapter 19, Article 1, Division 3,
Section 19-10, Section 19-10, City
Plate Nos. 405 and 406
Ensure access for maintenance, inspection and repairs
for portions of the service lateral owned or maintained by the city
Chapter 19, Article 1, Division 3,
Sections 19-11 and 19-36
Ability to limit discharge of FOG and other debris that may cause blockages
Chapter 19, Article 1, Division 3,
Sections 19-25 and 19-26
Ability to enforce a violation of the City’s
ordinance/code
Chapter 19, Article 1, Divisions 8
through 10
Ability to control commercial and industrial discharges from satellite collection systems Multi-jurisdictional Agreements Requirements for Grease Removal Devices Chapter 19, Article 1, Division 3, Section 19-43, City Plate No.415
Ability to inspect grease producing facilities and GRDs Chapter 19, Article 1, Division 3, Sections 19-25 and 19-44
Ability to manage stormwater quality Chapter 22, Article XII, Sections 22- 215 through 22-231

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14 4. Operation and Maintenance Program
All City maintenance personnel and contractors are required to be properly trained prior to servicing the sanitary sewer system, including all safety training for full compliance with US Department of Labor OSHA and Cal OSHA requirements. Regular maintenance and cleaning of the sanitary sewer system is managed through our comprehensive ESRI ArcGIS Explorer system.

The city maintains a comprehensive equipment and replacement part inventory, including those identified as critical replacement parts.

4.1 Updated Map of Sanitary Sewer System
The city uses Geographic Information System (GIS) technology to maintain an up-to-date map of the sanitary sewer system, showing all main lines, pump stations, and appurtenant devices necessary to collect and transport wastewater to the treatment facility. Location, pipe, and manhole inventory data including length, diameter, material, rim/invert elevations, street address, and other information are maintained. Figure 4-1 provides a map of the City’s service area including the agencies that contribute flow to the City’s sanitary sewer system.

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15 Figure 4-1 Service Area

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16 4.2 Preventative Operation and Maintenance Activities A key element of the City’s SSMP is the routine and non-routine maintenance and upgrading of the sewer collection system. The maintenance program includes:
a) Maintenance of an up-to-date map of the sanitary sewer system, showing all main lines, pump stations, and appurtenant devices necessary to collect and transport wastewater to the treatment facility. The sanitary sewer system maps were transferred to the City's Geographic Information System (GIS), and are updated continuously as changes are made.
b) Routine preventive operation and maintenance activities are performed by City of Oxnard collection system staff and contractors. The city employs a phased approach to maintain the sanitary sewer system, dividing the city into 12 designated areas. Each year, six of these areas are cleaned, with the remaining six scheduled for cleaning the following year. This biennial rotation ensures systematic and consistent maintenance across the entire collection system. Table 4-1 shows the cleaning schedule. Figure 4-2 is a map on GIS on the inventory of phase cleaning done by the city.

Table 4-1 Phase Cleaning Schedule
2024 2025 2026 2027
Phase 2 Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 1
Phase 4 Phase 3 Phase 4 Phase 3
Phase 6 Phase 5 Phase 6 Phase 5
Phase 8 Phase 7 Phase 8 Phase 7
Phase 10 Phase 9 Phase 10 Phase 9
Phase 12 Phase 11 Phase 12 Phase 11

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17 Figure 4-2 Phase Cleaning Inventory on GIS

City staff undertake a cleaning program consisting of flushing and Vac-Con pumping to mitigate plugging and blockages in the sewer system. These measures help to prevent SSOs. Work crews clean the system throughout the year according to phases with the goal of cleaning 200 miles per year. It takes approximately two years to complete routine cleaning of the City’s entire sanitary sewer system.

Additionally, City collection system staff have identified targeted areas of the sanitary sewer system that are prone to plugging, referred to as “hot spots”. As part of their on- going maintenance program, the city collection system staff clean (cut grease) the identified hot spots. The majority of the hot spots are cleaned every three months or six months. Those areas that are particularly prone to plugging are cleaned monthly or bimonthly. Figure 4-3 shows the cleaning schedule for hot spots.

c) Staff is provided training on a regular basis staff in sanitary sewer system operations and maintenance, and require contractors to be appropriately trained. d) Procedures are in place to provide for equipment and replacement part inventories, including identification of critical replacement parts. 372
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18 Figure 4-3 Hot Spot Cleaning Schedule

The city conducts routine closed-circuit television (CCTV) inspections of the sanitary sewer system to address maintenance or repair needs before a SSO can occur. Like flushing, televising of the sanitary sewer system is also conducted using the phased approach. With the City’s goal to CCTV 50 miles of sewer each year, it takes approximately six to eight years to complete CCTV inspections of the entire sanitary sewer system.

These preventative maintenance (PM) programs are tracked by staff and, documented electronically on the GIS system.

While the focus of these programs is to identify and prioritize system deficiencies and implement short-term and long-term rehabilitation actions to address each deficiency, areas of known lateral problems are also addressed by the City of Oxnard under City Code. Businesses or industrial users with known areas of flow problems or a history of overflows are dealt with by escalating enforcement actions.

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19 4.3 Training
City personnel attend structured collection system training classes or seminars given by other agencies including: California Occupational, Safety and Health Administration (CALOSHA), California Water Environment Association (CWEA), County Sanitation Districts’ (CSD), etc. This ensures staff are familiar with the latest industry standards and technology, and can safely and efficiently carry out their tasks. The city also utilizes informal training approaches, such as tailgate meetings, monthly safety meetings, and apprenticeship training programs from higher level staff.

4.4 Equipment Inventory
The city maintains a comprehensive equipment maintenance program to ensure the reliability and efficiency of its operations. Equipment is routinely inspected, adjusted, repaired, or replaced as needed to maintain optimal performance. Major fixed assets are replaced in accordance with the City’s established replacement criteria, which take into account factors such as age, mileage, hours of use, repair history, and safety considerations.

Key equipment used by the Wastewater Collection staff includes Vac-Con trucks, a camera truck, portable pumps, and sign boards
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20 5. Design and Performance Provisions
The city maintains design criteria and construction standards and specifications that comply with Attachment D Section 5 of the General Order WQ 2022-0103-DWQ. The Standards include the construction, installation, repair, and rehabilitation of existing and proposed system infrastructure components. It also contains procedures and standards for inspecting and testing newly constructed, installed, repaired, and rehabilitated sewer system assets. The Standards are reviewed annually and updated as changes are needed.

6. Spill Emergency Response Plan
It is the obligation of the city to protect the public health and the environment from the toxic and infectious threats posed by wastewater. It is the policy of the City to respond to spill emergencies in the sanitary sewer system promptly and in a manner, which minimizes the potential for exposure of the public to health risks and protects the environment from potential harm from such emergencies. The city has developed a Spill Emergency Response Plan (SERP) that identifies measures to protect public health and the environment. The SERP is included in Appendix III.

In order to provide adequate after-hours response to sanitary sewer system emergencies, collection system personnel are on standby. Standby duty is an obligation of all collection system personnel and the assignment to standby is rotated among all collection system personnel by the Collection Manager. A collection system person who is assigned standby duty in rotation may avoid the duty only if approved by the Wastewater Collection Manager.

Standby personnel will not be granted scheduled vacation or may not participate in voluntary scheduled overtime while on standby unless there are no other volunteers available. When assigned standby, it is the responsibility of the Standby Person to remain reachable either by standby cell phone and to be within 45 minutes travel time of the Wastewater Treatment Plant.

The city has developed an emergency call procedure to respond during both normal working hours and after-hours operations. The procedures must be followed to ensure a safe and compliant SSMP.

Figure 6-1 is a schematic that identifies the City’s SSO Emergency Response Plan. Further details are also listed in the SERP (Appendix III).

Figure 6-2 identifies the steps that must be taken to assess and determine the sewage overflow category as well as address regulatory reporting requirements. Details and clean up requirements are listed in the SERP (Appendix III).

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21 Figure 6-1 SSO Emergency Response Plan

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22 Figure 6-2 SSO Reporting Requirements

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23 7. Sewer Pipe Blockage Control Program
The City’s Fats, Oils and Grease Control Program addresses those mandatory SSMP provisions outlined in Section D, Sewer Pipe Blockage Control Program of SWRCB Order No. 2022-0103- DWQ.

7.1 FOG Source Control Program
To reduce the amount of Fats, Oils and Grease (FOG) discharged to WRRF’s sanitary sewer system, the city has developed a FOG Source Control Program. The city identifies all food preparation and service establishments within its service area, as part of the monitoring and surveillance program.

The City’s FOG Source Control Program objectives have remained the same since its initial implementation. They include:

1. Reducing the amount of FOG originating from food establishments that enters the City's sanitary sewer system and WRRF;

2. Protecting the environment by eliminating FOG related sanitary sewer system backups and overflows.

3. Eliminating stormwater pollution sources associated with non-permitted outdoor food establishment activities, such as washing kitchen mats and restaurant equipment, and other maintenance activities in outdoor areas that discharge to the stormwater drainage system; and

4. Continuing to comply with the State of California and other applicable Federal regulatory requirements.

7.2 Six Elements of FOG Control
The FOG Control Program implemented by the City consists of six (6) elements, as follows:

1. Public education and outreach implementation plan and schedule;

2. Legal authority to prohibit illegal discharges, FOG blockages, and prevent SSOs;

3. Required installation of grease removal devices;

4. Authority to inspect grease-producing facilities and enforce noncompliant facilities;

5. Identify system locations subject to FOG blockages and establish maintenance schedules; and

6. Develop and implement source control measures for all FOG discharged to the City's Sanitary Sewer System.

7.3 Legal Authority
Chapter 19 of the City's Municipal Code defines the City's Sewer Use Ordinance (SUO) and contains specific legal language with respect to FOG control to prohibit illegal discharges, minimize FOG blockages and prevent SSOs. The city has implemented a pretreatment program, 378
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24 the current program includes numerical local limits for FOG of 250 mg/L for vegetable and 100 mg/L for mineral. The City Code, Chapter 19 lists prohibited discharge standards including:

• (3) Solid or viscous substances in amounts that will cause obstruction of the flow in the system resulting in interference but in no case solids greater than ½-inch (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension

• (6) Petroleum oil, nonbiodegradable cutting oil, or products of mineral oil origin, in amounts that will cause interference or pass through

• (17) Fats, oils, or greases of animal or vegetable origin in concentrations greater than 250 mg/l

In addition to the City Code Chapter 19, Article I, Divisions 8 through 11, the city uses other existing laws and ordinances to halt noncompliant situations or events. The City is required to have the legal authority to implement its pretreatment program. To do so, the City must have legal authority with contributing jurisdictions. Therefore, the City is working with contributing jurisdictions to prepare/revise Multi-jurisdictional Agreements to clearly specify the responsibilities of each entity in implementing the City’s pretreatment program.

7.4 FOG Removal Devices
The city regulates and regularly inspects nonsignificant nondomestic dischargers, including approximately 114 discharging auto shops, and 520 food service establishments. Auto shops and restaurants are permitted, with the goal of being inspected and sampled at least once per year.

Most of these permitted food establishments are required to install a grease interceptor and sampling well. The City has standardized its procedure for requiring grease removal devices, based upon California Plumbing Code Section 1009.0 and 1009.1, for new food establishments and for tenants who make major improvements to their kitchen areas. Further, the City's permitting program requires food establishments to clean and maintain their grease interceptors. The size of the interceptor is dependent on the flow volume of the business.

Appropriate permitted vendors are required to be used to service grease interceptors.

7.5 Inspection and Enforcement Authority
The City has the legal authority to inspect and enforce FOG noncompliance. The City Municipal Code contains language that prohibits the discharge of any substance that can create a public nuisance. Further, the City's Municipal Code and Food Establishment Program grant the City's Technical Services personnel the authority to inspect FOG-producing facilities and take the necessary enforcement against non-compliant facilities.

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8. System Evaluation, Capacity Assurance, and Capital
Improvements

8.1 System Evaluation and Condition Assessment
Sewer condition is continuously assessed through an in-house CCTV inspection program, with a goal to inspect 50 miles of sewer per year. Based on the results of the inspection, repairs are completed on as-needed basis or developed as a capital improvement projects.

8.2 Capacity Assessment and Design Criteria
In 2023, the City of Oxnard completed a comprehensive wastewater network computer model to support the evaluation and planning of its sanitary sewer system. This model was developed to analyze both existing and future system demands and loads, providing a foundation for effective system management and capital improvement planning.

As part of the modeling effort, the city incorporated current land use data, population projections, and development trends to estimate future wastewater flows. Sewer loading rates, along with reasonable assumptions for infiltration and inflow (I/I), were used to simulate flow conditions throughout the collection system. This allowed the City to identify capacity constraints, evaluate system performance under various scenarios, and prioritize improvements to maintain regulatory compliance and service reliability. The wastewater model serves as a valuable tool for assessing system capacity, planning future upgrades, and ensuring the long- term sustainability of the City’s wastewater infrastructure.

8.3 Prioritization of Corrective Action
Based on the findings of the CCTV sewer inspections, capacity assessment or wet weather response, the following actions will be taken:
• Priority 1 - potential immediate and/or catastrophic failure (immediate action) • Priority 2 - substandard wet weather response (I/I, SSES study) • Priority 3 - inadequate capacity (capital improvement project)

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The following capital improvement projects have been completed within the past three years or are planned to be completed within the next three years.

Table 4-2 Planned and Completed Sanitary Sewer System Projects Project Start Date End Date Funding
Central Trunk Manhole
Rehabilitation 2022 2023 Internal
Lift Stations #4 & #6
Replacement 2025 2028 Internal
Ventura Road & Rice Avenue
Gravity Main Replacement 2024 2026 Internal
Lift Stations 1, 2, 30
Improvements and New Force
Main
2023 2025 Internal
Eastern Trunk Sewer Manhole
Rehabilitation 2024 2025 Internal
New Lift Station #22 2023 2027 Internal
Mandalay Sewer Rehabilitation 2025 2027 Internal

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City staff observes gravity mains and manholes during routine cleaning and conducts localized video inspections when their observations warrant further investigation. Results of these cleanings and video inspections are maintained in the City’s GIS system.

The city identifies all food establishments within its service area as part of its Pretreatment Program and the City’s Technical Services staff FOG management efforts. A list of all food establishments within the City’s service area are maintained and updated by the technical services staff.

Each year the city provides a Spill Summary to the RWQCB as part of the Annual Reporting under the NPDES Permit.

Changes to the SSMP and any parts of the program shall be continuously documented in the Change Log located in Appendix IV.

10. Internal Audits
The city conducts an internal audit of their SSMP every three years, and focuses on the effectiveness of the SSMP and the City’s compliance with the SSMP requirements of Order No. 2022-0103-DWQ. The audit will include, but may not be limited to, the following:
• Any significant changes to components of the SSMP, including but not limited to, Legal Authority, FOG Control Program or Spill Emergency Response Plan. • Any significant changes to compliance documents;
• SSMP implementation efforts over the past three years; • A description of additions and improvements made the sanitary sewer collections system during the past three years;
• A description of the additions and improvements planned for the upcoming three years, with an estimated schedule for implementation;
• Strategies to correct deficiencies.
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The City communicates on a regular basis with interested parties on the implementation and performance of this SSMP. The communication program allows interested parties to provide input as the program is developed and implemented. The City’s website (www.oxnard.gov) presents information about on-going efforts, as well as City Council meeting agendas and minutes.

Another element of City’s communication program is related to communication within the city among staff. The Collections system staff maintains close coordination and communication with the Technical Services staff, since Technical Services staff are responsible for the pretreatment program including FOG inspections and control. In addition, the Technical Services staff have authorization, through multi-jurisdictional agreements, to extend the pretreatment program to tributary and satellite sanitary sewer systems. This connection to the other tributary communities provides an avenue for communication beyond information presented on the City’s website. In addition, the WRRF staff are key to the communication program. The Wastewater Operations Manager is the “Authorized Person” to sign and submit reports related to the NPDES permit.

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1 STATE WATER RESOURCES CONTROL BOARD
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ORDER WQ 2022-0103-DWQ

STATEWIDE WASTE DISCHARGE REQUIREMENTS

GENERAL ORDER FOR SANITARY SEWER SYSTEMS
This Order was adopted by the State Water Resources Control Board on December 6, 2022.

This Order shall become effective 180 days after the Adoption Date of this General Order, on June 5, 2023.

The Enrollee shall comply with the requirements of this Order upon the Effective Date of this General Order.

This General Order does not convey any property rights of any sort or any exclusive privileges.

The requirements prescribed herein do not authorize the commission of any act causing injury to persons or property, protect the Enrollee from liability under federal, state, or local laws, nor create a vested right for the Enrollee to continue the discharge of waste.

CERTIFICATION
I, Jeanine Townsend, Clerk to the Board, do hereby certify that this Order with all attachments is a full, true, and correct copy of the Order adopted by the State Water Board on December 6, 2022.

AYE: Chair E. Joaquin Esquivel
Vice Chair Dorene D’Adamo
Board Member Sean Maguire
Board Member Laurel Firestone
Board Member Nichole Morgan
NAY: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
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1. Introduction .................................................................................................................... 4

2. Regulatory Coverage and Application Requirements .................................................... 5

2.1. Requirements for Continuation of Existing Regulatory Coverage ....................... 5

2.2. Requirements for New Regulatory Coverage ...................................................... 5

2.3. Regulatory Coverage Transfer ............................................................................ 7

3. Findings ......................................................................................................................... 7

3.1. Legal Authorities ................................................................................................. 7

3.2. General ............................................................................................................. 11

3.3. Water Quality Control Plans, Policies and Resolutions ..................................... 14

3.4. California Environmental Quality Act ................................................................. 16

3.5. State Water Board Funding Assistance for Compliance with Water Board Water Quality Orders ................................................................................................... 16

3.6. Notification to Interested Parties ....................................................................... 17

4. Prohibitions .................................................................................................................. 17

4.1 Discharge of Sewage from a Sanitary Sewer System ....................................... 17

4.2. Discharge of Sewage to Waters of the State..................................................... 17

4.3. Discharge of Sewage Creating a Nuisance ....................................................... 18

5. Specifications ............................................................................................................... 18

5.1. Designation of a Legally Responsible Official ................................................... 18

5.2. Sewer System Management Plan Development and Implementation ............... 18

5.3. Certification of Sewer System Management Plan and Plan Updates ................ 19

5.4. Sewer System Management Plan Audits .......................................................... 19

5.5. Six-Year Sewer System Management Plan Update .......................................... 21

5.6. System Resilience ............................................................................................. 22

5.7. Allocation of Resources .................................................................................... 22

5.8. Designation of Data Submitters ......................................................................... 22

5.9. Reporting Certification ....................................................................................... 22

5.10. System Capacity ............................................................................................... 23

5.11. System Performance Analysis .......................................................................... 23

5.12. Spill Emergency Response Plan and Remedial Actions ................................... 23

5.13. Notification, Monitoring, Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements ............. 24

5.14. Electronic Sanitary Sewer System Service Area Boundary Map ....................... 26

5.15. Voluntary Reporting of Spills from Privately-Owned Sewer Laterals and/or Private Sanitary Sewer Systems ................................................................................... 26

5.16. Voluntary Notification of Spills from Privately-Owned Laterals and/or Systems to the California Office of Emergency Services ..................................................... 27

5.17. Unintended Failure to Report ............................................................................ 27 386

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5.19. Operation and Maintenance ............................................................................... 27

6. Provisions .................................................................................................................... 27

6.1. Enforcement Provisions .................................................................................... 27

6.2. Other Regional Water Board Orders ................................................................. 30

6.3. Sewer System Management Plan Availability ................................................... 31

6.4. Entry and Inspection ......................................................................................... 31

Table of Attachments
Attachment A – Definitions ..................................................................................................... A-1 Attachment B – Application for Enrollment ............................................................................. B-1 Attachment C - Notice of Termination ..................................................................................... C-1 Attachment D – Sewer System Management Plan – Required Elements .............................. D-1 Attachment E1 – Notification, Monitoring, Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements ..... E1-1 Attachment E2 – Summary of Notification, Monitoring and Reporting Requirements ........... E2-1 Attachment F – Regional Water Quality Control Board Contact Information .......................... F-1

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This General Order regulates sanitary sewer systems designed to convey sewage. For the purpose of this Order, a sanitary sewer system includes, but is not limited to, pipes, valves, pump stations, manholes, siphons, wet wells, diversion structures and/or other pertinent infrastructure, upstream of a wastewater treatment plant headworks. A sanitary sewer system includes:
• Laterals owned and/or operated by the Enrollee;
• Satellite sewer systems; and/or
• Temporary conveyance and storage facilities, including but not limited to temporary piping, vaults, construction trenches, wet wells, impoundments, tanks and diversion structures.

Sewage is untreated or partially treated domestic, municipal, commercial and/or industrial waste (including sewage sludge), and any mixture of these wastes with inflow or infiltration of stormwater or groundwater, conveyed in a sanitary sewer system.

Sewage contains high levels of suspended solids, non-digested organic waste, pathogenic bacteria, viruses, toxic pollutants, nutrients, oxygen-demanding organic compounds, oils, grease, pharmaceuticals, and other harmful pollutants.

For the purpose of this General Order, a spill is a discharge of sewage from any portion of a sanitary sewer system due to a sanitary sewer system overflow, operational failure, and/or infrastructure failure. Sewage and its associated wastewater spilled from a sanitary sewer system may threaten public health, beneficial uses of waters of the State, and the environment.

This General Order serves as statewide waste discharge requirements and supersedes the previous State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) Order 2006-0003-DWQ and amendments thereafter. All sections and attachments of this General Order are enforceable by the State Water Board and Regional Water Quality Control Boards (Regional Water Boards). Through this General Order, the State Water Board requires an Enrollee to:
• Comply with federal and state prohibitions of discharge of sewage to waters of the State, including federal waters of the United States;
• Comply with specifications, and notification, monitoring, reporting and recordkeeping requirements in this General Order that implement the federal Clean Water Act, the California Water Code (Water Code), water quality control plans (including Regional Water Board Basin Plans) and policies;
• Proactively operate and maintain resilient sanitary sewer systems to prevent spills; • Eliminate discharges of sewage to waters of the State through effective implementation of a Sewer System Management Plan;
• Monitor, track, and analyze spills for ongoing system-specific performance improvements; and
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5 An Enrollee is a public, private, or other non-governmental entity that has obtained approval for regulatory coverage under this General Order, including:
• A state agency, municipality, special district, or other public entity that owns and/or operates one or more sanitary sewer systems:
o greater than one (1) mile in length (each individual sanitary sewer system); o one (1) mile or less in length where the State Water Board or a Regional Water Board requires regulatory coverage under this Order; or • A federal agency, private company, or other non-governmental entity that owns and/or operates a sanitary sewer system of any size where the State Water Board or a Regional Water Board requires regulatory coverage under this Order in response to a history of spills, proximity to surface water, or other factors supporting regulatory coverage.

For the purpose of this Order, a sanitary sewer system includes only systems owned and/or operated by the Enrollee.

2. REGULATORY COVERAGE AND APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS

2.1. Requirements for Continuation of Existing Regulatory Coverage To continue regulatory coverage from previous Order 2006-0003-DWQ under this General Order, within the 60-days-prior-to the Effective Date of this General Order, the Legally Responsible Official of an existing Enrollee shall electronically certify the Continuation of Existing Regulatory Coverage form in the online California Integrated Water Quality System (CIWQS) Sanitary Sewer System Database. The Legally Responsible Official will receive an automated CIWQS-issued Notice of Applicability email, confirming continuation of regulatory coverage under this General Order. All regulatory coverage under previous Order 2006-0003-DWQ will cease on the Effective Date of this Order.

An Enrollee continuing existing regulatory coverage is not required to submit a new application package or pay an application fee for enrollment under this General Order.

The annual fee due date for continued regulatory coverage from previous Order 2006-0003-DWQ to this General Order remains unchanged.

A previous Enrollee of Order 2006-0003-DWQ that fails to certify the Continuation of Existing Regulatory Coverage form in the online CIWQS database by the Effective Date of this Order is considered a New Applicant, and will not have regulatory coverage for its sanitary sewer system(s) until:
• A new application package for system(s) enrollment is submitted per section 2.2 (Requirements for New Regulatory Coverage) below; and
• The new application package is approved per section 2.2.2 (Approval of Application Package (For New Applicants Only)).

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Unless required by a Regional Water Board, a public agency that owns a combined sewer system subject to the Combined Sewer Overflow Control Policy (33 U.S. Code § 1342(q)), is not required to enroll, under this Order, the portions of its sanitary sewer system(s) that collects combined sanitary wastewater and stormwater.

2.2.1. Application Package Requirements
The Application for Enrollment package for new applicants must include the following items:
• Application for Enrollment Form. The form in Attachment B of this General Order must be completed, signed, and certified by a Legally Responsible Official, in accordance with section 5.1 (Designation of a Legally Responsible Official) of this General Order. If an electronic Application for Enrollment form is available at the time of application, a new applicant shall submit its application form electronically; and
• Application Fee. A fee payable to the “State Water Resources Control Board” in accordance with the Fee Schedule in the California Code of Regulations, Title 23, section 2200, or subsequent fee regulations updates.

The application fee for this General Order is based on the sanitary sewer system’s threat to water quality and complexity designations of category 2C or 3C, which is assigned based on the population served by the system. The current Fee Schedule for sanitary sewer systems is listed under subdivision (a)(2) at the following website:

Fee Schedule (https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/resources/fees/water_quality/).

2.2.2. Approval of Application Package (For New Applicants Only) The Deputy Director of the State Water Board, Division of Water Quality (Deputy Director) will consider approval of each complete Application for Enrollment package.

The Deputy Director will issue a Notice of Applicability letter which serves as approved regulatory coverage for the new Enrollee.

If the submitted application package is not complete in accordance with section 2.2.1 (Application Package Requirements) of this General Order, the Deputy Director will send a response letter to the applicant outlining the application deficiencies. The applicant will have 60 days from the date of the response letter to correct the application deficiencies and submit the identified items necessary to complete the application package to the State Water Board.

2.2.3. Electronic Reporting Account for New Enrollee
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7 (https://ciwqs.waterboards.ca.gov). If additional assistance is needed to establish an online CIWQS user account, contact State Water Board staff by email at [email protected]. The online user account will provide the Enrollee secure access to the online CIWQS database for electronic reporting.

2.3. Regulatory Coverage Transfer
Regulatory coverage under this General Order is not transferable to any person or party except after an existing Enrollee submits a written request for a regulatory coverage transfer to the Deputy Director, at least 60 days in advance of any proposed system ownership transfer. The written request must include a written agreement between the existing Enrollee and the new Enrollee containing:
• Acknowledgement that the transfer of ownership is solely of an existing system with an existing waste discharge identification (WDID) number; • The specific ownership transfer date in which the responsibility and regulatory coverage transfer between the existing Enrollee and the new Enrollee becomes effective; and
• Acknowledgement that the existing Enrollee is liable for violations occurring up to the ownership transfer date and that the new Enrollee is liable for violations occurring on and after the ownership transfer date.

The Deputy Director will consider approval of the written request. If approved, the Deputy Director will issue a Notice of Applicability letter which serves as an approved transfer of regulatory coverage to the new Enrollee.

3. FINDINGS

3.1. Legal Authorities

3.1.1. Federal and State Regulatory Authority
The objective of the Clean Water Act is to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the waters of the United States (33 U.S.C. 1251). The Water Code authorizes the State Water Board to implement the Clean Water Act in the State and to protect the quality of all waters of the State (Water Code sections 13000 and 13160).

3.1.2. Discharge of Sewage
A discharge of untreated or partially treated sewage is a discharge of waste as defined in Water Code section 13050(d) that could affect the quality of waters of the State and is subject to regulation by waste discharge requirements issued pursuant to Water Code section 13263 and Chapter 9, Division 3, Title 23 of the California Code of Regulations.

A discharge of sewage may pollute and alter the quality of the waters of the State to a degree that unreasonably affects the beneficial uses of the receiving water body or facilities that serve those beneficial uses (Water Code section 13050(l)(1)). 391

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8 3.1.3 Water Boards Authority to Require Technical Reports, Monitoring, and Reporting Water Code sections 13267 and 13383 authorize the Regional Water Boards and the State Water Board to establish monitoring, inspection, entry, reporting, and recordkeeping requirements. Water Code section 13267(b), authorizes the Regional Water Boards to “require any person who has discharged, discharges, or is suspected of having discharged or discharging, or who proposes to discharge waste within its region… or is suspected of having discharged or discharging, or who proposes to discharge, waste outside of its region that could affect the quality of water within its region shall furnish, under penalty of perjury, technical or monitoring reports which the regional board requires…In requiring those reports, the regional board shall provide the person with a written explanation with regard to the need for the reports and shall identify the evidence that supports requiring that person to provide the reports.” Water Code section 13267(f) authorizes the State Water Board to require this information if it consults with the Regional Water Boards and determines that it will not duplicate the efforts of the Regional Water Boards. The State Water Board has consulted with the Regional Water Boards and made this determination.

The technical and monitoring reports required by this General Order and Attachment E (Notification, Monitoring, Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements) are necessary to evaluate and ensure compliance with this General Order. The effort to develop required technical reports will vary depending on the system size and complexity and the needs of the specific technical report. The burden and cost of these reports are reasonable and consistent with the interest of the state in protecting water quality, which is the primary purpose of requiring the reports.

Water Code section 13383(a) authorizes the Water Boards to “establish monitoring, inspection, entry, reporting, and recordkeeping requirements… for any person who discharges, or proposes to discharge, to navigable waters, any person who introduces pollutants into a publicly owned treatment works, any person who owns or operates, or proposes to own or operate, a publicly owned treatment works or other treatment works treating domestic sewage, or any person who uses or disposes, or proposes to use or dispose, of sewage sludge.” Section 13383(b) continues, “the state board or the regional boards may require any person subject to this section to establish and maintain monitoring equipment or methods, including, where appropriate, biological monitoring methods, sample effluent as prescribed, and provide other information as may be reasonably required.”
Reporting of spills from privately owned sewer laterals and systems pursuant to section

5.15 (Voluntary Reporting of Spills from Privately-Owned Sewer Laterals and/or Private Sanitary Sewer Systems) of this General Order is authorized by Water Code section 13225(c) and encouraged by the State Water Board, wherein a local agency may investigate and report on any technical factors involved in water quality control provided the burden including costs of such reports bears a reasonable relationship to the need for the report and the benefits to be obtained therefrom. The burden of reporting private spills under section 5.15 (Voluntary Reporting of Spills from Privately-Owned Sewer Laterals and/or Private Sanitary Sewer Systems) is minimal and is outweighed by the benefit of providing Regional Water Boards an opportunity to respond to these spills 392

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3.1.4. Water Board Authority to Prescribe General Waste Discharge Requirements Water Code section 13263(i) provides that the State Water Board may prescribe general waste discharge requirements for a category of discharges if the State Water Board finds or determines that:
• The discharges are produced by the same or similar operations; • The discharges involve the same or similar types of waste; • The discharges require the same or similar treatment standards; and • The discharges are more appropriately regulated under general waste discharge requirements than individual waste discharge requirements.

Since 2006, the State Water Board has been regulating over 1,100 publicly owned sanitary sewer systems (See section 3.1.5 (Previous Statewide General Waste Discharge Requirements) of this General Order). California also has a large unknown number of unregulated privately owned sanitary sewer systems. All waste conveyed in publicly owned and privately owned sanitary sewer systems (as defined in this General Order) is comprised of untreated or partially treated domestic waste and/or industrial waste. Generally, sanitary sewer systems are designed and operated to convey waste by gravity or under pressure; system-specific design elements and system-specific operations do not change the common nature of the waste, the common threat to public health, or the common impacts on water quality. Spills of waste from a sanitary sewer system prior to reaching the ultimate downstream treatment facility are unauthorized and enforceable by the State Water Board and/or a Regional Water Board. Therefore, spills from sanitary sewer systems are more appropriately regulated under general waste discharge requirements.

As specified in Water Code sections 13263(a) and 13241, the implementation of requirements set forth in this Order is for the reasonable protection of past, present, and probable future beneficial uses of water and the prevention of nuisance. The requirements implement the water quality control plans (Basin Plans) for each Regional Water Board and take into account the environmental characteristics of sewer service areas and hydrographic units within the state. Additionally, the State Water Board has considered water quality conditions that could reasonably be achieved through the coordinated control of all factors that affect water quality, costs associated with compliance with these requirements, the need for developing housing within California, and the need to protect sources of drinking water and other water supplies.

3.1.5. Previous Statewide General Waste Discharge Requirements On May 2, 2006, the State Water Board adopted Order 2006-0003-DWQ serving as Waste Discharge Requirements pursuant to Article 4, Chapter 4, Division 7 of the Water Code (commencing with section 13260) for inadvertent discharges to waters of the State. Order 2006-0003-DWQ prohibited discharges of untreated or partially treated sewage. Order 2006-0003-DWQ also required system-specific management, operation, and maintenance of publicly owned sewer systems greater than one mile in length. 393

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10 To decrease the impacts on human health and the environment caused by sewage spills, the previous Order required enrollees to develop a rehabilitation and replacement plan that identifies system deficiencies and prioritizes short-term and long-term rehabilitation actions. The previous Order also required enrollees to:

1. Maintain information that can be used to establish and prioritize appropriate Sewer System Management Plan activities; and

2. Implement a proactive approach to reduce spills.

The previous Order required Sewer System Management Plan elements for “the proper and efficient management, operation, and maintenance of sanitary sewer systems, while taking into consideration risk management.”
On July 30, 2013, the State Water Board amended General Order 2006-0003-DWQ with Order WQ 2013-0058-EXEC, Amending Monitoring and Reporting Program for Statewide General Waste Discharge Requirements for Sanitary Sewer Systems.

Many enrollees of Order 2006-0003-DWQ have already implemented proactive measures to reduce sewage spills. Other enrollees, however, still need technical assistance and funding to improve sanitary sewer system operation and maintenance for the reduction of sewage spills.

3.1.6. Existing Memorandum of Agreement with California Water Environment Association
The California Water Environment Association is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing water industry certifications, training, and networking opportunities. The Association’s Technical Certification Program provides accredited sanitary sewer system operator certification for collection system operators and maintenance workers.

On February 10, 2016, the State Water Board entered into a collaborative agreement with the Association titled Memorandum of Agreement Between the California State Water Resources Control Board and the California Water Environment Association - Training Regarding Requirements Set Forth in Statewide General Waste Discharge Requirements for Sanitary Sewer Systems. The Memorandum sets forth collaborative training necessary for regulated sanitary sewer system personnel to operate and maintain a well operating system and ensure full compliance with statewide sewer system regulations.

On March 15, 2018, the State Water Board and the California Water Environment Association amended the existing Memorandum of Agreement to include collaborative outreach and expand training needs associated with further updates to Water Board regulations for sanitary sewer systems. The State Water Board encourages further Agreement updates as necessary to support improved sewer system operations and the professionalism of collection system operators.
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3.2.1. Waters of the State
Waters of the State include any surface water or groundwater, including saline waters, within the boundaries of the state as defined in Water Code section 13050(e), and are inclusive of waters of the United States.

3.2.2. Sanitary Sewer System Spill Threats to Public Health and Beneficial Uses Sewage contains high levels of suspended solids, pathogenic organisms, toxic pollutants, nutrients, oxygen-demanding organic compounds, oil and grease and other pollutants. Sewage spills may cause a public nuisance, particularly when sewage is discharged to areas with high public exposure such as streets and surface waters used for drinking, irrigation, fishing, recreation, or other public consumption or contact uses.

More specifically, sanitary sewer spills may:
• Adversely affect aquatic life and/or threaten water quality when reaching receiving waters;
• Inadvertently release trash, including plastics;
• Impair the recreational use and aesthetic enjoyment of surface waters by polluting surface water or groundwater;
• Threaten public health through direct public exposure to bacteria, viruses, intestinal parasites, and other microorganisms that can cause serious illness such as gastroenteritis, hepatitis, cryptosporidiosis, and giardiasis; • Negatively impact ecological receptors and biota within surface waters; and • Cause nuisance including odors, closure of beaches and recreational areas, and property damage.

Sanitary sewer system spills may pollute receiving waters and threaten beneficial uses of surface water and groundwater. Potentially threatened beneficial uses include, but are not limited to the following (with associated acronym representations as included in statewide water quality control plans and Regional Water Boards’ Basin Plans):
• Municipal and Domestic Supply (MUN)
• Water Contact Recreation (REC-1) and Non-Contact Water Recreation (REC-2) • Cold Freshwater Habitat (COLD)
• Warm Freshwater Habitat (WARM)
• Native American Culture (CUL)
• Wildlife Habitat (WILD)
• Rare, Threatened, or Endangered Species (RARE)
• Spawning, Reproduction, and/or Early Development (SPWN) • Wetland Habitat (WET)
• Agricultural Supply (AGR)
• Estuarine Habitat (EST)
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• Subsistence Fishing (SUB)
• Tribal Tradition and Culture (CUL)
• Tribal Subsistence Fishing (T-SUB)
• Aquaculture (AQUA)
• Marine Habitat (MAR)
• Preservation of Biological Habitats of Special Significance (BIOL) • Migration of Aquatic Organisms (MIGR)
• Shellfish Harvesting (SHELL)
• Industrial Process Supply (PROC)
• Industrial Service Supply (IND)
• Hydropower Generation (POW)
• Navigation (NAV)
• Flood Peak Attenuation/Flood Water Storage (FLD)
• Water Quality Enhancement (WQE)
• Fresh Water Replenishment (FRSH)
• Groundwater Recharge (GWR)
• Inland Saline Water Habitat (SAL)

3.2.3. Proactive Sanitary Sewer System Management to Eliminate Spill Causes Finding 3 of the previous Order, 2006-0003-DWQ, states: “Sanitary sewer systems experience periodic failures resulting in discharges that may affect waters of the state.

There are many factors (including factors related to geology, design, construction methods and materials, age of the system, population growth, and system operation and maintenance), which affect the likelihood of an SSO [sanitary sewer overflow].

A proactive approach that requires Enrollees to ensure a system-wide operation, maintenance, and management plan is in place will reduce the number and frequency of SSOs within the state. This approach will in turn decrease the risk to human health and the environment caused by SSOs.”
Many spills are preventable through proactive attention on sanitary sewer system management using the best practices and technologies available to address major causes of spills, including but not limited to:
• Blockages from sources including but not limited to:
o Fats, oils and grease;
o Tree roots;
o Rags, wipes and other paper, cloth and plastic products; and o Sediment and debris.
• Sewer system damage and exceedance of sewer system hydraulic capacity from identified system-specific environmental, and climate-change impacts, including but not limited to:
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o Increased surface water flows due to higher intensity rain events; o Flooding;
o Wildfires and wildfire induced impacts;
o Earthquake induced damage;
o Landslides; and
o Subsidence.
• Infrastructure deficiencies and failures, including but not limited to:
o Pump station mechanical failures;
o System age;
o Construction material failures;
o Manhole cover failures;
o Structural failures; and
o Lack of proper operation and maintenance.
• Insufficient system capacity (temporary or sustained), due to factors including but not limited to:
o Excessive and/or increased storm or groundwater inflow/infiltration; o Insufficient capacity due to population increase and/or new connections from industrial, commercial and other system users; and
o Stormwater capture projects utilizing a sanitary sewer system to convey stormwater to treatment facilities for reuse.
• Community impacts, including but not limited to:
o Power outages;
o Vandalism; and
o Contractor-caused or other third party-caused damages.

3.2.4. Underground Sanitary Sewer System Leakage
Portions of some sanitary sewer systems may leak, causing underground exfiltration (exiting) of sewage from the system. Exfiltrated sewage that remains in the underground infrastructure trench and/or the soil matrix, and that does not discharge into waters of the State (surface water or groundwater) may not threaten beneficial uses.

Underground exfiltrated sewage may threaten beneficial uses if discharged to waters of the State. Exfiltrated sewage that discharges to groundwater may impact beneficial uses of groundwater and pollute groundwater supply. Additionally, if in close proximity, exfiltrated sewage may enter into a compromised underground drainage conveyance system that discharges into a water of the United States, or into groundwater that is hydrologically connected to (feeds into) a water of the United States, thus potentially causing: (1) a Clean Water Act violation, (2) threat and impact to beneficial uses, and/or (3) surface water pollution.
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14 3.2.5. Proactive Sanitary Sewer System Management to Reduce Inflow and Infiltration Excessive inflow (stormwater entering) and infiltration (groundwater seepage entering) to sanitary sewer systems is preventable through proactive sewer system management using the best practices and technologies available. The efficiency of the downstream wastewater treatment processes is dependent on the performance of the sanitary sewer system. When the structural integrity of a sanitary sewer system deteriorates, high volumes of inflow and infiltration can enter the sewer system. High levels of inflow and infiltration increase the hydraulic load on the downstream treatment plant, which can reduce treatment efficiency, lead to bypassing a portion of the treatment process, cause illegal discharge of partially treated effluent, or in extreme situations make biological treatment facilities inoperable (e.g., wash out the biological organisms that treat the waste).

3.3. Water Quality Control Plans, Policies and Resolutions The nine Regional Water Boards have adopted region-specific water quality control plans (commonly referred to as Basin Plans) that designate beneficial uses, establish water quality objectives, and contain implementation programs and policies to achieve those objectives. The State Water Board has adopted statewide water quality control plans, policies and resolutions establishing statewide water quality objectives, implementation programs and initiatives.

3.3.1. State Water Board Antidegradation Policy
On October 28, 1968, the State Water Board adopted Resolution 68-16, titled Statement of Policy with Respect to Maintaining High Quality of Waters in California, which incorporates the federal antidegradation policy. Resolution 68-16 requires that existing water quality be maintained unless degradation is justified based on specific findings.

The continued prohibition of sewage discharges from sanitary sewer systems into waters of the State aligns with Resolution 68-16. A sewage discharge from sanitary sewers to waters of the State is prohibited by this Order. Therefore, this Order does not allow degradation of waters of the State. In addition, this Order: (1) further expands the existing prohibition of sewage discharges to include waters of the State, in addition to waters of the United States as provided in previous Order 2006-0003-DWQ, and (2) enhances the ability for Water Board enforcement of violations of the established prohibitions.

3.3.2. State Water Board Sources of Drinking Water Policy On May 19,1988, the State Water Board adopted Resolution 88-63 (amended on February 1, 2006), titled Sources of Drinking Water, establishing state policy that all waters of the State, with certain exceptions, are suitable or potentially suitable for municipal or domestic supply.

3.3.3. State Water Board Cost of Compliance Resolution
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15 Compliance While Maintaining Water Quality Protection. Through this resolution, the State Water Board committed to continued stakeholder engagement in identifying and implementing measures to reduce costs of compliance with regulatory orders while maintaining water quality protection and improving regulatory program outcomes.

3.3.4. State Water Board Human Right to Water Resolution On February 16, 2016, the State Water Board adopted Resolution 2016-0010, titled Adopting the Human Right to Water as a Core Value and Directing its Implementation in Water Board Programs and Activities, addressing the human right to water as a core value and directing Water Board programs to implement requirements to support safe drinking water for all Californians.

On November 16, 2021, the State Water Board adopted Resolution 2021-0050 titled Condemning Racism, Xenophobia, Bigotry, and Racial Injustice, and Strengthening Commitment to Racial Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Access, and Anti-racism. Among other actions, through Resolution 2021-0050, the State Water Board, in summary as corresponding to this General Order, reaffirms its commitment to its Human Right to Water resolution, upholding that every human being in California deserves safe, clean, affordable, and accessible water for human consumption, cooking, and sanitation purposes. Resolution 2021-0050 provides the State Water Board commitment to:
• Protect public health and beneficial uses of waterbodies in all communities, including communities disproportionately burdened by wastes discharge of waste to land and surface water;
• Restore impaired surface waterbodies and degraded aquifers; and • Promote multi-benefit water quality projects.

Through Resolution 2021-0050, the State Water Board also commits to expanding implementation of its Climate Change Resolution to address the disproportionate effects of extreme hydrologic conditions and sea-level rise on Black, Indigenous, and people of color communities, prioritizing:
• The right to safe, clean, affordable, and accessible drinking water and sanitation; • Sustainable management and protection of local groundwater resources; • Healthy watersheds; and
• Access to surface waterbodies that support subsistence fishing.

On June 7, 2022, the State Water Board adopted a Resolution, titled Authorizing the Executive Director or Designee to Enter into One or More Multi-Year Contracts Up to a Combined Sum of $4,000,000 for a Statewide Wastewater Needs Assessment, supporting the equitable access to sanitation for all Californians and implementation of Resolutions 2016-0010 and 2021-0050.

This General Order supports the State Water Board priority in collecting a comprehensive set of data for California’s wastewater systems, including sanitary sewer systems. Data reported per the requirements of this Order will be used with data from other Water Boards’ programs, to further develop criteria and create a statewide risk 399

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3.3.5. State Water Board Open Data Resolution
On July 10, 2018, the State Water Board adopted Resolution 2018-0032, titled Adopting Principles of Open Data as a Core Value and Directing Programs and Activities to Implement Strategic Actions to Improve Data Accessibility and Associated Innovation, directing regulatory programs to assure all monitoring and reporting requirements support the State Water Boards’ Open Data Initiative.

3.3.6. State Water Board Response to Climate Change
On March 7, 2017, the State Water Board adopted Resolution 2017-0012, titled Comprehensive Response to Climate Change, requiring a proactive response to climate change in all California Water Board actions, with the intent to embed climate change consideration into all programs and activities.

3.4. California Environmental Quality Act
The adoption of this Order is an action to reissue general waste discharge requirements that is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (Public Resources Code section 21000 et seq.) because it is an action taken by a regulatory agency to assure the protection of the environment and the regulatory process involves procedures for protection of the environment (Cal. Code Regs., Title 14, section 15308). In addition, the action to adopt this Order is exempt from CEQA pursuant to Cal. Code Regs., Title 14, section 15301, to the extent that it applies to existing sanitary sewer collection systems that constitute “existing facilities” as that term is used in sections 15301 and 15302, to the extent that it results in the repair or replacement of existing systems involving negligible or no expansion of capacity.

3.5. State Water Board Funding Assistance for Compliance with Water Board Water Quality Orders
The State Water Board, Division of Financial Assistance administers the implementation of the State Water Board financial assistance programs, per Board-adopted funding policies. Among other funding areas, the Division administers loan and grant funding for the planning and construction of wastewater and water recycling facilities per funding program-specific policies and guidelines. Applicants may apply for Clean Water State Revolving Fund low-interest loan, Small Community Wastewater grant funding assistance, and other funding available at the time of application, for some of the costs associated with complying with this General Order.

Funding applicants may obtain further information regarding current funding opportunities, and Division of Financial Assistance staff contact information at the following website: Financial Assistance Funding - Grants and Loans | California State Water Resources Control Board.
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17 Section 13477.6 of the Water Code authorizes the Small Community Grant Fund.

The Small Community Grant Fund allows the State Water Board to provide grant funding assistance to small, disadvantaged communities and small severely disadvantaged communities that may not otherwise be able to afford a loan or similar financing for projects to comply with requirements of this General Order. The State Water Board also considers loan forgiveness on a disadvantaged community-specific basis.

For disadvantaged communities’ wastewater needs, the State Water Board places priority on the funding of projects that address:
• Public health;
• Violations of waste discharge requirements and National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits;
• Providing sewer system service to existing septic tank owners; and • High priority public health and water quality concerns identified by a Regional Water Board.

3.6. Notification to Interested Parties
On January 31, 2022, the State Water Board notified interested parties and persons of its intent to reissue Sanitary Sewer Systems General Order 2006-0003-DWQ by issuing a draft General Order for a 60-day public comment period. State Water Board staff conducted extensive stakeholder outreach and encouraged public participation in the adoption process for this General Order. On March 15, 2022, the State Water Board held a public meeting to hear and consider oral public comments. The State Water Board considered all public comments prior to adopting this General Order.

THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, that pursuant to Water Code sections 13263, 13267, and 13383 this General Order supersedes Order 2006-0003-DWQ, Order WQ 2013-0058-EXEC, and any amendments made to these Orders thereafter, except for enforcement purposes and to meet the provisions contained in Division 7 of the Water Code (commencing with section 13000) and regulations adopted thereunder, and the provisions of the Clean Water Act and regulations and guidelines adopted thereunder, the Enrollee shall comply with the requirements in this Order.

4. PROHIBITIONS

4.1 Discharge of Sewage from a Sanitary Sewer System
Any discharge from a sanitary sewer system that has the potential to discharge to surface waters of the State is prohibited unless it is promptly cleaned up and reported as required in this General Order.

4.2. Discharge of Sewage to Waters of the State
Any discharge from a sanitary sewer system, discharged directly or indirectly through a drainage conveyance system or other route, to waters of the State is prohibited. 401

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Any discharge from a sanitary sewer system that creates a nuisance or condition of pollution as defined in Water Code section 13050(m) is prohibited.

5. SPECIFICATIONS

5.1. Designation of a Legally Responsible Official
The Enrollee shall designate a Legally Responsible Official that has authority to ensure the enrolled sanitary sewer system(s) complies with this Order, and is authorized to serve as a duly authorized representative. The Legally Responsible Official must have responsibility over management of the Enrollee’s entire sanitary sewer system, and must be authorized to make managerial decisions that govern the operation of the sanitary sewer system, including having the explicit or implicit duty of making major capital improvement recommendations to ensure long-term environmental compliance.

The Legally Responsible Official must have or have direct authority over individuals that:
• Possess a recognized degree or certificate related to operations and maintenance of sanitary sewer systems, and/or
• Have professional training and experience related to the management of sanitary sewer systems, demonstrated through extensive knowledge, training and experience.

For example, a sewer system superintendent or manager, an operations manager, a public utilities manager or director, or a district engineer may be designated as a Legally Responsible Official.

The Legally Responsible Official shall complete the electronic CIWQS “User Registration” form (https://ciwqs.waterboards.ca.gov/ciwqs/newUser.jsp). A Legally Responsible Official that represents multiple enrolled systems shall complete the electronic CIWQS “User Registration” form for each system.

The Enrollee shall submit any change to its Legally Responsible Official, and/or change in contact information, to the State Water Board within 30 calendar days of the change by emailing [email protected] and copying the appropriate Regional Water Board as provided in Attachment F (Regional Water Quality Control Board Contact Information) of this General Order.

5.2. Sewer System Management Plan Development and Implementation To facilitate adequate local funding and management of its sanitary sewer system(s), the Enrollee shall develop and implement an updated Sewer System Management Plan.

The scale and complexity of the Sewer System Management Plan, and specific elements of the Plan, must match the size, scale and complexity of the Enrollee’s sanitary sewer system(s). The Sewer System Management Plan must address, at minimum, the required Plan elements in Attachment D (Sewer System Management Plan – Required Elements) of this General Order. To be effective, the Sewer System Management Plan must include procedures for the management, operation, and maintenance of the sanitary sewer system(s). The procedures must: (1) incorporate the 402

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For an existing Enrollee under Order 2006-0003-DWQ that has certified its Continuation of Existing Regulatory Coverage, per section 2.1 (Requirements for Continuation of Existing Regulatory Coverage) of this General Order:

Within six (6) months of the Adoption Date of this General Order:
• The Legally Responsible Official shall upload the Enrollee’s existing Sewer System Management Plan to the online CIWQS Sanitary Sewer System Database.

For a new Enrollee:

Within twelve (12) months of the Application for Enrollment approval date:
• The governing entity of the new Enrollee shall approve its Sewer System Management Plan; and
• The Legally Responsible Official shall certify and upload its Sewer System Management Plan to the online CIWQS Sanitary Sewer System Database.

5.3. Certification of Sewer System Management Plan and Plan Updates The Legally Responsible Official shall certify and upload its Sewer System Management Plan and all subsequent updates to the online CIWQS Sanitary Sewer System Database.

5.4. Sewer System Management Plan Audits
The Enrollee shall conduct an internal audit of its Sewer System Management Plan, and implementation of its Plan, at a minimum frequency of once every three years. The audit must be conducted for the period after the end of the Enrollee’s last required audit period. Within six months after the end of the required 3-year audit period, the Legally Responsible Official shall submit an audit report into the online CIWQS Sanitary Sewer System Database per the requirements in section 3.10 (Sewer System Management Plan Audit Reporting Requirements) of Attachment E1 of this General Order.

Audit reports submitted to the CIWQS Sanitary Sewer System Database will be viewable only to Water Boards staff.

The internal audit shall be appropriately scaled to the size of the system(s) and the number of spills. The Enrollee’s sewer system operators must be involved in completing the audit. At minimum, the audit must:
• Evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of the Enrollee’s Sewer System Management Plan in preventing spills;
• Evaluate the Enrollee’s compliance with this General Order; • Identify Sewer System Management Plan deficiencies in addressing ongoing spills and discharges to waters of the State; and
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The Enrollee shall submit a complete audit report that includes:
• Audit findings and recommended corrective actions;
• A statement that sewer system operators’ input on the audit findings has been considered; and
• A proposed schedule for the Enrollee to address the identified deficiencies.

A new Enrollee of this General Order (that did not have a sanitary sewer system enrolled in the previous State Water Board Order 2006-0003-DWQ) shall conduct its first internal Sewer System Management Plan audit for the time period between the date of submittal of its certified Sewer System Management Plan and the third subsequent December 31st date. The audit report must be submitted into the online CIWQS Sanitary Sewer System Database by July 1 of the following calendar year.

See the following tables for clarification:

Initial Audit Period and Audit Due Date for New Enrollees Audit Period Audit Due Date
New Enrollee
Certified Sewer System Management
Plan Submittal Date
through
the third subsequent December 31st date
July 1st date after
audit period
Example
Certified Sewer System Management
Plan Submittal Date of August 2, 2025
Audit Period of August 2, 2025 through
December 31, 2027
July 1, 2028
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An Enrollee
previously
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2006-003-DWQ
A 3-year period starting from the end of
last required 2-year Audit Period
Within six months
after end of 3-year
Audit Period
Example
Last required Audit Period start date of
August 2, 2021;
Audit Period of August 2, 2021 through
August 1, 2024
February 1, 2025
Three-Year Ongoing Audit Period
Audit Period Audit Due Date
Each Enrollee A 3-year period starting from the end of
last required Audit Period
Within six months
after end of 3-year
Audit Period

5.5. Six-Year Sewer System Management Plan Update
At a minimum, the Enrollee shall update its Sewer System Management Plan every six (6) years after the date of its last Plan Update due date. (For an Enrollee previously regulated by Order 2006-0003-DWQ, the six-year period shall commence on the due date identified in section 3.11 of Attachment E1 (Notification, Monitoring, Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements) of this Order. The Updated Sewer System Management Plan must include:
• Elements required in Attachment D (Sewer System Management Plan – Required Elements) of this Order;
• Summary of revisions included in the Plan update based on internal audit findings; and
• Other sewer system management-related changes.

The Enrollee’s governing entity shall approve the updated Plan. The Legally Responsible Official shall upload and certify the approved updated Plan in the online CIWQS Sanitary Sewer System Database in accordance with section 3.11 (Sewer System Management Plan Reporting Requirements) of Attachment E1 (Notification, Monitoring, Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements) of this General Order. During the time period in between Plan updates, the Enrollee shall continuously document changes to its Sewer System Management Plan in a change log attached to the Plan. 405

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The Enrollee shall include and implement system-specific procedures in its Sewer System Management Plan to proactively prioritize: (1) operation and maintenance, (2) condition assessments, and (3) repair and rehabilitation, to address ongoing system resilience, as specified in Attachment D (Sewer System Management Plan – Required Elements) of this General Order.

5.7. Allocation of Resources
The Enrollee shall:
• Establish and maintain a means to manage all necessary revenues and expenditures related to the sanitary sewer system; and
• Allocate the necessary resources to its sewer system management program for:
o Compliance with this General Order,
o Full implementation of its updated Sewer System Management Plan, o System operation, maintenance, and repair, and
o Spill responses.

5.8. Designation of Data Submitters
The Legally Responsible Official may designate one or more individuals as a Data Submitter for reporting of spill data. The Legally Responsible Official shall authorize the designation of Data Submitter(s) through the online CIWQS database (https://ciwqs.waterboards.ca.gov) prior to the individuals establishing a CIWQS user account (https://ciwqs.waterboards.ca.gov/ciwqs/newUser.jsp) and entering spill data into the online CIWQS Sanitary Sewer System Database.

The Legally Responsible Official shall submit any change to its Data Submitter(s), and/or change in Data Submitter contact information, to the State Water Board within 30 calendar days of the change, by emailing [email protected] and copying the appropriate Regional Water Board as provided in Attachment F (Regional Water Quality Control Board Contact Information) of this General Order.

5.9. Reporting Certification
The Legally Responsible Official shall electronically certify, on the Enrollee’s behalf, all applications, reports, the Sewer System Management Plan(s) and corresponding updates, and other information submitted electronically into the online CIWQS Sanitary Sewer System Database, as follows:
“I certify under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the electronically submitted information was prepared under my direction or supervision.

Based on my inquiry of the person(s) directly responsible for gathering the information, to the best of my knowledge and belief, the information submitted is true, accurate, and complete, and complies with the Statewide Sanitary Sewer Systems General Order.

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5.10. System Capacity
The Enrollee shall maintain the system capacity necessary to convey: (1) base flows during dry weather conditions, and (2) wet weather peak flows consistent with designated local historic storms. Design storms must take into account system-specific stormwater contributions via inflow and infiltration, and location-specific depth of groundwater and storm frequencies. The Enrollee shall implement capital improvements to provide adequate hydraulic capacity to:
• Meet or exceed the design criteria as defined in the Enrollee’s System Evaluation and Capacity Assurance element of its Sewer System Management Plan; and • Prevent system capacity-related spills, and adverse impacts to the treatment efficiency of downstream wastewater treatment facilities.

5.11. System Performance Analysis
The Enrollee shall include a running 10-year system performance analysis in its Annual Report. The analysis must include two CIWQS-generated graphs presenting the following information:

Graph 1 – Total Spill Volume per Year:

X axis: A 10-year period which includes the current calendar year and the nine previous calendar years;
Y axis: The total spill volume, per Spill Category, for each calendar year.

Graph 2 – Total Number of Spills per Year:

X axis: A 10-year period which includes the current calendar year and the nine previous calendar years;
Y axis: The total number of spills, per Spill Category, for each calendar year.

The current calendar year is the calendar year covered in the Annual Report.

The Enrollee shall generate the graphs in CIWQS, using the existing data in the online CIWQS Sanitary Sewer System Database at the following graph generation link:
(https://ciwqs.waterboards.ca.gov/ciwqs/readOnly/PublicReportSSOServlet?reportActio n=criteria&reportId=sso_operation_report).

5.12. Spill Emergency Response Plan and Remedial Actions For Existing Enrollees (with regulatory coverage under Order 2006-0003-DWQ):

Within six (6) months of the Adoption Date of this General Order, the Enrollee shall update and implement its Spill Emergency Response Plan, per Attachment D, section 6 (Spill Emergency Response Plan) of this General Order. 407

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Within six (6) months of the Application for Enrollment approval date, the Enrollee shall develop and implement a Spill Emergency Response Plan, per Attachment D, section 6 (Spill Emergency Response Plan) of this General Order.

The Enrollee shall certify, in its Annual Report, that its Spill Emergency Response Plan is up to date.

The Spill Emergency Response Plan shall include measures to protect public health and the environment. The Enrollee shall respond to spills from its system(s) in a timely manner that minimizes water quality impacts and nuisance by:
• Immediately stopping the spill and preventing/minimizing a discharge to waters of the State;
• Intercepting sewage flows to prevent/minimize spill volume discharged into waters of the State;
• Thoroughly recovering, cleaning up and disposing of sewage and wash down water; and
• Cleaning publicly accessible areas while preventing toxic discharges to waters of the State.

5.13. Notification, Monitoring, Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements The Enrollee shall comply with notification, monitoring, reporting, and recordkeeping requirements in Attachment E1 of this General Order.

5.13.1. Spill Categories
Individual spill notification, monitoring and reporting must be in accordance with the following spill categories:
• Category 1 Spill
A Category 1 spill is a spill of any volume of sewage from or caused by a sanitary sewer system regulated under this General Order that results in a discharge to:
o A surface water, including a surface water body that contains no flow or volume of water; or
o A drainage conveyance system that discharges to surface waters when the sewage is not fully captured and returned to the sanitary sewer system or disposed of properly.

Any spill volume not recovered from a drainage conveyance system is considered a discharge to surface water, unless the drainage conveyance system discharges to a dedicated stormwater infiltration basin or facility. 408

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3.1 of Attachment E1 (Notification, Monitoring, Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements) of this General Order.
• Category 2 Spill
A Category 2 spill is a spill of 1,000 gallons or greater, from or caused by a sanitary sewer system regulated under this General Order that does not discharge to a surface water.

A spill of 1,000 gallons or greater that spills out of a lateral and is caused by a failure or blockage in the sanitary sewer system, is a Category 2 spill. • Category 3 Spill
A Category 3 spill is a spill of equal to or greater than 50 gallons and less than 1,000 gallons, from or caused by a sanitary sewer system regulated under this General Order that does not discharge to a surface water.

A spill of equal to or greater than 50 gallons and less than 1,000 gallons, that spills out of a lateral and is caused by a failure or blockage in the sanitary sewer system is a Category 3 spill.
• Category 4 Spill
A Category 4 spill is a spill of less than 50 gallons, from or caused by a sanitary sewer system regulated under this General Order that does not discharge to a surface water.

A spill of less than 50 gallons that spills out of a lateral and is caused by a failure or blockage in the sanitary sewer system is a Category 4 spill.

5.13.2. Annual Report
The Enrollee shall submit an Annual Report (previously termed as Collection System Questionnaire in Order 2006-0003-DWQ) as specified in section 3.9 (Annual Report) of Attachment E1 (Notification, Monitoring, Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements) of this General Order.

For new Enrollees: Within 30 days of obtaining a CIWQS account, a new Enrollee shall submit its initial Annual Report, as specified in section 3.9 (Annual Report) of Attachment E1 (Notification, Monitoring, Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements) of this General Order.
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For new enrollees – no earlier than July 1, 2025, or within 12 months of the Application for Enrollment approval date, whichever date is later:

The Legally Responsible Official shall submit, to the State Water Board, geospatial data detailing the locations of the Enrollee’s sanitary sewer system service area boundary, per the required content and specifications in section 3.8 (Electronic Sanitary Sewer System Service Area Boundary Map) of Attachment E1 of this General Order, for each system identified by a WDID number.

An Enrollee of a disadvantaged community that may need assistance developing an electronic map to comply with this requirement, may contact State Water Board staff for assistance at [email protected].

5.15. Voluntary Reporting of Spills from Privately-Owned Sewer Laterals and/or Private Sanitary Sewer Systems
Within 24 hours of becoming aware of a spill (as described below) from a private sewer lateral or private sanitary sewer system that is not owned/operated by the Enrollee, the Enrollee is encouraged to report the following observations to the online CIWQS Sanitary Sewer System Database at the following link:
https://ciwqs.waterboards.ca.gov:
• A spill equal or greater than 1,000 gallons that discharges (or has a potential to discharge) to a water of the State, or a drainage conveyance system that discharges to waters of the State; or
• Any volume of sewage that discharges (or has a potential to discharge) to surface waters.

In the CIWQS module, the Enrollee is encouraged to identify:
• Time of observation;
• Description of general spill location (for example, street name and cross street names);
• Estimated volume of spill;
• If known, general description of spill destination (for example, flowing into drainage channel, flowing directly into a creek, etc.); and
• If known, name of private system owner/operator.

The CIWQS database will make the name and contact information of the entity voluntarily reporting a private spill, accessible to State and Regional Water Board staff only. The CIWQS database will only make information regarding the actual spill, accessible to the public.
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Upon observing or acquiring knowledge of any of the following from a private sewer lateral or private sanitary sewer system that is not owned/operated by the Enrollee, the Enrollee is encouraged to notify the California Office of Emergency Services (as provided by Health and Safety Code section 5410 et. seq. and Water Code section 13271), or inform the responsible party that State law requires such notification to the Office of Emergency Services by any person that causes or allows a sewage discharge to waters of the State:
• A spill equal to 1,000 gallons or more that discharges (or has a potential to discharge) to waters of the State, or a drainage conveyance system that discharges to waters of the State; or
• A spill of any volume to surface waters.

5.17. Unintended Failure to Report
If an Enrollee becomes aware that they unintentionally failed to submit relevant facts in any report required in this General Order, the Enrollee shall promptly notify Regional Water Board and State Water Board staff. Regional Water Board contact information is included in Attachment F of this Order. State Water Board staff shall be contacted by email at [email protected] for assistance in formally amending the corresponding report(s) in the online CIWQS Sanitary Sewer System Database.

5.18. Duty to Report to Water Boards
In accordance with Water Code section 13267 and/or section 13383, upon request by the State Water Board Executive Director (or designee) or a Regional Water Board Executive Officer (or designee), the Enrollee shall provide the requested information which the State or Regional Water Board deems necessary to determine compliance with this General Order.

5.19. Operation and Maintenance
To prevent discharges to the environment, the Enrollee shall maintain in good working order, and operate as designed, any facility or treatment and control system designed to contain sewage and convey it to a treatment plant.

6. PROVISIONS

6.1. Enforcement Provisions
The following enforcement provisions are based on existing federal and state regulations, laws and policies, including the federal Clean Water Act, the state Water Code and the State Water Board Enforcement Policy.

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28 violation of the Clean Water Act and is grounds for an enforcement action by the State Water Board or the applicable Regional Water Board. Failure to comply with the notification, monitoring, inspection, entry, reporting, and recordkeeping requirements may subject the Enrollee to administrative civil liabilities of up to $10,000 a day per violation pursuant to Water Code section 13385; up to $1,000 a day per violation pursuant to Water Code section 13268; or referral to the Attorney General for judicial civil enforcement. Discharging waste not in compliance with the requirements of this General Order or the Clean Water Act may subject the Enrollee to administrative civil liabilities up to $10,000 a day per violation and additional liability up to $10 per gallon of discharge not cleaned up after the first 1,000 gallons of discharge; up to $5,000 a day per violation pursuant to Water Code section 13350 or up to $20 per gallon of waste discharged; or referral to the Attorney General for judicial civil enforcement.

6.1.2. Monetary Penalties
The Water Code provides the State and Regional Water Boards the authority to pursue formal enforcement actions, including imposing administrative liability and civil monetary penalties, for non-compliance with the requirements of this General Order and violations of the Clean Water Act.

6.1.3. Falsifying or Failure to Report
The Water Code provides that any person failing or refusing to furnish technical or monitoring program reports, as required under this General Order, or falsifying any information provided in the technical or monitoring reports is subject to administrative liability and civil monetary penalties. Any person who knowingly fails or refuses to furnish technical or monitoring program reports or falsifies any information provided in reports required by this General Order is subject to criminal penalties.

6.1.4. Severability of General Order
The provisions of this General Order are severable; if any provision of this Order, or the application of any provision of this Order to any circumstance, is held invalid, the application of such provision to other circumstances and the remainder of this Order shall not be affected thereby.

6.1.5. Indirect Discharges
In the event that a spill enters into a drainage conveyance system, the Enrollee shall take all feasible steps to prevent discharge of sewage into waters of the State by blocking or redirecting the flow in the drainage conveyance system, removing the sewage from the drainage conveyance system, and cleaning the system in a manner that does not inadvertently impact beneficial uses of the receiving water body.

6.1.6. Water Boards’ Considerations for Discretionary Enforcement Consistent with the State Water Board Enforcement Policy, when considering Water Code section 13327 factors, the State Water Board or a Regional Water Board may consider the Enrollee’s efforts to contain, control, clean up, and mitigate spills. In assessing the factors, the State Water Board or the applicable Regional Water Board will consider:
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29 • The Enrollee’s compliance with this General Order with a focus on compliance with reporting requirements;
• The Enrollee’s provision of adequate funding to implement the requirements of this General Order;
• The Enrollee’s compliance with providing a complete and updated Sewer System Management Plan;
• The Enrollee’s compliance with implementing its Sewer System Management Plan; • The overall effectiveness of the Enrollee’s Sewer System Management Plan with respect to:
o System management, operation, and maintenance,
o Adequate treatment facilities, sanitary sewer system facilities, and/or components with an appropriate design capacity, to reasonably prevent spills (e.g. adequately enlarging treatment or collection facilities to accommodate growth, infiltration and inflow, etc.),
o Preventive maintenance (including cleaning, root grinding, and fats, oils, and grease control) and source control measures,
o Implementation of backup equipment,
o Inflow and infiltration prevention and control,
o Appropriate sanitary sewer system capacity to prevent spills, and o The Enrollee’s responsiveness to stop and mitigate the impact of the discharge; • The Enrollee’s compliance with identifying the cause of the spill; • The Enrollee’s use of available information and observations to accurately estimate the spill volume and identify the affected or potentially affected receiving waters; • The Enrollee’s thoroughness of cleaning up sewage in drainage conveyance systems after the spill(s);
• The Enrollee’s use of water quality and biological monitoring and assessment to determine the short-term and long-term impacts to beneficial uses and the environment;
• The Enrollee’s follow up actions to improve system performance; • The Enrollee’s implementation of feasible alternatives to prevent spills, such as:
o Use of temporary storage or waste retention,
o Reduction of system inflow and infiltration,
o Collection and hauling of waste to a treatment facility, o Prevention of and/ or containment of spills due to a design storm event identified in the Enrollee’s Sewer System Management Plan,
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30 o Implementation of available equipment, technologies, strategies, and recommended industry practices for maintaining and managing sewer systems to prevent spills, and contain and eliminate discharges to waters of the State; and • The spill duration and factors beyond the reasonable control of the Enrollee causing the event.

6.1.7. Enforcement Discretion Based on Reporting Compliance Consistent with the State Water Board Enforcement Policy, the State Water Board or a Regional Water Board may consider the Enrollee’s efforts to comply with spill reporting requirements when determining compliance with Water Code section 13267 and section 13383. When assessing Water Code section 13227 factors, the State Water Board or the applicable Regional Water Board will consider:
• The Enrollee’s diligence to comply with all reporting requirements in this General Order;
• The use of best available information for the Enrollee’s reporting of spill start date and start time in which the release of sewage from the sanitary sewer system initiated;
• The Enrollee’s reporting of spill end date, and end time to be the date and time in which the release of sewage from the sanitary sewer system was stopped; • The Enrollee’s diligence to accurately estimate and report spill volumes; • The Enrollee’s subsequent verification and/or updates to initial Draft Spill Reports in accordance with this General Order; and
• The Enrollee’s timely certification of required spill reports.

Consistent with Water Code section 13267 and section 13383, the State Water Board or a Regional Water Board may require an Enrollee to report the results of a condition assessment of a specified portion of the Enrollee’s sanitary sewer system.

6.2. Other Regional Water Board Orders
It is the intent of the State Water Board that sanitary sewer systems be regulated in a manner consistent with federal and state regulations. This Order will not be interpreted or applied:
• In a manner inconsistent with the federal Clean Water Act; • To authorize a spill or discharge that is illegal under either the Clean Water Act, the Water Code, and/or an applicable Basin Plan prohibition or water quality standard; • To prohibit a Regional Water Board from issuing an individual National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit or individual waste discharge requirements superseding an Enrollee’s regulatory coverage under this General Order for a sanitary sewer system authorized under the Clean Water Act or Water Code;
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6.3. Sewer System Management Plan Availability
The Enrollee’s updated Sewer System Management Plan must be maintained for public inspection at the Enrollee’s offices and facilities and must be available to the public through CIWQS and/or on the Enrollee’s website, in accordance with section 3.8 (Sewer System Management Plan Reporting Requirements) of Attachment E1 (Notification, Monitoring, Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements) of this General Order.

6.4. Entry and Inspection

6.4.1. Entry and Availability of Information
The Enrollee shall allow State and Regional Water Board staff, upon presentation of credentials and other documents as may be required by law, to:
• Enter upon the Enrollee’s premises where a regulated facility or activity is located or conducted, or where records are kept under the requirements of this General Order; • Have access to and reproduce any records required to be maintained by this General Order;
• Inspect any facility and/or equipment (including monitoring and control equipment), practices, or operations required in this General Order; and • Sample or monitor substances or parameters for assuring compliance with this General Order, or as otherwise authorized by the Water Code.

6.4.2. Pre-Inspection Questionnaire
The Enrollee shall provide pre-inspection information to State and Regional Water Board staff through the completion of a Pre-Inspection Questionnaire provided by Water Board staff.
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ATTACHMENT A - DEFINITIONS
Annual Report
An Annual Report (previously termed as Collection System Questionnaire in Order 2006-0003-DWQ) is a mandatory report in which the Enrollee provides a calendar-year update of its efforts to prevent spills.

Basin Plan
A Basin Plan is a water quality control plan specific to a Regional Water Quality Control Board (Regional Water Board), that serves as regulations to: (1) define and designate beneficial uses of surface and groundwaters, (2) establish water quality objectives for protection of beneficial uses, and (3) provide implementation measures.

Beneficial Uses
The term “Beneficial Uses” is a Water Code term, defined as the uses of the waters of the State that may be protected against water quality degradation. Examples of beneficial uses include but are not limited to, municipal, domestic, agricultural and industrial supply; power generation; recreation; aesthetic enjoyment; navigation; and preservation and enhancement of fish, wildlife, and other aquatic resources or preserves.

California Integrated Water Quality System (CIWQS)
CIWQS is the statewide database that provides for mandatory electronic reporting as required in State and Regional Water Board-issued waste discharge requirements.

Data Submitter
A Data Submitter is an individual designated and authorized by the Enrollee’s Legally Responsible Official to enter spill data into the online CIWQS Sanitary Sewer System Database. A Data Submitter does not have the authority of a Legally Responsible Official to certify reporting entered into the online CIWQS Sanitary Sewer System Database.

Disadvantaged Community
A disadvantaged community is a community with a median household income of less than eighty percent (80%) of the statewide annual median household income.

For the purpose of this General Order, there is no differentiation between a small and large disadvantaged community.

Drainage Conveyance System
A drainage conveyance system is a publicly- or privately-owned separate storm sewer system, including but not limited to drainage canals, channels, pipelines, pump stations, detention basins, infiltration basins/facilities, or other facilities constructed to transport stormwater and non-stormwater flows.
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Enrollee
An Enrollee is a public, private, or other non-governmental entity that has obtained approval for regulatory coverage under this General Order, including:
• A state agency, municipality, special district, or other public entity that owns and/or operates one or more sanitary sewer systems:
• greater than one (1) mile in length (each individual sanitary sewer system); • one mile or less in length where the State Water Resources Control Board or a Regional Water Quality Control Board requires regulatory coverage under this Order, or • A federal agency, private company, or other non-governmental entity that owns and/or operates a sanitary sewer system of any size where the State Water Resources Control Board or a Regional Water Quality Control Board requires regulatory coverage under this Order in response to a history of spills, proximity to surface water, or other factors supporting regulatory coverage.

Environmentally Sensitive Area
An environmentally sensitive area is a designated agricultural and/or wildlife area identified to need special natural landscape protection due to its wildlife or historical value.

Exfiltration
Exfiltration is the underground exiting of sewage from a sanitary sewer system through cracks, offset or separated joints, or failed infrastructure due to corrosion or other factors.

Flood Control Channel
A flood control channel is a channel used to convey stormwater and non-stormwater flows through and from areas for flood management purposes.

Governing Entity
A governing entity includes but is not limited to the following:
• A publicly elected governing board, council, or commission of a municipal agency; • A Department or Division director of a federal or state agency that is not governed by a board;
• A governing board or commission of an organization or association; and • A private system owner/manager that is not governed by a board.

Hydrologically Connected
Two waterbodies are hydrologically connected when one waterbody flows, or has the potential to flow, into the other waterbody. For the purpose of this General Order, groundwater is hydrologically connected to a surface water when the
groundwater feeds into the surface water. (The surface
waterbody in this example is termed a gaining stream as it gains flow from surrounding groundwater.)
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Lateral (including Lower and Upper Lateral)
A lateral is an underground segment of smaller diameter pipe that transports sewage from a customer’s building or property (residential, commercial, or industrial) to the Enrollee’s main sewer line in a street or easement. Upper and lower lateral boundary definitions are subject to local jurisdictional codes and ordinances, or private system ownership.

A lower lateral is the portion of the lateral located between the sanitary sewer system main, and either the property line, sewer clean out, curb line, established utility easement boundary, or other jurisdictional locations.

An upper lateral is the portion of the lateral from the property line, sewer clean out, curb line, established utility easement boundary, or other jurisdictional locations, to the building or property.

Legally Responsible Official
A Legally Responsible Official is an official representative, designated by the Enrollee, with authority to sign and certify submitted information and documents required by this General Order.

Nuisance
For the purpose of this General Order, a nuisance, as defined in Water Code section 13050(m), is anything that meets all of the following requirements:
• Is injurious to health, or is indecent or offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property, so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property; • Affects at the same time an entire community or neighborhood, or any considerable number of persons, although the extent of the annoyance or damage inflicted upon individuals may be unequal; and
• Occurs during, or as a result of, the treatment or disposal of wastes.

Private Sewer Lateral
A private sewer lateral is the privately-owned lateral that transports sewage from private property(ies) into a sanitary sewer system.

Private Sanitary Sewer System
A private sanitary sewer system is a sanitary sewer system of any size that is owned and/or operated by a private individual, company, corporation, or organization. A private sanitary sewer system may or may not connect into a publicly owned sanitary sewer system.

Potential to Discharge, Potential Discharge
Potential to Discharge, or Potential Discharge, means any exiting of sewage from a sanitary sewer system which can reasonably be expected to discharge into a water of the State based on the size of the sewage spill, proximity to a drainage conveyance system, and the nature of the surrounding environment.
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Receiving Water
A receiving water is a water of the State that receives a discharge of waste.

Resilience
Resilience is the ability to recover from or adjust to adversity or change, and grow from disruptions. Resilience can be built through planning, preparing for, mitigating, and adapting to changing conditions.

Sanitary Sewer System
A sanitary sewer system is a system that is designed to convey sewage, including but not limited to, pipes, manholes, pump stations, siphons, wet wells, diversion structures and/or other pertinent infrastructure, upstream of a wastewater treatment plant headworks, including:
• Laterals owned and/or operated by the Enrollee;
• Satellite sewer systems; and/or
• Temporary conveyance and storage facilities, including but not limited to temporary piping, vaults, construction trenches, wet wells, impoundments, tanks and diversion structures.

For purpose of this Order, sanitary sewer systems include only systems owned and/or operated by the Enrollee.

Satellite Sewer System
A satellite sewer system is a portion of a sanitary sewer system owned or operated by a different owner than the owner of the downstream wastewater treatment facility ultimately treating the sewage.

Sewer System Management Plan
A sewer system management plan is a living document an Enrollee develops and implements to effectively manage its sanitary sewer system(s) in accordance with this General Order.

Sewage
Sewage, and its associated wastewater, is untreated or partially treated domestic, municipal, commercial and/or industrial waste (including sewage sludge), and any mixture of these wastes with inflow or infiltration of stormwater or groundwater, conveyed in a sanitary sewer system.

Spill
A spill is a discharge of sewage from any portion of a sanitary sewer system due to a sanitary sewer system overflow, operational failure, and/or infrastructure failure. Exfiltration of sewage is not considered to be a spill under this General Order if the exfiltrated sewage remains in the subsurface and does not reach a surface water of the State.

Training
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Wash Down Water
Wash down water is water used to clean a spill area.

Waste
Waste, as defined in Water Code section 13050(d), includes sewage and any and all other waste substances, liquid, solid, gaseous, or radioactive, associated with human habitation, or of human or animal origin, or from any producing, manufacturing, or processing operation, including waste placed within containers of whatever nature prior to, and for purposes of, disposal.

Waste Discharge Identification Number (WDID)
A waste discharge identification number (WDID) identifies each individual sanitary sewer system enrolled under this General Order. A WDID number is assigned to each enrolled system upon an Enrollee’s approved regulatory coverage.

Waters of the State
Waters of the State are surface waters or groundwater within boundaries of the state as defined in Water Code section 13050(e), in which the State and Regional Water Boards have authority to protect beneficial uses. Waters of the State include, but are not limited to, groundwater aquifers, surface waters, saline waters, natural washes and pools, wetlands, sloughs, and estuaries, regardless of flow or whether water exists during dry conditions.

Waters of the State include waters of the United States.

Waters of the United States
Waters of the United States are surface waters or waterbodies that are subject to federal jurisdiction in accordance with the Clean Water Act.

Water Quality Objective
A water quality objective is the limit or maximum amount of pollutant, waste constituent or characteristic, or parameter level established in statewide water quality control plans and Regional Water Boards’ Basin Plans, for the reasonable protection of beneficial uses of surface waters and groundwater and the prevention of nuisance. 420
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ATTACHMENT B – APPLICATION FOR ENROLLMENT

1. Enrollment Status: (Mark only one item)
☐ New Enrollee
☐ New Enrollee with previous regulatory coverage under Order 2006-0003-DWQ (that failed to certify continuation of coverage in CIWQS per Order 2022-XXXX-DWQ) Existing WDID Number: __________________________________________________

2. Applicant Information:

Legally Responsible Official Submitting Application
First and Last Name: ____________________________________________________ Title: _________________________________________________________________ Phone: _______________________________________________________________ Email: ________________________________________________________________ System Owner/Operator Name: ______________________________________________ Mailing Address: ________________________________________________________ City, State, Zip: _________________________________________________________ County: _______________________________________________________________ Sanitary Sewer System Name: ____________________________________________ Regional Water Quality Control Board(s): ____________________________________ Signature and Date: _____________________________________________________

3. Applicant Type (Check one):
☐ City ☐ County ☐ State ☐ Federal ☐ Special District
☐ Government Combination ☐ Private ☐ Other Non-governmental Entity

4. Wastewater Treatment Plant Receiving Sanitary Sewer System Waste:

Wastewater Treatment Plant Permittee:________________________________________ WDID No.: ______________________________________________________________ 421
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5. Billing Information
Billing Address: ___________________________________________________________ City, State, Zip: ___________________________________________________________ Billing Contact Person and Title: ______________________________________________ Phone and Email Address: __________________________________________________

6. Application Fee:

The application fee, as required by Water Code section 13260, is based on the daily population served by the sanitary sewer system. See updated Fee Schedule. (https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/resources/fees/water_quality/) Check one of the following and enter fee amount:
☐ Population Served < 50,000 – Total Fee submitted: $ ___________ ☐ Population Served ≥ 50,000 – Total Fee submitted: $ ___________ Make the fee payment payable to the State Water Resources Control Board and mail the complete application package to:

State Water Resources Control Board, Accounting Office
P. O. Box 1888
Sacramento, CA 95812-1888
Attention: Statewide Sanitary Sewer System Program

7. Application Submittal Certification
I certify under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that to the best of my knowledge and belief, the information in the submitted application package is true, accurate and complete. I am aware that there are significant penalties for submitting false information, including the possibility of fines and imprisonment.

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ATTACHMENT C - NOTICE OF TERMINATION

1. Enrollee Information
Enrollee Name: ___________________________________________________________ WDID No: ________________________________________________________________ Legally Responsible Official Requesting Termination of Coverage: ___________________ First and Last Name: ____________________________________________________ Title: _________________________________________________________________ Phone: _______________________________________________________________ Email: ________________________________________________________________ Mailing Address: __________________________________________________________ City, State, Zip: ___________________________________________________________ County: _________________________________________________________________ Sanitary Sewer System Name(s) or Unique Identifier(s): ___________________________ Regional Water Quality Control Board(s): _______________________________________ Signature and Date: ________________________________________________________

2. Basis of Termination
Explanation of termination, including subsequent regulatory coverage and subsequent owner/operator of enrolled sanitary sewer system, as applicable:
________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________

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3. Regulatory Coverage Termination Certification
I certify under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that to the best of my knowledge: 1) the sanitary sewer system I officially represent is not required to be regulated under the Statewide Waste Discharge Requirements for Sanitary Sewer Systems Order 2022-XXXX-DWQ, and 2) the information submitted in this Notice of Termination is true, accurate and complete. I am aware that there are significant penalties for submitting false information, including the possibility of fine or imprisonment. Additionally, I understand that the submittal of this Notice of Termination does not release sanitary sewer system agencies from liability for any violations of the Clean Water Act.

Print Name: ______________________________________________________________ Title: ___________________________________________________________________ Signature: __________________________________________ Date: ________________ For State Water Board Use Only
☐ Approved for Termination ☐ Denied and Returned to Enrollee Deputy Director of Water Quality Signature: _____________________________________ Date: ____________________ Notice of Termination Effective Date: __________________

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ATTACHMENT D – SEWER SYSTEM MANAGEMENT PLAN
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ATTACHMENT D – SEWER SYSTEM MANAGEMENT PLAN – REQUIRED ELEMENTS Table of Contents

1. Sewer System Management Plan Goal And Introduction ............................................ D-2

1.1. Regulatory Context ........................................................................................... D-2

1.2. Sewer System Management Plan Update Schedule ......................................... D-3

1.3. Sewer System Asset Overview ......................................................................... D-3

2. Organization ................................................................................................................ D-3

3. Legal Authority ............................................................................................................. D-4

4. Operation And Maintenance Program .......................................................................... D-4

4.1. Updated Map of Sanitary Sewer System .......................................................... D-4

4.2. Preventive Operation and Maintenance Activities ............................................. D-4

4.3. Training ............................................................................................................. D-5

4.4. Equipment Inventory ......................................................................................... D-5

5. Design And Performance Provisions ........................................................................... D-5

5.1. Updated Design Criteria and Construction Standards and Specifications ......... D-5

5.2. Procedures and Standards ................................................................................ D-5

6. Spill Emergency Response Plan .................................................................................. D-6

7. Sewer Pipe Blockage Control Program ........................................................................ D-7

8. System Evaluation, Capacity Assurance and Capital Improvements ........................... D-7

8.1 System Evaluation and Condition Assessment ................................................. D-7

8.2. Capacity Assessment and Design Criteria ........................................................ D-8

8.3. Prioritization of Corrective Action ...................................................................... D-9

8.4. Capital Improvement Plan ................................................................................. D-9

9. Monitoring, Measurement and Program Modifications ................................................. D-9

10. Internal Audits ............................................................................................................ D-10

11. Communication Program ........................................................................................... D-10

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ATTACHMENT D – SEWER SYSTEM MANAGEMENT PLAN – REQUIRED ELEMENTS A Sewer System Management Plan (Plan) is a living planning document that documents ongoing local sewer system management program activities, procedures, and decision-making – at the scale necessary to address the size and complexity of the subject sanitary sewer system(s). This Plan may incorporate other programs and other plans by reference, to address short-term and long-term system resilience through:
• Proactive planning and decision-making;
• Local government ordinances;
• Updated operations and maintenance activities and procedures; • Implementation of capital improvements;
• Sufficient local budget to support staff resources, contractors, equipment, and training; and • Updated training of staff and contractors.

The Enrollee’s development, update, and implementation of a Sewer System Management Plan addressing the requirements of this Attachment is an enforceable component of this General Order. As specified in Provision 6.1 (Enforcement Provisions) of this General Order, consistent with the Water Code and the State Water Board Enforcement Policy, the State Water Board or a Regional Water Board may consider the Enrollee’s efforts in implementing an effective Sewer System Management Plan to prevent, contain, control, and mitigate spills when considering Water Code section 13327 factors to determine necessary enforcement of this General Order.

This Attachment includes the following required elements that the Enrollee shall address in its Plan and subsequent updates. The Enrollee shall identify any requirement in this Attachment that is not applicable to the Enrollee’s sewer system and shall explain in its Plan why the requirement is not applicable.

1. SEWER SYSTEM MANAGEMENT PLAN GOAL AND INTRODUCTION
The goal of the Sewer System Management Plan (Plan) is to provide a plan and schedule to: (1) properly manage, operate, and maintain all parts of the Enrollee’s sanitary sewer system(s), (2) reduce and prevent spills, and (3) contain and mitigate spills that do occur.

The Plan must include a narrative Introduction section that discusses the following items:

1.1. Regulatory Context
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1.2. Sewer System Management Plan Update Schedule
The Plan Introduction section must include a schedule for the Enrollee to update the Plan, including the schedule for conducting internal audits. The schedule must include milestones for incorporation of activities addressing prevention of sewer spills.

1.3. Sewer System Asset Overview
The Plan Introduction section must provide a description of the Enrollee-owned assets and service area, including but not limited to:
• Location, including county(ies);
• Service area boundary;
• Population and community served;
• System size, including total length in miles, length of gravity mainlines, length of pressurized (force) mains, and number of pump stations and siphons; • Structures diverting stormwater to the sewer system;
• Data management systems;
• Sewer system ownership and operation responsibilities between Enrollee and private entities for upper and lower sewer laterals;
• Estimated number or percent of residential, commercial, and industrial service connections; and
• Unique service boundary conditions and challenge(s).

Additionally, the Plan Introduction section must provide reference to the Enrollee’s up- to-date map of its sanitary sewer system, as required in section 4.1 (Updated Map of Sanitary Sewer System) of this Attachment.

2. ORGANIZATION
The Plan must identify organizational staffing responsible and integral for implementing the local Sewer System Management Plan through an organization chart or similar narrative documentation that includes:
• The name of the Legally Responsible Official as required in section 5.1 (Designation of a Legally Responsible Official) of this General Order; • The position titles, telephone numbers, and email addresses for management, administrative, and maintenance positions responsible for implementing specific Sewer System Management Plan elements;
• Organizational lines of authority; and
• Chain of communication for reporting spills from receipt of complaint or other information, including the person responsible for reporting spills to the State and Regional Water Boards and other agencies, as applicable. (For example, county 427
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health officer, county environmental health agency, and State Office of Emergency Services.)

3. LEGAL AUTHORITY
The Plan must include copies or an electronic link to the Enrollee’s current sewer system use ordinances, service agreements and/or other legally binding procedures to demonstrate the Enrollee possesses the necessary legal authority to:
• Prevent illicit discharges into its sanitary sewer system from inflow and infiltration (I&I); unauthorized stormwater; chemical dumping; unauthorized debris; roots; fats, oils, and grease; and trash, including rags and other debris that may cause blockages;
• Collaborate with storm sewer agencies to coordinate emergency spill responses, ensure access to storm sewer systems during spill events, and prevent unintentional cross connections of sanitary sewer infrastructure to storm sewer infrastructure; • Require that sewer system components and connections be properly designed and constructed;
• Ensure access for maintenance, inspection, and/or repairs for portions of the service lateral owned and/or operated by the Enrollee;
• Enforce any violation of its sewer ordinances, service agreements, or other legally binding procedures; and
• Obtain easement accessibility agreements for locations requiring sewer system operations and maintenance, as applicable.

4. OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE PROGRAM
The Plan must include the items listed below that are appropriate and applicable to the Enrollee’s system.

4.1. Updated Map of Sanitary Sewer System
An up-to-date map(s) of the sanitary sewer system, and procedures for maintaining and providing State and Regional Water Board staff access to the map(s). The map(s) must show gravity line segments and manholes, pumping facilities, pressure pipes and valves, and applicable stormwater conveyance facilities within the sewer system service area boundaries.

4.2. Preventive Operation and Maintenance Activities
A scheduling system and a data collection system for preventive operation and maintenance activities conducted by staff and contractors.

The scheduling system must include:
• Inspection and maintenance activities;
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• Higher-frequency inspections and maintenance of known problem areas, including areas with tree root problems;
• Regular visual and closed-circuit television (CCTV) inspections of manholes and sewer pipes.

The data collection system must document data from system inspection and maintenance activities, including system areas/components prone to root-intrusion potentially resulting in system backup and/or failure.

4.3. Training
In-house and external training provided on a regular basis for sanitary sewer system operations and maintenance staff and contractors. The training must cover:
• The requirements of this General Order;
• The Enrollee’s Spill Emergency Response Plan procedures and practice drills; • Skilled estimation of spill volume for field operators; and • Electronic CIWQS reporting procedures for staff submitting data.

4.4. Equipment Inventory
An inventory of sewer system equipment, including the identification of critical replacement and spare parts.

5. DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE PROVISIONS
The Plan must include the following items as appropriate and applicable to the Enrollee’s system:

5.1. Updated Design Criteria and Construction Standards and Specifications Updated design criteria, and construction standards and specifications, for the construction, installation, repair, and rehabilitation of existing and proposed system infrastructure components, including but not limited to pipelines, pump stations, and other system appurtenances. If existing design criteria and construction standards are deficient to address the necessary component-specific hydraulic capacity as specified in section 8 (System Evaluation, Capacity Assurance and Capital Improvements) of this Attachment, the procedures must include component-specific evaluation of the design criteria.

5.2. Procedures and Standards
Procedures, and standards for the inspection and testing of newly constructed, newly installed, repaired, and rehabilitated system pipelines, pumps, and other equipment and appurtenances.
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6. SPILL EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLAN
The Plan must include an up to date Spill Emergency Response Plan to ensure prompt detection and response to spills to reduce spill volumes and collect information for prevention of future spills. The Spill Emergency Response Plan must include procedures to:
• Notify primary responders, appropriate local officials, and appropriate regulatory agencies of a spill in a timely manner;
• Notify other potentially affected entities (for example, health agencies, water suppliers, etc.) of spills that potentially affect public health or reach waters of the State;
• Comply with the notification, monitoring and reporting requirements of this General Order, State law and regulations, and applicable Regional Water Board Orders; • Ensure that appropriate staff and contractors implement the Spill Emergency Response Plan and are appropriately trained;
• Address emergency system operations, traffic control and other necessary response activities;
• Contain a spill and prevent/minimize discharge to waters of the State or any drainage conveyance system;
• Minimize and remediate public health impacts and adverse impacts on beneficial uses of waters of the State;
• Remove sewage from the drainage conveyance system;
• Clean the spill area and drainage conveyance system in a manner that does not inadvertently impact beneficial uses in the receiving waters; • Implement technologies, practices, equipment, and interagency coordination to expedite spill containment and recovery;
• Implement pre-planned coordination and collaboration with storm drain agencies and other utility agencies/departments prior, during, and after a spill event; • Conduct post-spill assessments of spill response activities; • Document and report spill events as required in this General Order; and • Annually, review and assess effectiveness of the Spill Emergency Response Plan, and update the Plan as needed.
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7. SEWER PIPE BLOCKAGE CONTROL PROGRAM
The Sewer System Management Plan must include procedures for the evaluation of the Enrollee’s service area to determine whether a sewer pipe blockage control program is needed to control fats, oils, grease, rags and debris. If the Enrollee determines that a program is not needed, the Enrollee shall provide justification in its Plan for why a program is not needed.

The procedures must include, at minimum:
• An implementation plan and schedule for a public education and outreach program that promotes proper disposal of pipe-blocking substances; • A plan and schedule for the disposal of pipe-blocking substances generated within the sanitary sewer system service area. This may include a list of acceptable disposal facilities and/or additional facilities needed to adequately dispose of substances generated within a sanitary sewer system service area; • The legal authority to prohibit discharges to the system and identify measures to prevent spills and blockages;
• Requirements to install grease removal devices (such as traps or interceptors), design standards for the removal devices, maintenance requirements, best management practices requirements, recordkeeping and reporting requirements; • Authority to inspect grease producing facilities, enforcement authorities, and whether the Enrollee has sufficient staff to inspect and enforce the fats, oils, and grease ordinance;
• An identification of sanitary sewer system sections subject to fats, oils, and grease blockages and establishment of a cleaning schedule for each section; and • Implementation of source control measures for all sources of fats, oils, and grease reaching the sanitary sewer system for each section identified above.

8. SYSTEM EVALUATION, CAPACITY ASSURANCE AND CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS The Plan must include procedures and activities for:
• Routine evaluation and assessment of system conditions; • Capacity assessment and design criteria;
• Prioritization of corrective actions; and
• A capital improvement plan.

8.1 System Evaluation and Condition Assessment
The Plan must include procedures to:
• Evaluate the sanitary sewer system assets utilizing the best practices and technologies available;
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• Identify and justify the amount (percentage) of its system for its condition to be assessed each year;
• Prioritize the condition assessment of system areas that:
o Hold a high level of environmental consequences if vulnerable to collapse, failure, blockage, capacity issues, or other system deficiencies; o Are located in or within the vicinity of surface waters, steep terrain, high groundwater elevations, and environmentally sensitive areas; o Are within the vicinity of a receiving water with a bacterial-related impairment on the most current Clean Water Act section 303(d) List;
• Assess the system conditions using visual observations, video surveillance and/or other comparable system inspection methods;
• Utilize observations/evidence of system conditions that may contribute to exiting of sewage from the system which can reasonably be expected to discharge into a water of the State;
• Maintain documents and recordkeeping of system evaluation and condition assessment inspections and activities; and
• Identify system assets vulnerable to direct and indirect impacts of climate change, including but not limited to: sea level rise; flooding and/or erosion due to increased storm volumes, frequency, and/or intensity; wildfires; and increased power disruptions.

8.2. Capacity Assessment and Design Criteria
The Plan must include procedures to identify system components that are experiencing or contributing to spills caused by hydraulic deficiency and/or limited capacity, including procedures to identify the appropriate hydraulic capacity of key system elements for:
• Dry-weather peak flow conditions that cause or contributes to spill events; • The appropriate design storm(s) or wet weather events that causes or contributes to spill events;
• The capacity of key system components; and
• Identify the major sources that contribute to the peak flows associated with sewer spills.

The capacity assessment must consider:
• Data from existing system condition assessments, system inspections, system audits, spill history, and other available information; • Capacity of flood-prone systems subject to increased infiltration and inflow, under normal local and regional storm conditions;
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• Capacity of systems subject to increased infiltration and inflow due to larger and/or higher-intensity storm events as a result of climate change; • Increases of erosive forces in canyons and streams near underground and above- ground system components due to larger and/or higher-intensity storm events; • Capacity of major system elements to accommodate dry weather peak flow conditions, and updated design storm and wet weather events; and • Necessary redundancy in pumping and storage capacities.

8.3. Prioritization of Corrective Action
The findings of the condition assessments and capacity assessments must be used to prioritize corrective actions. Prioritization must consider the severity of the consequences of potential spills.

8.4. Capital Improvement Plan
The capital improvement plan must include the following items:
• Project schedules including completion dates for all portions of the capital improvement program;
• Internal and external project funding sources for each project; and • Joint coordination between operation and maintenance staff, and engineering staff/consultants during planning, design, and construction of capital improvement projects; and Interagency coordination with other impacted utility agencies.

9. MONITORING, MEASUREMENT AND PROGRAM MODIFICATIONS
The Plan must include an Adaptive Management section that addresses Plan- implementation effectiveness and the steps for necessary Plan improvement, including:
• Maintaining relevant information, including audit findings, to establish and prioritize appropriate Plan activities;
• Monitoring the implementation and measuring the effectiveness of each Plan Element;
• Assessing the success of the preventive operation and maintenance activities; • Updating Plan procedures and activities, as appropriate, based on results of monitoring and performance evaluations; and
• Identifying and illustrating spill trends, including spill frequency, locations and estimated volumes.
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10. INTERNAL AUDITS
The Plan shall include internal audit procedures, appropriate to the size and performance of the system, for the Enrollee to comply with section 5.4 (Sewer System Management Plan Audits) of this General Order.

11. COMMUNICATION PROGRAM
The Plan must include procedures for the Enrollee to communicate with:
• The public for:
o Spills and discharges resulting in closures of public areas, or that enter a source of drinking water, and
o The development, implementation, and update of its Plan, including opportunities for public input to Plan implementation and updates.
• Owners/operators of systems that connect into the Enrollee’s system, including satellite systems, for:
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Table of Contents

1. Notification Requirements ......................................................................................... E1-3

1.1. Notification of Spills of 1,000 Gallons or Greater to the California Office of Emergency Services ...................................................................................... E1-3

1.2. Spill Notification Information ........................................................................... E1-4

1.3. Notification of Spill Report Updates ................................................................ E1-4

2. Spill-Specific Monitoring Requirements .................................................................... E1-5

2.1 Spill Location and Spread .............................................................................. E1-5

2.2 Spill Volume Estimation.................................................................................. E1-5

2.3. Receiving Water Monitoring ............................................................................ E1-5

2.4. Safety and Access Exceptions ........................................................................ E1-8

3. Reporting Requirements ............................................................................................ E1-8

3.1. Reporting Requirements for Individual Category 1 Spill Reporting ................. E1-8

3.2. Reporting Requirements for Individual Category 2 Spill Reporting ............... E1-12

3.3. Monthly Certified Spill Reporting for Category 3 Spills .................................. E1-14

3.4. Monthly Certified Spill Reporting for Category 4 Spills .................................. E1-16

3.5. Amended Certified Spill Reports for Category 3 Spills .................................. E1-16

3.6. Annual Certified Spill Reporting of Category 4 and/or Lateral Spills ............. E1-16

3.7. Monthly Certification of “No-Spills” or “Category 4 Spills” and/or “Non-Category 1 Lateral Spills” ................................................................................................ E1-16

3.8. Electronic Sanitary Sewer System Service Area Boundary Map ................... E1-17

3.9. Annual Report (Previously termed as Collection System Questionnaire in General Order 2006-0003-DWQ) .................................................................. E1-17

3.10. Sewer System Management Plan Audit Reporting Requirements ................ E1-19

3.11. Sewer System Management Plan Reporting Requirements ......................... E1-19

4. Recordkeeping Requirements ................................................................................. E1-20

4.1. Recordkeeping Time Period .......................................................................... E1-20

4.2. Availability of Documents .............................................................................. E1-20

4.3. Spill Reports .................................................................................................. E1-20

4.4. Recordkeeping of Category 4 Spills and Non-Category 1 Lateral Spills ....... E1-21

4.5. Sewer System Telemetry Records ................................................................ E1-22

4.6. Sewer System Management Plan Implementation Records ......................... E1-22

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4.8. Equipment Records ....................................................................................... E1-23

4.9. Work Orders .................................................................................................. E1-23

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REQUIREMENTS
The Notification Requirements (section 1), Spill-specific Monitoring Requirements (section 2), Reporting Requirements (section 3) and Recordkeeping Requirements (section 4) in this Attachment are pursuant to Water Code section 13267 and section 13383, and are an enforceable component of this General Order. For the purpose of this General Order, the term:
• Notification means the notifying of appropriate parties of a spill event or other activity. • Spill-specific Monitoring means the gathering of information and data for a specific spill event to be reported or kept as records.
• Reporting means the reporting of information and data into the online California Integrated Water Quality System (CIWQS) Sanitary Sewer System Database. • Recordkeeping means the maintaining of information and data in an official records storage system.

Failure to comply with the notification, monitoring, reporting and recordkeeping requirements in this General Order may subject the Enrollee to civil liabilities of up to $10,000 a day per violation pursuant to Water Code section 13385; up to $1,000 a day per violation pursuant to Water Code section 13268; or referral to the Attorney General for judicial civil enforcement.

Water Code section 13193 et seq. requires the Regional Water Quality Control Boards (Regional Water Boards) and the State Water Resources Control Board ( State Water Board ) to collect sanitary sewer spill information for each spill event and make this information available to the public. Sanitary sewer spill information for each spill event includes but is not limited to: Enrollee contact information for each spill event, spill cause, estimated spill volume and factors used for estimation, location, date, time, duration, amount discharged to waters of the State, response and corrective action(s) taken.

1. NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

1.1. Notification of Spills of 1,000 Gallons or Greater to the California Office of Emergency Services
Per Water Code section 13271, for a spill that discharges in or on any waters of the State, or discharges or is deposited where it is, or probably will be, discharged in or on any waters of the State, the Enrollee shall notify the California Office of Emergency Services and obtain a California Office of Emergency Services Control Number as soon as possible but no later than two (2) hours after:
• The Enrollee has knowledge of the spill; and
• Notification can be provided without substantially impeding cleanup or other emergency measures.

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1.2. Spill Notification Information
The Enrollee shall provide the following spill information to the California Office of Emergency Services before receiving a Control Number, as applicable:
• Name and phone number of the person notifying the California Office of Emergency Services;
• Estimated spill volume (gallons);
• Estimated spill rate from the system (gallons per minute); • Estimated discharge rate (gallons per minute) directly into waters of the State or indirectly into a drainage conveyance system;
• Spill incident description:
o Brief narrative of the spill event, and
o Spill incident location (address, city, and zip code) and closest cross streets and/or landmarks;
• Name and phone number of contact person on-scene;
• Date and time the Enrollee was informed of the spill event; • Name of sanitary sewer system causing the spill;
• Spill cause or suspected cause (if known);
• Amount of spill contained;
• Name of receiving water body receiving or potentially receiving discharge; and • Description of water body impact and/ or potential impact to beneficial uses.

1.3. Notification of Spill Report Updates
Following the initial notification to the California Office of Emergency Services and until such time that the Enrollee certifies the spill report in the online CIWQS Sanitary Sewer System Database, the Enrollee shall provide updates to the California Office of Emergency Services regarding substantial changes to:
• Estimated spill volume (increase or decrease in gallons initially estimated); • Estimated discharge volume discharged directly into waters of the State or indirectly into a drainage conveyance system (increase or decrease in gallons initially estimated); and
• Additional impact(s) to the receiving water(s) and beneficial uses.

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2. SPILL-SPECIFIC MONITORING REQUIREMENTS

2.1 Spill Location and Spread
The Enrollee shall visually assess the spill location(s) and spread using photography, global positioning system (GPS), and other best available tools. The Enrollee shall document the critical spill locations, including:
• Photography and GPS coordinates for:
o The system location where spill originated.

For multiple appearance points of a single spill event, the points closest to the spill origin.
• Photography for:
o Drainage conveyance system entry locations,
o The location(s) of discharge into surface waters, as applicable, o Extent of spill spread, and
o The location(s) of clean up.

2.2 Spill Volume Estimation
To assess the approximate spill magnitude and spread, the Enrollee shall estimate the total spill volume using updated volume estimation techniques, calculations, and documentation for electronic reporting. The Enrollee shall update its notification and reporting of estimated spill volume (which includes spill volume recovered) as further information is gathered during and after a spill event.

2.3. Receiving Water Monitoring

2.3.1. Receiving Water Visual Observations
Through visual observations and use of best available spill volume-estimating techniques and field calculation techniques, the Enrollee shall gather and document the following information for spills discharging to surface waters:
• Estimated spill travel time to the receiving water;
• For spills entering a drainage conveyance system, estimated spill travel time from the point of entry into the drainage conveyance system to the point of discharge into the receiving water;
• Estimated spill volume entering the receiving water; and • Photography of:
o Waterbody bank erosion,
o Floating matter,
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o Discoloration of receiving water, and
o Impact to the receiving water.

2.3.2. Receiving Water – Water Quality Sampling and Analysis For sewage spills in which an estimated 50,000 gallons or greater are discharged into a surface water, the Enrollee shall conduct the following water quality sampling no later than 18 hours after the Enrollee’s knowledge of a potential discharge to a surface water:
• Collect one water sample, each day of the duration of the spill, at:
o The DCS-001 location as described in section 2.3.4 (Receiving Water Sampling Locations) of this Attachment, if sewage discharges to a surface water via a drainage conveyance system; and/or
o Each of the three receiving water sampling locations in section 2.3.4 (Receiving Water Sampling Locations) of this Attachment;
If the receiving water has no flow during the duration of the spill, the Enrollee must report “No Sampling Due To No Flow” for its receiving water sampling locations.

The Enrollee shall analyze the collected receiving water samples for the following constituents per section 2.3.3 (Water Quality Analysis Specifications) of this Attachment:
• Ammonia, and
• Appropriate bacterial indicator(s) per the applicable Basin Plan water quality objectives, including one or more of the following, unless directed otherwise by the Regional Water Board:
o Total Coliform Bacteria
o Fecal Coliform Bacteria
o E-coli
o Enterococcus
Dependent on the receiving water(s), sampling of bacterial indicators shall be sufficient to determine post-spill (after the spill) compliance with the water quality objectives and bacterial standards of the California Ocean Plan or the California Inland Surface Water Enclosed Bays, and Estuaries Plan, including the frequency and/or number of post-spill receiving water samples as may be specified in the applicable plans.

The Enrollee shall collect and analyze additional samples as required by the applicable Regional Water Board Executive Officer or designee.
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2.3.3. Water Quality Analysis Specifications
Spill monitoring must be representative of the monitored activity (40 Code of Federal Regulations section 122.41(j)(1)).

Sufficiently Sensitive Methods
Sample analysis must be conducted according to sufficiently sensitive test methods approved under 40 Code of Federal Regulations Part 136 for the sample analysis of pollutants. For the purposes of this General Order, a method is sufficiently sensitive when the minimum level of the analytical method approved under 40 Code of Federal Regulations Part 136 is at or below the receiving water pollutant criteria.

Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program-Accredited Laboratories The analysis of water quality samples required per this General Order must be performed by a laboratory that has accreditation pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with section 100825) of Chapter 4 of Part 1 of Division 101 of the Health and Safety Code. (Water Code section 13176(a).) The State Water Board accredits laboratories through its Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program (ELAP).

2.3.4. Receiving Water Sampling Locations
The Enrollee shall collect receiving water samples at the following locations.

Sampling of Flow in Drainage Conveyance System (DCS) Prior to Discharge Sampling
Location Sampling Location Description
DCS-001 A point in a drainage conveyance system before the drainage conveyance system flow discharges into a receiving water.

Receiving Surface Water Sampling (RSW)1

Sampling
Location Sampling Location Description
RSW-001
Point of Discharge
A point in the receiving water where sewage initially enters the receiving water.

RSW-001U:

Upstream of Point
of Discharge
A point in the receiving water, upstream of the point of sewage discharge, to capture ambient conditions absent of sewage discharge impacts.
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Sampling
Location Sampling Location Description
RSW-001D:

Downstream of
Point of Discharge
A point in the receiving water, downstream of the point of sewage discharge, where the spill material is fully mixed with the receiving water.
1 The Enrollee must use its best professional judgment to determine the upstream and downstream distances based on receiving water flow, accessibility to upstream/downstream waterbody banks, and size of visible sewage plume.

2.4. Safety and Access Exceptions
If the Enrollee encounters access restrictions or unsafe conditions that prevents its compliance with spill response requirements or monitoring requirements in this General Order, the Enrollee shall provide documentation of access restrictions and/or safety hazards in the corresponding required report.

3. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS
All reporting required in this General Order must be submitted electronically to the online CIWQS Sanitary Sewer System Database (https://ciwqs.waterboards.ca.gov), unless specified otherwise in this General Order. Electronic reporting may solely be conducted by a Legally Responsible Official or Data Submitter(s) previously designated by the Legally Responsible Official, as required in section 5.8 (Designation of Data Submitters) of this General Order.

The Enrollee shall report any information that is protected by the Homeland Security Act, by email to [email protected], with a brief explanation of the protection provided by the Homeland Security Act for the subject report to be protected from unauthorized disclosure and/or public access, and for official Water Board regulatory purposes only.

3.1. Reporting Requirements for Individual Category 1 Spill Reporting

3.1.1. Draft Spill Report for Category 1 Spills
Within three (3) business days of the Enrollee’s knowledge of a Category 1 spill, the Enrollee shall submit a Draft Spill Report to the online CIWQS Sanitary Sewer System Database.

The Draft Spill Report must, at minimum, include the following items:

1. Contact information: Name and telephone number of Enrollee contact person to respond to spill-specific questions;

2. Spill location name;

3. Date and time the Enrollee was notified of, or self-discovered, the spill;

4. Operator arrival time;
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5. Estimated spill start date and time;

6. Date and time the Enrollee notified the California Office of Emergency Services, and the assigned control number;

7. Description, photographs, and GPS coordinates of the system location where the spill originated;
o If a single spill event results in multiple appearance points, provide GPS coordinates for the appearance point closest to the failure point and describe each additional appearance point in the spill appearance point explanation field;

8. Estimated total spill volume exiting the system;

9. Description and photographs of the extent of the spill and spill boundaries;

11. Description and photographs of all discharge point(s) into the surface water;

12. Estimated spill volume that discharged to surface waters; and

13. Estimated total spill volume recovered.

3.1.2. Certified Spill Report for Category 1 Spills
Within 15 calendar days of the spill end date, the Enrollee shall submit a Certified Spill Report for Category 1 spills, to the online CIWQS Sanitary Sewer System Database.

Upon completion of the Certified Spill Report, the online CIWQS Sanitary Sewer System Database will issue a final spill event identification number.

The Certified Spill Report must, at minimum, include the following mandatory information in addition to all information in the Draft Spill Report per section 3.1.1 (Draft Spill Report for Category 1 Spills) above:

1. Description of the spill event destination(s), including GPS coordinates if available, that represent the full spread and reach of the spill;

2. Spill end date and time;

3. Description of how the spill volume estimations were calculated, including at a minimum:
o The methodology, assumptions and type of data relied upon, such as supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) records, flow monitoring or other telemetry information used to estimate the volume of the spill discharged, and the volume of the spill recovered (if any volume of the spill was recovered), and o The methodology(ies), assumptions and type of data relied upon for estimations of the spill start time and the spill end time;
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4. Spill cause(s) (for example, root intrusion, grease deposition, etc.);

5. System failure location (for example, main, lateral, pump station, etc.);

6. Description of the pipe material, and estimated age of the pipe material, at the failure location;

7. Description of the impact of the spill;

8. Whether or not the spill was associated with a storm event;

9. Description of spill response activities including description of immediate spill containment and cleanup efforts;

10. Description of spill corrective action, including steps planned or taken to reduce, eliminate, and prevent reoccurrence of the spill, and a schedule of major milestones for those steps;

11. Spill response completion date;

12. Detailed narrative of investigation and investigation findings of cause of spill;

13. Reasons for an ongoing investigation (as applicable) and the expected date of completion;

14. Name and type of receiving water body(s);

15. Description of the water body(s), including but not limited to:
o Observed impacts on aquatic life,
o Public closure, restricted public access, temporary restricted use, and/or posted health warnings due to spill,
o Responsible entity for closing/restricting use of water body, and o Number of days closed/restricted as a result of the spill.

16. Whether or not the spill was located within 1,000 feet of a municipal surface water intake; and

17. If water quality samples were collected, identify sample locations and the parameters the water quality samples were analyzed for. If no samples were taken, Not Applicable shall be selected.

3.1.3. Spill Technical Report for Individual Category 1 Spill in which 50,000 Gallons or Greater Discharged into a Surface Water
For any spill in which 50,000 gallons or greater discharged into a surface water, within 45 calendar days of the spill end date, the Enrollee shall submit a Spill Technical Report to the online CIWQS Sanitary Sewer System Database. The Spill Technical Report, at minimum, must include the following information:

1. Spill causes and circumstances, including at minimum:
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o Photographs illustrating the spill origin, the extent and reach of the spill, drainage conveyance system entrance and exit, receiving water, and post-cleanup site conditions;
o Diagram showing the spill failure point, appearance point(s), the spill flow path, and ultimate destinations;
o Detailed description of the methodology employed, and available data used to calculate the discharge volume and, if applicable, the recovered spill volume; o Detailed description of the spill cause(s);
o Description of the pipe material, and estimated age of the pipe material, at the failure location;
o Description of the impact of the spill;
o Copy of original field crew records used to document the spill; and o Historical maintenance records for the failure location.

2. Enrollee’s response to the spill:
o Chronological narrative description of all actions taken by the Enrollee to terminate the spill;
o Explanation of how the Sewer System Management Plan Spill Emergency Response Plan was implemented to respond to and mitigate the spill; and o Final corrective action(s) completed and a schedule for planned corrective actions, including:
▪ Local regulatory enforcement action taken against an illicit discharge in response to this spill, as applicable,
▪ Identifiable system modifications, and operation and maintenance program modifications needed to prevent repeated spill occurrences, and ▪ Necessary modifications to the Emergency Spill Response Plan to incorporate lessons learned in responding to and mitigating the spill.

3. Water Quality Monitoring, including at minimum:
o Description of all water quality sampling activities conducted; o List of pollutant and parameters monitored, sampled and analyzed; as required in section 2.3 (Receiving Water Monitoring) of this Attachment; o Laboratory results, including laboratory reports;
o Detailed location map illustrating all water quality sampling points; and o Other regulatory agencies receiving sample results (if applicable).

4. Evaluation of spill impact(s), including a description of short-term and long-term impact(s) to beneficial uses of the surface water.
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3.1.4. Amended Certified Spill Reports for Individual Category 1 Spills The Enrollee shall update or add additional information to a Certified Spill Report within 90 calendar days of the spill end date by amending the report or by adding an attachment to the Spill Report in the online CIWQS Sanitary Sewer System Database.

The Enrollee shall certify the amended report.

After 90 calendar days, the Enrollee shall contact the State Water Board at [email protected] to request to amend a Spill Report. The Legally Responsible Official shall submit justification for why the additional information was not reported within the Amended Spill Report due date.

3.2. Reporting Requirements for Individual Category 2 Spill Reporting

3.2.1. Draft Spill Report for Category 2 Spills
Within three (3) business days of the Enrollee’s knowledge of a Category 2 spill, the Enrollee shall submit a Draft Spill Report to the online CIWQS Sanitary Sewer System Database.

The Draft Spill Report must, at minimum, include the following items:

1. Contact information: Name and telephone number of Enrollee contact person to respond to spill-specific questions;

2. Spill location name;

3. Date and time the Enrollee was notified of, or self-discovered, the spill;

4. Operator arrival time;

5. Estimated spill start date and time;

6. Date and time the Enrollee notified the California Office of Emergency Services, and the assigned control number;

7. Description, photographs, and GPS coordinates of the system location where the spill originated;
If a single spill event results in multiple appearance points, provide GPS coordinates for the appearance point closest to the failure point and describe each additional appearance point in the spill appearance point explanation field;

8. Estimated total spill volume exiting the system;

9. Description and photographs of the extent of the spill and spill boundaries;

10. Did the spill reach a drainage conveyance system? If Yes:
o Description of the drainage conveyance system transporting the spill; o Photographs of the drainage conveyance system entry location(s); o Estimated spill volume fully recovered from the drainage conveyance system; o Estimated spill volume remaining within the drainage conveyance system; 446
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o Estimated spill volume discharged to a groundwater infiltration basin or facility, if applicable; and

11. Estimated total spill volume recovered.

3.2.2. Certified Spill Report for Category 2 Spills
Within 15 calendar days of the spill end date, the Enrollee shall submit a Certified Spill Report for the Category 2 spill, to the online CIWQS Sanitary Sewer System Database (https://ciwqs.waterboards.ca.gov). Upon completion of the Certified Spill Report, the online CIWQS Sanitary Sewer System Database will issue a final spill event identification number.

The Certified Spill Report must, at minimum, include the following mandatory information in addition to all information in the Draft Spill Report per section 3.2.1 (Draft Spill Report for Category 2 Spills) above:

1. Description of the spill event destination(s), including GPS coordinates if available, that represent the full spread and reach of the spill;

2. Spill end date and time;

4. Spill cause(s) (for example, root intrusion, grease deposition, etc.);

5. System failure location (for example, main, pump station, etc.);

6. Description of the pipe/infrastructure material, and estimated age of the pipe material, at the failure location;

7. Description of the impact of the spill;

8. Whether or not the spill was associated with a storm event;

9. Description of spill response activities including description of immediate spill containment and cleanup efforts;

10. Description of spill corrective action, including steps planned or taken to reduce, eliminate, and prevent reoccurrence of the spill, and a schedule of major milestones for those steps;

11. Spill response completion date;

12. Detailed narrative of investigation and investigation findings of cause of spill;

13. Reasons for an ongoing investigation (as applicable) and the expected date of completion; and
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14. Whether or not the spill was located within 1,000 feet of a municipal surface water intake.

3.2.3. Amended Certified Spill Reports for Individual Category 2 Spills The Enrollee shall update or add additional information to a Certified Spill Report within 90 calendar days of the spill end date by amending the report or by adding an attachment to the Spill Report in the online CIWQS Sanitary Sewer System Database.

The Enrollee shall certify the amended report.

3.3. Monthly Certified Spill Reporting for Category 3 Spills The Enrollee shall report and certify all Category 3 spills to the online CIWQS Sanitary Sewer System Database within 30 calendar days after the end of the month in which the spills occurred. (For example, all Category 3 spills occurring in the month of February shall be reported and certified by March 30th). After the Legally Responsible Official certifies the spills, the online CIWQS Sanitary Sewer System Database will issue a spill event identification number for each spill.

The monthly reporting of all Category 3 spills must include the following items for each spill:

1. Contact information: Name and telephone number of Enrollee contact person to respond to spill-specific questions;

2. Spill location name;

3. Date and time the Enrollee was notified of, or self-discovered, the spill;

4. Operator arrival time;

5. Estimated spill start date and time;

6. Description, photographs, and GPS coordinates where the spill originated:
o If a single spill event results in multiple appearance points, provide GPS coordinates for the appearance point closest to the failure point and describe each additional appearance point in the spill appearance point explanation field;

7. Estimated total spill volume exiting the system;

8. Description and photographs of the extent of the spill and spill boundaries;

9. Did the spill reach a drainage conveyance system? If Yes:
o Description of the drainage conveyance system transporting the spill; o Photographs of the drainage conveyance system entry locations(s); o Estimated spill volume fully recovered from the drainage conveyance system; and 448
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o Estimated spill volume discharged to a groundwater infiltration basis or facility, if applicable.

10. Estimated total spill volume recovered;

11. Description of the spill event destination(s), including GPS coordinates, if available, that represent the full spread and reaches of the spill;

12. Spill end date and time;

13. Description of how the spill volume estimations were calculated, including, at minimum:
o The methodology and type of data relied upon, including supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) records, flow monitoring or other telemetry information used to estimate the volume of the spill discharged, and the volume of the spill recovered (if any volume of the spill was recovered), and o The methodology and type of data relied upon to estimate the spill start time, on-going spill rate at time of arrival (if applicable), and the spill end time;

14. Spill cause(s) (for example, root intrusion, grease deposition, etc.);

15. System failure location (for example, main, pump station, etc.);

16. Description of the pipe/infrastructure material, and estimated age of the pipe/infrastructure material, at the failure location;

17. Description of the impact of the spill;

18. Whether or not the spill was associated with a storm event;

19. Description of spill response activities including description of immediate spill containment and cleanup efforts;

20. Description of spill corrective actions, including steps planned or taken to reduce, eliminate, and prevent reoccurrence of the spill, and a schedule of the major milestones for those steps; including, at minimum:
o Local regulatory enforcement action taken against an illicit discharge in response to this spill, as applicable, and
o Identifiable system modifications, and operation and maintenance program modifications needed to prevent repeated spill occurrences at the same spill event location, including:
▪ Adjusted schedule/method of preventive maintenance,
▪ Planned rehabilitation or replacement of sanitary sewer asset, ▪ Inspected, repaired asset(s), or replaced defective asset(s), ▪ Capital improvements,
▪ Documentation verifying immediately implemented system modifications and operating/maintenance modifications,
▪ Description of spill response activities,
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▪ Spill response completion date, and
▪ Ongoing investigation efforts, and expected completion date of investigation to determine the full cause of spill;

21. Detailed narrative of investigation and investigation findings of cause of spill.

3.4. Monthly Certified Spill Reporting for Category 4 Spills The Enrollee shall report and certify the estimated total spill volume exiting the sanitary sewer system, and the total number of all Category 4 spills to the online CIWQS Sanitary Sewer System Database, within 30 calendar days after the end of the month in which the spills occurred.

3.5. Amended Certified Spill Reports for Category 3 Spills Within 90 calendar days of the certified Spill Report due date, the Enrollee may update or add additional information to a certified Spill Report by amending the report or by adding an attachment to the Spill Report in the online CIWQS Sanitary Sewer System Database. The Enrollee shall certify the amended report.

After 90 calendar days, the Legally Responsible Official shall contact the State Water Board at [email protected] to request to amend a certified Spill Report. The Legally Responsible Official shall submit justification for why the additional information was not reported within the 90-day timeframe for amending the certified Spill Report, as provided above.

3.6. Annual Certified Spill Reporting of Category 4 and/or Lateral Spills For all Category 4 spills and spills from its owned and/or operated laterals that are caused by a failure or blockage in the lateral and that do not discharge to a surface water, the Enrollee shall:
• Maintain records per section 4.4. of this Attachment; The Enrollee shall provide records upon request by State Water Board or Regional Water Board staff.
• Annually upload and certify a report, in an appropriate digital format, of all recordkeeping of spills to the online CIWQS Sanitary Sewer System Database, by February 1st after the end of the calendar year in which the spills occurred.

A spill from an Enrollee-owned and/or operated lateral that discharges to a surface water is a Category 1 spill; the Enrollee shall report all Category 1 spills per section 3.1 of Attachment E1 (Notification, Monitoring, Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements) of this General Order.

3.7. Monthly Certification of “No-Spills” or “Category 4 Spills” and/or “Non-Category 1 Lateral Spills”
If either (1) no spills occur during a calendar month or (2) only Category 4, and/or Enrollee-owned and/or operated lateral spills (that do not discharge to a surface water) occur during a calendar month, the Enrollee shall certify, within 30 calendar days after 450
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the end of each calendar month, either a “No-Spill” certification statement, or a “Category 4 Spills” and/or “Non-Category 1 Lateral Spills” certification statement, in the online CIWQS Sanitary Sewer System Database, certifying that there were either no spills, or Category 4 and/or Non-Category 1 Lateral Spills that will be reported annually (per section 3.6 of this Attachment) for the designated month.

If a spill starts in one calendar month and ends in a subsequent calendar month, and the Enrollee has no further spills of any category, in the subsequent calendar month, the Enrollee shall certify “no-spills” for the subsequent calendar month.

If the Enrollee has no spills from its systems during a calendar month, but the Enrollee voluntarily reported a spill from a private lateral or a private system, the Enrollee shall certify “no-spills” for that calendar month.

If the Enrollees has spills from its owned and/or operated laterals during a calendar month, the Enrollee shall not certify “no spills” for that calendar month.

3.8. Electronic Sanitary Sewer System Service Area Boundary Map The Legally Responsible Official shall submit, to the State Water Board, an up-to-date electronic spatial map of its sewer system service area boundaries. The map must be in accordance with section 5.14 (Electronic Sanitary Sewer System Service Area Boundary Map) of this General Order and the specification provided on the statewide Sanitary Sewer Systems program website. The map must include the location of wastewater treatment facility(ies) that treats the sewer system waste, if in the same sewer service boundary.

By the Effective Date of this General Order, specifications for the electronic sanitary sewer service area boundary map format will be provided on the statewide Sanitary Sewer Systems Order program website.

3.9. Annual Report (Previously termed as Collection System Questionnaire in General Order 2006-0003-DWQ)
A new Enrollee shall complete and submit its first certified Annual Report into the online CIWQS Sanitary Sewer System Database, within 30 days of obtaining a CIWQS account; Subsequent Annual Reports are due by April 1 of each year.

All enrollees shall update their previous year’s Annual Report, by April 1 of each year after the Effective Date of this General Order, for each calendar year (January 1 through December 31).

The Annual Report must be entered directly into the online CIWQS Sanitary Sewer System Database. The Enrollee’s Legally Responsible Official shall certify the Annual Report as instructed in CIWQS;
The Annual Report must address, and update as applicable, the following items:
• Population served;
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• Updated sewer system service area boundary map, if service area boundary has changed from original map submitted per section 5.14 (Electronic Sanitary Sewer System Service Area Boundary Map) of this General Order; • Number of system operation and maintenance staff:
o Entry level (less than two years of experience),
o Journey level (greater than two years of experience), o Supervisory level, and
o Managerial level;
• Number of operation and maintenance staff certified as a certified collection system operator by the California Water Environmental Association (CWEA), with:
o Corresponding number of certified collection system operator grade levels (Grade I, II, III, IV, and V);
• System information:
o Miles of system gravity and force mains,
o Number of upper and lower service laterals connected to system, o Estimated number of upper and lower laterals owned and/or operated by the Enrollee,
o Portion of laterals that is Enrollee’s responsibility, o Average age the major components of system infrastructure, o Number and age of pump stations, and
o Estimated total miles of the system pipeline not accessible for maintenance; • Name and location of the treatment plant(s) receiving sanitary sewer system’s waste;
• Name of satellite sewer system tributaries;
• Number of system’s gravity sewer above or underground crossings of water bodies throughout system;
• Number of force main (pressurized pipe) above or underground crossings of water bodies throughout system;
• Number of siphons used to convey waste throughout the sewer system; • Miles of sewer system cleaned;
• Miles of sewer system video inspected, or comparable (i.e., video closed-circuit television or alternative inspection methods);
• System Performance Evaluation as specified in section 5.11 (System Performance Analysis) of this General Order;
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• System infrastructure failure points (for example, main, pump station, lateral, etc.); • Ongoing spill investigations; and
• Actions taken to address system deficiencies.

3.10. Sewer System Management Plan Audit Reporting Requirements The Enrollee shall submit its Sewer System Management Plan Audit and other pertinent audit information, in accordance with section 5.4 (Sewer System Management Plan Audits) of this General Order, to the online CIWQS Sanitary Sewer System Database by six (6) months after the end of the 3-year audit period.

If a Sewer System Management Plan Audit is not conducted as required: the Enrollee shall:
• Update the online CIWQS Sanitary Sewer System Database and select the justification for not conducting the Audit; and
• Notify its corresponding Regional Water Board (see Attachment F (Regional Water Quality Control Board Contact Information)) of the justification for the lapsed requirements.

The Enrollee’s reporting of a justification for not conducting a timely Audit does not justify non-compliance with this General Order. The Enrollee shall:
• Submit the late Audit as required in this General Order; and • Comply with subsequent Audit requirements and due dates corresponding with the original audit cycle.

3.11. Sewer System Management Plan Reporting Requirements For an Existing Enrollee previously regulated by Order 2006-0003-DWQ: Within every six (6) years after the required due date of its last Plan Update, the Legally Responsible Official shall upload and certify a local governing entity-approved Sewer System Management Plan Update to the online CIWQS Sanitary Sewer System Database. If the electronic document format or size capacity prevents the electronic upload of the Plan, the Legally Responsible Official shall report an electronic link to its updated Sewer System Management Plan posted on its own website.

Order 2006-0003-DWQ required each enrollee to develop its initial Sewer System Management Plan per the following schedule, with required Plan updates at a frequency of 5-years thereafter:

Systems serving populations: Greater than 100,000: May 2, 2009 Between 100,000 and 10,000: August 2, 2009
Between 10,000 and 2,500: May 2, 2010
Less than 2,500: August 2, 2010
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This Order carries forth the previously-required Plan Update schedule per Order 2006-0003-DWQ. Per the six-year Plan Update frequency required in this Order, the Enrollee shall upload and certify its first Plan Update, to the online CIWQS Sanitary Sewer System Database by the following due dates, with subsequent Plan Updates at the frequency of six years thereafter:

Systems serving populations: Greater than 100,000: May 2, 2025 Between 100,000 and 10,000: August 2, 2025
Between 10,000 and 2,500: May 2, 2026
Less than 2,500: August 2, 2026
For a New Enrollee: Within twelve (12) months of its Application for Enrollment Approval date, the Legally Responsible Official of a new Enrollee shall upload and certify a local governing entity-approved Sewer System Management Plan to the online CIWQS Sanitary Sewer System Database. If electronic document format or size capacity prevents the electronic upload of the Plan, the Legally Responsible Official shall report an electronic link to its Sewer System Management Plan posted on its own website. The due date for subsequent 6-year Plan updates, is six (6) years from the submittal due date of the new Enrollee’s first Sewer System Management Plan.

4. RECORDKEEPING REQUIREMENTS
The Enrollee shall maintain records to document compliance with the provisions of this General Order, and previous General Order 2006-0003-DWQ as applicable, for each sanitary sewer system owned, including any required records generated by an Enrollee’s contractor(s).

4.1. Recordkeeping Time Period
The Enrollee shall maintain records of documents required in this Attachment, including records collected for compliance with this General Order, and records collected in accordance with previous General Order 2006-0003-DWQ, for five (5) years.

4.2. Availability of Documents
The Enrollee shall make the records required in this General Order readily available, either electronic or hard copies, for review by Water Board staff during onsite inspections or through an information request.

4.3. Spill Reports
The Enrollee shall maintain records for each of the following spill-related events and activities:
• Spill event complaint, including but not limited to records documenting how the Enrollee responded to notifications of spills. Each complaint record must, at a minimum, include the following information:
o Date, time, and method of notification,
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o Date and time the complainant first noticed the spill, if available, o Narrative description of the complaint, including any information the caller provided regarding whether the spill has reached surface waters or a drainage conveyance system, if available,
o Complainant’s contact information, if available, and
o Final resolution of the complaint;
• Records documenting the steps and/or remedial action(s) undertaken by the Enrollee, using all available information, to comply with this General Order, and previous General Order 2006-0003-DWQ as applicable;
• Records documenting how estimate(s) of volume(s) and, if applicable, volume(s) of spill recovered were calculated;
• All California Office of Emergency Services notification records, as applicable; and • Records, in accordance with the Monitoring Requirements in this Attachment.

4.4. Recordkeeping of Category 4 Spills and Non-Category 1 Lateral Spills An Enrollee must maintain the following records for each individual Category 4 spill and for each individual non-Category 1 Enrollee-owned and/or operated lateral spill, and report in accordance to section 3.6 (Annual Certified Spill Reporting of Category 4 and/or Lateral Spills) of this Attachment.

Recordkeeping of Individual Category 4 Spill Information:

1. Contact information: Name and telephone number of Enrollee contact person to respond to spill-specific questions;

2. Spill location name;

3. Description and GPS coordinates for the system location where the spill originated;

4. Did the spill reach a drainage conveyance system? If Yes:
o Description of drainage conveyance system location,
o Estimated spill volume fully recovered within the drainage conveyance system, and
o Estimated spill volume remaining within the drainage conveyance system;

5. Estimated total spill volume exiting the sanitary sewer system;

6. Spill date and start time;

7. Spill cause(s) (for example, root intrusion, grease deposition, etc.);

8. System failure location (for example, main, pump station, etc.);

9. Description of spill response activities including description of immediate spill containment and cleanup efforts;

10. Description of how the volume estimation was calculated, including, at minimum:
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o The methodology and type of data relied upon, including supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) records, flow monitoring or other telemetry information used to estimate the volume of the spill discharged, and the volume of the spill recovered (if any volume of the spill was recovered), and o The methodology and type of data relied upon to estimate the spill start time, on- going spill rate at time of arrival (if applicable), and the spill end time;

11. Description of implemented system modifications and operating/maintenance modifications.

Recordkeeping of Individual Lateral Spill Information:

1. Date and time the Enrollee was notified of, or self-discovered, the spill;

2. Location of individual spill;

3. Estimated individual spill volume;

4. Spill cause(s) (for example, root intrusion, grease deposition, etc.); and

5. Description of how the volume estimations were calculated.

Total Annual Spill Information:

1. Estimated total annual spill volume;

2. Description of spill corrective actions, including at minimum:
o Local regulatory enforcement action taken against the sewer lateral owner in response to a spill, as applicable, and
o System operation, maintenance and program modifications implemented to prevent repeated spill occurrences at the same spill location.

4.5. Sewer System Telemetry Records
The Enrollee shall maintain the following sewer system telemetry records if used to document compliance with this General Order, and previous General Order 2006-0003-DWQ as applicable, including spill volume estimates:
• Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system(s); • Alarm system(s);
• Flow monitoring device(s) or other instrument(s) used to estimate sewage flow rates, and/or volumes;
• Computerized maintenance management system records; and • Asset management-related records.

4.6. Sewer System Management Plan Implementation Records The Enrollee shall maintain records documenting the Enrollee’s implementation of its Sewer System Management Plan, including documents supporting its Sewer System Management Plan audits, corrections, modifications, and updates to the Sewer System Management Plan.
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4.7. Audit Records
The Enrollee shall maintain, at minimum, the following records pertaining to its Sewer System Management Plan audits, and other internal audits:
• Completed audit documents and findings;
• Name and contact information of staff and/or consultants that conducted or involved in the audit; and
• Follow-up actions based on audit findings.

4.8. Equipment Records
The Enrollee shall maintain a log of all owned and leased sewer system cleaning, operational, maintenance, construction, and rehabilitation equipment.

4.9. Work Orders
The Enrollee shall maintain record of work orders for operations and maintenance projects.
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ATTACHMENT E2 – SUMMARY OF NOTIFICATION, MONITORING AND REPORTING

REQUIREMENTS
This Attachment provides a summary of notification, monitoring and reporting requirements, by spill category, and for Enrollee-owned and/or operated laterals as required in Attachment E1 of this General Order, for quick reference purposes only.

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Spill Category 1: Spills to Surface Waters
Spill
Requirement Due Method
Notification
Within two (2) hours of the Enrollee’s knowledge of
a Category 1 spill of 1,000 gallons or greater,
discharging or threatening to discharge to surface
waters:

Notify the California Office of Emergency Services
and obtain a notification control number.

California Office
of Emergency
Services at:
(800) 852-7550
(Section 1 of
Attachment E1)
Monitoring
• Conduct spill-specific monitoring;
• Conduct water quality sampling of the receiving
water within 18 hours of initial knowledge of spill of
50,000 gallons or greater to surface waters.
(Section 2 of
Attachment E1)
Reporting
• Submit Draft Spill Report within three (3)
business days of the Enrollee’s knowledge of the
spill;
• Submit Certified Spill Report within 15 calendar
days of the spill end date;
• Submit Technical Report within 45 calendar days
after the spill end date for a Category 1 spill in
which 50,000 gallons or greater discharged to
surface waters; and
• Submit Amended Spill Report within 90 calendar
days after the spill end date.
(Section 3.1 of
Attachment E1)

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Spill Category 2: Spills of 1,000 Gallons or Greater That Do Not Discharge to Surface Waters
Spill
Requirements Due Method
Notification
Within two (2) hours of the Enrollee’s knowledge of
a Category 2 spill of 1,000 gallons or greater,
discharging or threatening to discharge to waters of
the State:

Notify California Office of Emergency Services and
obtain a notification control number.

California Office of
Emergency
Services at: (800)
852-7550
(Section 1 of
Attachment E1)
Monitoring Conduct spill-specific monitoring. (Section 2 of Attachment E1)
Reporting
• Submit Draft Spill Report within three (3)
business days of the Enrollee’s knowledge of the
spill;
• Submit Certified Spill Report within 15 calendar
days of the spill end date; and
• Submit Amended Spill Report within 90 calendar
days after the spill end date.
(Section 3.2 of
Attachment E1)

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Spill Category 3: Spills of Equal or Greater than 50 Gallons and Less than 1,000 Gallons That Does Not Discharge to Surface Waters
Spill
Requirements Due Method
Notification Not Applicable Not Applicable
Monitoring Conduct spill-specific monitoring. (Section 2 of Attachment E1)
Reporting
• Submit monthly Certified Spill Report to the online
CIWQS Sanitary Sewer System Database within
30 calendars days after the end of the month in
which the spills occur; and
• Submit Amended Spill Reports within 90 calendar
days after the Certified Spill Report due date.
(Section 3.3 and 3.5 of
Attachment E1)
Table E2-4
Spill Category 4: Spills Less Than 50 Gallons That Do Not Discharge to Surface Waters Spill
Requirements Due Method
Notification Not Applicable Not Applicable
Monitoring Conduct spill-specific monitoring. (Section 2 of Attachment E1)
Reporting
• If, during any calendar month, Category 4 spills
occur, certify monthly, the estimated total spill
volume exiting the sanitary sewer system, and the
total number of all Category 4 spills into the online
CIWQS Sanitary Sewer System Database, within
30 days after the end of the calendar month in
which the spills occurred.
• Upload and certify a report, in an acceptable digital format, of all Category 4 spills to the online CIWQS
Sanitary Sewer System Database, by February 1st
after the end of the calendar year in which the
spills occur.
(Section 3.4, 3.6, 3.7
and 4.4 of Attachment
E1)

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MONITORING AND REPORTING REQUIREMENTS
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Table E2-5
Enrollee Owned and/or Operated Lateral Spills That Do Not Discharge to Surface Waters Spill
Requirements Due Method
Notification
Within two (2) hours of the Enrollee’s knowledge of a
spill of 1,000 gallons or greater, from an enrollee-
owned and/or operated lateral, discharging or
threatening to discharge to waters of the State:

Notify California Office of Emergency Services and
obtain a notification control number.

Not applicable to a spill of less than 1,000 gallons.

California Office of
Emergency Services
at: (800) 852-7550

(Section 1 of Attachment
E1)
Monitoring Conduct visual monitoring. (Section 2 of Attachment E1)
Reporting
• Upload and certify a report, in an acceptable digital format, of all lateral spills (that do not discharge to a surface water) to the online CIWQS Sanitary
Sewer System Database, by February 1st after the
end of the calendar year in which the spills occur.
• Report a lateral spill of any volume that discharges
to a surface water as a Category 1 spill.
(Sections 3.6, 3.7 and

4.4 of Attachment E1)

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BOARD CONTACT INFORMATION
F - 1

ATTACHMENT F – REGIONAL WATER QUALITY CONTROL BOARD CONTACT

INFORMATION
This Attachment provides a map, list of counties, and contact information to assist the Enrollee in identifying the corresponding Regional Water Quality Control Board office, for all Regional Water Board notification requirements in this General Order.

Region 1 -- North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board:

Del Norte, Glenn, Humboldt, Lake, Marin, Mendocino, Modoc, Siskiyou, Sonoma, and Trinity counties.

[email protected] or (707) 576-2220
Region 2 -- San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board:

Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, Santa Clara (Northern most part of Morgan Hill), San Mateo, Marin, Sonoma, Napa, Solano counties.

[email protected] or (510) 622-2369
Region 3 -- Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board:

Santa Clara (most of Morgan Hill), San Mateo (Southern portion), Santa Cruz, San Benito, Monterey, Kern (small portions), San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura (Northern portion) counties.

[email protected] or (805) 549-3147
Region 4 -- Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board:

Los Angeles, Ventura counties (small portions of Kern and Santa Barbara counties). [email protected] or (213) 576-6600
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Region 5 -- Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board:

Rancho Cordova (Sacramento) Office: Colusa, Lake, Sutter, Yuba, Sierra, Nevada, Placer, Yolo, Napa, (North East), Solano (West), Sacramento, El Dorado, Amador, Calaveras, San Joaquin, Contra Costa (East), Stanislaus, Tuolumne counties.

[email protected] or (916) 464-3291 Fresno Office: Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, and Tulare counties, and small portions of San Benito and San Luis Obispo counties.

[email protected] or (559) 445-5116 Redding Office: Butte, Glen, Lassen, Modoc, Plumas, Shasta, Siskiyou, and Tehama counties.

[email protected] or (530) 224-4845 Region 6 -- Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board:

Lake Tahoe Office: Alpine, Modoc (East), Lassen (East side and Eagle Lake), Sierra, Nevada, Placer, El Dorado counties.

[email protected] or (530) 542-5400 Victorville Office: Mono, Inyo, Kern (East), San Bernardino, Los Angeles (North East corner) counties.

[email protected] or (760) 241-6583 Region 7 -- Colorado River Basin Regional Water Quality Control Board:

Imperial county and portions of San Bernardino, Riverside, San Diego counties.

[email protected] or (760) 346-7491
Region 8 -- Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board:

Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino counties.

[email protected] or (951) 782-4130
Region 9 -- San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board:

San Diego county and portions of Orange and Riverside counties.

[email protected] or (619) 516-1990

End of Order 2022-0103-DWQ
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City of Oxnard Water Resource Recovery Facility
Sewer System Management Plan 2025

APPENDIX II
City of Oxnard Municipal Code Chapter 19
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ARTICLE I. SEWERAGE SYSTEM; WASTEWATER DISPOSAL
DIVISION 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
SEC. 19-1. PURPOSE AND POLICY.
(A) This article sets forth uniform requirements for users of the municipal wastewater system of the city (system) and enables the city to comply with all applicable State and federal laws including the Clean Water Act (33 USC Sections 1251 et seq.), general pretreatment regulations (40 CFR Part 403), and the requirements of the city's national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit. The objectives of this article are:
(1) To prevent the introduction of pollutants into the system that will pass through the system inadequately treated, enter receiving waters, or otherwise interfere with or be incompatible with the system;
(2) To protect city employees who may be affected by wastewater and sludge in the course of their employment and the general public;
(3) To promote reuse and recycling of wastewater and biosolids from the system; (4) To provide for fees for the equitable distribution of the cost of operation, maintenance and improvement of the system; and
(5) To enable city to comply with its NPDES permit conditions, sludge use and disposal requirements and any other federal or State laws and regulations to which the system is subject. (B) This article authorizes the issuance of industrial wastewater discharge permits; authorizes monitoring, compliance, and enforcement activities; establishes administrative review procedures; requires user reporting; and provides for the setting of fees for the equitable distribution of costs resulting from the program established herein.
(C) This article shall apply to all persons within the city who use the system and to persons outside the city who, by contract with the city, are included as users of the system. By discharging wastewater into the system, users located beyond the city limits agree to comply with the terms and conditions established in this article, as well as any permits, contracts or orders issued hereunder. (`64 Code, Sec. 25-1) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-2. ADMINISTRATION.
(A) Except as otherwise provided herein, the city manager shall administer, implement and enforce the provisions of this article.
(B) The city manager is authorized to promulgate regulations and standards reasonably necessary to protect the system, to comply with all applicable federal and State laws required by the Act and the general pretreatment regulations, to control and regulate the proper use of the system, to regulate the rate of flow and the quality and quantity of wastewater discharges to the system, to prevent overflow, and to provide for the issuance, suspension or revocation of industrial wastewater discharge (IWD) permits; provided, however, the regulations shall be consistent with the provisions of this article and formulated to result in the uniform control of the system. (`64 Code, Sec. 25-2) (Ord. No. 2494)
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SEC. 19-3. ABBREVIATIONS.

For purposes of this article, the following abbreviations, shall have the designated meanings:
(A) BOD – biochemical oxygen demand;
(B) BMP – Best Management Practice;
(C) BMR - Baseline Monitoring Report;
(D) CASA - California Association of Sanitary Agencies; (E) CFR – Code of Federal Regulations;
(F) CIU - Categorical Industrial User;
(G) COD – chemical oxygen demand;
(H) DIU - dental industrial user;
(I) EPA – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency;
(J) gpd - gallons per day;
(K) IU - Industrial User;
(L) IWD - industrial wastewater discharge;
(M) LC50 - lethal concentration for 50 percent of the test organisms; (N) L - liter;
(O) MAIL - maximum allowable industrial loading;
(P) mg - milligrams, mg,/l - milligrams per liter;
(Q) NPDES - national pollutant discharge elimination system; (R) NSCIU - Non-Significant Categorical Industrial User; (S) O&M - operation and maintenance;
(T) POTW - publicly owned treatment works;
(U) RCRA - Resource Conservation and Recovery Act;
(V) SIC - Standard Industrial Classification;
(W) SIU - Significant Industrial User;
(X) SNC - Significant Noncompliance;
(Y) SWDA - Solid Waste Disposal Act (42 USC Sections 6901 et seq.); (Z) TDS - total dissolved solids;
(AA) TOMP - toxic organics management plan;
(BB) TSS — total suspended solids;
(CC) TTO - total toxic organics; and
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(DD) USC - United States Code.
(`64 Code, Sec. 25-3) (Ord. No. 2494, 2761, 2997)
SEC. 19-4. DEFINITIONS.

For the purposes of this article, the following words shall have the following meanings:
(A) ACT - The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 USC Sections 1251 et seq.
(B) APPROVAL AUTHORITY - California State Water Resources Control Board or Regional Water Quality Control Board, Los Angeles Region.
(C) AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE USER -
(1) If the user is a corporation, a responsible corporate officer. For the purpose of this paragraph, a responsible corporate officer means:
(a) The president, secretary, treasurer, or a vice-president of the corporation in charge of a principal business function, or any other person who performs similar policy or decision-making functions for the corporation; or
(b) The manager of one or more manufacturing, production, or operating facilities, provided the manager is authorized to make management decisions which govern the operation of the regulated facility, including having the explicit or implicit duty of making major capital investment recommendations, and to initiate and direct other comprehensive measures to assure long-term environmental compliance with environmental laws and regulations; can ensure that the necessary systems are established or actions taken to gather complete and accurate information for control mechanism requirements; and where authority to sign documents has been assigned or delegated to the manager in accordance with corporate procedures. (2) If the user is a partnership or sole proprietorship, a general partner or proprietor, respectively.
(3) If the user is a federal, State, or local government entity, the principal executive officer or director having responsibility for the overall operation of the discharging facility. (4) A duly authorized representative of the individual designated in subsections (1), (2), or (3) of this subsection (C) if:
(a) The authorization is made in writing by the individual described in paragraph (1), (2), or (3);
(b) The authorization specifies either an individual or a position having responsibility for the overall operation of the facility from which the discharge originates, such as the position of plant manager, operator of a well, or a well field superintendent, or a position of equivalent responsibility, or having overall responsibility for environmental matters for the company; and (c) The written authorization is submitted to the city. (D) BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND - Quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic material under standard laboratory procedures for 5 days at 20 degrees centigrade, usually expressed as a concentration such as mg/l. (E) BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES (BMPs) - The schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices to implement the prohibitions 467
listed in Section 19-25(A) and (B) [40 CFR 403.5(a)(1) and (b)] including treatment requirements, operating procedures, practices to control plant site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge or waste disposal, or drainage from raw materials storage and also including alternative means (i.e., management plans) of complying with, or in place of certain established categorical Pretreatment Standards and effluent limits.
(F) BUILDING SEWER - A sewer conveying wastewater from the premises of a person to the public sewer, private sewer, individual wastewater disposal system or other approved point of disposal.
(G) BYPASS - The intentional diversion of waste and/or wastewater from any portion of a user's pretreatment facility.
(H) CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD or CATEGORICAL STANDARD - Any regulation containing pollutant discharge limits promulgated by the EPA in accordance with Section 307(b) and (c) of the Act (33 USC Section 1317) that apply to a specific category of users and that appear in 40 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter N, Parts 405-471, incorporated herein by reference. (I) CATEGORICAL INDUSTRIAL USER - An industrial user subject to a categorical pretreatment standard or categorical standard.
(J) [CITY] - The City of Oxnard or the City Council of Oxnard. (K) CITY MANAGER - The Oxnard City Manager or their designee. (L) CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (COD) - A measure of the oxygen required to oxidize all compounds, both organic and inorganic, in water.
(M) COLOR - The optical density at visual wave length of maximum absorption, relative to distilled water in which 100% transmittance is equivalent to zero optical density. (N) COMPLIANCE SCHEDULE - A schedule containing increments of progress, in the form of dates, for the commencement and completion of major events leading to the construction and operation of pretreatment equipment and/or systems required for the user to meet applicable pretreatment standards.
(O) COMPOSITE SAMPLE - The sample resulting from the combination of individual wastewater samples taken at selected intervals, based on an increment of either flow or time. (P) CONNECTION - The part of any sewer extending from a sewer main in a public easement or right-of-way to private property for exclusive use of the property. (Q) CONTROL AUTHORITY - The city.
(R) COOLING WATER - The water discharged from any use, including but not limited to, air conditioning, cooling or refrigeration units to which the only pollutant added is heat. (S) DAILY MAXIMUM - The arithmetic average of all effluent samples for a pollutant collected during a calendar day.
(T) DAILY MAXIMUM LIMIT - The maximum allowable discharge limit of a pollutant during a calendar day. Where daily maximum limits are expressed in units of mass, the daily discharge is the total mass discharged over the course of the day. Where daily maximum limits are expressed in terms of a concentration, the daily discharge is the arithmetic average measurement of the pollutant concentration derived from all measurements taken that day. (U) DENTAL INDUSTRIAL USER also known as a DENTAL DISCHARGER - A facility where 468
the practice of dentistry is performed that discharges wastewater to a publicly owned treatment works (POTW), including, but not limited to, institutions, permanent or temporary offices, clinics, home offices, and facilities owned and operated by Federal, state or local governments. (V) DISCHARGE - The discharge or the introduction of pollutants into the system by a person. (W) DOMESTIC WASTEWATER - Human excrement and gray water from such uses as household showers and dish washing.
(X) ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or, where appropriate, the regional water management division director, or other duly authorized official.
(Y) EXISTING SOURCE - Any source of discharge, the construction or operation of which commenced prior to the publication by EPA of proposed categorical pretreatment standards, which will be applicable to such source if the standard is thereafter promulgated in accordance with Section 307 of the Act.
(Z) FEE - Any charge assessed to a person associated with the use, or continued use, of any portion of the system and includes, but is not limited to, a charge for connection or tap for new customers; monthly sewer service; IWD permit; excess capacity connection; wastewater treatment; excessive wastewater strength; laboratory testing; waste hauler’s permit; oversize sewer; and noncompliance.
(AA) FOOD ESTABLISHMENT - Any facility engaged in the preparation of food products for sale. A facility engaged in the sale of food products that are wholly prepared off-site is not included within this definition.
(BB) FORMULA USERS - Those users who are regulated under the IWD permit system and billed according to a formula based on the measured or set strength and volume of their wastewater discharged.
(CC) GARBAGE - The putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation and consumption of foods.
(DD) GRAB SAMPLE - A sample which is taken from a waste stream without regard to the flow in the waste stream and over a period of time not to exceed 15 minutes. (EE) GRAVITY SEPARATION DEVICE - A device designed, constructed, and operated for the purpose of retaining sand, silt, grit, mineral material, and oil by gravity-differential separation from wastewater.
(FF) GREASE - A varied group of compounds having the common properties of immiscibility with water and a specific gravity lower than water as determined by appropriate procedures set forth in 40 CFR Part 136.
(GG) GREASE INTERCEPTOR or INTERCEPTOR - A device of at least 750 gallon capacity designed, constructed, and operated to separate and retain grease while permitting the wastewater to be discharged into the system.
(HH) GROUND GARBAGE - The residue from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that has been shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely in suspension under the flow conditions normally prevailing in a public sewer, with no particle greater than 1/2-inch in any dimension.
(II) HOLDING TANK WASTEWATER - Any wastewater from holding tanks including, but not 469
limited to, vessels, chemical toilets, campers, trailers, septic tanks, and vacuum-pump tank trucks. (JJ) INDIRECT DISCHARGE - The introduction of pollutants into the system from any non- domestic source regulated under Section 307 (b), (c), or (d) of the Act. (KK) INDUSTRIAL USER - Any producing, manufacturing, processing, institutional, commercial, agricultural or similar person that discharges, directly or indirectly, wastewater into the system that is solid, liquid or gaseous waste and contains pollutants different from, or stronger than, or with constituents other than those defined for domestic wastewater. (LL) INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER - Any non-domestic, liquid byproduct produced as a result of business operations, whether treated or untreated, which is discharged into or permitted to enter the POTW.
(MM) INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER DISCHARGE PERMIT or PERMIT - A conditionally written authorization to allow a user to utilize the system for the discharge of industrial wastewater. (NN) INSTANTANEOUS MAXIMUM DISCHARGE LIMIT - The maximum concentration of a pollutant allowed to be discharged at any time, determined from the analysis of any discrete or composited sample collected, independent of the industrial flow rate and the duration of the sampling event.
(OO) INTERFERENCE - A discharge that, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, inhibits or disrupts the system, its treatment processes or operations or its biosolids processes, use or disposal, and that is therefore a cause of a violation of the city’s NPDES permit or of the prevention of biosolids use or disposal in compliance with all applicable federal, State, or local regulations, including but not limited to: Section 405 of the Act, the SWDA, including Title II, commonly referred to as RCRA, any and all federal and State clean air acts, the Toxic Substances Control Act, and the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act. (PP) LOCAL LIMIT - Specific discharge limits developed and enforced by [the City] upon industrial or commercial facilities to implement the general and specific discharge prohibitions listed in 40 CFR 403.5(a)(1) and (b).
(QQ) MASS EMISSION RATE - The weight of material discharged to the system during a given time interval. Unless otherwise specified, the mass emission rate shall mean pounds per day of a particular constituent or combination of constituents.
(RR) MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE INDUSTRIAL LOADING (MAIL) - The maximum loading of a pollutant that can be received at a POTW's headworks from all permitted industrial users and other controlled sources without causing pass through or interference. (SS) MEDICAL WASTE - Isolation wastes, infectious agents, human blood and blood products, pathological wastes, sharps, body parts, contaminated bedding, surgical wastes, potentially contaminated laboratory wastes, and dialysis wastes.
(TT) MONITORING FACILITIES - An approved opening to a building sewer for the purpose of inspection, sampling and/or flow measurement.
(UU) MONTHLY AVERAGE - The sum of all “daily discharges” measured during a calendar month divided by the number of “daily discharges” measured during that month. (VV) MONTHLY AVERAGE LIMIT - The highest allowable average of “daily discharges” over a calendar month, calculated as the sum of all “daily discharges” measured during a calendar month divided by the number of “daily discharges” measured during that month. 470
(WW) MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER SYSTEM or SYSTEM - A “treatment works,” as defined by Section 212 of the Act, owned by the city and includes any devices or systems used in the collection, storage, treatment, recycling and reclamation of wastewater (domestic or industrial) and any conveyances which convey wastewater to the treatment plant. (XX) NARRATIVE STANDARD or NARRATIVE LIMIT - Any statement of prohibition or condition on a discharge established in this chapter that is not a local limit. Narrative standards include, but are not limited to prohibited discharge standards and best management practices. (YY) NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (NPDES) PERMIT - A permit issued pursuant to Section 402 of the Act.
(ZZ) NATIONAL PROHIBITIVE DISCHARGE STANDARD or PROHIBITIVE DISCHARGE STANDARD - Any regulation developed under the authority of Section 307(b) of the Act. (AAA) NEW SOURCE -
(1) Any building structure, facility, or installation from which there is (or may be) a discharge of pollutants, the construction of which commenced after the publication of proposed pretreatment standards under Section 307(c) of the Act which will be applicable to such source if such standards are thereafter promulgated in accordance with that section, provided that:
(a) The building, structure, facility, or installation is constructed at a site at which no other source is located; or
(b) The building, structure, facility, or installation totally replaces the process or production equipment that causes the discharge or pollutants at an existing source; or (c) The production or wastewater generating processes of the building, structure, facility or installation are substantially independent of an existing source at the same site. In determining whether these are substantially independent, factors such as the extent to which the new facility is integrated with the existing plant, and the extent to which the new facility is engaged in the same general type of activity as the existing source, should be considered. (2) Construction on a site at which an existing source is located and results in a modification rather than a new source if the construction does not create a new building, structure, facility, or installation meeting the criteria of subdivisions (1)(b) or (1)(c) above, but otherwise alters, replaces, or adds to existing process or production equipment.
(3) Construction of a new source, as defined under this subsection, has commenced if the owner or operator has:
(a) Begun, or caused to begin, as part of a continuous on-site construction program:

1. Any placement, assembly, or installation of facilities or equipment; or

2. Significant site preparation work including clearing, excavation or removal of existing buildings, structures, or facilities which is necessary for the placement, assembly, or installation of new source facilities or equipment; or
(b) Entered into a binding contractual obligation for the purchase of facilities or equipment which are intended to be used in its operation within a reasonable time. Options to purchase or contracts which can be terminated or modified without substantial loss, and contracts for feasibility, engineering, and design studies do not constitute a contractual obligation under this subsection. (BBB) NONCONTACT COOLING WATER - Water used for cooling which does not come into 471
direct contact with any raw material, intermediate product, waste product, or finished product. (CCC) PASS THROUGH - A discharge that exits the system into waters of the United States in quantities or concentrations which, alone or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the city’s NPDES permit, including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation.
(DDD) PERSON - Any individual, partnership, co-partnership, firm, company, corporation, association, joint stock company, trust, estate, governmental entity or any other legal entity, or their legal representatives, agents or assigns; and including all federal, State and local governmental entities.
(EEE) pH - A measure of the acidity or alkalinity of a substance, expressed in standard units. (FFF) POLLUTANT - Dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, filter backwash, domestic wastewater, garbage, sludge, munitions, medical wastes, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discharge equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, municipal, agricultural and industrial wastes and certain characteristics of the wastewater (e.g., pH, temperature, TSS, turbidity, color, BOD, COD, toxicity, or odor). (GGG) PRETREATMENT or TREATMENT - The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater prior to, or in lieu of, introducing such pollutants into the system. Such pretreatment or treatment can be accomplished by physical, chemical, biological processes, or by other means, with the exception of diluting the concentration of the pollutant unless allowed by an applicable pretreatment standard. (HHH) PRETREATMENT FACILITY - Any works or device for the treatment or flow limitation of domestic wastewater, liquid waste, industrial waste or industrial wastewater prior to discharge into the system.
(III) PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS - Any substantive or procedural requirement related to pretreatment imposed on a user, other than a pretreatment standard. (JJJ) PRETREATMENT STANDARDS or STANDARDS - Prohibited discharge standards, categorical pretreatment standards, and/or local limits. (KKK) PRIVATE SEWER - A sewer, other than a connection, laid by a person to serve one or more buildings, so as to connect a building to a public sewer and irrespective of whether the sewer is constructed on public or private property.
(LLL) PRIVATE WASTEWATER DISPOSAL SYSTEM - A septic tank with the effluent discharging into a subsurface disposal field, into one or more seepage pits or into a combination of subsurface disposal field and seepage pit or other wastewater holding facilities. (MMM) PROHIBITED DISCHARGE STANDARDS or PROHIBITED DISCHARGE - Absolute prohibitions against the discharge of certain substances; these prohibitions appear in section 19-25 of this article.
(NNN) PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW) - A treatment works, as defined by section 212 of the Act (33 U.S.C. section 1292), which is owned by a State or municipality (as defined by section 502(4) of the Act). This definition includes any devices or systems used in the storage, treatment, recycling, and reclamation of sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid nature. It also includes sewers, pipes and other conveyances only if they convey wastewater to a POTW treatment plant. The term also means the municipality as defined in section 502(4) of the Act, which has jurisdiction over the indirect discharges to and the discharges from such a treatment works. 472
(OOO) RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL - Material containing chemical elements that spontaneously change their atomic structure by emitting any particles, rays or energy forms in excess of normal background radiation.
(PPP) SEEPAGE PIT - A lined excavation in the ground which receives the discharge of a septic tank and is designed to permit the effluent from the septic tank to seep through its bottom and side. (QQQ) SEPTAGE - Any domestic wastewater from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets, campers, trailers, and septic tanks.
(RRR) SEPTIC TANK - A watertight receptacle which receives the domestic wastewater discharge of a building and is designed and constructed to separate solids from the liquid, digest organic matter through a period of detention and allow the liquid to discharge into the soil outside of the tank through a system of open joint or perforated piping or a seepage pit. (SSS) SETTLEABLE SOLIDS - Any solid that will settle out of a liquid in a specified interval of time as determined by appropriate procedures set forth in 40 CFR 136. (TTT) SEWAGE - Human excrement and gray water (household showers, dishwashing operations, etc.).
(UUU) SEWER - A pipe or conduit together with appurtenances for carrying wastewater. (VVV) SIGNIFICANT CHANGE - Plus or minus 25% in an industrial user’s typical discharge pattern, flow rate, peak flow rate, constituents, concentration of constituents or characteristics. (WWW) SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER -
(1) A user subject to categorical pretreatment standards; or (2) A user that:
(a) Discharges an average of 10,000 gpd or more of industrial wastewater to the system; (b) Contributes a waste stream which makes up 5% or more of the average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the system; or
(c) Is designated as such by the city on the basis that it has a reasonable potential for adversely affecting the system’s operation or for violating a pretreatment standard or requirement. (3) The [City] may determine that an industrial user subject to categorical pretreatment standards is a non-significant categorical industrial user rather than a significant industrial user on a finding that the industrial user never discharges more than 100 gallons per day (gpd) of total categorical wastewater (excluding sanitary, non-contact cooling and boiler blowdown wastewater, unless specifically included in the pretreatment standard) and the following conditions are met:
(a) The industrial user, prior to [City’s] finding, has consistently complied with all applicable categorical pretreatment standards and requirements;
(b) The industrial user annually submits the certification statement required in 40 CFR 403.12(q), together with any additional information necessary to support the certification statement; and
(c) The industrial user never discharges any untreated concentrated wastewater. (4) Upon a finding that a user meeting the criteria in subdivision (2) above has no reasonable potential for adversely affecting the system operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or 473
requirement, the city may at any time, on its own initiative or in response to a petition received from a user, and in accordance with procedures in 40 CFR Part 403.8(f)(6), determine that such user should not be considered a significant industrial user. (XXX) SLUG LOAD or SLUG DISCHARGE - Any discharge at a flow rate or concentration, which could cause a violation of the prohibited discharge standards in this chapter. A slug discharge is any discharge of a non-routine, episodic nature, including, but not limited to, an accidental spill or a non-customary batch discharge, which has a reasonable potential to cause interference or pass through, or in any other way violate the POTWs regulations, local limits or permit conditions.
(YYY) STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (SIC) - A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, latest edition, issued by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget.
(ZZZ) STANDARD METHODS - Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, latest edition, published by American Water Works Association, Water Environment Association, and the American Public Health Association, 1015 18th Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20036.
(AAAA) STANDARD SPECIFICATIONS - The current edition of standards and requirements relating to size, quantity, quality and performance, including standard drawing, as detailed and made available by the city.
(BBBB) STATE - State of California.
(CCCC) STORM WATER - Any flow occurring during or following any form of natural precipitation, and resulting from such precipitation, including snowmelts. (DDDD) SUSPENDED SOLIDS - The total suspended matter in wastewater, as determined by the appropriate procedures set forth in 40 CFR Part 136. (EEEE) TOTAL DISSOLVED SOLIDS - The solid matter in solution in wastewater, as determined by the appropriate procedures set forth in 40 CFR Part 136. (FFFF) TOTAL TOXIC ORGANICS - The summation of all quantifiable values greater than 0.01 milligrams per liter, subject to the local limits established pursuant to section 19-26 of this article, for the following toxic organics: Acenaphthene, Acrolein, Acrylonitrile, Benzene, Benzidine, Carbon tetrachloride (tetrachloromethane), Chlorobenzene, 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene, Hexachlorobenzene, 1,2-dichloroethane, 1,1,1-trichloroethane, Hexachloroethane, 1,1-dichloroethane, 1,1,2- trichloroethane, 1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane, Chloroethane, Bis (2-chloroethyl) ether, 2-chloroethyl vinyl ether (mixed), 2-chloronaphthalene, 2,4,6-trichlorophenol, Parachlorometa cresol, Chloroform (trichloromethane), 2-chlorophenol, 1,2-dichlorobenzene, 1,3-dichlorobenzene, 1,4- dichlorobenzene, 3,3-dichlorobenzidine, 1,1-dichloroethylene, 1,2-trans-dichloroethylene, 2,4- dichlorophenol, 1,2-dichloropropane, 1,3-dichloropropylene (1,3-dichloropropene), 2,4- dimethylphenol, 2,4-dinitrotoluene, 2,6-dinitrotoluene, 1,2-diphenylhydrazine, Ethylbenzene, Fluoranthene, 4-chlorophenyl phenyl ether, 4-bromophenyl phenyl ether, Bis (2-chloroisopropyl) ether, Bis (2-chloroethoxy) methane, Methylene chloride (dichloromethane), Methyl chloride (chloromethane), Methyl bromide (bromomethane), Bromoform (tribromomethane), Dichlorobromomethane, Chlorodibromomethane, Hexachlorobutadiene, Hexachlorocyclopentadiene, Isophorone, Naphthalene, Nitrobenzene, 2-nitrophenol, 4-nitrophenol, 2,4-dinitrophenol, 4,6-dinitro-o-cresol, N-nitrosodimethylamine, N-nitrosodiphenylamine, N- nitrosodi-n-propylamine, Pentachlorophenol, Phenol, Bis (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate, Butyl benzyl phthalate, Di-n-butyl phthalate, Di-n-octyl phthalate, Diethyl phthalate, Dimethyl phthalate, 1,2- 474
benzanthracene (benzo(a)anthracene), Benzo(a)pyrene (3,4-benzopyrene), 3,4-Benzofluoranthene (benzo(b)fluoranthene), 11,12-benzofluoranthene (benzo(k)fluoranthene), Chrysene, Acenaphthylene, Anthracene, 1,12-benzoperylene (benzo(ghi)perylene), Fluorene, Phenanthrene, 1,2,5,6-dibenzanthracene (dibenzo(a,h)anthracene), Indeno (1,2,3-cd) pyrene) (2,3 o-phenylene pyrene), Pyrene, Tetrachloroethylene, Toluene, Trichloroethylene, Vinyl chloride (chloroethylene), Aldrin, Dieldrin, Chlordane (technical mixture and metabolites), 4,4-DDT, 4,4-DDE (p,p-DDX), 4,4- DDD (p,p-TDE), Alpha-endosulfan, Beta-endosulfan, Endosulfan sulfate, Endrin, Endrin aldehyde, Heptachlor, Heptachlor epoxide, (BHC-hexachlorocyclohexane): Alpha-BHC, Beta-BHC, Gamma- BHC, Delta-BHC, (PCB-polychlorinated biphenyls): PCB-1242 (Arochlor 1242), PCB-1254 (Arochlor 1254), PCB-1221 (Arochlor 1221), PCB-1232 (Arochlor 1232), PCB-1248 (Arochlor 1248), PCB-1260 (Arochlor 1260), PCB-1016 (Arochlor 1016), Toxaphene, 2,3,7,8- tetrachlorodibenzo- p-dioxin (TCDD).
(GGGG) TOXIC ORGANICS MANAGEMENT PLAN - A strategy for keeping track of all solvents delivered to a site, their storage, use, and disposal. This includes keeping spent solvents segregated from other process wastewaters to maximize the value of the recoverable solvents, to avoid contamination of other segregated wastes, and to prevent the discharge of toxic organics to any wastewater collection system or the environment. The plan should describe measures to control spills and leaks and to ensure that there is no deliberate dumping of solvents. Also known as a solvent management plan.
(HHHH) TOXIC POLLUTANT - The pollutants, or combination of pollutants, listed as toxic in regulations promulgated by the EPA (40 CFR Part 401.15) under authority of Section 307(a)(1) of the Act.
(IIII) UNCONTAMINATED WATER - Any water not contaminated or polluted with sewage or other waste and which is suitable for discharge into the storm water drainage system, excluding unlined natural water courses.
(JJJJ) UPSET - An exceptional incident in which there is unintentional and temporary noncompliance with categorical and/or local pretreatment standards because of factors beyond the reasonable control of the industrial user; this does not include noncompliance to the extent caused by operational error, improperly designed treatment facilities, inadequate treatment facilities, lack of preventive maintenance, or careless or improper operation. (KKKK) USER - A source of direct or indirect discharge. (LLLL) WASTEWATER - Liquid and water-carried industrial wastes and domestic wastewater from residential dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial and manufacturing facilities, and institutions, whether treated or untreated, which are contributed directly or indirectly to the system. (MMMM) WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT or TREATMENT PLANT - That portion of the system designed to provide treatment of domestic and industrial wastewater. (`64 Code, Sec. 25-4) (Ord. No. 2494, 2761, 2875, 2997) DIVISION 2. WASTEWATER COLLECTION/CONVEYANCE SYSTEM
SEC. 19-10. SERVICE CONNECTIONS.
(A) Sewer service connections may be made to either publicly or privately owned and maintained authorized collection systems. No person shall connect any private property in the city to the system without first obtaining a connection permit issued by the city manager and paying to the city the connection fee required therefore.
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(B) The number of connection permits required for any development shall be based upon the number of sewer service connections. A separate sewer connection is normally required for each detached building.
(C) Food establishments and commercial laundries shall have a separate water connection from other users in the same building.
(D) The city manager may impose other requirements if the city manager determines that public health and safety, system protection, maintenance costs, or liability concerns so dictate. (E) In order for the city to have sufficient information to make a determination of appropriate fees, building permit applicants shall submit sewer service plumbing plans prepared by a registered engineer or project architect in conjunction with the building permit application for all new and replacement structures. The plumbing and irrigation plans shall show all the proposed line sizes and locations.
(F) Every connection, disconnection and permanent blocking or plugging made between private property and the system shall be made in the manner and with the material required by the specifications for public sewers approved by the city and in accordance with the city's specifications for construction.
(`64 Code, Sec. 25-5) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-11. CONNECTION TO MAINS TO BE MAINTAINED BY OWNER.

All connections, including the lateral, wye or saddle at the city's sewer, shall be maintained at the expense of the property owner of which the connection originates. (`64 Code, Sec. 25-6) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-12. DEMOLITION AND ABANDONMENT OF SERVICES PREMISES.

The owner of property connected to the system shall disconnect or permanently block or plug connections when further use of the property, for any purpose requiring the connection, is abandoned or when the structure or facility on the property requiring the connection is demolished without replacement. A public works permit for abandonment of sewer lateral shall be required prior to commencement of abandonment. If a property owner or his/her agent has failed to so effect the disconnection or blockage, the city manager may disconnect or block the connection, and the cost thereof shall be deemed a debt to the city and shall be charged to the owner. (`64 Code, Sec. 25-7) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-13. AVAILABILITY OF CAPACITY: RESTRICTION OF DISCHARGE RATE. (A) If the system capacity is not available, the city manager may restrict discharge until sufficient capacity is made available. The city manager may refuse immediate service to any new facility located in an area where there is insufficient capacity in the system to accommodate the proposed quantity of the wastewater.
(B) The city manager may restrict the rate of discharge into the system during the peak flow hours (8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.) or at any other time when required to prevent the overloading of the system. A discharger so restricted shall be required either to curtail the rate of discharge or to provide approved storage or retention facilities for the wastewater. Wastewater so retained may be discharged into the system between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m., or during other periods and at a rate of flow prescribed by the city manager.
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(`64 Code, Sec. 25-8) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-14. EXCESSIVE SEWER MAINTENANCE EXPENSE.

Any person who introduces or causes to be introduced into the system, either directly or indirectly, any pollutant or wastewater which creates a stoppage, plugging, breakage, reduction in the capacity of any portion of the system or any other damage to the system shall be liable for the damage and for maintenance, operation, and replacement expenses, including overhead costs, occasioned thereby. Expense of the damage, any excessive maintenance expense, or any other expenses attributable thereto shall be deemed a debt to the city and shall be charged to the offending person by the city manager.
(`64 Code, Sec. 25-9) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-15. DAMAGE TO CITY'S MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER SYSTEM; CREATION OF OTHER LIABILITY.

Any person who introduces or causes to be introduced into the system, either directly or indirectly, any prohibited pollutant or wastewater which causes detrimental effects to the city's system or treatment plant processes or causes a violation of the city's NPDES permit or other regulation imposed by a regulatory agency shall be liable for all damages and costs occasioned thereby, including any penalty assessed by a regulatory agency. The damages, costs or penalty assessed shall be deemed a debt to the city and shall be charged to the offending person by the city manager.
(`64 Code, Sec. 25-10) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-16. PROVISIONS FOR EXTENSION OF SYSTEM.
(A) In addition to the payment of a connection fee, any person requesting service to a lot that is not adjacent to the system shall be responsible for installation of a sewer extension in dedicated streets, alleys or easements accepted by the city. Sewers shall be installed in sewer easements only when it is not in the public interest for the city to accept dedication of a street or alley in the particular location. The required sewer extension shall include all facilities necessary to serve the property as well as all abutting sewers indicated by the sewer master plan. All construction shall conform to city standards and detailed plans approved by the city manager. The city manager shall determine the size sewer required for the area for which application for service is made. A sewer shall not have an inside diameter of less than eight inches. In the case of sewer trunk mains in the sewer master plan, an appropriate credit against collection fees and cash reimbursement may be allowed in an amount to be determined by the city manager. (B) If sewer facilities that the person would otherwise be required to provide have previously been installed, the person shall be required to pay to the city a sewer charge consisting of a pro rata share of such facilities as determined by the city manager. If such previous installation was made by the applicant or his/her predecessor in interest in the property to which service is desired, the applicant may be entitled to credit in an amount to be determined by the city manager for such installation. Previous installations eligible for these credits must have been made less than 20 years before the application. Credit for previous installations will be applied against sewer charges, but in no event shall such credits be greater than the amount paid for actual construction of the extension.
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the city. All necessary easements shall be granted to the city. (`64 Code, Sec. 25-11) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-17. SPECIAL PROVISION FOR EXTENSION OF SYSTEM.
(A) When an application requires a sewer extension and it is necessary or desirable to design the extension to serve an area or users, actual or potential, in excess for that which the application is made, the applicant may be eligible for a credit for a portion of the design and construction costs for the extension. Any such credit shall be granted in an amount to be determined by the city manager.
(B) If the sewer to be constructed is included in the current sewer master plan implementation schedule, and said sewer is constructed, in part, by the applicant, the city manager may authorize an appropriate credit against the applicant's sewer connection fee. No applicant may receive a credit for more than the total amount of sewer connection fees that would be normally required of the applicant. Any credit granted by the city manager shall only be for the actual engineering and construction costs of the sewer.
(C) Upon completion of a sewer which is not in the current sewer master plan implementation schedule and to which future connections could be made, the city manager shall determine the actual cost thereof and the existing sewer charge against each front foot of abutting property, taking into consideration intersections and other property that would not receive water service. (`64 Code, Sec. 25-12) (Ord. No. 2494)
DIVISION 3. WASTEWATER INTRODUCTION INTO THE CITY'S MUNICIPAL

WASTEWATER SYSTEM
SEC. 19-25. PROHIBITED; DISCHARGE STANDARDS.
(A) No person shall introduce or cause to be introduced to the system, directly or indirectly, any pollutant or wastewater that causes pass through or interference. These general prohibitions apply to all persons, whether or not they are subject to categorical pretreatment standards or any other federal, State or local pretreatment standards or requirements. (B) No person shall introduce or cause to be introduced into the system the following pollutants, substances, or wastewater:
(1) Pollutants that create a fire or explosive hazard in the system, including, but not limited to, waste streams with a closed-cup flashpoint of less than 140 degrees Fahrenheit (60 degrees Celsius) using the test methods specified in 40 CFR Part 261.21; (2) Any pollutant or wastewater having a pH less than 6.0 or more than 10.0, or that may otherwise cause corrosive structural damage to the city system or equipment; (3) Solid or viscous substances in amounts that will cause obstruction of the flow in the system resulting in interference but in no case solids greater than ½-inch (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension;
(4) Pollutants, including oxygen-demanding pollutants, released in a discharge at a flow rate and/or pollutant concentration that, either singly or by interaction with other pollutants, will cause interference with the system;
(5) Wastewater having a temperature greater than 140 degrees Fahrenheit (60 degrees 478
Celsius), or that will inhibit biological activity in the treatment plant resulting in interference, but in no case wastewater that causes the temperature at the introduction into the treatment plant to exceed 104 degrees Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius);
(6) Petroleum oil, nonbiodegradable cutting oil, or products of mineral oil origin, in amounts that will cause interference or pass through;
(7) Pollutants that result in the presence of toxic gases, vapors, or fumes within the system in a quantity that may cause acute worker health and safety problems; (8) Trucked or hauled pollutants, except at discharge points designated by the city manager in accordance with section 19-41 of this article;
(9) Noxious or malodorous liquids, gases, solids, or other wastewater that, either singly or by interaction with other wastes, are sufficient to create a public nuisance or a hazard to life, or to prevent entry into the sewers for maintenance or repair; (10) Wastewater that imparts color that cannot be removed by the treatment process, such as, but not limited to, dye wastes and vegetable tanning solutions, which consequently imparts color to the treatment plant's effluent, thereby violating the city's NPDES permit; (11) Wastewater containing any radioactive wastes or isotopes except in compliance with applicable State or federal regulations;
(12) Storm water, surface water, ground water, artesian well water, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, swimming pool drainage, condensate, deionized water, single pass noncontact cooling water and unpolluted wastewater, unless specifically authorized by the city manager; (13) Sludges, screenings, or other residues from the pretreatment of industrial wastes, except as specifically authorized by the city manager;
(14) Medical wastes, except as specifically authorized by the city manager in an IWD permit; (15) Wastewater causing, alone or in conjunction with other sources, the treatment plant's effluent to fail a toxicity test;
(16) Detergents, surface-active agents, or other substances that may cause excessive foaming in the system;
(17) Wastes defined as hazardous waste by RCRA or the California Hazardous Waste Control Law; and/or
(18) Wastewater, when measured with a combustible gas indicator, at the point of discharge into the system or at any point in the system, that results in two readings over 5% or any single reading over 10% of the lower explosive limit of the combustible gas indicator. (C) No person shall process or store pollutants, substances, or wastewater prohibited by this section in such a manner that they could be discharged to the system. (D) No person shall discharge any domestic or industrial wastewater to the ground, into any surface drainage conduit, storm drain or channel, or stream or other water course. (E) Any industrial user obtaining a new permit after the effective date of this provision to discharge to the sewer shall not discharge wastewater containing total dissolved solids (TDS) at concentrations exceeding 1,850 mg/L. This provision shall become effective on the date the approval authority issues its approval of City Ordinance 19-25. 479
(1) Any industrial users currently permitted to discharge to the sewer prior to the effective date of this provision shall be held to a baseline TDS discharge concentration and loading. This provision shall become effective on the date the approval authority issues its approval of Ordinance No. 2997. This requirement shall be incorporated into individual discharge permits. Industrial users shall be required to establish a baseline TDS concentration and loading based on data collected during a site specific sampling plan approved by the city. (F) Any industrial user obtaining a new permit after the effective date of this provision to discharge to the sewer shall not discharge wastewater containing boron at concentrations exceeding 1.86 mg/L. This provision shall become effective on the date the approval authority issues its approval of Ordinance No. 2997.
(1) Any industrial users currently permitted to discharge to the sewer prior to the effective date of this provision shall be held to a baseline boron discharge concentration and loading. This provision shall become effective on the date the approval authority issues its approval of Ordinance No. 2997. This requirement shall be incorporated into individual discharge permits. Industrial users shall be required to establish a baseline boron concentration and loading, based on data collected during a site specific sampling plan approved by the city. (G) Centralized waste treatment (CWT) facilities subject to 40 CFR 437 Subcategory D must comply with the "Best Management Practices for Centralized Waste Treatment (CWT) Facilities (Subcategory D Multiple Wastestream)", developed by the California Association of Sanitation Agencies (CASA), February 29, 2016, and any subsequent versions and amendments. Compliance with the CASA BMPs shall be demonstrated before issuance of an industrial waste discharge permit. CWTs that do not fall within Subcategory D, but are classified as Subcategories A, B, or C must comply with all applicable requirements as established in the CASA document. (H) No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged wastewater (untreated or treated) produced as a byproduct of oil production, drilling fluids or completion fluids from oil and gas well drilling, and fluids associated with or generated during hydraulic fracturing into the sewer system. (I) No industrial user or person shall discharge or cause to be discharged organic solvents into the sewer system or use the sewer as a means of disposal for organic solvents. Industrial users having organic solvents on site shall provide and use a separate collection and disposal system outside the sewer system and shall provide safeguards against their accidental discharge to the sewer. An approved toxic organic management plan (TOMP) that includes control measures to prevent entry of toxic organics and other solvents into the sanitary sewer system shall be filed by the industrial user as a condition of permission to discharge to the sanitary sewer. The TOMP shall be updated whenever any significant change in the inventory, usage, or management of toxic organic compounds occurs. The updated TOMP shall be submitted to the City of Oxnard for approval. Records documenting appropriate disposal and handling of organic solvents shall be maintained for a period of three years and made available for inspection. Any accidental solvent discharges shall be reported to the city within 24 hours of the discharge. (J) No industrial user, dental discharger or person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any mercury or amalgam waste into the sewer system. All dental dischargers that place or remove amalgam must operate and maintain an amalgam separator that complies with ANSI/ADA Specifications 108 (2009) with Technical Addendum (2011) or ISO 11143 Dentistry-Amalgam Separators and any subsequent versions or amendments. The dental discharger shall comply with the most recent Best Management Practices for Dental Amalgam Waste as recommended by the American Dental Association, and specified in 40 CFR 441 (Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Standards for the Dental Category) June 14, 2017. Records documenting appropriate handling and disposal of mercury and amalgam shall be maintained for three years and made available for 480
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(K) No industrial user or person shall discharge or cause to be discharged wastewater that exceeds any applicable site-specific limitation for gross beta radioactivity established by the city.

The maximum allowable industrial loading (MAIL) to the wastewater treatment plant for gross beta radioactivity is 6.29 X 108 pCi/d. Any SIU that has the potential to discharge gross beta radioactivity at concentrations that may cause interference or pass-through at the POTW will be issued a site-specific limitation based on an allocation of the MAIL established by the city. The site- specific limitation will be incorporated into the individual SIU's discharge permit. (`64 Code, Sec. 25-13) (Ord. No. 2494, 2997)
SEC. 19-26. LOCAL LIMITS.
(A) The city manager is authorized to establish local limits pursuant to 40 CFR 403.5(c). (B) Limits for the pollutants listed below are established to protect against pass through and interference in accordance with 40 CFR Part 403.5(c). No person shall introduce, or cause to be introduced, wastewater containing quantities or concentrations in excess of the limits identified in the following table:

Pollutant Local Limit
Pollutant Local Limit
Ammonia 57 mg/L
Arsenic 0.13 mg/L
Biochemical Oxygen Demand 800 mg/L
Cadmium 0.013 mg/L
Chloride 9,205 mg/L
Chromium 0.44 mg/L
Copper 2.02 mg/L
Hydrogen Sulfide (dissolved) 0.34 mg/L
Lead 0.97 mg/L
Mercury 0.05 mg/L
Molybdenum 1.50 mg/L
Nickel 0.14 mg/L
Oil and Grease (vegetable) 250 mg/L
Oil and Grease (mineral) 100 mg/L
Selenium 0.49 mg/L
Silver 0.06 mg/L
Total Suspended Solids 1,000 mg/L
Zinc 1.06 mg/L
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the discretion of the city manager, mass limitations may be imposed on users in addition to or in place of the concentration based limitations on the above listed pollutants. (D) The city manager may develop BMPs, by ordinance or in individual wastewater discharge permits or general permits, to implement local limits and the requirements of this section. (`64 Code, Sec. 25-14) (Ord. No. 2494, 2761, 2997)
SEC. 19-27. FEDERAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARDS. (A) The federal categorical pretreatment standards found at 40 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter N, Parts 405 through 471 are hereby incorporated by reference. A violation of such standards shall constitute a violation of this section.
(B) Where a categorical pretreatment standard is expressed only in terms of either the mass or the concentration of a pollutant in wastewater, the city manager may impose equivalent concentration or mass limits in accordance with 40 CFR Part 403.6(c). (C) When wastewater subject to a categorical pretreatment standard is mixed with wastewater not regulated by the same standard, the city manager shall impose an alternate limit using the combined waste stream formula in 40 CFR Part 403.6(e).
(D) A user may obtain a variance from a categorical pretreatment standard if the user can prove, pursuant to the procedural and substantive provisions in 40 CFR Part 403.13, that factors relating to its discharge are fundamentally different from the factors considered by EPA when developing the categorical pretreatment standard.
(E) A user may obtain a net gross adjustment to a categorical standard in accordance with 40 CFR Part 403.15.
(`64 Code, Sec. 25-15) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-28. MEDICAL AND INFECTIOUS WASTES.
(A) The city manager may prohibit the introduction of medical wastes and may require that any such wastes be rendered noninfectious prior to discharge if deemed to pose a threat to public health and safety.
(B) No person shall discharge solid wastes from hospitals, clinics, offices of medical doctors, convalescent homes, medical laboratories or other medical facilities to the system including, but not limited to, hypodermic needles, syringes, instruments, utensils or other paper and plastic items of a disposable nature, or recognizable portions of the human anatomy or laboratory animals, except where prior written approval for such discharges is given by the city manager. Approved discharges shall be considered industrial wastewater discharge under this article. The city manager may revoke such approval at any time.
(`64 Code, Sec. 25-16) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-29. CITY'S RIGHT OF REVISION.

The city reserves the right to establish, by ordinance or in IWD permits, more stringent standards or requirements on discharges to the system.
(`64 Code, Sec. 25-17) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-30. SPECIAL AGREEMENTS.
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The city reserves the right to enter into special agreements with users, setting out special terms under which they may discharge into the system. In no case will a special agreement waive compliance with a pretreatment standard or requirement. However, the user may request a net gross adjustment to a categorical standard in accordance with 40 CFR Part 403.15. The user may also request a variance from the categorical pretreatment standard from the approval authority.

Such a request will be approved only if the user can prove that factors relating to its discharge are fundamentally different from the factors considered by EPA when establishing that categorical pretreatment standard. A user requesting a fundamentally different factor variance must comply with the procedural and substantive provisions in 40 CFR Part 403.13. (`64 Code, Sec. 25-18) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-31. VARIANCES.
(A) The city manager may grant a variance from one or more of the provisions of this article.

Prior to issuing such a variance, the city manager shall verify that in no case will the granting of a variance allow the user to exceed applicable categorical pretreatment standards or requirements or federally mandated prohibitions.
(B) The city manager may require the user to monitor the volumes and/or concentrations of the discharge in excess of previous levels, if the city manager deems it necessary to properly enforce any variance granted under this section.
(C) The city manager reserves the right to impose requirements that are stricter than, or in addition to, those specified under the authority of sections 19-25 and 19-26 should the quantity or quality of the user's discharge merit unique consideration by virtue of the impact of the user's discharge on the system or public health and welfare.
(D) The city manager reserves the right to revoke the variance at any time. (E) The city manager reserves the right to charge additional fees related to the granting of a variance.
(`64 Code, Sec. 25-19) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-32. DILUTION.

No user shall ever increase the use of process water for the purpose of diluting a discharge, or in any other way attempt to dilute a discharge. The city manager may impose mass limitations on users suspected of using dilution to meet applicable pretreatment standards or requirements, or in other cases when the imposition of mass limitations is appropriate. (`64 Code, Sec. 25-20) (Ord. No. 2494)
DIVISION 4. PRETREATMENT OF INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER
SEC. 19-35. PRETREATMENT FACILITIES.

Users shall provide wastewater pretreatment as necessary to comply with this article and shall achieve compliance with all categorical pretreatment standards, local limits and the prohibitions set out in section 19-25 of this article within the time limitations specified by EPA, the State, or the city manager, whichever is more stringent. Any facilities necessary for compliance shall be provided, operated, and maintained at user's expense. Detailed plans describing such facilities and operating procedures shall be submitted to the city manager for review, and shall be acceptable to the city manager before such facilities are constructed. The review of such plans and operating procedures 483
will in no way relieve the user from the responsibility of modifying the facility as necessary to produce a discharge acceptable to the city manager under the provisions of this article. (`64 Code, Sec. 25-21) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-36. ADDITIONAL PRETREATMENT MEASURES.
(A) Whenever deemed necessary, the city manager may require users to restrict their discharge during peak flow periods, designate that certain wastewater be discharged only into specific sewers, relocate and/or consolidate points of discharge, separate domestic waste streams from industrial waste streams, and such other conditions as may be necessary to protect the system and determine the user's compliance with the requirements of this article. (B) The city manager may require any person discharging into the system to install and maintain, on their property and at their expense, a suitable storage and flow-control facility to ensure active management of flow. An IWD permit may be issued solely for flow regulation. (C) Users shall provide gravity separation devices when, in the opinion of the city manager, they are necessary for the proper handling of wastewater containing excessive amounts of oil and grease or sand. All gravity separation devices shall be of a type and capacity approved by the city manager and shall be so located to be easily accessible for cleaning and inspection. Such devices shall be inspected, cleaned, and repaired regularly, as needed, by the user at user's expense. (D) The city manager may require users with the potential to discharge flammable substances to install and maintain an approved combustible gas detection meter. (E) All dental dischargers are required to maintain a current industrial wastewater discharge permit.
(`64 Code, Sec. 25-22) (Ord. No. 2494, 2997)
SEC. 19-37. SEPARATION OF DOMESTIC AND INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER.

All domestic wastewater including, but not limited to, those from restrooms, showers and drinking fountains shall be kept separate from all industrial wastewater until the industrial wastewater has passed through any required pretreatment system and/or monitoring facility. (`64 Code, Sec. 25-23) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-38. SPILL PREVENTION PLANS.
(A) Each user shall provide protection from accidental discharge of prohibited materials, other regulated pollutants or wastewater called out in this article or any other materials in concentration or quantities of which could be detrimental to the system, its operation or personnel. Each floor drain or floor sink located in an area where regulated chemicals are stored or used shall be protected in a manner approved by the city manager to prevent uncontrolled or accidental discharges of these regulated constituents from directly entering the system. Facilities to prevent accidental discharge shall be provided and maintained at the owner's and/or operator's expense.

Detailed plans in the form of a spill prevention, control, and countermeasures plan (showing facilities and operating procedures to provide this protection) shall be submitted to the city manager for review and approval prior to construction of said facilities. Such review and approval of plans and operating procedures shall not relieve the user from the responsibility of said facilities as necessary to meet the other requirements of this article. (B) A notice shall be permanently posted on the user's bulletin board or other prominent place 484
advising employees whom to call in the event of a dangerous discharge. Employers shall ensure that all employees who may cause or suffer such a dangerous discharge to occur are advised of the emergency notification procedure.
(C) Any user who causes or discovers a slug discharge of regulated pollutants or wastewater into the system shall immediately telephone the city manager in order that corrective action may be taken to protect the system, its operation and personnel. In addition, the person responsible for the discharge of the wastes or wastewater shall file a written report to the city manager, detailing the date, time and cause of the accidental discharge, the quantity and characteristics of the discharge and corrective action taken to prevent future discharges. The report shall be filed within five days of the occurrence of the discharge.
(`64 Code, Sec. 25-24) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-39. ACCIDENTAL DISCHARGE/SLUG CONTROL PLANS.
(A) The city manager shall evaluate whether each significant industrial user needs an accidental discharge/slug control plan. The city manager may require any user to develop, submit for approval, and implement such a plan. Alternatively, the city manager may develop such a plan for any user.
(B) An accidental discharge/control slug plan shall address, at a minimum, the following:
(1) Description of discharge practices, including non-routine batch discharges; (2) Description of stored chemicals;
(3) Procedures for immediately notifying the city manager of any accidental or slug discharge; and
(4) Procedures to prevent adverse impact from any accidental or slug discharge. Such procedures include, but are not limited to, inspection and maintenance of storage areas, handling and transfer of materials, loading and unloading operations, control of plant site runoff, worker training, building of containment structures or equipment, measures for containing toxic organic pollutants, including solvents, and/or measures and equipment for emergency response. (`64 Code, Sec. 25-25) (Ord. No. 2494, 2761)
SEC. 19-40. TENANT AND OWNER RESPONSIBILITIES.

Any tenant under any rental, lease, or other agreement shall be jointly and severally responsible for compliance with the provisions of this article in the same manner as the owner, and both owner and tenant shall be jointly and severally liable to the city for any costs, damages, fines or penalties incurred and/or imposed by the city due to noncompliance by the tenant or owner with provisions of this article.
(`64 Code, Sec. 25-26) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-41. DISCHARGES OF WASTES OR WASTEWATER INTO THE SYSTEM FROM VEHICLES.
(A) Septage may be introduced into the system only at locations designated by the city manager, and at such times as are established by the city manager. Such wastes shall not violate the provisions of division 3 of this article or any other federal, State or local regulation. The city manager may require septic tank waste haulers to obtain IWD permits. 485
(B) Industrial waste or wastewater haulers shall obtain IWD permits from the city manager. The city manager may require generators of hauled industrial waste or wastewater to obtain IWD permits. The city manager also may prohibit the disposal of hauled industrial waste or wastewater.

The discharge of hauled industrial waste or wastewater is subject to all other requirements of this article.
(C) Industrial waste or wastewater haulers may only discharge loads at locations designated by the city manager. No load may be discharged without prior consent of the city manager. The city manager may collect samples of each hauled load to ensure compliance with applicable standards.

The city manager may require the hauler to provide a waste analysis of any load prior to discharge. (D) Industrial waste or wastewater haulers must provide a waste-tracking form for every load.

This form shall include, at a minimum, the name and address of the industrial waste or wastewater hauler, permit number, truck identification, source of waste or wastewater, and volume and characteristics of waste or wastewater. The form shall identify the type of industry, known or suspected waste constituents, and whether any wastes are hazardous wastes designated in RCRA.
(`64 Code, Sec. 25-27) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-42. VANDALISM.

No person shall willfully or negligently break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface, tamper with or prevent access to any structure, appurtenance or equipment, or other part of the system. Any person found in violation of this requirement shall be subject to the sanctions set out in divisions 8 through 10 of this article.
(`64 Code, Sec. 25-28) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-43. DISCHARGES FROM FOOD ESTABLISHMENTS, VEHICLE MAINTENANCE FACILITIES, AND COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL LAUNDRIES.
(A) All food service establishments that introduce industrial wastewater into the system shall be required to install an approved grease interceptor device designed to prevent the unlawful discharge of fats, oil, and grease into the system. The grease interceptor device shall be a minimum of 750 gallons and in accordance to city standard plates 400, 413, and 415. The grease interceptor shall be easily accessible for cleaning and inspection. Maintenance records shall be maintained for a minimum of two years. The city manager may grant variances from the requirements of this paragraph on a case by case basis. The city manager may take into account the following items when determining whether to grant a variance:
(1) Size of the restaurant;
(2) Type and number of meals served per day;
(3) Seating capacity;
(4) Dishwashing facilities on-site; and
(5) Any other criteria the city manager deems applicable. (B) All automotive related maintenance facilities that introduce industrial wastewater into the system shall be required to install a gravity separation device designed to prevent the excessive discharge of sand, silt, oil, and grease into the system. The gravity separation device shall be a minimum of 750 gallons and in accordance to city standard plates 400, 413, and 416. The city 486
manager may grant variances from the requirements of this paragraph on a case by case basis. (C) All commercial laundries, such as coin-operated facilities, that introduce industrial wastewater into the system shall be required to install a lint removal trap of a size and design approved by the city manager. The lint trap devices shall be cleaned at a minimum of one time per week. All commercial laundries that introduce wastewater into the system shall be required to install a gravity separation device of a minimum 750 gallons and in accordance to city standard plates 400, 413, and 416. The city manager may grant variances from the requirements of this paragraph on a case by case basis.
(D) The city manager may maintain an information file available for public use of acceptable designs of grease interceptors and gravity separation devices. These devices shall be designed in accordance with city standard plates 400, 413, 415, or 416. The installation of a design shown in such file or of any design meeting the size requirement set forth in this article or any recommendation of requirements made by the city manager shall not impute any liability to the city for the adequacy of the interceptor or gravity separation device under the actual conditions of use.

Such installation shall not relieve the owner or proprietor of responsibility for keeping prohibited substances or substances in excess of the local limits in Section 19-26. (`64 Code, Sec. 25-29) (Ord. No. 2494, 2997)
SEC. 19-44. MAINTENANCE OF GREASE INTERCEPTORS AND GRAVITY SEPARATION DEVICES.
(A) Any grease interceptor or gravity separation device required by this article shall be readily accessible for inspection and properly maintained to assure that the accumulations of grease, sand or oil do not impair its efficiency or pass out with the effluent. (B) All persons required to use and maintain a grease interceptor or gravity separation device shall keep records of the pretreatment device cleaning, maintenance and grease removal and provide such reports on request to the city manager. These records shall include the date, the name of the person who cleaned the device and the disposal site of the waste. The report may be reviewed by the city manager at each routine inspection. (C) Persons hauling wastes and wastewater removed from these interceptors or gravity separation devices shall be registered to do so by the appropriate permitting agency. (D) An interceptor or gravity separation device shall not be considered properly maintained if material accumulations total more than 25 percent of the operating fluid capacity. (E) Improper maintenance of any grease interceptors and gravity separation devices or failure to maintain adequate records shall be considered a violation of this section. (`64 Code, Sec. 25-30) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-45. LIMITATIONS ON THE USE OF GARBAGE GRINDERS.

Pollutants from garbage grinders shall not be discharged into the system except as follows:
(A) Wastes generated in preparation of food in a residence; (B) Where the user has an existing garbage grinder and has an approval for that specific use from the city, and agrees to undertake whatever self-monitoring is required to enable the city to equitably determine the charges and fees based on the waste constituents and characteristics.

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waste is shredded to a degree that all particles will be carried freely under normal flow conditions prevailing in the city system. Garbage grinders shall not be used for grinding plastic, paper products, inert materials, garden refuse, or waste products resulting from the handling, storage and sale of fruits and vegetables in wholesale and retail produce establishments, or wastes from plants engaged in the preparation, processing or preserving of foods not intended primarily for immediate consumption; and
(C) At any time the property or business changes ownership, excluding residential property, any existing garbage grinders installed on the property must be removed and no new garbage grinders may be installed as a condition of continued city sewer service to the property. (`64 Code, Sec. 25-31) (Ord. No. 2494)
DIVISION 5. INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER DISCHARGE PERMIT SYSTEM SEC. 19-50. INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER ANALYSIS.

When requested by the city manager, an industrial user shall submit information on the nature and characteristics of its wastewater within 30 days of the request. The city manager is authorized to prepare a form for this purpose and may periodically require industrial users to update this information.
(`64 Code, Sec. 25-32) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-51. INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER DISCHARGE PERMIT REQUIREMENTS. (A) No non-domestic user shall discharge or cause to be discharged wastewater, either directly or indirectly, into the system without first obtaining an IWD permit from the city manager. All non- domestic users, including, but not limited to, SIUs, CIUs, commercial and industrial laundromats, food service establishments, automotive-related businesses, and dental dischargers, are required to maintain a current industrial wastewater discharge permit. (B) The city manager may require other users to obtain an IWD permit as necessary to carry out the purposes of this article.
(C) Any violation of the terms and conditions of an IWD permit shall be deemed a violation of this article and subjects the user to the sanctions set out in divisions 8 through 10 of this article.

Obtaining an IWD permit does not relieve an industrial user of its obligation to comply with all federal and State pretreatment standards or requirements or with any other requirements of federal, State and local law.
(`64 Code, Sec. 25-33) (Ord. No. 2494, 2997)
SEC. 19-52. CONNECTIONS.

Any user required to obtain an IWD permit that proposes to begin or recommence discharging into the system shall obtain such permit prior to beginning or recommencing such discharge. An application for an IWD permit, in accordance with sections 19-53 and 19-55 of this article, shall be filed at least 90 days prior to the date upon which any discharge will begin or recommence. (`64 Code, Sec. 25-34) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-53. EXTRA-JURISDICTIONAL INDUSTRIAL USERS.

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permit application to the city manager 90 days prior to any proposed discharge into the system.

Upon review of such application, the city manager may enter into an agreement with the user that requires the user to subject itself to and abide by this article, including all permitting, compliance monitoring, reporting, and enforcement provisions herein. Alternately, the city manager may enter into an agreement with the neighboring jurisdiction in which the user is located to provide for the implementation and enforcement of pretreatment program requirements against the user. (`64 Code, Sec. 25-35) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-54. INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER DISCHARGE PERMIT APPLICATION CONTENTS. (A) All users required to obtain an IWD permit shall submit a permit application to the city manager at least 90 days before any proposed discharge. The city manager may require any user to submit as part of an application the following information:
(1) All information required by section 19-71(C) of this article; (2) Description of activities, facilities, and plant processes on the premises, including a list of all raw materials and chemicals used or stored at the facility that are, or could accidentally or intentionally be, discharged to the system;
(3) Number and type of employees, hours of operation, and proposed or actual hours of operation;
(4) Each product produced by type, amount, process or processes and rate of production; (5) Type and amount of raw materials processed (average and maximum per day); (6) Site plans, floor plans, mechanical and plumbing plans, and details to show all sewers, floor drains, and appurtenances by size, location, and elevation, and all points of discharge; (7) Time and duration of the discharge; and
(8) Any other relevant information deemed necessary by the city manager to evaluate the application.
(B) Incomplete or inaccurate applications will not be processed and will be returned to the user for revision.
(`64 Code, Sec. 25-36) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-55. APPLICATION SIGNATORIES AND CERTIFICATION.

All IWD permit applications shall be signed by an authorized representative of the user and contain the following certification statement:
“I certify under penalty of law that this document and all attachments were prepared under my direction or supervision in accordance with a system designed to ensure that qualified personnel properly gather and evaluate the information submitted. Based on my inquiry of the person or persons who manage the system, or those persons directly responsible for gathering the information, the information submitted is, to the best of my knowledge and belief, true, accurate, and complete. I am aware that there are significant penalties for submitting false information, including the possibility of fine and imprisonment for knowing violations.” (`64 Code, Sec. 25-37) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-56. DECISIONS.
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The city manager will evaluate the data furnished by the user and may require additional information. Within 60 days of receipt of a complete permit application, the city manager will determine whether or not to issue an IWD permit. The city manager may deny any application for an IWD permit, for good cause.
(`64 Code, Sec. 25-38) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-57. DURATION.

IWD permits shall be issued for a specified time period, not to exceed five years. An IWD permit may be issued for a period less than five years, at the discretion of the city manager. Each IWD permit shall indicate a specific date of expiration.
(`64 Code, Sec. 25-39) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-58. CONTENTS.
(A) An IWD permit shall include such conditions as are reasonably deemed necessary by the city manager to prevent pass through or interference, protect the quality of the water body receiving the treatment plant's effluent, protect worker health and safety, facilitate biosolids management and reuse, and protect against damage to the system.
(B) IWD permits shall contain:
(1) A statement of the duration of the permit, which in no event shall exceed five years; (2) A statement that the permit is nontransferable without prior notification to and approval of the city manager in accordance with section 19-61, and provisions for furnishing the new owner or operator with a copy of the existing permit;
(3) Effluent limits, including BMPs based on applicable pretreatment standards; (4) Self-monitoring, sampling, reporting, notification and record-keeping requirements. These requirements shall include an identification of pollutants to be monitored, sampling location, sampling frequency, and sample type based on federal, State and local law; (5) A statement of applicable civil, criminal and administrative penalties for violation of pretreatment standards and requirements, and any applicable compliance schedule. Such schedule may not extend the time for compliance beyond that required by applicable federal, State or local law; and
(6) Requirements to control slug discharge, if determined by the city manager to be necessary. (C) IWD permits may contain additions as the city manager deems necessary, including, but not limited to, the following conditions:
(1) Limits on the average and/or maximum rate of discharge, time of discharge, and/or requirements for flow regulation and equalization;
(2) Requirements for the installation of pretreatment technology, pollution control, or construction of appropriate containment devices, designed to reduce, eliminate, or prevent the introduction of pollutants into the system;
(3) Requirements for the development and implementation of spill control plans or other special conditions including management practices necessary to adequately prevent accidental, unanticipated, or non-routine discharges;
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(4) Development and implementation of waste minimization plans to reduce the amount of pollutants discharged to the system;
(5) Requirements for installation and maintenance of inspection and sampling, facilities and equipment;
(6) A statement that compliance with the permit does not relieve the permittee of responsibility for compliance with all applicable federal and State pretreatment standards, including those that become effective during the term of the permit; and
(7) Other conditions as deemed appropriate by the city manager to ensure compliance with this article, and State and federal laws, rules and regulations. (`64 Code, Sec. 25-40) (Ord. No. 2494, 2761)
SEC. 19-59. APPEALS.
(A) Any person, including the user, may petition the city to reconsider the terms of an IWD permit by filing a petition for reconsideration with the city clerk within ten days of its issuance. (B) Failure to submit a timely petition for reconsideration shall be deemed to be a waiver of the administrative remedy.
(C) The petition for reconsideration shall set out the permit provisions objected to, the reasons for this objection, and the proposed alternative condition, if any, the petitioner seeks to be included in the permit.
(D) The conditions and provisions of the permit objected to by the user shall not be stayed pending a hearing on the petition.
(E) If the city manager fails to act within 45 days, the petition shall be deemed approved.

Decisions not to reconsider a permit, not to issue a permit, or not to modify a permit shall be considered final administrative actions.
(F) Parties seeking judicial review of such final administrative petitions shall comply with the requirements set out in Cal. Code of Civil Procedure, Sections 1094.5 and 1094.6. (`64 Code, Sec. 25-41) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-60. MODIFICATION.
(A) The city manager may modify a permit for good cause. (B) Good cause includes, but is not limited to, the following reasons:
(1) To incorporate any new or revised federal, State or local pretreatment standards or requirements;
(2) To address significant alterations or additions to the user's operation, processes, or wastewater volume or characteristic since the time of permit issuance; (3) A change in the system that requires either a temporary or permanent reduction or elimination of the authorized discharge;
(4) Information indicating that the permitted discharge poses a threat to the system, city employees, or the receiving waters;
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(5) Violation of any terms or conditions of the permit; (6) Misrepresentation or failure to disclose fully all relevant facts in the permit application or in any required reporting;
(7) Revision of or a grant of variance from categorical pretreatment standard pursuant to 40 CFR Part 403.13;
(8) To correct typographical or other errors in the permit; or (9) To reflect transfer of the facility ownership and/or operation to a new owner/operator. (`64 Code, Sec. 25-42) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-61. TRANSFER.
(A) IWD permits may be transferred to a new owner or operator only if the permittee gives at least 30 days advance notice to the city manager and the city manager approves the transfer. The notice shall include a written certification by the new owner or operator that:
(1) The new owner and/or operator has no immediate intent to change the facility's operations and processes;
(2) Identifies the specific date on which the transfer is to occur; and (3) Acknowledges full responsibility for complying with the existing permit. (B) Failure to provide advance notice of a transfer renders the permit void as of the date of facility transfer.
(`64 Code, Sec. 25-43) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-62. REVOCATION.
(A) The city manager may revoke an IWD permit for good cause, including, but not limited to, the following reasons:
(1) Failure to notify the city manager of significant changes to the wastewater prior to the changed discharge;
(2) Failure to provide prior notification to the city manager of changed conditions pursuant to section 19-75 of this article;
(3) Misrepresentation or failure to fully disclose all relevant facts in the permit application; (4) Falsifying self-monitoring reports;
(5) Tampering with monitoring equipment;
(6) Refusing to allow the city manager timely access to the facility premises and records; (7) Failure to meet effluent limitations;
(8) Failure to pay fines;
(9) Failure to pay sewer use charges;
(10) Failure to meet compliance schedules;
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(11) Failure to complete a wastewater survey or the permit application; (12) Failure to provide advance notice of the transfer of business ownership of a permitted facility; or
(13) Violation of any pretreatment standard or requirement, or any terms of the permit or this article.
(B) IWD permits shall be voidable upon cessation of operations or transfer of business ownership. All IWD permits issued to a particular user are void upon the issuance of a new IWD permit to that user.
(`64 Code, Sec. 25-44) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-63. REISSUANCE.

A user holding an expiring IWD permit shall apply for reissuance of the permit by submitting a complete IWD permit application in accordance with sections 19-54 and 19-55 of this article, at least 90 days prior to the expiration of the user's existing permit. (`64 Code, Sec. 25-45) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-64. CONTINUATION OF EXPIRED INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER DISCHARGE PERMITS.

An expired IWD permit will continue to be effective and enforceable until the permit is reissued if:
(A) The user has submitted a complete IWD permit application at least 90 days prior to the expiration date of the user's existing permit; and
(B) The failure to reissue the IWD permit before the expiration of the existing permit is not due to any act or failure to act on the part of the user.
(`64 Code, Sec. 25-46) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-65. MUNICIPAL USER PERMITS.
(A) If another legal jurisdiction outside the city, or user located within another legal jurisdiction outside the system, contributes wastewater to the system, the city manager shall enter into an agreement for wastewater services with the municipality or users pursuant to section 19-53 of this article.
(B) Prior to entering into an agreement required by subsection (A) of this section, the city manager shall request the following information from the contributing municipality:
(1) A description of the quality and volume of wastewater discharged to the system by the contributing municipality;
(2) An inventory of all users within the contributing municipality that are discharging to the system; and
(3) Any other information as the city manager may deem necessary. (C) An agreement, as required by subsection (A) of this section, shall contain the following conditions:
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least as stringent as this article and local limits that are at least as stringent as those established under authority of section 19-26. The requirement shall specify that such ordinance and limits must be revised as necessary to reflect changes made to this article or local limits; (2) A requirement for the contributing municipality to submit a revised user inventory on at least an annual basis;
(3) A provision specifying which pretreatment implementation activities, including IWD permit issuance, inspection and sampling, and enforcement will be conducted by the contributing municipality; which of these will be conducted by the city manager; and which of these activities will be conducted jointly by the contributing municipality and the city manager; (4) A requirement for the contributing municipality to provide the city manager with access to all information that the contributing municipality obtains as part of its pretreatment activities; (5) Limits on the nature, quality, and volume of the contributing municipality's wastewater at the point where it discharges to the system;
(6) Requirements for monitoring the contributing municipality's discharge; (7) A provision ensuring the city manager access to the facilities of users located in the contributing municipality's jurisdictional boundaries for the purpose of inspecting, sampling, and any other duties deemed necessary by the city manager; and
(8) A provision specifying remedies for breach of the terms of the agreement. (`64 Code, Sec. 25-47) (Ord. No. 2494)
DIVISION 6. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS
SEC. 19-70. MONITORING FACILITIES.
(A) All users required to obtain an IWD permit shall furnish, install and properly maintain a monitoring facility for wastewater sampling. This monitoring facility shall be of a design or configuration approved by the city manager, who may require flow measurement equipment, automatic flow proportional sampling equipment and automatic wastewater analysis and data recording equipment.
(B) Each user, as a part of its application for obtaining an IWD permit, shall propose a suitable location and design for the wastewater monitoring facility. Upon approval of the monitoring facility by the city manager, the user shall perform wastewater monitoring at this facility. The monitoring facility shall be located so as to be safe and accessible to city employees, and shall be constructed in accordance with the city's requirements, and all applicable local building codes and other local construction requirements. The user's proposal for a wastewater monitoring facility shall comply with the city's design requirements and shall be reviewed and approved by the city manager. Plans for all wastewater monitoring facilities, including flow measurement and sampling systems, determined by the city manager to require engineering design, shall be prepared and signed by a civil, chemical or mechanical engineer registered in the State or a registered engineer of other suitable discipline as determined by the city manager.
(C) The user's wastewater sampling analysis and flow measurement procedures, equipment, and results shall be subject to inspection by the city manager at any time. Wastewater monitoring and flow measurement facilities shall be properly operated, kept clean, and maintained in good working order at all times by the user.
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(D) Failure of a user to keep approved wastewater monitoring facilities clean and in good working order shall not be grounds for the user to claim that any sample results are unrepresentative of the user's wastewater. Flow measurement systems shall be regularly maintained and calibrated in accordance with guidelines established by the city manager. (`64 Code, Sec. 25-48) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-71. BASELINE MONITORING REPORTS.
(A) Within either 180 days after the effective date of a categorical pretreatment standard by an agency with the appropriate jurisdiction and authority to adopt categorical pretreatment standards, or within 180 days after the final administrative decision on a category determination under 40 CFR Part 403.6(a)(4), whichever is later, existing categorical users currently discharging to or scheduled to discharge to the system shall submit to the city manager a report which contains the information listed in subsection (C) below.
(B) At least 90 days prior to commencement of discharge, new sources, and sources that become categorical users subsequent to the promulgation of applicable categorical standard, shall submit to the city manager a report which contains the information listed in subsection (C) below. A new source shall report the method of pretreatment it intends to use to meet applicable categorical standards. A new source shall also give estimates of anticipated flow and quantity of pollutants discharged.
(C) Users described above shall submit the information set forth below, and all such submittals must be signed and certified in accordance with section 19-55 of this chapter:
(1) The name and address of the facility, including the name of the operator and owner; (2) A list of any environmental control permits held by or for the facility; (3) A brief description of the nature, average rate of production, and standard industrial classifications of the operation carried out by the user including a schematic process diagram that indicates points of discharge to the system from the regulated processes; (4) Information showing the measured average daily and maximum daily flow, in gallons per day, to the system from regulated process streams and other streams, as necessary, to allow use of the combined waste stream formula set out in 40 CFR Part 403.6(e); (5) (a) The categorical pretreatment standards applicable to each regulated process; (b) The results of sampling and analysis identifying the nature and concentration, and/or mass, where required by the standard or the city manager, of regulated pollutants in the discharge from each regulated process including instantaneous, daily maximum, and long-term average concentrations, or mass, where required;
(c) The sample shall be representative of daily operations and shall be analyzed in accordance with procedures set out in section 19-79 of this article. Sampling shall be performed in accordance with procedures set out in section 19-80 of this article. (6) A statement, reviewed by the user's authorized representative and certified by a qualified professional, indicating whether pretreatment standards are being met on a consistent basis, and, if not, whether additional operation and maintenance (O&M) and/or additional pretreatment is required to meet the pretreatment standards and requirements; (7) If additional pretreatment and/or O&M will be required to meet the pretreatment standards, the user shall provide the city manager with the shortest schedule by which the user shall complete 495
such additional pretreatment and/or O&M. The completion date shall not be later than the compliance date established for the applicable pretreatment standard. A compliance schedule pursuant to this section must meet the requirements set out in section 19-72 of this article; (8) Any other relevant information requested by the city manager; and (9) Signed and certified baseline monitoring reports in accordance with section 19-71 of this article.
(`64 Code, Sec. 25-49) (Ord. No. 2494, 2761, 2875)
SEC. 19-72. COMPLIANCE SCHEDULES.

The following conditions shall apply to the schedule required by section 19-71(C)(7) of this article:
(A) The schedule shall contain progress increments in the form of dates for the commencement and completion of major events leading to the construction and operation of additional pretreatment required for the user to meet the applicable pretreatment standards such events include, but are not limited to, hiring an engineer, completing preliminary and final plans, executing contracts for major components, commencing and completing construction, and beginning and conducting routine operation;
(B) No increment referred to above shall exceed nine months; (C) The user shall submit a progress report to the city manager no later than 14 days following each date in the schedule and the final date of compliance including, at a minimum, whether user complied with the increment of progress, the reason for any delay, and, if appropriate, the steps being taken by the user to return to the established schedule; and (D) In no event shall more than nine months elapse between such progress reports to the city manager.
(`64 Code, Sec. 25-50) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-73. REPORT ON COMPLIANCE WITH CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARD DEADLINE.

Within 90 days following the date for final compliance with applicable categorical pretreatment standards, or in the case of a new source following commencement of the introduction of wastewater into the system, any user subject to such pretreatment standards and requirements shall submit to the city manager a report containing the information described in section 19-71(C) (4) through (6). For users subject to equivalent mass or concentration limits established in accordance with the procedures in 40 CFR Part 403.6(c), this report shall contain a reasonable measure of the user's long-term production rate. For all other users subject to categorical pretreatment standards expressed in terms of allowable pollutant discharge per unit of production (or other measure of operation), this report shall include the user's actual production during the appropriate sampling period. All compliance reports must be signed and certified in accordance with section 19-55 of this article.
(`64 Code, Sec. 25-51) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-74. PERIODIC COMPLIANCE REPORTS.
(A) All significant industrial users shall, at a frequency determined by the city manager, but in no case less than twice per year (in June and December), submit a report indicating the nature and 496
concentration of pollutants in the discharge that are limited by pretreatment standards and the measured or estimated average and maximum daily flows for the reporting period. In cases where the pretreatment standard requires compliance with a BMP or pollution prevention alternative, the user must submit documentation required by the city manager of the pretreatment standard necessary to determine the compliance status of the user. All periodic compliance reports must be signed and certified in accordance with section 19-55 of this article. (B) All wastewater samples must be representative of the user's discharge. Wastewater monitoring and flow measurement facilities shall be properly operated, kept clean, and maintained in good working order at all times. The failure of a user to keep its monitoring facility in good working order shall not be grounds for the user to claim that sample results are unrepresentative of its discharge.
(C) If a user, subject to the reporting requirement in this section, monitors any pollutant more frequently than required by the city manager, using the procedures prescribed in section 19-79 of this article, the results of this monitoring shall be included in the report sent to the city manager. (`64 Code, Sec. 25-52) (Ord. No. 2494, 2761)
SEC. 19-75. REPORT OF CHANGED CONDITIONS.
(A) Each user shall notify the city manager of any planned significant changes to the user's operations or system which might alter the nature, quality or volume of its wastewater at least 30 days before the change.
(B) The city manager may require the user to submit such information as may be deemed necessary to evaluate the changed condition, including the submission of an IWD permit application under sections or 19-54 or 19-55 of this article, if necessary. (C) The city manager may issue an IWD permit under section 19-56 of this article, or modify an existing IWD permit under section 19-60 of this article in response to changed conditions or anticipated changed conditions.
(D) For purposes of this section, significant changes include, but are not limited to, flow increases of 25% or greater, and the discharge of any previously unreported pollutants. (E) (1) An IU shall notify the POTW, the EPA Regional Waste Management Division Director, and State hazardous waste authorities in writing of any discharge into the POTW of a substance, which, if otherwise disposed of, would be a hazardous waste under 40 CFR Part 261. Such notification must inlcude the name of the hazardous waste as set forth in 40 CFR Part 261, the EPA hazardous waste number, and the type of discharge (continuous, batch, or other). If the IU discharges more than 100 kilograms of such waste per calendar month to the POTW, the notification shall also contain the following information to the extent such information is known and readily available to the IU: an identification of the hazardous constituents contained in the wastes, an estimation of the mass and concentration of such constituents in wastestream discharged during that calendar month, and an estimation of the mass of constituents in the wastestream expected to be discharged during the following 12 months. All notifications must take place within 180 days after the effective date of this rule. Industrial users who commence discharging after the effective date of this rule shall provide the notification no later than 180 days after the discharge of the listed or characteristic hazardous waste. Any notification under this subsection need by submitted only once for each hazardous waste discharged. However, notifications of changed discharges must be submitted under 40 CFR 403.12(j). The notification requirement in this section does not apply to pollutants already reported under the self-monitoring requirements of 40 CFR 403.12(b), (d), and (e).
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(2) Dischargers are exempt from the requirements of subsection (E)(1) of this section during a calendar month in which they discharge no more than 15 kilograms of hazardous wastes, unless the wastes are acute hazardous wastes as specified in 40 CFR 261.30(d) and 261.33(e).

Discharge of more than 15 kilograms of non-acute hazardous wastes in a calendar month, or of any quantity of acute hazardous wastes as specified in 40 CFR 261.30(d) and 261.33(e), requires a one-time notification. Subsequent months during which the IU discharges more than such quantities of any hazardous waste do not require additional notification. (3) In the case of any new regulations under section 3001 of RCRA identifying additional characteristics of hazardous waste or listing any additional substance as a hazardous waste, the IU must notify the POTW, the EPA Regional Waste Management Waste Division Director, and State hazardous waste authorities of the discharge of such substance within 90 days of the effective date of such regulations.
(4) In the case of any notification made under subsection (E) of this section, the IU shall certify that it has a program in place to reduce the volume and toxicity of hazardous wastes generated to the degree it has determined to be economically practical. (`64 Code, Sec. 25-53) (Ord. No. 2494, 2875)
SEC. 19-76. REPORTS OF POTENTIAL PROBLEMS.
(A) In the case of any discharge, including, but not limited to, accidental discharges, discharges of a non-routine, episodic nature, a non-customary batch discharge, or a slug load, which may cause potential problems for the system, the user shall immediately telephone and notify the city manager of the incident. This notification shall include the location of the discharge, type of waste, concentration and volume, if known, and corrective actions taken by the user. (B) Within five days following such discharge, the user shall, unless this requirement is waived by the city manager, submit a detailed written report describing the cause of the discharge and the measures to be taken by the user to prevent similar future occurrences. Such notification shall not relieve the user of any expense, loss, damage, or other liability that may be incurred as a result of damage to the system, natural resources, or any other damage to person or property, nor shall such notification relieve the user of any fines, penalties, or other liability that may be imposed by this article or any other applicable provision of federal, State or local law. (C) A notice shall be permanently posted on the user's bulletin board or other prominent place advising employees who to call in the event of a discharge described in subsection (A) above.

Employers shall ensure that all employees, who may cause such a discharge to occur, are advised of the emergency notification procedure.
(D) Significant industrial users are required to notify the city manager immediately of any changes at its facility affecting the potential for a slug discharge. (`64 Code, Sec. 25-54) (Ord. No. 2494, 2761)
SEC. 19-77. REPORTS FROM UNPERMITTED USERS.

All users not required to obtain an IWD permit shall provide appropriate reports as the city manager may require.
(`64 Code, Sec. 25-55) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-78. NOTICE OF VIOLATION; REPEAT SAMPLING AND REPORTING. 498
If a user's sampling indicates a violation, the user shall notify the city manager within 24 hours of becoming aware of the violation. The user shall also repeat the sampling and analysis and submit the results of the repeat analysis to the city manager within 30 days after becoming aware of the violation. The user is not required to resample if the city manager conducts monitoring at the user's facility at least once a month, or if the city manager samples between the user's initial sampling and when the user receives the results of this sampling. If the city performed the sampling and analysis in lieu of the industrial user, the city will perform the repeat sampling and analysis unless the city notifies the industrial user of the violation and requires the user to perform the repeat sampling and analysis.
(`64 Code, Sec. 25-56) (Ord. No. 2494, 2761)
SEC. 19-79. ANALYTICAL REQUIREMENTS.

All pollutant analyses, including sampling techniques, to be submitted as part of an IWD permit application or report shall be performed in accordance with the techniques prescribed in 40 CFR Part 136, unless otherwise specified in an applicable categorical pretreatment standard. If 40 CFR Part 136 does not contain sampling or analytical techniques for the pollutant in question, sampling and analyses shall be performed in accordance with procedures approved by the EPA. (`64 Code, Sec. 25-57) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-80. SAMPLE COLLECTION.
(A) Except as indicated in subsection (B) below, the user shall collect wastewater samples using flow proportional composite collection techniques. In the event flow proportional sampling is infeasible, the city manager may authorize the use of time proportional sampling. Where time- proportional composite sampling or grab sampling is authorized by the city manager, the samples must be representative of the discharge. Using protocols (including appropriate preservation) specified in 40 CFR Part 136 and appropriate EPA guidance, multiple grab samples collected during a 24-hour period may be composited prior to the analysis as follows: for cyanide, total phenols, and sulfides the samples may be composited in the laboratory or in the field; for volatile organics and oil and grease, the samples may be composited in the laboratory. Composite samples for other parameters unaffected by the compositing procedures as documented in approved EPA methodologies may be authorized by the city manager, as appropriate. In addition, grab samples may be required to show compliance with instantaneous discharge limits. (B) Samples for oil and grease, temperature, pH, cyanide, phenols, sulfides, and volatile organic compounds shall be obtained using grab collection techniques. (C) For sampling required in support of baseline monitoring and 90-day compliance reports required in section 19-71 and 19-73 (40 CFR 403.12(b) and (d)), a minimum of four grab samples must be used for pH, cyanide, total phenols, oil and grease, sulfide and volatile organic compounds for facilities for which historical sampling data do not exist; for facilities for which historical sampling data are available, the city manager may authorize a lower minimum. For the reports required by section 19-74 (40 CFR 403.12(e) and 403.12(h)), the industrial user is required to collect the number of grab samples necessary to assess and assure compliance by with applicable pretreatment standards and requirements.
(D) Samples should be taken immediately downstream from pretreatment facilities if such exist or immediately downstream from the regulated process if no pretreatment exists. If other wastewaters are mixed with the regulated wastewater prior to pretreatment the user should measure the flows and concentrations necessary to allow use of the combined wastestream 499
formula of 40 CFR 403.6(e) in order to evaluate compliance with the pretreatment standards.

Where an alternate concentration or mass limit has been calculated in accordance with 40 CFR 403.6(e) this adjusted limit along with supporting data shall be submitted to the city. (`64 Code, Sec. 25-58) (Ord. No. 2494, 2761, 2875)
SEC. 19-81. MONITORING CHARGES.

The city manager may recover the city's expenses incurred in collecting and analyzing samples of the user's discharge and may collect such charges in the manner specified in division 11 of this article.
(`64 Code, Sec. 25-59) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-82. TIMING.

Written reports, applications, notices, and all mailings shall be deemed to have been submitted on the date postmarked. For reports that are not mailed, postage prepaid, into a mail facility serviced by the United States mail, the date of receipt of the report shall govern. (`64 Code, Sec. 25-60) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-83. RECORD KEEPING.

Users subject to the reporting requirements of this article shall retain, and make available for inspection and copying, all records of information obtained pursuant to any monitoring activities required by this article and any additional records of information obtained pursuant to monitoring activities undertaken by the user independent of such requirements, and documentation associated with BMPs established under section 19-26(C). Records shall include the date, exact place, method, and time of sampling and the name of the person taking the samples, the dates analyses were performed, who performed the analyses, the analytical techniques or methods used, and the results of such analyses. These records shall remain available for a period of at least three years.

This period shall be automatically extended for the duration of any litigation concerning the user or the city or where the user has been specifically notified of a longer retention period by the city manager.
(`64 Code, Sec. 25-61) (Ord. No. 2494, 2761)
DIVISION 7. COMPLIANCE MONITORING
SEC. 19-90. RIGHT OF ENTRY; INSPECTION AND SAMPLING.
(A) The city manager shall have the right to enter the premises of any user to determine whether the user is complying with the requirements of this article and any IWD permit or order issued hereunder. Users shall allow the city manager ready access to all parts of the premises for the purposes of inspecting, sampling, examining and copying records, and performing of any additional duties.
(B) Where a user has security measures in force that require proper identification and clearance before entry into user's premises, the user shall make necessary arrangements with user's security guards so that, upon presentation of suitable identification, the city manager will be permitted to enter, without delay, for the purposes of performing specific responsibilities. (C) The city manager shall have the right to set up on the user's property, or require installation of, such devices as are necessary to conduct sampling and/or metering of the user's operation. 500
(D) The city manager may require the user to install monitoring equipment as necessary. The facility's sampling and monitoring equipment shall be maintained at all times in a safe and proper operating condition by the user at user's sole expense. All devices used to measure wastewater flow shall be electronically calibrated at least every six months and hydraulically calibrated at least every five years to ensure their accuracy.
(E) Any temporary or permanent obstruction to safe and easy access to the facility to be inspected and/or sampled shall be promptly removed by the user at the written or verbal request of the city manager and shall not be replaced. The costs of clearing such access shall be borne by the user.
(F) Refusal of access or unreasonable delays in allowing the city manager access to the user's premises shall be a violation of this article. The city manager may give notice of inspections at the city managers discretion, but unannounced inspections are an important part of the city's enforcement program, and users shall have no right to advance notice of any city inspections. (`64 Code, Sec. 25-62) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-91. INSPECTION; SEARCH WARRANTS.

If the city manager has been refused access to a building, structure or property, or any part thereof, in violation of this article and/or any IWD permit, the city manager may seek issuance of an inspection or search warrant from a court in addition to pursuing any other remedies available to the city provided by federal, State or local law.
(`64 Code, Sec. 25-63) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-92. CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION.
(A) Information and data provided to the city manager pursuant to this part which is effluent data shall be available to the public without restriction.
(B) Unless eligible for confidential treatment as provided in 40 CFR Part 2, all other information which is submitted to the city manager pursuant to this article shall be available to the public in accordance with the California Public Records Act and at least to the extent provided by 40 CFR

2.302.
(`64 Code, Sec. 25-64) (Ord. No. 2494, 2875)
SEC. 19-93. PUBLICATION OF SIGNIFICANT VIOLATORS.
(A) In accordance with the public participation requirements of 40 CFR Part 25, the city manager shall at least annually publish a list of the users that, at any time during the previous 12 months, were in significant noncompliance with applicable pretreatment standards and requirements.

Publication pursuant to this section shall be in a newspaper(s) of general circulation that provides meaningful public notice within the jurisdiction(s) served by the POTW of IUs which were in significant noncompliance with applicable pretreatment requirements. The cost of such publication, if any, may be charged to such users by the city manager in accordance with division 11 of this article.
(B) For the purposes of this section, a SIU (or any IU which violates paragraphs (3), (4), or (8) of this subsection) is in significant noncompliance if its violation meets one or more of the following criteria:
(1) Chronic violations of wastewater discharge limits, defined as those in which 66% or more 501
of wastewater measurements taken for the same pollutant parameter during a six-month period exceed (by any magnitude) a numeric pretreatment standard or requirement, including instantaneous limits as defined by 40 CFR 403.3(l);
(2) Technical review criteria (TRC) violations, defined as those in which 33% or more of wastewater measurements taken for each pollutant parameter during a six-month period equal or exceeds the product of the numeric pretreatment standard or requirement, including instantaneous limits, as defined by 40 CFR 403.3(l), multiplied by the applicable TRC (1.4 for BOD, TSS, fats, oil and grease, and 1.2 for all other pollutants except pH); (3) Any other violation of a pretreatment standard or requirement as defined by 40 CFR 403.3(l) (daily maximum, long-term average, instantaneous limit, or narrative standard) that the POTW determines has caused, alone or in combination with other discharges, interference or pass through (including endangering the health of POTW personnel or the general public; (4) Any discharge of a pollutant that has caused imminent endangerment to human health, welfare or to the environment or has resulted in the POTW’s exercise of its emergency authority under 40 CFR 403.8(f)(1)(vi)(B) to halt or prevent such a discharge; (5) Failure to meet, within 90 days of the scheduled date, a compliance schedule milestone contained in a local control mechanism or enforcement order for starting construction, completing construction, or attaining final compliance;
(6) Failure to provide, within 45 days after the due date, any required reports such as baseline monitoring reports, 90-day compliance reports, periodic self-monitoring reports, and reports on compliance with compliance schedules;
(7) Failure to accurately report noncompliance; or
(8) Any other violation or group of violations, which may include a violation of BMPs, that the POTW determines will adversely affect the operation or implementation of the city's pretreatment program.
(`64 Code, Sec. 25-65) (Ord. No. 2494, 2761, 2875)
DIVISION 8. ADMINISTRATIVE ENFORCEMENT REMEDIES
SEC. 19-100. NOTIFICATION OF VIOLATION.
(A) When the city manager finds that a user has violated, or continues to violate, any provision of this article, an IWD permit or order issued hereunder, or any pretreatment standard or requirement, the city manager may serve upon that user a written notice of violation. (B) (1) Within ten days of the service of such notice, the user shall submit to the city manager an explanation of the violation and a plan for the satisfactory correction and prevention thereof, including specific required actions.
(2) Submission of this plan in no way relieves the user of liability for any violations occurring before or after receipt of the notice of violation.
(C) Nothing in this section shall limit the authority of the city manager to take any action, including emergency action or any other enforcement action, without first issuing a notice of violation.
(`64 Code, Sec. 25-66) (Ord. No. 2494)
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SEC. 19-101. CONSENT ORDERS.

The city manager may enter into consent orders, assurances of voluntary compliance, or other similar documents establishing an agreement with any user responsible for the noncompliance.

Such documents shall include specific action to be taken by the user to correct the noncompliance within a time period specified by the document. Such documents shall have the same force and effect as the administrative orders issued pursuant to section 19-103 and 19-104 of this article. (`64 Code, Sec. 25-67) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-102. ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE.
(A) The city manager may order a user that has violated, or continues to violate, any provision of this article, an IWD permit or an order issued hereunder, or any other pretreatment standard or requirement, to appear before the city manager and show cause why the proposed enforcement action should not be taken. Notice shall be served on the user, specifying the time and place for the meeting, the proposed enforcement action, the reasons for such action, and a request that the user show cause why the proposed enforcement action should not be taken. (B) The notice of the meeting shall be served personally or by registered or certified mail (return receipt requested) at least ten days before the meeting. Such notice may be served on any authorized representative of the user. An order to show cause shall not be a bar against, or prerequisite for, taking any other action against the user. (`64 Code, Sec. 25-68) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-103. ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLIANCE ORDERS.
(A) When the city manager finds that a user has violated, or continues to violate, any provision of this article, an IWD permit or an order issued hereunder, or any other pretreatment standard or requirement, the city manager may issue an order to the user responsible for the discharge, directing that the user come into compliance within a specified time. If the user does not come into compliance within the time provided, sewer service may be discontinued until such time as the conditions of the administrative order have been satisfied. (B) Issuance of an administrative compliance order shall not be a bar against, or a prerequisite for, the taking of any other action against the user.
(`64 Code, Sec. 25-69) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-104. CEASE AND DESIST ORDERS.
(A) When the city manager finds that a user has violated, or continues to violate, any provision of this article, an IWD permit or order issued hereunder, or any pretreatment standard or requirements, or that the user's past violations are likely to recur, the city manager may issue an order to the user directing the user to cease and desist all such violations and directing the user to:
(1) Immediately comply with all applicable requirements; and (2) Take such appropriate remedial or preventive action as may be needed to properly address a continuing or threatened violation, including halting operations and/or terminating the discharge.
(B) Issuance of a cease-and-desist order shall not be a bar against, or a prerequisite for, the taking of any other against the user.
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(`64 Code, Sec. 25-70) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-105. ADMINISTRATIVE FINES.
(A) When the city manager finds that a user has violated, or continues to violate, any provision of this article, an IWD permit or an order issued hereunder, or any pretreatment standard or requirement, the city manager may issue an administrative complaint alleging the act or failure to act that constitutes the violation, the provisions of law authorizing imposition of the administrative fine, and the proposed administrative fine.
(B) The administrative complaint shall be served by personal delivery or certified mail on the user and shall inform the user that a hearing shall be conducted within 60 days after the user has been served. The hearing officer shall be the public works director or designee. The user may waive the right to a hearing, in which case the hearing officer shall not conduct the hearing and decide the matter based upon the administrative complaint. Any user dissatisfied by the decision of the hearing officer may appeal the hearing officer's decision to the city council within 30 days of notice of the hearing officer's decision.
(C) The city manager may recommend, and the hearing officer and city council may impose, administrative fines as follows:
(1) In an amount not to exceed $2,000 per day for failing or refusing to furnish a self- monitoring report or any other technical report required by this article; (2) In an amount not to exceed $3,000 per day for failing or refusing to timely comply with any compliance schedule order by the city manager;
(3) In an amount to exceed $5,000 per violation per day for discharges in violation of discharge standards or limits, permit conditions, or prohibitions issued, reissued, or adopted by the city manager; and
(4) In an amount not to exceed $10 per gallon for discharges in violation of any suspension, cease-and-desist order or other orders, or prohibitions issued, reissued, or adopted by the city manager.
(D) The amount of any administrative fine imposed under this section, which remains delinquent for a period of 60 days or more, shall accrue interest at a standard rate of ten percent. Further, the amount of any administrative fine and interest accrued that remains delinquent after 60 days shall constitute a lien against the real property of the user from which the discharge originated. (E) Issuance of an administrative fine shall not be a bar against, or a prerequisite for, taking any other action, whether criminal or civil, against the user. (`64 Code, Sec. 25-71) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-106. EMERGENCY SUSPENSIONS.
(A) The city manager may immediately suspend a user's permission to discharge into the system, whenever such suspension is necessary to stop an actual or threatened discharge that could or does cause an imminent or substantial endangerment to the operation of the system, to the environment or the public health, safety or welfare. The city manager may also immediately suspend a user's discharge, after the user is given notice and opportunity to respond, that threatens to interfere with the operation of the system, or that presents, or may present, an endangerment to the environment or the public health, safety or welfare. 504
(B) Any user notified of the suspension of the user's permission to discharge into the system shall immediately halt discharge into the system. In the event any user fails to immediately comply voluntarily with the suspension order, the city manager may take such steps as deemed necessary, including immediate severance of the sewer connection, to prevent or minimize damage to the system, the receiving waters, to the environment or the public health, safety or welfare. The city manager may allow the user to recommence discharge when the user has demonstrated to the satisfaction of the city manager that the threat of endangerment has passed, unless the termination proceedings set forth in section 19-107 of this article are initiated against the user. (C) A user that is responsible, in whole or in part, for any discharge presenting imminent endangerment shall submit a detailed written statement, describing the causes of the harmful or potentially harmful discharge and the measures taken to prevent any such future occurrence, to the city manager before the date of any order to show cause or termination hearing under sections 19-102 and 19-107 of this article.
(D) Nothing in this section shall be interpreted as requiring any hearing before issuance of any suspension order and the taking of any action permitted under this section. (`64 Code, Sec. 25-72) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-107. TERMINATION OF DISCHARGE.
(A) In addition to all other remedies available under this article, federal, State and local law, the city manager may terminate any user's permission to discharge into the system if the user does any of the following acts:
(1) Violates IWD permit conditions;
(2) Fails to accurately report the wastewater constituents and characteristics of the user's discharge;
(3) Fails to report significant changes in operations or wastewater volume, constituents and characteristics prior to discharge;
(4) Refuses reasonable access to the user's premises for the purpose of inspection, monitoring or sampling; or
(5) Violates the pretreatment standards in division 3 of this article. (B) Any user violating the provisions in subsection (A) will be notified of the proposed termination of the user's permission to discharge into the system and be offered an opportunity to show cause under section 19-102 of this article why the proposed action should not be taken.

Exercise of this option by the city manager shall not be a bar to, or a prerequisite for, taking any action, whether criminal or civil, against the user.
(`64 Code, Sec. 25-73) (Ord. No. 2494)
DIVISION 9. JUDICIAL ENFORCEMENT REMEDIES
SEC. 19-115. INJUNCTIVE RELIEF.
(A) When the city manager finds that a user has violated, or continues to violate, any provision of this article, an IWD permit, or an order issued hereunder, or any other pretreatment standard or requirement, the city manager, through the city attorney, may petition the Ventura County Superior Court for the issuance of a temporary or permanent injunction, as appropriate, that restrains or 505
compels the specific performance of the conditions/ requirements of an IWD permit, order, or other requirement imposed by this article on activities of the user. (B) The city manager may also seek other appropriate legal and/or equitable relief; including an order for the user to conduct environmental remediation. A petition for injunctive relief shall not be a bar against, or prerequisite for, the taking of any action against, whether criminal or civil, against a user.
(`64 Code, Sec. 25-74) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-116. CIVIL PENALTIES.
(A) A user that has violated, or continues to violate, any provision of this article, an IWD permit, or an order issued hereunder, or any other pretreatment standard or requirement may be liable to the city for a maximum civil penalty of $10,000 per violation per day. (B) The city filing a suit for civil penalties shall not be a bar against, or a prerequisite for, taking other enforcement action, whether criminal or civil, against a user. (`64 Code, Sec. 25-75) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-117. CRIMINAL PROSECUTION.
(A) A user who willfully or negligently violates any provision of this article, an IWD permit or an order issued hereunder, or any other pretreatment standard or requirement shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(B) A user who knowingly makes any false statements, representations, or certifications in any application, record, report, plan or other documentation filed, or required to be maintained, pursuant to this article, an IWD permit, or an order issued hereunder, or that falsifies, tampers with, or knowingly renders inaccurate any monitoring device or method required under this article shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(`64 Code, Sec. 25-76) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-118. REMEDIES NONEXCLUSIVE.

The provisions in this article are not exclusive remedies. The city manager may take any, all, or any combination of these actions against a noncompliant user. Enforcement of pretreatment violations is authorized by this article and by state and federal law, and will generally be in accordance with the city’s enforcement response plan, which contains detailed procedures indicating how the city will investigate and respond to instances of industrial user noncompliance, including: (1) how the city will investigate instances of noncompliance; (2) the types of escalating enforcement responses the city will take in response to all anticipated types of industrial user violations and the time periods within which responses will take place; (3) identification by title of the officials responsible for each type of response; and (4) consistency with the city’s primary responsibility to enforce all applicable pretreatment requirements and standards, as detailed in 40 CFR 403.8(f)(1) and (f)(2). However, the city manager may take other action against any user when the circumstances warrant. Further, the city manager is empowered to take more than one enforcement action against any noncompliant user.
(`64 Code, Sec. 25-77) (Ord. No. 2494, 2875)
DIVISION 10. SUPPLEMENTAL ENFORCEMENT ACTION
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SEC. 19-125. PERFORMANCE BONDS.

The city manager may decline to issue or reissue an IWD permit to a user who has failed to comply with any provision of this article, a previous IWD permit, or an order issued hereunder, or any other pretreatment standard or requirement, unless the user first files a satisfactory bond, payable to the city, in a sum to be determined by the city manager. (`64 Code, Sec. 25-78) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-126. LIABILITY INSURANCE.

The city manager may decline to issue or reissue an IWD permit to a user who has failed to comply with any provision of this article, a previous IWD permit, or an order issued hereunder, or any other pretreatment standard or requirement, unless the user first submits proof that the user has obtained financial assurances sufficient to restore or repair damage to the system caused by the user's discharge.
(`64 Code, Sec. 25-79) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-127. WATER SUPPLY SEVERANCE.

Whenever a user has violated, or continues to violate, any provision of this article, an IWD permit, or an order issued hereunder, or any other pretreatment standard or requirement, water service to the user may be severed. Service will recommence, at the user's expense, only after the user has satisfactorily demonstrated the user's ability to comply. (`64 Code, Sec. 25-80) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-128. INFORMANT REWARDS.

The city manager is authorized to pay up to $500 for information leading to the discovery of noncompliance by a user. In the event that the information provided results in an administrative fine or civil penalty levied against the user, the city manager is authorized to disperse up to ten percent of the collected fine or penalty to the informant. However, a single reward payment may not exceed $10,000.
(`64 Code, Sec. 25-81) (Ord. No. 2494)
DIVISION 11. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
SEC. 19-133. WASTEWATER RATES.
(A) The rates charged for all wastewater collected by the city shall be established by ordinance of the City Council. Each customer receiving wastewater service is liable for payment for such service at the rates so established.
(B) Pursuant to Cal. Gov’t Code section 53756, and after notice is provided as required by law, the adopted rates shall automatically adjust over a five-year period for inflation in the cost of operating the city’s wastewater system. If the actual inflation in natural gas and electricity rates paid by the city since the effective date of the rates exceeds the rate study’s cumulative forecast for inflation in utility costs for that same period, the rates will be automatically adjusted to recover the difference between the two. For example, if in year three of these rates the actual inflation in natural gas and electricity rates paid by the city since the effective date of the rates is 8.75% and the rate model estimates a cumulative increase of 7.5% over that same time period, then the 507
inflation adjustment for that year would be 1.25%. On the other hand, if the actual inflation in natural gas and utility rates for this example time period is 7.5%, then no inflation adjustment would be made for that year as the actual inflation would equal the estimated inflation in the rate model.

The city shall issue the adjustments no more than once per calendar year, and these adjustments will be effective at least 60 calendar days thereafter. (C) When the City Council declares the existence of a water shortage condition pursuant to City Code Section 22-154, the wastewater treatment rates and charges provided herein that are based on water use shall be adjusted to reflect the level of severity and corresponding mandatory water conservation percentage reflected in the water shortage condition declaration. For example, if the Council declares a Stage 2 water shortage condition with a mandatory water use reduction goal of 20%, then the rates provided herein that are based on water use, shall be concurrently adjusted upward by the same percentage - 20%. This adjustment shall be initiated as of the effective date of the water shortage declaration and terminate as of the date of the termination of that water shortage declaration.
(Ord. No. 2917)
SEC. 19-134 FEES AND CHARGES.

The fees, charges and rates set forth below shall be charged and collected for the use of and for other privileges and services relating to the Regional Wastewater Treatment System of the City of Oxnard:
(A) [reserved]
(B) City of Oxnard user charge for wastewater system. The rate for City user classes or individual users of the wastewater system shall be calculated by the “City of Oxnard User Charge Formula” (the Oxnard Formula) as follows:

OMUC = p (Vm) + q (Bm) + r (Sm)
Where:

OMUC = Oxnard monthly user charge in dollars
Vm = monthly wastewater discharge in millions of gallons Bm = monthly BOD discharge in thousands of pounds Sm = monthly SS discharge in thousands of pounds p, q and r are unit cost coefficients established as follows:

Service
Effective
July 1,
2017
Effective
January
1, 2018
Effective
January
1, 2019
Effective
January
1, 2020
Effective
January
1, 2021
Monthly wastewater
discharge/millions of
gallons
p = $3,061.50 $3,222.23 $3,391.40 $3,569.45 $3,756.85
Monthly BOD
discharge/ thousands
of pounds
q = $697.59 $734.22 $772.77 $813.35 $856.06
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Monthly SS discharge/
thousands of pounds r = $551.70 $580.67 $611.16 $643.25 $677.03 (1) Formula users (industrial and commercial). The monthly user charge for formula users shall be calculated using the Oxnard Formula. Industrial and commercial users billed by Oxnard Formula shall be those so designated by the Public Works Director. For those formula users that do not provide metered wastewater flow data, the wastewater flow shall be assumed to be 90% of water consumed. For those users that provide engineering data acceptable to the Public Works Director showing a different percentage, the wastewater flows will be based on that data. (2) Non-formula users (industrial, commercial and governmental). The monthly user charge for non-residential users of the system that are not classified as formula users by the Public Works Director shall be as follows. The rate per hundred cubic feet (HCF) of water used is based on the assumption that a percent of the water consumed is returned to the wastewater system. The applicable percentage differs based on customer class. The percentage return is included for each customer class in the tables below. The Public Works Director shall have the authority to review the water consumption of any metered user of the wastewater system and to adjust the rate based on the average water consumption over a reasonable period of time:
(a) Commercial/school wastewater use (percentage wastewater return = 85%):

Tier Usage
Effective
July 1,
2017
Effective
January
1, 2018
Effective
January
1, 2019
Effective
January
1, 2020
Effective
January
1, 2021
1 0 to 50 HCF/month $3.49 $3.68 $3.88 $4.09 $4.31
2 > 50 to 930 HCF/
month $4.36 $4.59 $4.84 $5.10 $5.37
3 > 930 HCF/month $8.72 $9.18 $9.67 $10.18 $10.72
(b) Restaurant wastewater use (percentage wastewater return = 80%):

Tier Usage
Effective
July 1,
2017
Effective
January
1, 2018
Effective
January
1, 2019
Effective
January
1, 2020
Effective
January
1, 2021
1 0 to 20 HCF/month $3.49 $3.68 $3.88 $4.09 $4.31
2 >20 to 160 HCF/
month $4.36 $4.59 $4.84 $5.10 $5.37
3 > 160 HCF/month $8.72 $9.18 $9.67 $10.18 $10.72
(c) Laundry/laundromat wastewater use (percentage wastewater return = 90%):

Tier Usage Effective
July 1,
Effective
July 1,
Effective
July 1,
Effective
July 1,
Effective
July 1,
509
2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
1 0 to 105 HCF/month $3.49 $3.68 $3.88 $4.09 $4.31
2 >105 to 525 HCF/
month $3.86 $4.07 $4.29 $4.52 $4.76
3 > 525 HCF/month $4.81 $5.07 $5.34 $5.63 $5.93
(3) Non-formula users - residential. Residential wastewater service is deemed to begin when water service begins. Monthly residential user charges by type of dwelling units are as follows. The rate per hundred cubic feet (HCF) of water used is based on the assumption that a percentage of the water consumed is returned to the wastewater system. The applicable percentage differs based on customer class. The percentage return is included for each customer class in the tables below.

The Public Works Director shall have the authority to review the water consumption of any metered user of the wastewater system and to adjust the rate based on the average water consumption over a reasonable period of time:
(a) Single family residential wastewater use (percentage wastewater return = 80%):

Tier Usage
Effective
July 1,
2017
Effective
July 1,
2018
Effective
July 1,
2019
Effective
July 1,
2020
Effective
July 1,
2021
1 0 to 9 HCF/month $1.95 $2.06 $2.17 $2.29 $2.42
2 >9 to 18 HCF/month $2.17 $2.29 $2.42 $2.55 $2.69
3 > 18 HCF/month $3.03 $3.19 $3.36 $3.54 $3.73
(b) Single family residential wastewater use; large lots (lot size of over 7,000 square feet) (percentage wastewater return = 60%):

Tier Usage
Effective
July 1,
2017
Effective
July 1,
2018
Effective
July 1,
2019
Effective
July 1,
2020
Effective
July 1,
2021
1 0 to 16 HCF/month $1.95 $2.06 $2.17 $2.29 $2.42
2 > 16 to 25 HCF/
month $2.17 $2.29 $2.42 $2.55 $2.69
3 > 25 HCF/month $3.03 $3.19 $3.36 $3.54 $3.73
(c) Multi-family, multi-unit residential wastewater use (percentage wastewater return = 90%).

Tiers for multi-family and multi-unit residential are variable and are determined by multiplying each tier allotment by the number of dwelling units:

Tier Usage Effective
July 1,
Effective
July 1,
Effective
July 1,
Effective
July 1,
Effective
July 1,
510
2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
1 0 to 6 HCF/month $1.58 $1.67 $1.76 $1.86 $1.96
2 > 6 to 12 HCF/month $1.77 $1.87 $1.97 $2.08 $2.19
3 > 12 HCF/month $2.47 $2.60 $2.74 $2.89 $3.05
(4) Monthly base rates. In addition to monthly rates based on water use (per HCF) as set forth above, the following customer classes shall pay monthly meter rates:

Service
Effective
July 1,
2017
Effective
July 1,
2018
Effective
July 1,
2019
Effective
July 1,
2020
Effective
July 1,
2021
Single family $29.95 $31.53 $33.19 $34.94 $36.78
Multi-family/
unit:
1 to 6 units $21.91 $23.07 $24.29 $25.57 $26.92
7+ units $10.92 $11.50 $12.11 $12.75 $13.42
(5) Minimum monthly fees. The following customer classes shall pay the greater of the applicable monthly rates set forth in the table below, or the monthly rates based on the actual water use (per HCF) as set forth above:

Service
Effective
July 1,
2017
Effective
July 1,
2018
Effective
July 1,
2019
Effective
July 1,
2020
Effective
July 1,
2021
Commercial $19.90 $20.95 $22.05 $23.21 $24.43
Restaurant $18.46 $19.43 $20.46 $21.54 $22.68
Laundry/
laundromat
$91.57 $96.38 $101.44 $106.77 $112.38
School $69.85 $73.52 $77.38 $81.45 $85.73
(6) Non-metered water users. Except as provided in subsection (B)(3) of this section for residential water users, other non-metered water users, including commercial and industrial users, shall pay a monthly rate as determined by the Public Works Director based upon the monthly rate charged a metered water user of comparable size and character of use, provided, however, that the minimum monthly charge shall be the same as that charged for a multi-family dwelling unit. In lieu of specifically calculated rates, non-metered customers will be charged the following:

Service Effective
July 1,
Effective
July 1,
Effective
July 1,
Effective
July 1,
Effective
January 1,
511
2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Non-metered
customers $51.42 $54.12 $56.97 $59.97 $63.12
(7) Where wastewater is collected by the city and is accepted by another agency for transmission, treatment and disposal, the monthly wastewater rates shall be equal to the rate charged by such agency for transmission, treatment and disposal of such wastewater, anything to the contrary herein notwithstanding.
(8) Additional charges for outside the city users of city wastewater system. Those outside the city users of the Las Posas sewer line shall be charged a monthly rate for wastewater service as follows. Wastewater service is deemed to begin when water service begins. The rate per hundred cubic feet (HCF) of water used is based on the assumption that 85% of commercial and 60% of residential water consumed is returned to the wastewater system. The Public Works Director shall have the right to review the water consumption of any metered user of the wastewater system and to adjust the rate based on the average water consumption over a reasonable period of time:
(a) Monthly rates for user charge formula - outside city.

Service
Effective
July 1,
2017
Effective
January 1,
2018
Effective
January 1,
2019
Effective
January 1,
2020
Effective
January 1,
2021
Single family
residential per $79.72 $83.32 $87.04 $90.96 $95.11
Multi-family residential
per $55.66 $58.18 $60.79 $63.55 $66.38
(b) Monthly rates for Las Posas commercial/institutional wastewater use.

Tier Service
Effective
July 1,
2017
Effective
January 1,
2018
Effective
January 1,
2019
Effective
January 1,
2020
Effective
January 1,
2021
1 0 to 50 HCF/
month $6.57 $6.87 $7.17 $7.48 $7.81
2 > 50 to 930 HCF/
month $8.21 $8.56 $8.94 $9.33 $9.73
3 > 930 HCF/month $16.42 $17.12 $17.86 $18.62 $19.43
(C) Industrial and liquid waste sampling. Analysis and flow measurement. Dischargers whose wastewater charges are individually calculated using the Oxnard Formula shall be responsible for costs of required sampling, analysis and flow measurement associated therewith as provided in Chapter 19 of the Oxnard City Code. If sampling, analysis and flow data are not provided to the City as required, the Public Works Director shall cause monitoring to be performed or an estimate 512
made to enable charges to be rendered. The discharger shall be billed for these extra costs. (D) Charges for unusual or non-compatible wastewater. A charge for unusual or non-compatible waste constituents of such quality or character as to impose upon the city unusual operation and/or maintenance or capital costs whether or not related to total flow volume, biochemical oxygen demand, or suspended solids, shall be set by the Public Works Director and paid by the discharger.

These charges shall be reasonably calculated to defray costs attributable to such wastes. (E) Fee for appeal. For each appeal to the City Council of a ruling by the Public Works Director a fee of $100 will be charged.
(F) Industrial wastewater discharge permits. The industrial wastewater discharge permits (permit) specified in Chapter 19 of the Oxnard City Code shall be granted for a specific time period, not to exceed five years. Application for permit and permit renewal shall be made in accordance with Chapter 19. All users classified as significant industrial wastewater users according to Chapter 19 shall be assessed a fee of $2,500 per year per permit. All other industrial users shall be assessed a fee of $100 per year per permit. In addition to the permit fee, new applicants for a permit shall be assessed a one time new application processing fee of $100. (G) Billing procedure for monthly service charge for use of city wastewater system. Bills shall be computed according to the rates then in effect and the number of days in the service period at each rate.
(Ord. No. 2917)
SEC. 19-135. COLLECTION OF FEES.

The amount of any fee or charge imposed by the provisions of this article, including interest and penalty assessments, shall be deemed a debt owed to the city. An action in the name of the city may be commenced in any court of competent jurisdiction for the amount of any delinquent fees or charges, and if legal action is brought by the city or its assignee to enforce collection of any amount charged and due under this article, any judgment rendered in favor of the city shall include costs of suit incurred by the city or its assignee, including actual attorneys' fees. (`64 Code, Sec. 25-82) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-136. BILLING AND COLLECTION - DELINQUENT WASTEWATER BILL.

Should a customer fail to pay a fee or charge for wastewater service, within one month after the billing date provided on the face of the bill, the city shall assess a penalty in an amount of 10% of the overdue balance.
(`64 Code, Sec. 25-83) (Ord. No. 2494, 2918)
SEC. 19-137. OUT-OF-CITY SERVICE FEES.

Property situated outside the boundaries of the city may be connected to the system if the city manager determines there is sufficient capacity in the system to serve the property. Out-of-city sewerage service shall be temporary and subject to cancellation following reasonable notice. Fees shall be as specified by ordinance.
(`64 Code, Sec. 25-84) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-138. CONNECTION FEES.
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(A) Sewer connection fees shall be specified by ordinance and shall be adjusted effective July first of each year to reflect changes in the construction cost index for Los Angeles from January of the previous year to January of the current year as reflected in the periodical, “Engineering News Record,” or other appropriate source as determined by the city manager. (B) If a demolished structure is subsequently replaced, no additional sewer permit or sewer service connection fee is required if the building permit for the replacement structure is issued within five years of the date of destruction of the previous structure. (C) If the building permit is issued more than five years but less than ten years from the date of demolition, the service connection fee shall be reduced by 50%. If the building permit is requested for any replacement after ten years from the date of demolition, the full permit or service connection fee shall be required.
(D) The property owner shall pay for any difference between the sewer connection fee based on the original water meter size and the connection fee based on the water meter size to serve the replacement structure. The property owner shall bear the burden of proving the date of the original demolition and that structure's water meter size at the time of destruction. (`64 Code, Sec. 25-85) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-139. PRIVATE WATER SUPPLY FEES.
(A) If a user has a supply of water not obtained from the city, the city manager shall charge and collect from the user the metered water user service fee. To facilitate calculation of this fee, the user shall install and maintain at the user's expense, a water meter of a type approved by the city manager, capable of measuring accurately the amount of water used on the premises. (B) The meter shall provide water use measurement in the same manner as meters recording city water use, and the user shall permit the meter to be read monthly by authorized city employees.
(`64 Code, Sec. 25-86) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-140. APPEAL FEE.

The fees for filing an administrative hearing or other hearing pursuant to this chapter shall be established in a resolution of the city council.
(`64 Code, Sec. 25-87) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-141. IWD PERMIT FEE.

All persons requiring an IWD permit shall pay to the city a yearly permit fee established by resolution of the city council.
(`64 Code, Sec. 25-88) (Ord. No. 2494)
SEC. 19-142. SERVICE FEES.

Should the city or its agents perform required industrial wastewater sampling, analysis, review, flow measurements or other activities for a user, the user shall be held responsible for all accrued costs. The city manager may, at his/her discretion, bill the user directly for services performed by the city. The fees for such services shall be established by resolution of the city council. (`64 Code, Sec. 25-89) (Ord. No. 2494)
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SEC. 19-143. PRETREATMENT CHARGES AND FEES.
(A) The city council by resolution may adopt reasonable charges and fees for reimbursement of the costs of setting up and operating the city's pretreatment program. (B) These charges and fees include:
(1) Fees for IWD permit applications, including the cost of processing the applications; (2) Fees for monitoring, inspection, and surveillance procedures, including the cost of collecting and analyzing a user's discharge and reviewing monitoring reports submitted by users; (3) Fees for reviewing accidental discharge procedures and construction and responding to accidental discharges;
(4) Fees for wastewater of such quality or character as to impose unusual operation and maintenance or capital costs on the system; whether related to flow volume, BOD, SS, or peak flow rates; and
(5) Other fees as the city council may deem necessary to carry out the provisions of this article.
(`64 Code, Sec. 25-90) (Ord. No. 2494)
ARTICLE XII. STORM WATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT
SEC. 22-215. PURPOSE AND INTENT.

This article implements the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (the “Clean Water Act” or “CWA”), 33 U.S.C. Section 1251 et seq., as amended, and Division 7 of the California Water Code by prohibiting the discharge of any pollutant to navigable waters of the United States from a point source unless the discharge is authorized by a permit issued pursuant to the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (“NPDES”) required by CWA Section 402 (33 U.S.C. Section 1342), and by prohibiting non-storm water discharges into the storm drain system. (Ord. No. 2459, 2876)
SEC. 22-216. DEFINITIONS.

For the purposes of this article, the following words and phrases will have the meanings set forth this section. Words and phrases not defined in this section or elsewhere in this article will have the meanings set forth in the regulations implementing the NPDES, Clean Water Act Section 402, and Division 7 of the California Water Code, as they may be amended from time to time, and if not defined in such laws, then the applicable definitions in the municipal storm water permit will apply. (A) BASIN PLAN - The Water Quality Control Plan for Coastal Watersheds of Los Angeles and Ventura Counties, adopted by the regional board on June 13, 1994, as amended from time to time. (B) BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES (“BMPs”) - Measures, practices, and procedures to prevent or reduce, to the maximum extent that is technologically and economically feasible, the discharge of pollutants to the city’s storm drain system and receiving waters. A BMP may consist of a structural BMP, source control BMP, treatment control BMP, or any other BMP promulgated by the California Stormwater Quality Association (CASQA), California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), or approved by the director for the purpose of controlling or eliminating storm water pollution.
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(C) CHANNEL - An open conduit either naturally or artificially created that periodically or continuously contains moving water, or which forms a connecting link between two waterbodies. (D) CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY - Any construction or demolition activity, clearing, grading, grubbing, or excavation or any other activity that results in a land disturbance. Construction activity does not include emergency construction activities required to immediately protect public health and safety or routine maintenance activities required to maintain the integrity of structures by performing minor repair and restoration work, maintain original line and grade, hydraulic capacity, or original purpose of the facility.
(E) CONTAMINATION - An impairment of the quality of waters of the State by waste to a degree that creates a hazard to the public health through poisoning or spread of disease. Contamination also includes any equivalent effect resulting from the disposal of waste, whether or not waters of the State are affected.
(F) CRITICAL SOURCE FACILITIES - Those commercial or industrial facilities or businesses that have a potential to contribute pollutants to storm water runoff and are listed in Part 4.D and Attachment D of the municipal storm water permit.
(G) DECHLORINATED/DEBROMINATED SWIMMING POOL DISCHARGE - Any swimming pool discharge with a residual chlorine or bromine level of 0.1 mg/L or less; and that does not contain any detergents, wastes, algaecides, or cyanuric acid in excess of 50 ppm, or any other chemicals including salts from pools commonly referred to as “salt water pools”. The term does not include swimming pool filter backwash or swimming pool water containing bacteria. (H) DEVELOPMENT - Any construction, rehabilitation, redevelopment or reconstruction for which either discretionary land use approval or a permit is required, for any public or private residential (whether single-family, multi-unit or planned unit development); industrial; commercial; retail; institutional; and other non-residential projects, including public agency projects; or mass grading for future construction.
(I) DIRECTOR - The public works director or designee. (J) DISCHARGE - When used without qualification, the discharge of a pollutant. (K) DISCHARGE OF A POLLUTANT - Any addition of any pollutant to waters of the United States, to the city’s storm drain system, or any addition of any pollutant to waters of the contiguous zone from any point source other than a vessel or other floating craft which is being used as a means of transportation.
(L) DISCHARGER - Any person causing a discharge.
(M) EPA - The Environmental Protection Agency of the United States of America. (N) ENVIRONMENT - The physical conditions that exist within the area and that will be affected by a proposed project. The environment means both naturally occurring and man-made conditions.

The area involved will be the area in which significant effects would occur, either directly or indirectly, as a result of the project.
(O) HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES - Those substances designated as hazardous substances under Section 311(b)(2)(A) of the Clean Water Act, which are listed in the table at 40 CFR Section 116.4, and other applicable law.
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(Q) ILLICIT CONNECTION - Any engineered conveyance that is connected to the storm drain system, without a permit, through or by which an illicit discharge may occur. (R) ILLICIT DISCHARGE - Any discharge to the storm drain system that is prohibited under local, State, or federal statutes, ordinances, codes, or regulations. The term illicit discharge includes all non-storm water discharges not composed entirely of storm water except discharges pursuant to a NPDES permit and discharges which are exempt or conditionally exempt in accordance with any applicable order of the regional board or authorized by the regional board executive officer.
(S) INVOICE FOR COSTS - An invoice for the actual costs and expenses of the city, including, but not limited to administrative overhead, salaries, attorney fees and other expenses recoverable under applicable law, incurred during any inspection, investigation or proceeding conducted pursuant to this article, where a notice of violation or other enforcement remedy under this article is used to obtain compliance with this article.
(T) MAXIMUM EXTENT PRACTICABLE - The level of pollutant control that is derived from available technology or other controls at the maximum level that is practicable. Pollution prevention and source control BMPs in combination with structural and treatment methods where appropriate are emphasized to achieve compliance. The maximum extent practicable approach is an ever evolving and advancing concept that considers technical and economic feasibility. (U) MUNICIPAL SEPARATE STORM SEWER SYSTEM (“MS4”) or STORM DRAIN SYSTEM - A conveyance or system of conveyances, including roads with drainage systems, municipal streets, catch basins, curbs, gutters, ditches, man-made channels, or storm drains, as defined in 40 CFR Section 122.26(b)(8): (1) owned or operated by the city; (2) designed or used for collecting or conveying storm water; (3) which is not a combined sewer; and (4) which is not part of a publicly owned treatment works, as defined in 40 CFR Section 122.2. (V) MUNICIPAL STORM WATER PERMIT - NPDES Permit No. CAS004002 Waste Discharge Requirements for Storm Water (Wet Weather) and Non-Storm Water (Dry Weather) Discharges from the Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems within the Ventura County Watershed Protection District, County of Ventura, and the Incorporated Cities Therein (Regional Board Order R4-2010-0108), as amended from time to time.
(W) NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (“NPDES”) PERMIT - A permit issued under the CWA, including a State general permit and the municipal storm water permit issued by the regional board.
(X) NEW DEVELOPMENT - Land disturbing activities, structural development, construction or installation of a building structure, creation and replacement of impervious surfaces, and land subdivision.
(Y) NON-STORM WATER DISCHARGE - Any discharge to the storm drain system that is not composed entirely of storm water.
(Z) POINT SOURCE - Any discernible, confined, and discrete conveyance, including, but not limited to, any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, concentrated animal feeding operation, or vessel or other floating craft, from which pollutants are or may be discharged. This term does not include agricultural storm water discharges and return flows from irrigated agriculture.
(AA) POLLUTANT - As defined in CWA section 502(6), 33 U.S.C. section 1362(6), and incorporated by reference into California Water Code section 13373, or other applicable law, which is discharged into water.
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(BB) POLLUTION - The man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical, biological and radiological integrity of water. Pollution also means an alteration of the quality of waters of the State by waste to a degree that unreasonably affects, or has the potential to unreasonably affect, either the waters for beneficial uses or the facilities which serve these beneficial uses.
(CC) POST-CONSTRUCTION STORM WATER MANAGEMENT PLAN (PCSMP) - A plan that defines the strategy and describes the design, placement and implementation of storm water retention and storm water treatment BMPs to effectively prevent non-storm water discharges and reduce pollutants in storm water discharges to the maximum extent practicable, for post- construction urban runoff to the storm drain system.
(DD) POTABLE WATER SOURCES - The potable water system for the treatment, distribution, and provision of water for residential, commercial, industrial, or institutional use that meets all California safe drinking water regulatory standards for human consumption. (EE) RECEIVING WATERS - All surface water bodies identified in the basin plan. (FF) REDEVELOPMENT - Land-disturbing activity that results in the creation, addition or replacement of 5,000 square feet or more of impervious surface area on an already developed site as defined in the municipal storm water permit. Redevelopment includes, but is not limited to: the expansion of a building footprint; addition or replacement of a structure; replacement of impervious surface area that is not part of a routine maintenance activity; and land disturbing activities related to structural or impervious surfaces. For an existing single-family dwelling and accessory structures, redevelopment means projects that create, add, or replace 10,000 square feet of impervious area. Redevelopment does not include routine maintenance to maintain original line and grade, hydraulic capacity, or original purpose of the facility, nor does it include emergency construction activities required to immediately protect public health and safety. (GG) REGIONAL BOARD - The California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Los Angeles Region.
(HH) RESPONSIBLE PERSON - The person(s) identified in and responsible for compliance with the provisions of a SWPPP, SWPCP, or PCSMP.
(II) SOURCE CONTROL BMP - Any schedule of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures, managerial practices or operational practices that aim to prevent storm water pollution by reducing the potential for contamination at the source of pollution. (JJ) STATE BOARD - The California State Water Resources Control Board. (KK) STATE GENERAL PERMIT - A permit issued by the State board or the regional board pursuant to 40 CFR Sections 122 and 123 to regulate a category of point sources. The term State general permit includes, but is not limited to, the general permit for storm water discharges associated with construction activity and the general industrial activities storm water permit and the terms and requirements of both. In the event the EPA revokes the in-lieu permitting, authority of the State board, then the term State general permit will also refer to any EPA administered storm water control program for industrial, construction, and any other category of activities. (LL) STORM WATER - Any surface flow, runoff, and/or drainage associated with rain storm events and/or snow melt, as defined in 40 CFR Section 122.26(b)(13). (MM) STORM WATER POLLUTION CONTROL PLAN (SWPCP) - A plan or equivalent form, as required by the municipal storm water permit or by the director, identifying potential pollutant sources from a construction site with less than one acre of soil disturbance and describing 518
proposed design, placement and implementation of BMPs, to effectively prevent non-storm water discharges and reduce pollutants in storm water discharges to the storm drain system, to the maximum extent practicable, during construction activities. (NN) STORM WATER POLLUTION PREVENTION PLAN (SWPPP) - A plan, as required by a State general permit, identifying potential pollutant sources and describing the design, placement and implementation of BMPs, to effectively prevent non-storm water discharges and reduce pollutants in storm water discharges during activities covered by the State general permit. (OO) STRUCTURAL BMP - Any structural facility designed and constructed to mitigate the adverse impacts of storm water runoff pollution.
(PP) TREATMENT - The application of engineered systems that use physical, chemical, or biological processes to remove pollutants.
(QQ) TREATMENT CONTROL BMP - Any engineered system designed to remove pollutants by simple gravity settling of particulate pollutants, filtration, biological uptake, media absorption or any other physical, biological, or chemical process.
(RR) VENTURA COUNTY TECHNICAL GUIDANCE MANUAL FOR STORM WATER QUALITY CONTROL MEASURES or TECHNICAL GUIDANCE MANUAL - The county technical guidance manual for storm water quality measures required by the municipal storm water permit, as amended from time to time.
(SS) WASTE - Sewage and any and all other waste substances, liquid, solid, gaseous, or radioactive, associated with human habitation, or of human or animal origin, or from any producing, manufacturing, or processing operation, including waste placed within containers of whatever nature prior to, and for purposes of, disposal.
(TT) WATERCOURSE - Any natural or artificial channel for passage of water. (UU) WATERS OF THE STATE - Any surface water or groundwater, including saline waters, within the boundaries of the State of California.
(VV) WATERS OF THE UNITED STATES - Bodies of water as defined in 40 CFR Section 122.2. (WW) WET SEASON - The calendar period from October 1 through April 15. (Ord. No. 2459, 2876)
SEC. 22-217. PROHIBITION OF ILLICIT CONNECTIONS AND ILLICIT DISCHARGES. (A) The discharge of pollutants into the storm drain system is prohibited. (B) All discharges of material other than storm water into the storm drain system must be in compliance with the city’s NPDES permit and any other NPDES permit applicable to the subject property.
(C) No person may do any of the following:
(1) Construct, use, maintain, operate or utilize an illicit connection; (2) Cause, permit, or allow any agent, employee, independent contractor or other person, to construct, maintain, operate, or utilize an illicit connection; (3) Cause, allow or facilitate an illicit discharge;
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(4) Cause, permit, or allow, any agent, employee, or independent contractor, to cause, allow, or facilitate an illicit discharge.
(D) In addition to any other remedy provided by law, the director may, by written notice, require persons responsible for an illicit discharge or illicit connection to immediately, or by a specified date, discontinue the illicit discharge or illicit connection, and, if necessary, to take measures to eliminate the source of the illicit discharge or illicit connection. If the illicit discharge or illicit connection is not discontinued in the time specified, the city may take measures to eliminate the source of the illicit discharge or illicit connection to prevent the occurrence of future illicit discharges or illicit connections.
(E) Whenever the director finds that an illicit discharge or illicit connection resulting in the release of pollutants is taking place or has occurred which may result in or has resulted in the release of pollutants is taking place or has occurred which may result in or has resulted in pollutants entering the storm drain system, or watercourse, the director may require by written notice to the responsible person that the pollution cease, be remediated, and the affected property be restored to its pre-pollution condition within a specified time, along with all other remedies available to the city.
(F) The director may, by written notice, require a person responsible for an illicit connection to the storm drain system to eliminate or to secure approval for the connection within a specified time, regardless of whether or not the connection or discharge to it has been established or approved prior to the effective date of this article.
(Ord. No. 2459, 2876)
SEC. 22-218. GENERAL DISCHARGE PROHIBITIONS.
(A) No person may discharge any material, other than storm water into the city storm drain system or receiving waters, unless a permit has first been obtained. (B) The following discharges are exempt from the general permit requirement in subsection (A) of this section:
(1) Discharges originating from a state, federal, or other source for which the city is preempted from regulating by State or federal law;
(2) Discharges covered by a separate individual or general NPDES permit, or conditional waiver for irrigated lands;
(3) Discharge flows from fire-fighting activities; or (4) Discharges that fall within one of the categories below that are not a source of pollutants that exceed water quality standards, and where specified, meet all the conditions stated:
(a) Natural flows.

1. Stream diversions authorized by the State board.

2. Natural springs and rising groundwater.

3. Uncontaminated groundwater infiltration.

4. Flows from riparian habitats or wetlands, provided all necessary permits or authorization are received prior to diverting the stream flow.
(b) Flows incidental to urban activities.
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1. Discharges from potable water sources provided the flows are:
(i) Low volume, incidental, and infrequent releases that are innocuous from a water quality perspective;
(ii) Dechlorinated, pH adjusted if necessary, re-oxygenated, and both the volume and velocity are controlled to prevent re-suspension of sediments; and (iii) All sediments must be collected and disposed of in a legal manner.

2. Gravity flow from foundation, footing, and crawl space drains.

3. Discharges from air conditioning condensate with flow segregated to prevent introduction of pollutants.

4. Reclaimed and potable irrigation water runoff with flow segregated to prevent introduction of pollutants.

5. Dechlorinated/debrominated swimming pool discharges that:
(i) Do not have chlorine or bromine residuals that exceed 0.1 mg/L; (ii) Do not contain any chemicals, detergents, wastes, or algaecides; (iii) Do not contain cyanuric acid in excess of 50 ppm; (iv) Do not contain salts or pH levels in excess of the water quality standards set forth in the municipal storm water permit;
(v) The volume and velocity is controlled to prevent re-suspension of sediments; and (vi) The cleaning waste water and filter back wash is not discharged to storm drain system.
(c) Non-commercial car washing by residents or non-profit organizations. (d) Sidewalk rinsing using a high pressure-low volume of water device with no additives. (e) Pooled storm water from treatment BMPs provided that:

1. The discharge is not a source of pollutants; and

2. Sediments are to be disposed of properly in compliance with all applicable laws. (Ord. No. 2459, 2806, 2876)
SEC. 22-219. SPECIFIC DISCHARGE PROHIBITIONS.

The following discharges are prohibited from entering the storm drain system:
(A) Discharges from the washing or cleaning of gas stations, auto repair garages, or other types of automotive service facilities.
(B) Discharges from mobile auto washing, carpet cleaning, steam cleaning, sandblasting, and other such mobile commercial and industrial operations. (C) Discharges from areas where repair of machinery and equipment, which are visibly leaking oil, fluid or antifreeze, is performed.
(D) Discharges from storage areas for materials containing grease, oil, or other hazardous 521
substances, or uncovered receptacles containing hazardous materials. (E) Discharges from swimming pools that have a chlorine/bromine concentration greater than

0.1 mg/L or a chloride concentration greater than 250 mg/L. (F) Discharges from swimming pool filter backwash, decorative fountains, and ponds. (G) Discharges from industrial/commercial areas, including the washing or cleaning of restaurant mats.
(H) Discharges from stationary or mobile pet grooming facilities. (I) Trash container leachate.
(J) Spills, dumping or disposal of pesticide, fungicide, herbicide, litter, landscape and construction debris, garbage, food, animal waste, fuel or chemical wastes, batteries, and any other materials that have the potential to adversely impact water quality. (Ord. No. 2459, 2876)
SEC. 22-220. REDUCTION OF POLLUTANTS IN STORM WATER.
(A) Discharges of storm water containing pollutants which have not been reduced to the maximum extent practicable are prohibited.
(B) Any person engaged in activities that will or may result in pollutants entering the storm drain system or watercourses must undertake all practicable measures to reduce such pollutants. (C) With written concurrence of the regional board, the city may exempt in writing other non- storm water discharges which are not a source of pollutants to the storm drain system or watercourses.
(Ord. No. 2459, 2876)
SEC. 22-221. REDUCTION OF LITTER.
(A) Prohibition. No person may throw, deposit, leave, maintain, keep, or permit to be thrown, deposited, kept, or maintained, in or upon any public or private driveway, parking area, street, alley, sidewalk, trail, or component of the storm drain system or any receiving waters, any refuse, rubbish, garbage, litter, or other discarded or abandoned objects, articles, accumulations, or pollutant so that the same may cause or contribute to pollution. (B) Waste management on residential sites. Waste must be deposited in a proper receptacle that must be covered to prevent scattering by wind or animal. Spillage and overflow of wastes around containers must be promptly cleaned and properly disposed of. (C) Waste management on commercial, industrial sites and private residential complexes. It is the responsibility of any person owning or operating any commercial establishment, industrial park, or residential complex with common areas to procure and place trash receptacles at their own expense on the premises. Persons placing trash in receptacles must do so in such manner as to prevent litter from being carried or deposited by the elements upon any street, sidewalk, or other public place or upon private property. Persons owning or occupying a place of business, who sell or offer for sale food or other goods for immediate consumption wrapped in paper, plastic, cardboard or other similar disposable materials or containers, must endeavor to implement a general litter removal program so as to remove litter generated by such business at least each business day. No person owning or occupying a place of business may sweep into or deposit in the storm drain 522
system the accumulation of litter from any building or lot from any public or private sidewalk or driveway. Persons owning or occupying places of business must keep the sidewalk in front of their business premises free of litter.
(Ord. No. 2459, 2876)
SEC. 22-222. CONSTRUCTION DEVELOPMENT.

Any construction activity that results in a land disturbance that requires a grading, building, or discretionary permit must be undertaken in accordance with:
(A) Any conditions and requirements established by the municipal storm water permit or other applicable NPDES permits which are reasonably related to the reduction or elimination of pollutants in storm water runoff from the construction site.
(B) Any condition or requirement established by the director to protect specific watersheds or drainage basins.
(C) Any construction activity requiring a grading, demolition, or stockpile permit must include a plan identifying the structural and non-structural BMPs to be implemented during the construction activity to reduce pollutants in storm water runoff from the site and prevent construction site discharges from causing or contributing to a violation of water quality standards. (1) The storm water runoff plan required for the construction activity will be based on the area of land to be disturbed by the construction activity as follows:
(a) Any construction activity requiring a grading, demolition or stockpile permit that results in the disturbance of less than one acre of land will require the applicant for such permit to submit and obtain city approval a SWPCP, or equivalent, as required by the municipal storm water permit. (b) Any construction activity requiring a grading, demolition or stockpile permit that results in the disturbance of one acre or greater, will require the applicant for such permit to submit and obtain city approval of a SWPPP in accordance with the municipal storm water permit and state general permit.
(2) Prior to the issuance of a grading permit or any permit authorizing construction activity including demolition, clearing, grading, grubbing, excavation, construction, if required by the state board, or where the director determines there is a substantial potential for discharge of significant levels of a pollutant into the storm drain system or receiving waters, the applicant for such permit must submit and obtain approval for the required plan based on the area of land disturbed by the construction activity.
(3) Each applicable SWPPP or SWPCP, must name a responsible person for the project. (4) The owners of a development project, and their successors and assigns, and each named responsible person, must implement and adhere to the terms, conditions and requirements of the approved SWPPP or SWPCP. Any failure to implement and adhere to the terms, conditions and requirements of such plan will constitute a violation of this article. (5) Compliance with the conditions and requirements of a SWPPP or SWPCP will not exempt any responsible person from the requirement to comply independently with each provision of this article.
(6) Any construction activity requiring a SWPPP or SWPCP will be inspected a minimum of once during the wet season for the implementation of storm water quality controls. If the city determines that the SWPCP or SWPPP has been improperly implemented, a follow-up site 523
inspection will be conducted by the city within two weeks of the initial inspection. (7) The city's costs and expenses incurred in the review, approval, or revision of any SWPPP or SWPCP, as well as for the construction site inspection and reinspection will be included as part of the applicable fee for such plans.
(Ord. No. 2459, 2876)
SEC. 22-223. POST CONSTRUCTION DEVELOPMENT.
(A) All new development and redevelopment within the city must be undertaken in accordance with:
(1) Any conditions and requirements established by the municipal storm water permit. (2) Any condition or requirements established by the city to protect specific watersheds or drainage basins.
(B) Applicability of this article to new development and redevelopment projects will be determined in accordance with the municipal storm water permit. (C) The following requirements apply to new development and redevelopment projects that are subject to post-construction storm water controls:
(1) A PCSMP will be required to be submitted.
(2) Each PCSMP must:
(a) Include the name of the owner or other responsible person for the project; (b) Illustrate the location of proposed post-construction storm water controls; (c) Provide engineering calculations and analysis in accordance with the technical guidance manual that demonstrate that the post-construction storm water controls will function appropriately; (d) Include an operation and maintenance plan in accordance with the technical guidance manual. The operation and maintenance plan must specify a required schedule and requirements for maintenance and monitoring; and
(e) Include a storm water treatment device access and maintenance agreement on the form provided by the city. The director may require that the agreement be recorded with the County Recorder's office.
(3) The owner or responsible person must implement and adhere to the terms, conditions and requirements of the approved PCSMP. Each failure to implement and adhere to the PCSMP will constitute a separate violation of this article.
(4) The city's costs and expenses incurred in the review, approval or revision of any PCSMP or other related requirements will be charged to the owner or responsible person of the applicable new development or redevelopment project as a fee per the applicable city fee resolution. (5) Compliance with the conditions and requirements of a PCSMP and related maintenance agreement does not exempt any person or development project from the requirement to comply independently with each provision of this article.
(D) The owner or responsible person of a property with a post-construction storm water control device must submit to the city an annual statement on the form provided by the city that certifies 524
that the post-construction storm water device is being adequately maintained and functions as designed. If the annual statement is not timely received by the city, the city may inspect the post- construction storm water device and the owner or responsible person will be charged a fee per the applicable city fee resolution for such inspection and any necessary reinspections. (Ord. No. 2459, 2876)
SEC. 22-224. BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES.
(A) Authorization to adopt and enforce best management practices. The director may adopted requirements establishing appropriate BMPs for any activity, operation or facility which may cause or contribute to pollution or contamination of the storm drain system. If relevant BMPs have been promulgated by the city or any federal, state or county agency for an activity, operation or facility that would otherwise cause the discharge of pollutants to the storm drain system or watercourses, every person undertaking such activity or operation, or owning or operating such facility must implement such BMPs.
(B) Responsibility to implement best management practices. Any person engaged in activities or operations or owning facilities or property that will or may result in pollutants entering the storm drain system, or watercourses, as determined by the director, must implement applicable BMPs to the extent they are technologically and economically achievable to prevent or reduce such pollutants.
(C) Minimum BMPs for particular urban activities.
(1) Minimum BMPs for mobile car washes are full containment under and around the vehicle being washed, capture of all water used in the washing operation, and hauling of the captured wash water to a legal point of disposal.
(2) Minimum BMPs for building or sidewalk pressure washing are to use high pressure and low volume of water with no additives at an average usage of 0.006 gallons per square foot of surface area to be rinsed, capture all water used in the washing operation, and haul the captured wash water to a legal point of disposal.
(3) Minimum BMPs for landscape irrigation are inspection of irrigation systems to minimize contact with impervious surfaces, and segregation of runoff from the irrigated area following treatment (pesticide or fertilizer application) to prevent introduction of pollutants. (Ord. No. 2459, 2876)
SEC. 22-225. COMPLIANCE WITH NPDES PERMIT.

Each industrial discharger associated with any construction activity, or any other discharger described in any NPDES permit, must comply with and undertake all other activities required by any applicable NPDES permit with regard to such discharges. (Ord. No. 2459, 2876)
SEC. 22-226. WATERCOURSE AND STORM DRAIN SYSTEM PROTECTION. (A) Every owner or responsible person for a property, through which a watercourse or portion of the storm drain system passes, must keep and maintain the property reasonably free of litter, debris, vegetation and other obstacles which may contribute pollutants, contaminates or cause a blockage of the flow of water through the watercourse or storm drain system. 525
(B) Every owner or responsible person for a property must maintain all existing structures within or adjacent to the storm drain system so that such structures will not become a hazard to the use, function or physical integrity of the storm drain system; and, consistent with other laws regarding riparian habitat protection, may not remove healthy bank vegetation beyond that actually necessary for such maintenance, not remove any such vegetation in a manner as to increase the vulnerability of a watercourse to erosion.
(Ord. No. 2459, 2806, 2876)
SEC. 22-227. PROHIBITED ACTS AFFECTING WATERCOURSES OR STORM DRAINS.

No person may commit or cause to be committed any of the following acts, unless an appropriate permit or approval from all agencies with jurisdiction over the proposed act or project has first been obtained:
(A) The discharge of a pollutant into any pipe or channel to a watercourse or storm drain system.
(B) Modify the natural flow of water in a watercourse or storm drain system. (C) Deposit in, plant in, or remove any material from a watercourse or storm drain system including its banks, except as required for maintenance. (D) Construct, alter, enlarge, connect to, change or remove any structure in a watercourse or storm drain system.
(E) Place any loose or unconsolidated material along the side of or within a watercourse or storm drain system, or so close to the side as to cause a diversion of the flow, or to cause a probability of such material being transported by storm waters passing through a watercourse or storm drain system.
(Ord. No. 2459, 2876)
SEC. 22-228. INSPECTIONS.
(A) Right to inspect. Whenever it is necessary to make an inspection to monitor or enforce any of the provisions of, or perform any duty imposed by, this article, any permit, SWPCP, or other applicable law, or whenever the director has reasonable cause to believe there exists upon any premises, including any mobile or portable vehicles, any violation of the provisions of this article, any permit, SWPCP, or other applicable law, or any condition which makes such premises hazardous, unsafe or dangerous, the director is authorized to enter such property at any reasonable time to inspect the same and perform any duty imposed upon the director by this article, or other applicable law.
(B) Entry. The director is authorized to enter public or private property to investigate the source or potential source of a suspected illicit discharge to a storm drain system or watercourses located within the city at all reasonable times to inspect the same and to inspect and copy records related to storm water compliance. Prior to commencing any inspection as authorized by this article, the director will obtain the consent of the owner or responsible person for the premises or will obtain an administrative inspection warrant or criminal search warrant. (C) Records review. The director may examine and copy such records as is necessary to determine compliance with the provisions of this article. (D) Sample and test. The director may inspect, sample and test any area runoff, soils area 526
(including groundwater testing), process discharge, materials within any waste storage area (including any container contents), or treatment system discharge for the purpose of determining the potential for contribution of pollutants to the storm drain system. The director may investigate the integrity of all storm drain and sanitary sewer systems or other pipelines on the property using appropriate tests, including but not limited to smoke and dye tests or video surveys. The director may take photographs or videotape, make measurements or drawings and create any other record reasonably necessary to document conditions on the property. (E) Monitoring. The director may undertake monitoring and analysis including both the construction and maintenance of devices at the owners' expense, or require the owner or responsible person to undertake construction and maintenance of devices, at the owners' expense, for the purpose of measuring any discharge or potential source of discharge to the storm drain system.
(F) Test results. The owner or responsible person of property subject to inspection must provide copies of test results to the city. On submission of a written request to the director, such person will be entitled to receive copies of any results of tests conducted by the city. (Ord. No. 2459, 2876)
SEC. 22-229. INSPECTIONS OF CRITICAL SOURCE FACILITIES.

The city will conduct regular inspections of critical facilities in accordance with the requirements of the municipal storm water permit. In order to defray the cost of these mandatory inspections, critical source facilities are required to pay the applicable inspection fee established by city council resolution.
(Ord. No. 2459, 2876)
SEC. 22-230. REMEDIES FOR VIOLATIONS.
(A) Notice of violation. The director will review each report of illicit connection or illicit discharge, and, if appropriate, may serve a notice of violation to the owner or responsible person of any public or private property as to which an illicit connection or illicit discharge exists. The notice of violation shall:
(1) Identify the provision(s) of this article, the applicable SWPPP, SWPCP, PCSMP, or permit alleged to have been violated;
(2) State the continued noncompliance may result in civil, criminal or administrative enforcement actions;
(3) State a compliance date;
(4) Describe the manner of abatement required;
(5) Order any necessary remediation work; and
(6) State that the city may recover its costs of abating the violation. (B) The notice of violation may include where deemed applicable by the director, the following:
(1) Specific steps and time schedules for compliance as reasonably necessary to prevent threatened or future unauthorized illicit discharges, including but not limited to, the threat of an illicit discharge from any pond, pit, well, surface impoundment, holding or storage area; 527
(2) Specific steps and time schedules for compliance as reasonably necessary to discontinue any illicit connection;
(3) Specific requirements for containment, cleanup, removal, storage, installation of overhead covering or proper disposal of any pollutant having the potential to contact storm water; (4) Any other terms or requirements reasonably calculated to prevent continued or threatened violations of this article including, but not limited to, requirements for compliance with BMPs guidance documents promulgated by any federal, State or local agency; (5) Any other terms or requirements reasonably calculated to achieve full compliance with the terms, conditions and requirements of an applicable SWPPP, SWPCP, PCSMP, or NPDES permit, or this article.
(C) Cease and desist orders.
(1) The director may issue a cease and desist order where the public health, safety and/or welfare requires the same, directing the owner or a responsible person to:
(a) Immediately discontinue any illicit connection or illicit discharge to the storm drain system;
(b) Immediately contain or divert any flow of non-storm water off the property, where the flow is occurring in violation of this article;
(c) Immediately discontinue any other violation of this article; and (d) Clean up the area affected by the violation.
(2) The director may direct by cease and desist order that the owner or responsible person immediately cease any activity not in compliance with the terms, conditions and requirements of the applicable plan, NPDES permit or this article. For construction projects and activities for which a grading or building permit is required a stop work order may be issued by the director or building and safety official of the city to ensure corrective actions are made to the satisfaction of the director.

No construction work may proceed until corrective actions have been completed to the satisfaction of the director.
(3) A cease and desist order will be considered a notice of violation. (D) Recovery of costs. The director will serve an invoice for costs upon the owner or other responsible person who is subject to a notice of violation or a cease and desist order. If any owner or other responsible person fails to pay the invoice for costs, then the city may institute collection proceedings.
(E) Service of notices. Any notice of violation, cease and desist order or invoice for costs (collectively, “order”) must be served pursuant to the requirements of this article and will be subject to the following:
(1) Each order must state that the recipient has a right to appeal the matter as set forth in this article.
(2) The order must include the address of the affected property and be addressed to the owner as shown on the most recently issued equalized assessment roll or as may otherwise appear in the current records of the city.
(3) If the owner or other responsible person cannot be located after the reasonable efforts of the director, the order will be deemed served ten business days after posting on the property. 528
(F) Emergency abatement. The director is authorized to take any reasonably necessary precautions including, but not limited to, decontamination, packaging, dyking and transportation of materials, in order to protect life, protect property or prevent damage resulting from a condition which is likely to result in a discharge presenting an imminent hazard to the public health, safety or welfare; or which, either individually or in conjunction with other discharges, is an imminent hazard to the city's storm drain system, the environment or which places the city in violation of its NPDES permit. In the furtherance of such an operation, city personnel, any party contracting with the city or a duly authorized representative of another government agency will have immediate access to the premises. The director may prohibit access to the scene of such emergency by any person, vehicle, vessel or thing, and all persons not actually employed in the extinguishment of the condition or the preservation of lives and property in the vicinity thereof. Any costs incurred by the city in performing emergency abatement procedures may be recovered pursuant to subsection (D) of this section.
(G) Consecutive violations. Each day in which a violation occurs and each separate failure to comply with either a separate provision of this article, a notice of violation, a cease and desist order, an applicable SWPPP, SWPCP, PCSMP, or a condition or requirement of a NPDES permit, constitutes a separate violation.
(Ord. No. 2876)
SEC. 22-231. APPEALS.
(A) Any person aggrieved by the issuance of an order may appeal from the issuance of such order in accordance with the following:
(1) Any such appeal must be filed in writing within 15 days of the date of service of the order by the director upon the appealing party.
(2) No such appeal will be valid for any purpose unless it is timely filed with the City Clerk and unless a filing and processing fee is paid contemporaneously with the filing thereof in an amount as set by city council resolution.
(3) Upon the timely filing of such an appeal, the hearing officer will set a time and place for a hearing on such appeal as expeditiously as is possible and notify the appellant in writing of the time and place of the hearing.
(4) At the time of such hearing, the hearing officer will permit any interested person to present any relevant evidence bearing on the matters involved in the issuance of the order which is the subject of the appeal. The hearing officer need not follow the strict provisions of the rules of evidence as utilized in a judicial proceeding but will follow the substance of such rule to the end that the decision rendered is based upon reliable relevant evidentiary material. The hearing officer's decision will be final and subject only to judicial review. (B) The provisions of Sections 1094.5 and 1094.6 of the California Code of Civil Procedure set forth the procedure for judicial review of any action taken by the city pursuant to this article. (Ord. No. 2876)
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City of Oxnard Water Resource Recovery Facility
Sewer System Management Plan 2025

APPENDIX III
City of Oxnard Water Resource Recovery
Facility – Spill Emergency Response Plan
(SERP)
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SPILL CLEAN-UP CONTINGENCY PLAN AND

SPILL EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLAN

FOR

OXNARD WASTEWATER SYSTEM

Report
September 2024

City of Oxnard
Oxnard Water Resource Recovery Facility
and its associated wastewater collection system and outfall

6001 Perkins Road
Oxnard, CA 93033

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction 1

2. Planning requirements 1

3. Spill Response Plan 2

3.1. Standby Procedure 5

4. Notification Requirements 6

4.1. Internal Notification – Normal Working Hours 6

4.2. Internal Notification – After Hours 6

4.3. Agency Notification 7

4.4. Public Notification 9

5. Spill Classification & Reporting 10

5.1. Spill Classification 10

5.2. Reporting Requirements 11

6. Spill Response Procedures 12

6.1. Odor Complaints 12

6.2. Unknown Residential Sewer Problem Size‐up 13

6.3. Building Sewer Stoppage Response 14

6.4. Sewer Main Stoppage 16

6.5. Power Failure 18

7. Beach Sand Spill Response and Monitoring Protocol 21

7.1. Notifications and Agency Coordination 21

7.2. Sampling 22

7.3. Spill Clean‐up Strategies 22

7.4. Confirmation of Effectiveness of the Clean‐up and/or Mitigation Measures 23 532

8. Monitoring 24

9. Training 24

10. Spill Response Plan Update Requirements 25

Appendix A: Plan Review Log
Appendix B: Sewer Collection System Map
Appendix C: Sanitary Sewer Overflow Report
Appendix D: Wastewater Division Service Request
Appendix E: SSO Response – Field Documentation
Appendix F: Sample Templates for Spill Volume Estimation 533

The Spill Clean‐up Contingency Plan and Spill Emergency Response Plan (PLAN) comply with the Oxnard Water Resource Recovery Facility (WRRF) National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) ORDER NO. R4 ‐20 24‐02 52, NPDES NUMBER CA0054097 and the GENER AL ORDER FOR SANITARY SEWER SYSTEMS ORDER WQ 2022 ‐0103‐DWQ
. The Plan intends to provide the WRRF staff with
guidance on required spill response and clean‐up; notification, reporting and documentation activities after a spill, overflow, or bypass of raw or partially treated sewage.

Sewer System Management Plan (SSMP) Planning Requirements

The WDR/SSMP Spill Emergency Response Plan (SERP) requirement specifies that each Enrollee shall develop and implement a SERP that identifies measures to protect public health and the environment. At a minimum, this plan must include the following:
• Notify primary responders, appropriate local officials, and appropriate regulatory agencies of a spill promptly;
• Notify other potentially affected entities (for example, health agencies, water suppliers, etc.) of spills that potentially affect public health or reach the waters of the State; • Comply with the notification, monitoring and reporting requirements of this General Order, State law and regulations, and applicable Regional Water Board Orders; • Ensure that appropriate staff and contractors implement the Spill Emergency Response Plan and are appropriately trained;
• Address emergency system operations, traffic control and other necessary response activities; • Contain a spill and prevent/minimize discharge to waters of the State or any drainage conveyance system;
• Minimize and remediate public health impacts and adverse impacts on beneficial uses of waters of the State;
• Remove sewage from the drainage conveyance system;
• Clean the spill area and drainage conveyance system in a manner that does not inadvertently impact

1. INTRODUCTION

2. PLANNING REQUIREMENTS
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beneficial uses in the receiving waters;
• Implement technologies, practices, equipment, and interagency coordination to expedite spill containment and recovery;
• I
mplement pre ‐p
lanned coordination and collaboration with storm drain agencies and other utility agencies/departments before, during, and after a spill event; • C
onduct post‐s
pill assessments of spill response activities;
• D
ocument and report spill events as required in this General Order; and • Annually, review and assess the effectiveness of the Spill Emergency Response Plan, and update the Plan as needed.

National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permit Spill Clean -up C ontingency Plan (SCCP) Requirements
T
he City of Oxnard NPDES permit requires the following:

● Within 90 days of the effective date of this Order, the Permittee is required to update and submit an SCCP. The SCCP shall describe the activities and protocols to address the clean ‐u p
of spills, overflows, and bypasses of wastewater from the Permittee’s collection system or treatment facilities. At a minimum, the SCCP shall include sections on spill clean ‐u
p and
containment m easures, public notifications, monitoring, nuisance and odor control measures, and the procedures to be carried out if floatable material is visible on the water surface near the discharge point or has been washed ashore. ● The Permittee shall review and amend the plan as appropriate after each spill from the Facility or in the service area of the Facility. The Permittee shall include a discussion in the annual summary report of any modifications to the plan and the application of the plan to all spills during the year.

It is the obligation of the City of Oxnard (City) to protect the public health and the environment from the toxic and infectious threats posed by wastewater. It is the policy of the City to respond to spill emergencies at the WRRF and in the collection system promptly and in a manner that minimizes the potential for exposure of the public to health risks and protects the environment from potential harm from such emergencies.

Initial Response & Traffic / Crowd Control

3. SPILL RESPONSE PLAN
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The primary objective of the responders to a sewage spill is to protect public health. Therefore, the initial action in any sewage spill response effort is to isolate the public from coming in contact with the sewage; this includes vehicular traf fic, as well as pedestrians. The clean‐up crew must establish perimeters and control zones with cones, barricades, vehicles or terrain. The City maintains appropriate traffic control devices, including barricades, Vactor trucks with arrow boards, lighting, sign boards, caution tape, cone topper access deterrent devices, and flagging that is readily available for spill emergencies.

An important determination that the maintenance personnel must make in the initial stages of a sewage spill is to estimate the spill volume (Appendix F). If possible, always document the flow of the sewage with photographs. Another step, that must be taken during the initial response, is the notification of certain agencies. In the event of a sewage spill of ANY size, the VCEHD needs to be notified immediately upon receiving a report of a spill. The RWQCB also needs to be notified as soon as possible, but no later than 24 hours after the City is informed of the spill. Additionally, should a spill be greater than 1,000 gallons, California OES must be notified (even if recapture occurs).

Spill Containment

After the public has been isolated from the sewage spill, the clean‐up crews must then proceed with containment of the spill. The crews must contain the discharged sewage to the maximum extent possible; every effort must be made to prevent the discharge of sewage into surface waters. The following procedures shall be implemented to contain the overflow:
● Sandbag or block off access to storm drains with spill containment mats to contain the spill. ● Divert the spill by building a small berm to change the direction of flow of sewage back to the sanitary sewer and/or use vacuum trucks to vacuum up the spill. ● Use absorbent to mitigate the sewage spill.
● Divert the spill by pumping around the overflow and returning to the sewer. ● Retain the spill by letting it collect in a natural low area and recover the sewage with vacuum trucks as soon as possible.
● Dike or dam the spill by building a dirt berm to contain and collect the spill. ● Lift stations that have inoperative primary systems will not be left unattended.

Control & Cleanup

Once the spill is contained, the responding crews can focus their attention on controlling the spill.

Controlling the spill includes relieving the source of blockage in the line, repairing the broken pipe, or eliminating whatever the source of the spill may be.

Crews shall make full effort to collect/recover as much sewage as possible and return collected sewage to the sewer system. The sewage should be directed back into the sewer manhole by gravity flow or 536
pressurized water. When this is not possible, the vacuum trucks can be used to return contained sewage to the sanitary sewer.

Any sewage that is not recovered and returned to the sewer (i.e., soaks into the ground) must be disinfected, when required, to protect human health and minimize impact on the environme nt. VCEHD should be contacted to assist in coordinating the clean‐up effort.

If sewage from a spill flows into a storm drain, it is of the utmost importance to contain and recover as much as possible to prevent the sewage from entering receiving waters. El sewhere, when practical, sewage that enters a storm drain shall be diked and recovered at the initial entry point. If this is not practical, sewage shall be diked and contained at the storm drain outfall and recovered by vacuum and/or pumps and hoses, as n ecessary. Recovered sewage shall be disposed of in the sanitary sewer manhole downstream of the spill. After a sewage spill, pavements and hardscapes shall be flushed with water.

Flush‐ water should be contained, vacuumed and returned to the sewer whenever possible. Do not remove barricades until the entire clean‐up operation is complete.

Spill Failure Analysis

Following a spill event, a post ‐incident investigation is conducted to determine the root cause of the incident and identify corrective actions to minimize the impacts and potential for future occurrences. ● CCTV line as soon as possible to determine the condition of the line and the cause of the spill:
o Determine the condition of line (cracks, broken pipe, offset, sags, etc.). o Obstruction (tissue build‐up, roots, grit, rocks, vandalism, grease, etc.). o Hydraulic stoppage (infiltration, wet weather, side flows, undersize line, etc.). o Did a contractor hit the line or bore through the line? ● Implement corrective action:
o Add sewer to hotspot schedule for additional clean frequency if needed. o If roots are identified as the cause of the failure, add the section of sewer to the root control program.
o Replace broken or defective line.
o If grease caused the spill, determine the source of grease. o If vandalism caused the spill, have the manhole covers welded shut and notify Police. o If the spill is caused by an undersized line, replace the line with line of sufficient capacity to handle both dry and wet weather.
o If the spill is caused by Infiltration/Inflow find the source and eliminate Infiltration/Inflow. o If the spill is caused by hydraulic stoppage reconfigure the manhole and/or line to 537
eliminate hydraulic stoppage.

To provide adequate after ‐h ours response to system emergencies, WRRF Maintenance, Electricians, and Collections personnel are assigned to standby status during all hours when the maintenance staff is not normally on duty.

S
tandby duty is an obligation of all Maintenance and Collections personnel and the assignment to standby is rotated among all Collections and Maintenance personnel by the Wastewater Collections Manager or Maintenance Manager, or senior. A standby staff may only avoid the duty if approved by the Wastewater Collections Manager or Maintenance Manager.

Standby personnel are not granted scheduled vacation or do not participate in voluntary scheduled overtime while on standby unless there are no other volunteers available.

When assigned to standby duty, it is the responsibility of each standby person before the normal daily shift ends to:

1. Verify that the assigned standby cell phone is functional

2. Check the Vactor to ensure that the water tank is full, the fuel tank is full if standby covers a weekend, all tools are present, and that all equipment, including traffic control devices, is functional

3. Check the assigned standby truck to ensure that:

a. All traffic control devices installed on the truck are functional and the vehicle is safe to operate
b. If the standby period will cover a weekend or holiday, the fuel tank is full

c. The truck is stocked with the following:

iPad Flashlight (Spare Batteries) Miners Pick
Door Knob Notices Safety Vest Sledge Hammer
Sewage Warning Signs Safety Glasses Hydrant Wrench
Standby Cell Phone (Charged and Tested) Mirror 5 Sandbags Round and Square End Shovel First Aid Kit Street Broom
Temporary Berm Device Ten (10) Safety Cones 5 Gallon Bucket Standby Book Spill Packet

When assigned standby, it is the responsibility of the Standby Person to remain reachable either by

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standby cell phone or home phone and to be within 45 minutes of travel time of the WRRF.

WRRF is staffed 24 hours per day, seven days per week, 52 weeks per year. On‐dut y Wastewater Operator will notify the Operations Manager, or Chief Plant Operator, and Maintenance if needed.

Eme
rgency calls for Collection System spills will normally be received by telephone and contact will be initiated with the appropriate Collections personnel in the following order:

1. Vactor Crew will investigate the emergency, call additional personnel and equipment if required, and notify the Wastewater Collections Manager, or Senior, at the earliest opportunity.

2. If unavailable, first available field crew will investigate the emergency, call additional personnel and equipment if required, and notify the Wastewater Collections Manager, or Senior, at the earliest opportunity.

3. The Wastewater Collections Manager, or Senior, is responsible for making external agency notifications and completing the Sanitary Sewer Overflow Report Form (Appendix C).

WRRF is staffed 24 hours per day, seven days per week, 52 weeks per year. On‐dut y Wastewater Operator will notify the Operations Manager, or Chief Plant Operator, and Maintenance if needed.

Spill e
mergency response for the Collection System will be initiated in the following order:

1. Standby staff will investigate the emergency call additional collection system maintenance personnel and obtain appropriate equipment.

2. If not available, any Wastewater Maintenance Senior will investigate the emergency, call additional personnel and obtain appropriate equipment.

3. The Wastewater Collections Manager, or Senior, is responsible for making external agency notifications and completing the Sanitary Sewer Overflow Report Form (Appendix C).

4. NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

4.1. INTERNAL NOTIFICATION – NORMAL WORKING HOURS

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If any amount of spill enters a storm drain, drainage ditch, culvert, etc. it must be reported to the California Office of Emergency Services (OES), Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB), and Ventura County Environmental Health Division (VCEHD) within two hours after becoming aware of the spill.

Spill of any amount: contact within 2 hours of knowledge of incident:

● VCEHD (805‐654‐2813, After Hours: 805‐320‐6244)
● RWQCB (213‐576‐6720)
Spills of over 1000 gallons: contact within 2 hours of knowledge of incident:

● CA OES (800‐852‐7550)
City Notifications

● Oxnard Water Resource Recovery Facility (805‐271‐2200) ● Pu
blic Works Director and Assistant Public Works Director ● Cit
y Public Information Officer (805‐816‐433
0)
● Cit
y Manager (805‐385‐7449
)
The following agencies may be contacted (for all Spills contact the agency/person responsible for the area affected by sewage spill)

● Fish and Game (916‐445‐0045)
● State Parks (909‐443‐2969)
● Co
astal Commission (805‐585‐1800)

● He
al The Bay (310‐451‐1500
)
● Co
ast Guard
● Lifeguards
● Property Owner
The figure on the following page illustrates the Spill Notification Flow Chart.

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Spill Notification Flow Chart

Was there a Sanitary
Sewer Overflow?
No
If no Spills within a calendar month,
a report certifying No Spills must be
filed electronically on CIWQS within
30 days of end of calendar month.

Yes

PRIVATE SPILL
Yes
Complete the Service Request Form and
Sanitary Sewer Overflow Report Form
Was spill caused
by a blockage or problem
within a privately
owned lateral?
If spill occurred in the City right‐of‐way,
notify VCEHD as soon as possible
and file electronic report to CIWQS
within 30 days after the end of the
month in which the Spill occurred.

Oxnard City CouncilMay 20, 2025

Oxnard City Council
May 20, 2025