HomeMy WebLinkAbout066ORDINANCE N0, 66
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF IRWINDALE AMENDING THE IRWINDALE MUNICIPAL
CODE BY THE ADDITION THERETO OF PROVISIONS FOR
THE REGULATION OF WASTE AND REFUSE DISPOSAL
SITES.
The City Council of the City of Irwindale does ordain
as follows:
SECTION 1. The Irwindale Municipal Code is hereby
amended by the addition to Article VI thereof of a new Chapter
3 entitled Regulations of Particular Businesses and of a new
Part 1 thereof consisting of Sections 6300 to 6300.28, inclusive,
reading as follows:
"Chapter 3 - REGULATIONS OF PARTICULAR BUSINESSES
Part 1 - WASTE OR REFUSE DISPOSAL SITES
6300, Compliance Required. No person shall establish or
operate any site or dump for the disposal of waste or refuse
except in compliance with the provisions of this Part and with
the provisions of any applicable permit issued hereunder.
6300.1. Permit Required. No person shall establish or
operate any site or dump for the disposal of waste or refuse
without having a valid, unrevoked permit from the City Council
so to do.
6300.2. Permit, Grounds. Such permit may be issued by the
City Council upon proper application if the Council finds the
proposed operation to be in the public interest and that it will
not adversely affect the public peace, health, safety or general
welfare of the City or its inhabitants. Otherwise, it shall be
denied, if a permit is issued, conditions may be imposed thereon
which are necessary or desirable for the protection of the public
peace, health, safety or general welfare.
6300.3. Applications. Applications shall be filed with a
report that includes the following:
1. Applications for a permit shall be sworn to and include
the name, address and telephone number of the proposed operator;
legal description of the site; name and address of the owner of
the site; copy of lease or other documents under which the proposed
operator is authorized to use the land if he is not the owner;
names and addresses of all partners, officers and directors of
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the firm applying for the permit and the firm owning the site and
either a list of the owners of stock in both firms or a sworn
statement that no owner of stock in either firm is employed by
the City.
2. Applications for renewals shall be submitted in writing
accompanied by the required bond and accompanied by a sworn state -
went as to whether there has been any change in the information
submitted with the original application.
3. The name, address, and telephone number of the manager
or foreman.
4. Any fictitious name proposed to be used.
5. The proposed method of operation, including the location
and depth of cuts, type and availability of equipment to be used,
source and quantity of all cover material, water supply and sewage
disposal.
6300.4. Same. Map. All applications for permits shall
include a map and plan giving pertinent information relative to
the following:
1. The site in its entirety.
2. The current ground water level and maximum high water
level of record.
3. Any water ways or channels adjacent to or likely to
affect the site.
4. Location of and pertinent information relative to water
wells, active or inactive, and springs.
5. The contours of the dump site before and after filling.
6. Type of underlying soil.
7. Existing building locations and proposed building
locations.
8. Intended points of ingress and egress, including roads
and ramps and including existing or proposed paving or means of
controlling dust in streets to be used for ingress and egress which
are adjacent to developed areas.
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9. Location and type of fence or wall.
Seven sets of plans and map shall be submitted. These are
to be checked and approved by all departments or agencies involved
before a permit is issued.
63oo.5. Same. Filing. Applications with accompanying maps
and plans shall be filed with the City Clerk and shall be
accompanied by a filing and investigation fee of $50.00.
6300.6. Permits. Revocation. Permits will be issued only
to the proposed operator and shall not be transferable. Permits
may be revoked by the City Council for violation of the provisions
thereof or of this Part.
6300.7. Roads. Roads to and from the site which are
adjacent to developed areas shall be paved or a satisfactory
method of dust control installed and maintained. Failure to main-
tain satisfactory dust control on such roads will result in revo-
cation of permit.
6300.8. Inspections. All officers and department heads of
the City, the Los Angeles County Health Department, the Fire
Department having jurisdiction and the State Regional Water Pol-
lution Control Board shall be permitted to make inspections of
the premises involved, the materials accepted for dumping on said
premises, and the methods employed in cutting, dumping and filling
operations.
6300.9. Type of Operation. All such disposal of waste and
refuse shall be accomplished by the sanitary fill and cover method
only. The most approved and modern methods which are practicable
shall be used to eliminate or reduce to a minimum odors, unsight-
liness, pests and nuisances of any kind.
6300.10. Same. Compaction. All material placed in the dump
•shall be continuously compacted adequately to eliminate voids and
prepare the site for future use by the use of bulldozers or other
suitable equipment and shall be mixed with sufficient earth or
sand to accomplish this end. Water shall not be used for this
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purpose. The maximum depth of compacted material in any single
layer shall not exceed a vertical height of eight feet, including
ramped material.
6300.11. Same. Cover. All material deposited in the dump
for disposal shall be covered to a depth of at least six inches
with well compacted earth, sand or equivalent approved material
prior to the end of operations each day, and, at finish grade,
with at least two Feet of well compacted approved material.
6300.12. Same. Moving Face. Dumping operatiors shall be
limited to a moving face of not over 100 feet 1n length per bull-
dozer in use upon the site.
6300.13. Materials Not Acceptable. Wastes containing oils,
paints, varnishes, drugs, medicines, chemicals, phenols, or
creosote compounds, acids, brines, caustics, organic Industrial
wastes, dead animals or fowls, garbage, waste from privies or
chemical toilets, oil well brines, contaminated and/or polluted
oil well drilling muds, oil dehydration tank wastes, tank bottoms,
acid sludges, and other liquids, solids, substances or other
materials which may deleteriously affect a water supply shall not
be accepted for disposal unless specifically permitted and approved
as a deviation under Section 6300.27 hereof.
6300.14. Manure. Manure, if accepted, shall be placed at
the bottom of lift to a depth of not to exceed two feet; shall
then be promptly covered with rubbish and other waste to the height
of a normal lift. Only two feet of manure for each eight -foot
lift will be permitted. If the manure is not immediately covered
with rubbish, it shall be covered the same day with at least one
foot of approved earth.
6300.15. Burning. No open fires or burning of any type
shall be permitted on the site. Any inadvertent or accidental
fire shall be extinguished immediately. Any and all comfort heat-
ing devices maintained on the premises shall be approved by the
Fire Department.
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6300.16, Administration. A representative of the dump
operator shall be present at all times during dumping operations
to control and supervise the activities. At any dump which is
open to the public, hours when dump is open and prices shall be
posted conspicuously at each entrance and shall be adhered to
without discrimination, and the operator shall accept eligible
refuse from any person paying the posted fees during those hours.
6300.17. Toilets. Toilet facilities shall be provided and
properly maintained on all dump sites and within three hundred
feet of the dumping operation. A portable (chemical) type toilet,
either on wheels or skids, may be used in lieu of a water flushing
type toilet.
6300.18. Fencing and Screening. The property shall be
enclosed with an approved and suitable type of wall or fence to
prevent unregulated or unauthorized entry or dumping; the operating
area shall be screened by solid wall or fencing of an approved
type or planting, to a height of six feet, along any side which
Is adjacent to or clearly visible from developed property on an
improved public street. Said wall, fence or planting shall be
properly maintained at all times. Gates shall be kept closed and
locked during hours the dump is not open for business,
6300.19. Salvage Operations. No salvage operations will be
permitted unless specifically authorized by the permit. Where
salvage operations are permitted the salvaged material shall be
removed from the premises daily or stored in an enclosed area of
an approved type or within a vehicle as defined in the Vehicle
Code of the State of California. The residue from salvage operations
shall be placed in the current dumping area and covered with earth
prior to the end of operations daily.
6300.20. Dust Control. Approved methods shall be used to
minimize dust in the operation of the dump.
6300.21. Rodents and Pests. Sheds and other buildings shall
be constructed in such a manner so as to prevent rodent harborage.
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Inspection of the premises shall be made by the permittee or his
responsible representative at least once each operating day for
rodents, insects, vermin and for burrows, droppings, larva or
other evidence of vectors. Any infestation shall be immediately
controlled by the proper use of poisons, or other suitable remedy,
and the area involved shall be subsequently covered the same day
with at least one foot of earth, sand or other approved material.
6300.22. Water Supply. Fire. An approved water supply for
fire fighting purposes shall be provided on the premises. Said
supply shall be sufficient to supply two one and one-half inch hose
lines equipped with one-half inch nozzle tips in such a manner
that they discharge a workable stream for a minimum distance of
twenty feet when operating simultaneously. All hose shall be kept
in good condition and ready for instant use. Each hose line shall
be limited to one -hundred feet In length. The hose shall be located
so as to cover all portions of the working face of the dump which
it is to serve. In the event that the salvage operations are
located so that the hose lines will not suffice, then additional
fire protection shall be provided as required. Water lines supply-
ing the fire hose need not be buried. Additional pipe shall be
installed as the working face of the fill progresses, such pipe
to be of adequate size and installed in such a manner as to allow
for friction loss as the distance to the dump face increases, in
order that sufficient volume and pressure may be had at the nozzles
at all times.
6300.23. Drinking Water. An approved sanitary drinking sup-
ply shall be provided on the site.
6300.24. Drainage Control. All surface waters shall be
diverted from the site so as to prevent percolation through any
of the dumped material or erosion of the cut sections of the
dump. This diversion may be accomplished by placing an impervious
dike around the dump area, taking all precautions necessary to
assure that any waters diverted by said dike shall be guided to
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proper storm drain facilities, or as so ordered. No more water
shall be used than is necessary to control dust and to extinguish
fires. Dumping operations shall be kept a distance of at least
fifty feet from the official edge of any watercourse or proposed
drainage channel unless a lesser distance is specifically per-
mitted and approved as a deviation under Section 6300.27.
6300.25, Water Pollution. No excavation shall be made to
a depth greater than ten feet above the maximum recorded ground
water table. Any existing areas which are below this depth shall
be filled with clean earth or sand or other material approved or
permitted by the Water Pollution Control Board and well compacted.
Where ground water elevation records indicate that it is safe to
do so, a variance from the ten -foot distance stated above may be
granted as a deviation under Section 6300.27,
6300.26. Bench Marks. Sufficient permanent bench marks of
4" x 4" wood posts or 2" metal posts or similar markers shall be
installed and maintained indicating elevations, as specified in
the permit.
6300.27. Deviation From Regulations. Permission to deviate
from any of the requirements of this Part may be obtained from
and may be granted by the City Council when and to the extent that
such deviation is reasonably necessary to the proposed operation
and would not be detrimental to the public benefit, peace, health,
safety or general welfare.
6300.28. Surety Bond. A bond from an approved surety company
in the minimum sum of $10,000 approved as to form by the City
Attorney and payable to the City of Irwindale shall be filed with
the City before any operations are commenced, indemnifying the
said City against any liability, damages or expense in the event
of damage to City -owned or other public property, facilities or
rights by any operation conducted pursuant to the permit, and
conditioned upon faithful compliance with and performance of all
the terms and conditions of the permit and of all applicable laws,
ordinances and regulations. Such bond shall be continued in full
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force and effect for a period extending from the effective date
of the permit to a date twelve months subsequent to the authority
granted therein, or for a period of twelve months subsequent to
the date that said operations are wholly and completely abated
or terminated.
SECTION 2, The City Clerk shall certify to the passage
of this ordinance and cause the same to be posted in the manner
provided by law.
Passed and approved this 3rd day of March , 1959.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES SS.
CITY OF IRWINDALE
I, MAXINE HORST, City Clerk of the City of Irwindale,
do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 66 was
regularly introduced and placed upon its first reading at a
regular meeting of the City Council on the ___I_T�� day of
February , 1959. That, thereafter, said ordinance was
u yop a an passed at a regular meeting of the City Council
on the jrd day of March , 1959s by the following vote,
to -wit:
AYES: Councilmen: Diaz, Martinez, Miranda, Ornelas, Silva
NOES: Councilmen: None
ABSENT: Councilmen: None
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES) SS
CITY OF IRWINDALE )
MAXINE HORST, being first duly sworn, deposes and says:
,- That she is the City Clerk of the City of Irwindale, California,
and is and was at all times herein mentioned a citizen of the United States
over the age of eighteen (18) years and competent to be a witness herein.
On March 5, 1959, she securely and conspicuously posted at each of
the public places in said city, to -wit:
(1) 5140 North Irwindale Avenue
(2) Post Office on Irwindale Avenue
(3) Southwest corner of Arrow Highway and Irwindale
a copy of Ordinance No. 66 of the City of Irwindale, being in all respects
the same as that attached hereto and made a part hereof.
Dated: March 5, 1959
City Clerk of the City ofale,
California