§ 13.36.080. Cleanout requirements.

A.

Cleanouts shall be placed inside the building near the connection between the building drain and the building sewer or installed outside the building at the lower end of the building drain and extended to grade. Additional building sewer cleanouts shall be installed at intervals not to exceed one hundred feet (30.4m) in straight runs and for each aggregate horizontal change in direction exceeding one hundred thirty five degrees. All required building sewer cleanouts shall be extended to grade. When building sewers are located under buildings, the cleanout requirements of Section 707.0 of that edition of the California Plumbing Code adopted by this code shall apply (CPC § 719.1,719.3).

B.

When a building sewer or branch thereof does not exceed ten feet (0.3m) in length and is a straight line projection from a building drain which is provided with a cleanout, no cleanout will be required at its point of connection to the building drain (CPC § 719.2).

C.

Every change in alignment or grade in excess of twenty-two and one half degrees from the principal alignment of the building sewer shall be served by a cleanout, except that a cleanout shall not be required where only one forty-five degree change of direction or one forty-five degree offset is used.

D.

Each cleanout shall be installed so that it opens to allow cleaning in the direction of flow of the soil or waste or at right angles thereto, and except in the case of wye branch at the end-of-line cleanouts, shall be installed vertically above the flow line of the pipe (CPC § 707.6, CPC § 719.4).

E.

Cleanouts installed under concrete or asphalt paving shall be made accessible by yard boxes or extending flush with the paving with approved materials and shall be adequately protected (CPC § 719.5).

(Ord. 1109 § 1 (part), 1996: prior code § 5526)