Riverside Water Quality Control Plant produces tertiary-treated recycled water serving golf courses, parks, and landscape customers, with discharge into the Santa Ana River regulated by the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board under federal Clean Water Act permits.
Riverside operates a wastewater treatment plant that meets California Title 22 tertiary recycled water standards, suitable for irrigation of food crops, parks, schools, and landscape areas. Recycled water is delivered through a separate purple-pipe distribution system to large irrigation customers. Surplus treated effluent discharges to the Santa Ana River under an NPDES permit administered by the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board, supporting downstream habitat and groundwater recharge benefiting Orange County water users.
Cross-connecting recycled water with potable plumbing or using purple-pipe water for prohibited purposes can lead to permit revocation, state enforcement orders, and significant administrative civil liabilities.
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RMC §7.35.010(B)(10) bars vehicle/motorcycle/motorboat/aircraft repair, rebuilding, modifying, or testing that disturbs across a residential line. Powered mo...
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Riverside Municipal Code Chapter 19.550 prohibits hazardous fence materials such as barbed wire, razor wire, and electrified fencing in residential zones, an...
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California SB 946 (Gov. Code §§ 51036-51039) decriminalized sidewalk vending statewide; cities may regulate but not ban outright. Riverside requires a Sidewa...
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Riverside Municipal Code § 9.08.090 prohibits model airplane flying, model rockets, and 'any game of a hazardous nature' inside any City park except where sp...
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Since July 1, 2022, Riverside's green cart is a combined organics cart: yard trimmings AND bagged food scraps go in the same brown-body/green-lid container p...
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Dumping trash, furniture, mattresses, construction debris, or yard waste on any street, lot, alley, or wash within Riverside violates both Riverside Municipa...
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