Porta Potty Rental in Arvada, CO 80004

On private Arvada property, serving your own project, a unit normally needs no permit of its own. What Arvada does regulate is the service side and the street, and the service rule is the one nobody expects.

Arvada writes rules about emptying the unit, and it names the product. The city's wastewater rules make it unlawful to remove or transport through any street or public place in the city the contents of a grit or grease separator, a portable toilet, a sink, a septic tank or a cesspool, except through airtight vessels or apparatus approved by a health officer which keep the contents out of sight during removal and transport. The same rule makes it unlawful to dispose of those contents anywhere other than at authorized facilities.

Read what that means for a customer. Two things are being controlled: the equipment and the destination. The equipment has to be airtight and approved by a health officer, and the load has to end up at an authorized facility. That is a rule about the servicing partner rather than about you, but it is a sensible thing to ask about before you sign, and it is one reason a properly arranged service schedule is worth more here than a low headline rate.

A street or sidewalk placement needs the city manager's permit. Arvada makes it unlawful to obstruct or in any manner encumber any street, alley or sidewalk, or to erect any building in whole or in part on a street, alley, sidewalk or public ground, without first obtaining a permit from the city manager, or where applicable a special events permit or waiver under the land development rules. So the route exists and it is named.

But the removal clock is short. The same section says that once the city manager gives notice to remove such a structure, the person must not fail to remove it within twenty four hours. Plan on being able to move a unit at a day's notice if the city asks.

And one flat prohibition sits beside the permit. Arvada also states that all construction which blocks curbs, gutters or sidewalks on public rights-of-way is expressly prohibited. Those two provisions do not sit comfortably together, so the practical course is to keep construction clear of curbs, gutters and sidewalks and to treat any street placement as needing the city manager's written permission first.

Street work has its own permit. Separately, Arvada requires a right-of-way permit before anyone undertakes construction, excavation or work in the public right-of-way, with a copy of the permit and the traffic control plan kept on the job site and available for inspection. If your project involves the street at all, that permit is the frame your placement sits inside.

Two counties, so two possible answers. The state's on-site wastewater rule defines septage and then excludes chemical toilet residuals from it by name, so Arvada's answer is not a state septage answer. The same regulation leaves a portable chemical toilet permit to the local public health agency as an option rather than a duty, and keeps one out of a permanently occupied Arvada building except during construction or an emergency. Most of Arvada lies in Jefferson County, so Jefferson County Public Health answers for most addresses. The northeastern part of the city sits in Adams County, and Adams County answers there. Your side of that line decides which agency you deal with.

Your account manager will identify the county and raise the servicing question with the local partner before anything is placed.