(A) (1) It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit, or permit to be deposited in any unsanitary manner on public or private property within the city or in any area under the jurisdiction of said city any human or animal excrement, garbage, or other objectionable waste.
(2) No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged to any sanitary sewer, either directly or indirectly, stormwaters, surface water, groundwater, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, cooling water, unpolluted water, or unpolluted industrial process water. The city shall require the removal of unpolluted waters from any wastewater collection or treatment facility if such removal is cost- effective and is in the best interest of all users of those facilities.
(3) Stormwater, surface water, groundwater, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, cooling water, unpolluted water, or unpolluted industrial process water may be admitted to storm sewers which have adequate capacity for their accommodation. No person shall use such, however, without the specific permission of the city. No connection shall be made to any sanitary combined or storm sewer after January 2, 1984, unless there is capacity available in all downstream sewers, lift stations, force mains, and the sewage treatment plant including capacity for BOD and suspended solids.
(4) No person shall place, deposit, or permit to be deposited in any unsanitary manner on public or private property within the jurisdiction of the city any wastewater or other polluted waters except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with this chapter and the NPDES permit.
(5) No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged into any natural outlet any wastewater or other polluted waters except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with this chapter and the NPDES permit.
(Prior Code, § 52.02)
(B) It shall be unlawful for any person to charge or cause to be discharged any stormwater, surface water, groundwater, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, cooling water, or unpolluted industrial process waters into any sanitary sewer.
(Prior Code, § 52.66)
(C) No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any of the following described wastes or waters to any public sewers:
(1) Any gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil, or other flammable or explosive liquid, solid, or gas;
(2) Any waters or wastes containing toxic or poisonous solids, liquids, or gases in sufficient quantity, either singly or by interaction with other wastes, to injure or interfere with any sewage treatment process, constitute a hazard to humans or animals, create a public nuisance, or create any hazard in the receiving waters of the sewage treatment plant;
(3) Any waters or wastes having a pH lower than 5.5 or having any other corrosive property capable of causing damage or hazard to structures, equipment, and personnel of the sewage works or interfere with any treatment process;
(4) Solid or viscous substances in quantities or of such size capable of causing obstruction to the flow in sewers or other interference with the proper operation of the sewage works such as, but not limited to, ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags, feathers, tar, plastics, wood, unground garbage, whole blood, paunch manure, hair and fleshing, entrails, paper, dishes, cups, milk containers, and the like either whole or ground by garbage grinders;
(5) Any waters or wastes containing phenols or other taste- or odor-producing substances in such concentrations exceeding limits which may be established by the Superintendent, as necessary, after treatment of the composite sewage, to meet the requirements of the state, federal, or other public agencies of jurisdiction of such discharge to the receiving waters;
(6) Any radioactive wastes or isotopes of such half-life or concentration as may exceed limits established by the Superintendent in compliance with applicable state or federal regulations;
(7) Materials which exert or cause:
(a) Unusual concentrations of inert suspended solids (such as, but not limited to, fuller’s earth, lime slurries, and lime residues) or of dissolved solids (such as, but not limited to, sodium chloride and sodium sulfate);
(b) Excessive discoloration such as, but not limited to, dye wastes and vegetable tanning solutions;
(c) Unusual BOD, chemical oxygen demand, or chlorine requirements in such quantities as to constitute a significant load on the sewage treatment works; and/or
(d) Unusual volume of flow or concentration of wastes constituting slugs.
(8) Any waters or wastes having pH in excess of 9.5; and
(9) Waters or wastes constituting substances which are not amendable to treatment or reduction by the sewage treatment processes employed or are amenable to treatment only to such degree that the sewage treatment plan effluent can not meet the requirements of other agencies having jurisdiction over discharge to the receiving waters.
(Prior Code, § 52.67)
(Ord. 1167, passed 1-2-1984) Penalty, see § 52.999