(A) No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any stormwater, foundation drainwater, groundwater, roof runoff, surface drainage, or unpolluted industrial cooling waters to any sewer connected to the village’s waste treatment plant.
(B) Except as hereinafter provided, no person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any of the following material to any sewer connected to the village’s treatment plant:
(1) Any liquid or vapor having a temperature high enough to create damaging or
adverse effects on the treatment process or to prevent compliance with regulations pertaining to the treatment standards;
(2) Any waters or wastes which may contain more than 100 parts per million by weight of fat, oil, grease, or hexane extractable material;
(3) Gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil, or other combustible, flammable, or explosive liquid, solid, or gas of whatsoever kind or nature;
(4) Any garbage that has not been properly shredded;
(5) Any gases, ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags, feathers, tar, plastics, wood, whole blood, paunch manure, or any other solid or viscous substance capable of causing obstruction to the flow in sewers or other interference with the proper operation of the sewage works;
(6) Any waters or wastes having a pH lower than 5.5 or higher than 9.0 or having any other corrosive properties capable of causing damage or hazard to sewers, structures, equipment, or personnel of the waste treatment works;
(7) Any waters or waste containing any toxic or poisonous substance in sufficient quantity to injure or interfere with any sewage treatment process or that would constitute a hazard to humans or animals, or that could create any hazard in the receiving waters of the sewage treatment plant;
(8) Any waters or wastes containing more than 300 parts per million BOD5 or 350 parts per million suspended solids by weight;
(9) Any noxious or malodorous gas or substance capable of creating a public nuisance;
(10) Any amount of the following constituents exceeding that listed below:
(a) Aluminum: 800.0 mg/l;
(b) Arsenic: 0.25 mg/l;
(c) Barium: 2.0 mg/l;
(d) Boron: 1.0 mg/l;
(e) Cadmium: 2.0 mg/l;
(f) Chlorides: 700.0 mg/l;
(g) Chromium total: 21.8 mg/l;
(h) Chromium (Hexavalent): 3.6 mg/l;
(I) Copper: 17.8 mg/l;
(j) Cyanide: 1.2 mg/l;
(k) Fluorides: 2.5 mg/l;
(l) Iron, total: 56.0 mg/l;
(m) Lead: 1.5 mg/l;
(n) Manganese: 1.0 mg/l;
(o) Mercury: 0.0005 mg/l;
(p) Nickel: 6.7 mg/l;
(q) Phenols: 0.3 mg/l;
(r) Selenium: 1.0 mg/l;
(s) Silver: 0.1 mg/l;
(t) Total dissolved solids: 1,500.0 mg/l; and
(u) Zinc: 16.5 mg/l.
(11) Ammonia nitrogen in such an amount that would cause the village to be in noncompliance with regulations of the state’s Environmental Protection Agency; or
(12) No provision in this section shall be construed to provide lesser discharge standards than are presently or may hereafter be imposed and required by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or the state’s Environmental Protection Agency.
(C) The village reserves the right to reject admission to the system or any waste harmful to the treatment or collection facilities or to the receiving stream.
(Ord. 1983-15, passed 12-5-1983)