It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to cause pollution of any waters of the city or to place or cause to be placed any materials in a location where they are likely to cause pollution of any waters of the city. WATER POLLUTION shall include any contamination or other alteration of the physical, chemical or biological properties of any waters of the city, including change in temperature, taste, color, turbidity or odor of the waters or the discharge of any liquid, gaseous, solid, radioactive or other substance into any waters of the city as will or is likely to create a nuisance or to render the waters harmful, detrimental or injurious to public health, safety or welfare, or to domestic, commercial, industrial, agricultural, recreational or other legitimate beneficial uses, or degrade the water from its intended use. WATERS OF THIS CITY shall include all waters within the jurisdiction of the city, including all streams, lakes, ponds, impounding reservoirs, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, irrigation systems, drainage systems and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface and underground, natural or artificial, public or private, situated wholly or partly within or bordering upon the city. The water quality standards established or adopted by the state shall be presumptive evidence as to when waters shall be deemed to be polluted as herein provided. Pollution of any waters of the city or the placement or causing to be placed of any materials in a location where they are likely to cause pollution of any waters of the city is hereby declared to be a public nuisance and, upon written notice by the Board of Health to the person, firm or corporation responsible for the pollution, the city may proceed by a suit in equity to enjoin and abate the same, in the manner provided by law.
(Prior Code, § 4-405) Penalty, see § 10.99
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Related provisions, see Neb. RS 17-123, 17-536, 17-556, 18-1720, 81-1501 through 81-1532