Except as hereinafter provided, no person shall discharge or cause to be discharged to any public sewer any of the following described substances, wastes, or waters:
(A) Any liquid or vapor having a temperature that would inhibit biological activity in the POTW resulting in interference, but in no case shall the wastewater cause a temperature higher than 104°F at the introduction to the POTW but in no way shall the temperature of the liquid or vapor exceed 104°F;
(B) Any non-contact cooling water with a total flow rate in excess of 10,000 gpd. Industry shall obtain N.P.D.E.S. and any other necessary permits and discharge the non-contact cooling water to any approved discharge point;
(C) Industry may elect to recycle non-contact cooling water in lieu of discharging;
(D) Any waters or wastes containing more than 100 milligrams per liter of fats, oils, greases, or waxes;
(E) Any liquids, solids, or gases which, by reason of their nature or quantity, are, or may be, sufficient either alone or by interaction to cause fire or explosion, or be injurious in any other way to the operation of the POTW;
(F) Any noxious or malodorous gas or substance which, either alone or by interaction with other wastes, is capable of creating a public nuisance or hazard to life or of preventing entry into sewers for their maintenance and repair;
(G) Any garbage that has not been properly ground;
(H) Any ashes, cinders, sand, mud, shavings, wood, metal, glass, rags, feathers, tar, plastics, pauch manure, butchers offal, or any other solid or viscous substances capable of causing obstruction to the flow in sewers or any other interference with the proper operation of the sewage system or the sewage treatment plan;
(I) Any waters or wastes having a pH lower than six or higher than nine, or having any other corrosive property capable of causing damages or posing hazards to the structures, equipment, or personnel of the sewage utility;
(J) Any substance which will cause the POTW to violate its N.P.D.E.S. and/or other disposal system permits;
(K) (1) Any pollutant, including oxygen demanding pollutants (BOD, and the like) released in a discharge at a flow rate and/or pollutant concentration which will cause interference with the POTW.
(2) In addition, any wastewater containing toxic pollutants in sufficient quantity, either alone or by interaction to injure or interfere with any wastewater treatment process, or constitute a hazard to humans or animals;
(L) Any toxic radioactive isotopes, without a special permit. The radioactive isotopes 1131 and P32 used in hospitals are not prohibited if they are properly diluted before being discharged into the sewage system;
(M) Any slug load of pollutants including any oxygen demanding pollutants such as BOD, suspended solids, and the like, released in a single extraordinary discharge of such volume or strength as to cause interference to the POTW;
(N) Any waters or wastes containing suspended solids of such character and quantity that unusual provisions, attention, and expense would be required to handle such materials in the collection system at the sewage treatment plant;
(O) Any water or wastes containing polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs);
(P) Any waters with objectionable color not removed in the treatment process; and
(Q) Any water or flows from roof downspouts, exterior foundation drains, areaway drains, or other sources of surface runoff or groundwater to a building sewer or building drain which in turn is connected directly or indirectly to a public sanitary sewer.
(Prior Code, § 3.1) Penalty, see § 52.999