No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any of the following described liquids or wastes into any public sewers:
(A) Any gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil or other flammable or explosive liquid, solid or gas;
(B) 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 wastewater facility, constitute a hazard to humans or animals, create a public nuisance or create any hazard in the receiving waters of the wastewater treatment works, including but not limited to cyanides in excess of 2 mg/l as CN in the wastes as discharged to the public sewer;
(C) Any herbicides and pesticides;
(D) 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 wastewater facility;
(E) Solid or viscous substances in quantities or of a size capable of causing obstruction to the flow in sewers, or other interference with the proper operation of the wastewater facility, 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 fleshings, entrails and paper dishes, cups, milk containers and the like, either whole or ground by garbage grinders;
(F) Any amount of the following heavy metals:
(1) Antimony;
(2) Arsenic;
(3) Barium;
(4) Beryllium;
(5) Bismuth;
(6) Boron;
(7) Cadmium;
(8) Chromium (Hexa);
(9) Chromium (Tri);
(10) Cobalt;
(11) Copper;
(12) Iron;
(13) Lead;
(14) Manganese;
(15) Mercury;
(16) Molybdenum;
(17) Nickel;
(18) Rhenium;
(19) Selenium;
(20) Silver;
(21) Strontium;
(22) Tellurium;
(23) Tin;
(24) Uranyl ion; and
(25) Zinc.
(G) Dilution of toxic materials and heavy metals in lieu of removal is not acceptable.
(Ord. 462, passed 2-28-1972; Am. Ord. 466, passed 6-11-1973) Penalty, see § 52.999