§ 51.067 PROHIBITED DISCHARGES INTO SEWERS GENERALLY.
   (A)   No person shall discharge or deposit any of the following waste materials into any town sewer:
      (1)   Any liquid or vapor having a temperature higher than 150°F;
      (2)   Any water or waste which may contain more than 100 milligrams per liter, by weight, of fat, oil or grease, exclusive of soap;
      (3)   Any gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil or other flammable or explosive liquid, solid or gas;
      (4)   Any garbage that has not been properly shredded;
      (5)   Any ashes, cinders, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags, feathers, fish scales or fish offal, tar, plastics, wood, paunch manure or any other solid or viscous substance capable of causing obstruction to the flow of sewers or other interference with the proper operation of the sewage works;
      (6)   Any waters or wastes having a stabilized pH lower than six or higher than nine, or having any other corrosive property capable of causing damage or hazard to structures, equipment and personnel of the sewage works;
      (7)   Any waters or wastes having a biochemical oxygen demand in excess of 300 milligrams per liter by weight;
      (8)   Any waters or wastes containing more than 500 milligrams per liter by weight of suspended solids;
      (9)   Any waters or wastes having an objectionable color which is not removable in the sewage treatment plant processes;
      (10)   Any waters or wastes containing a toxic or poisonous substance or any other materials in sufficient quantity to injure or interfere with any sewage treatment process, constitute a hazard to humans or animals or create any hazard in the receiving stream at the sewage treatment plant;
      (11)   Any water or waste that contains more than ten milligrams per liter by weight of the following gases: hydrogen sulphide, sulphur dioxide or nitrous oxide or any gas or substance which, either singly or by interaction with other waste, is capable of creating a public nuisance or hazard to life or of preventing entry into sewer for their maintenance and repair;
      (12)   Any waters or wastes containing suspended solids of a character and quantity that unusual attention or expense is required to handle the materials at the sewage treatment plant;
      (13)   Any water or waste which contains grease or oil or other substance that will solidify or become discernibly viscous at temperatures between 32 and 150°F;
      (14)   Any water or waste containing emulsified oil and grease exceeding on analysis an average of 100 milligrams per liter (833 pounds per million gallons) of other soluble matter; and
      (15)   Any radioactive materials in soluble ion form in sufficient quantities to create a hazard to sewer workers, sewage works personnel or the biological life in the sewage treatment plant.
   (B)   No statement contained in this section shall be construed as preventing any special agreement or arrangement between the town and any person whereby an industrial waste of unusual strength or character may be admitted into the sanitary sewers by the town after approved pretreatment as provided for in § 51.069.
(Prior Code, § 24-32) (Ord. passed 5-13-1975) Penalty, see § 51.999