(A) No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any storm water, surface water, ground water, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, cooling water, or unpolluted industrial process waters to any sanitary sewer.
(B) Except as hereinafter provided, no person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any of the following described waters or wastes to any public sewer:
(1) Any wastewater having a temperature which will inhibit biological activity in the sewage treatment plant resulting in interference or damage, but in no case wastewater with a temperature at the introduction into the sewage works which exceeds 40°C (104°F).
(2) Any water or waste which may contain more than 100 parts per million (milligrams per liter), by weight, of fat, oil, or grease.
(3) Any water or waste which may contain more than 25 parts per million (milligrams per liter), by weight, of soluble oils.
(4) Petroleum, oil, nonbiodegradable cutting oil, or products of mineral oil origin in an amount that could cause interference or pass through of the sewage treatment plant.
(5) Any liquids, solids, or gases which by reason of their nature of 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 sewage treatment plant. This includes but is not limited to gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil, or other flammable or explosive liquid, solid, or gas. And in no case, pollutants with a closed cup flashpoint of less than 140°F (60°C) or pollutants which cause an exceedence of 10% of the lower explosive limit (LEL) at any point within the sewage treatment plant. Using test methods specified in 40 CFR 261.21.
(6) Any garbage that has not been properly shredded.
(7) Any ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags, feathers, tar, plastics, wood, 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.
(8) Any waters or wastes having a pH lower than 5.0 or higher than 9.0, or having any other corrosive property capable of causing damage or hazard to structures, equipment, and personnel of the sewage works.
(9) Any waters or wastes containing a toxic or poisonous substance in sufficient quantity to injure or interfere with any sewage treatment process, constitute a hazard to humans or animals, or result in the presence of toxic gases, vapors, or fumes in a quantity that may cause acute worker health and safety problems, or create any hazard in the receiving waters of the sewage treatment plant, as determined by the town.
(10) Any waters or wastes containing suspended solids, or other solid or viscous pollutant, of a character and quantity that unusual attention or expense is required to handle the materials at the sewage treatment plant, as determined by the town.
(11) Any noxious or malodorous gas or substance capable of creating a public nuisance.
(12) Any trucked or hauled pollutants except at discharge points designated by the town in accordance with § 50.27.
(13) Any colored discharge or a pollutant from any non- domestic wastewater that causes interference or pass through of the sewage treatment plant.
(14) Any pollutant, including oxygen demanding pollutants, released in a discharge at a flow rate or pollutant concentration that could cause interference of the sewage treatment plant.
(C) The town reserves the right to set limits on any of the above pollutants contributed by an industrial user that has caused or is likely to cause interference or pass through at the receiving sewage treatment plant, as well as the recurrence of the contributed pollutant's affect on the sewage treatment plant.
(D) The town has the legal authority to: develop and enforce specific limits on any prohibited substance as defined in this chapter; accept or deny any new or increased discharges from any indirect discharger; immediately halt or prevent any discharge or pollutants to the sewage works which reasonably appears to present an imminent endangerment to the health or welfare of the public, the environment, and/or which threatens to interfere with the operation of the sewage works; require compliance with all applicable pretreatment standards and requirements by indirect dischargers; and impose fees, if necessary, to offset the cost incurred by the town for administering the pretreatment program requirements.
('83 Code, § 2.5(a), (c)) (Am. Ord. 2007-7, passed 6-11-07) Penalty, see § 50.999