(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 provided in this section, no person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any of the following described waters or wastes into any public sewer:
(1) Any liquid or vapor having a temperature higher than 150°F;
(2) Any gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil, or other flammable or explosive liquid, solid, or gas;
(3) Any garbage that is not properly shredded;
(4) Any ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags, feathers, tar, plastics, wood, paunch manure, grits such as brick, cement, onyx, carbide, 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 sewer works;
(5) Any waters or wastes having a pH lower than five and one-half or higher than nine or having any other corrosive property capable of causing damage or hazard to structures, equipment, and personnel of the POTW;
(6) 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 create any hazard in the receiving waters of the POTW;
(7) Any waters or wastes containing suspended solids of such character and quantity that unusual attention or expense is required to handle the materials at the sewage treatment plant;
(8) Any noxious or malodorous gas or substance capable of creating a public nuisance;
(9) Any water or wastewater greater than the following parameters (mg/l):
Total grease, oil, and the like | 100.0 |
Dissolved sulfides | 0.5 |
Cyanide (amenable to chlorination) | 0.2 |
Total cyanide | 2.0 |
Arsenic | 0.1 |
ChromiumVI | 0.5 |
Barium | 10.0 |
Copper | 10.0 |
Boron | 10.0 |
Lead | 0.5 |
Cadmium | 0.1 |
Manganese | 0.5 |
(10) Any water or wastewater that has, in any way, been diluted, as a substitute for pretreatment, for the purpose of obtaining compliance with any categorical standard or pretreatment requirement imposed by this subchapter except where dilution is expressly authorized by any categorical standard;
(11) Any water or wastewater that could cause a violation of any categorical standard or pretreatment requirements;
(12) Any water or wastewater that is transported from the point of discharge to the POTW by any septic tank pumper, chemical waste hauler, or similarly transported unless the transporter has first:
(a) Disclosed to the Sewer Department the origin, nature, concentration, and volume of all pollutants to be discharged; and
(b) Obtained the consent of the Sewer Department to discharge.
(13) Any water or wastewater which could cause interference with POTW operations.
(Prior Code, § 16-5-1) Penalty, see § 51.999