No person, firm, or corporation shall discharge or cause to be discharged into any natural outlet or storm sewer any sanitary sewage or other polluted waters. Effluent from privately-owned individual household disposal devices shall not be discharged into storm sewers.
(A) No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged to any storm sewer any of the following described substances, materials, waters, or wastes:
(1) Any water or wastes which contain grease, oil, or other substances that will solidify or become possible to break down at temperatures between 30oF. and 150oF.;
(2) Any garbage that has not been properly shredded or emulsified to a nonsoluble form;
(3) Any ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags, feathers, tar, plastics, wood, asphaltic materials, paunch manure, hair and fleshings, entrails, lime slurry, lime residues, beer or distillery spent grains, chemical residues, paint residues, cannery water bulk solids, or any other solid or viscous substances, capable of causing obstruction to the flow in sewers or other interference with proper operation of the sewage works;
(4) Any long half-life (over 100 days) of toxic radioactive isotopes, without special permit from the city (the radioactive isotopes such as I131 and p32 used at hospitals are not prohibited, if properly diluted at the source and discharged in accordance with Atomic Energy Commission recommendations); or
(5) Any concentrated dye wastes, spent tanning solution, or other wastes which are highly colored; or wastes which are of unusual volume, concentration of solids, or composition, as for example in total suspended solids of inert nature (such as fuller's earth) or in total dissolved solids (such as sodium chloride, calcium chloride, or sodium sulfate); or wastes which are unusual in B.O.D. Such wastes shall be subject to special review by the city.
(B) This section establishes a standard for disposable wastes to city storm sewers, in order to protect the city from any disposable or industrial wastes entering the city storm sewers, and to enable the storm sewer system to operate within the N.P.D.E.S. federal permit issued by the State Division of Water Quality.
(C) The city may disconnect the water service in any emergency situation, or to prevent a prohibited substance or property from going into the sewer system, whenever this section is violated.
(Ord. 2-10-81, passed 10-22-81; Am. Ord. 1-11-83, passed 11-29-83) Penalty, see § 51.99