No user shall contribute or cause to be contributed, directly or indirectly, any pollutant or waste water which will interfere with the operation or performance of the publicly owned treatment works. This general prohibition applies to all users of the publicly owned treatment works, whether or not the user is subject to National Categorical Pretreatment Standards or any other national, State or local pretreatment standard or requirement. A user may not contribute the following substances to any publicly owned treatment works:
(a) Liquids, solids or gases which, by reason of their nature or quantity, are or may be sufficient, either alone or by interaction with other substances, to cause a fire or explosion or be injurious in any other way to the publicly owned treatment works or to the operation thereof, or which, as discharged to the public sewer, shall constitute a hazard to humans or animals, create a public nuisance or create any hazard in the receiving waters of a sewage treatment plant, including, but not limited to, those metals or toxic substances mentioned in § 1034.06. At no time shall two successive readings on an explosion hazard meter, at the point of discharge into the system (or at any point in the system), be more than 5% nor shall any single reading be more than 10% of the Lower Explosive Limit (LEL) of the meter. Prohibited materials include, but are not limited to, gasoline, kerosene, naphtha, benzene, toluene, exylene, ethers, alcohols, ketones, aldehydes, peroxides, chlorates, perchlorates, bromates, carbides, hydrides, sulfides and any other substance which the village, the State or the Environmental Protection Agency has notified the user is a fire hazard or a hazard to the system.
(b) Solid or viscous substances which may cause obstruction to the flow in a sewer or other interference with the operation of the waste water treatment facilities, including, but not limited to, grease, garbage with particles greater than one-half inch in any dimension, animal guts or tissues, paunch manure, bones, hair, hides, fleshings, entrails, whole blood, feathers, ashes, cinders, sand, spent lime, stone dust, marble dust, metal, glass, straw, shavings, grass clippings, rags, spent grains, spent hops, waste paper, wood, plastics, gas, tar, asphalt residues, residues from refining or processing of fuel or lubricating oil, mud or glass grinding or polishing wastes.
(`80 Code, § 1034.05) (Ord. 1584, passed 10-18-82)