(A) No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any stormwater, surface water, ground water, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, or industrial clear process waters to any sanitary sewer.
(B) Stormwater, surface drainage, and all other clear water drainage shall be discharged to sewers which are specifically designated as storm sewers, or to a natural outlet approved by the Department and other regulatory agencies.
(C) (1) No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any of the following described waters or wastes to any public sewers:
(a) Any gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil, or other flammable or explosive liquid, solid, or gas;
(b) Any waters or wastes containing toxic or poisonous solids, liquids, or gases in sufficient quantity, either singly or by interaction with other wastes, to injure or interfere with any wastewater treatment process, constitute a hazard to humans or animals, create a public nuisance, or create any hazard in the receiving waters of the wastewater treatment plant; or
(c) Solid or viscous substances in quantities or of a size capable of causing obstruction to the flow in sewers, or other interference with the proper operation of the wastewater facilities, such as, but not limited to, ashes, bones, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags, feathers, tar, plastics, wood, unshredded garbage, whole blood, paunch manure, hair and fleshings, entrails, and paper dishes, cups, milk containers, sanitary napkins, and the like, either whole or ground by garbage grinders.
(2) Garbage grinders may be connected to sanitary sewers from homes, hotels, institutions, restaurants, hospitals, catering establishments, or similar places where garbage originates from the preparation of food in kitchens for the purpose of consumption on the premises or when served by caterers.
(D) The following described substances, materials, waters, or wastes shall be limited in discharges to concentrations or quantities which will not harm either the sewers or the wastewater treatment process or equipment, will not have an adverse effect on the receiving stream, will not result in violation of the village’s WPDES permit, or will not otherwise endanger lives, limb, public property, or constitute a nuisance. The limitations or restrictions on materials or characteristics of waste or wastewaters discharged to the sanitary sewer which shall not be violated without approval of the Department are as follows:
(1) Wastewater having a temperature higher than 150°F (65°C);
(2) Any waters or wastes having a pH lower than 5.5 or higher than 10.0, or having any other corrosive property capable of causing damage or hazard to structures, equipment, and personnel of the wastewater works;
(3) Wastewater containing more than 25 milligrams per liter of petroleum oil, non- biodegradable cutting oils, or products of mineral oil origin;
(4) Wastewater from industrial plants containing oils, fat, grease, wax, or any other similar substance which floats or solidifies in the wastewater facilities;
(5) Any waters or wastes containing aluminum, cadmium, copper, lead, mercury, selenium, silver, chromium, zinc, and similar objectionable or toxic substances;
(6) Any radioactive wastes or isotopes of such half-life or concentration as may exceed limits established by any state or federal regulations;
(7) Quantities of flow, concentrations, or both, which constitute a slug as defined herein;
(8) Waters or wastes containing substances which are not amenable to treatment or reduction by the wastewater treatment processes employed or are amenable to treatment only to a degree such that the wastewater treatment plant effluent cannot meet the requirements of other agencies having jurisdiction over discharge to the receiving waters; or
(9) Any water or wastes which, by interaction with other water or wastes in the public sewer system, release obnoxious gases, form suspended solids which interfere with the collection system, or create a condition deleterious to structures and treatment processes.
(E) If any waters or wastes are discharged or are proposed to be discharged to the public sewers, which waters contain the substances or possess the characteristics enumerated in division (D) above, and which in the judgement of the village may have a deleterious effect upon the wastewater facilities, processes, equipment, or receiving waters, or which otherwise create a hazard to life or constitute a public nuisance, the village may:
(1) Reject the wastes;
(2) Require pretreatment to an acceptable condition for discharge to the public sewers;
(3) Require control over the quantities and rates of discharge; and
(4) Require payment to cover added cost of handling and treating the wastes not covered by existing user charges under the provisions of this chapter.
(Ord. 44, passed - -93) Penalty, see § 51.99