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, oil products in amounts causing interference or pass through, other flammable or explosive liquid, solid, gas, or pollutants with a closed-cup flashpoint of less than 140º F or 60º C.
(B) Any waters or wastes containing toxic or poisonous solids, liquids, fumes or gases in sufficient quantity, either singly or by interaction with other wastes, to injure or interfere with any sewage treatment process, constitute a hazard to humans or animals, create a public nuisance, or create any hazard in the receiving waters of the sewage treatment plant, including but not limited to cyanides in excess of 1.000 milligrams per liter as CN in the wastes as discharged to the public sewer. A toxic pollutant shall include but not be limited to any pollutant identified pursuant to § 307(a) of the Clean Water Act.
(C) 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, or personnel of the sewage works.
(D) Solid or viscous substances in quantities or of such size capable of causing obstruction to the flow in sewers, or other interference with the proper operation of the sewage works such as, but not limited to ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags, feathers, tar, plastics, wood, unground garbage, paunch manure, hair and fleshings, entrails, and paper dishes, cups, milk containers, or the like, either whole or ground by garbage grinders.
(E) Any discharge of trucked or hauled wastes to sanitary sewers except at points designated by the Mayor.
(‘74 Code § 27-103) (Ord. passed 1-16-78; Am. Ord. passed 9-2-86; Am. Ord. passed 8-19-91; Am. Ord. 08-14, passed 9-18-08; Am. Ord. 2015-02, passed 2-17-15) Penalty, see § 52.99