(A) Discharge of surface water and the like.
(1) No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any storm water, surface water, ground water, cooling water, or unpolluted industrial process waters into any sanitary sewer.
(2) No rainspout or other form of surface drainage and no foundation drainage shall be connected with any sanitary sewer.
(B) Non-acceptable wastes. No person shall discharge or permit to be discharged into any public sewer any of the following wastes:
(1) Any liquid or vapor having a temperature in excess of 150°F;
(2) Any water or waste having a 5-day biological oxygen demand exceeding 1,000 parts per million by weight as averaged during any 12-month period;
(3) Any gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil, or other flammable or explosive liquid, solid, or gas;
(4) Any garbage that has not been properly shredded;
(5) Any ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags, feathers, tar, plastics, wood, manure, grit, brick, cement, onyx, carbide, or other matter that may interfere with the proper operation of the sewers or sewage treatment plant;
(6) Any water or waste having a pH lower than 5-1/2 or higher than 9 or having any other corrosive property capable of causing damage or hazard to structures, equipment, or personnel of the sewage works;
(7) Any water or waste containing a toxic or poisonous substance in sufficient quantities to constitute a hazard to humans or animals, injure or interfere with sewage treatment, or create any hazard in the receiving waters of the sewage treatment plant; or
(8) Any noxious or malodorous gas or substance capable of creating a public nuisance.
(C) Interceptors.
(1) Grease, oil, and sand interceptors shall be provided when they are necessary for the proper handling of any liquid waste containing grease in excessive amounts or any flammable waste, sand or other harmful ingredients; but such interceptors shall not be required for private living quarters or dwelling units.
(2) Interceptors shall be located so as to be easily accessible for cleaning and inspection.
(D) Control manhole required.
(1) The owner of any property served by a building sewer carrying industrial waste shall install a suitable control manhole in the building sewer to facilitate observation and sampling of the waste.
(2) The manhole shall be constructed by the owner in accordance with plans approved by the City Engineer.
(3) The owner shall maintain the manhole so as to be safe and accessible at all times.
(E) (1) Storm water.
(2) Unlawful acts. It is unlawful for any person directly or indirectly discharge, place or cause to be discharged any of the following described substances into the city's storm water system.
(a) Any 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 fire or explosion or be injurious in any other way to the storm sewer system or receiving body. Prohibited materials include, but are not limited to, gasoline, kerosene, naphtha, benzene, toluene, xylene, ethers, alcohols, ketones, aldehydes, peroxides, chlorates, perchlorates, bromates, carbides, hydrides, and sulfides.
(b) Solid or viscous substances which will or may cause obstruction to the flow in the storm water system such as, but not limited to grease, feathers, ashes, cinders, sand, spent lime, stone or marble dust, metal, glass, straw, shavings, grass clippings, rags, spent grains, spent hops, waste paper, wood, plastic, gas, tar, asphalt residues, residues from refining or processing of fuel or lubricating oil, mud, glass grinding, or polishing wastes.
(c) Any water having a pH less than 6.0 or more than 10.0 or having any other corrosive properties capable of causing damage or hazard to structures or equipment.
(d) Any water containing toxic pollutants in sufficient quantity, either singly or by interaction with other pollutants to constitute a hazard to humans or animals, or create a toxic effect in the receiving waters.
(e) Any noxious or malodorous liquids, gases, or solids which either singly or by interaction with other wastes are capable of creating a public nuisance or hazard to life or are sufficient to prevent entry into the sewers for their maintenance and repair.
(f) Any water having an aesthetically unattractive color which would cause an adverse effect to receiving body.
(g) Any effluent which creates conditions in the receiving body which violate any statute or any rule, regulation, or ordinance of any public agency or state or federal regulatory body.
(h) Any water having a temperature greater than 150°F (65.5°C), or causing, individually or in combination with other water, the influent at the receiving body to have a temperature exceeding 104°F (40°C) or having heat in amounts which will inhibit biological activity in the receiving body.
(i) Any slug load, which shall mean any pollutant, including oxygen demand pollutants, (BOD, and the like) released in a discharge of such volume or strength as to affect the receiving body.
(j) Radioactive wastes or isotopes of such a half-life or concentration that they are in noncompliance with standards issued by the appropriate authority having control over their use.
(k) Water containing any toxic heavy metals in such concentrated strengths to cause adverse effects to the receiving body.
(Ord. passed 8-1-2006; Am. Ord. passed 11-5-2013; Am. Ord. passed - -) Penalty, see §
10.99