(A) General prohibitions. No person shall contribute or cause to be contributed directly or indirectly, into the WWF any pollutant or wastewater that causes pass through or interference. These general prohibitions and the specific prohibitions in division (B) below apply to all sources of discharge to the WWF whether or not they are subject to categorical pretreatment standards or any other federal, state or local pretreatment standards or requirements.
(B) Specific prohibitions. No person shall discharge or permit the discharge or infiltration into the WWF of any of the following:
(1) Pollutants that create a fire or explosion hazard into the WWF.
(2) Wastewater having a property capable of causing hazard, damage or any other condition deleterious to structures, equipment, personnel, treatment processes or operation of the WWF, and in no case, wastewater that causes the pH at the introduction into the WWF to fall below 5.0 unless the WWF is specifically designed to accommodate such discharges.
(3) Solid or viscous substances, or substances that will become solid or viscous within the WWF, in amounts that will cause obstruction of the flow in the WWF and resulting in interference.
(4) Pollutants, including oxygen-demanding pollutants (BOD, etc.), released in a discharge at a flow rate and/or pollutant concentration which either singly or by interaction with other pollutants will cause interference with the WWF.
(5) Heat in amounts that will inhibit biological activity in the WWF resulting in interference, but in no case heat in such quantities that result in the discharge of the WWF to exceed 104 °F (40 °C) unless the approval authority, upon request of the WWF, approves alternate temperature limits in accordance with 62-302.520 F.A.C.
(6) Petroleum oil, nonbiodegradable cutting oil or products of mineral oil origin, in amounts that will cause interference or pass through.
(7) Pollutants that result in the presence of toxic gases, vapors or fumes within the WWF in a quantity that may cause acute worker health and safety problems.
(8) Trucked or hauled pollutants, except at discharge points designated by the director in accordance with § 54.54.
(9) Noxious or malodorous liquids, gases, solids, or other wastewater which, either singly or by interaction with other wastes, are sufficient to create a public nuisance or a hazard to life, or to prevent entry into the sewers for maintenance or repair.
(10) Wastewater containing any radioactive wastes or isotopes except in compliance with applicable federal or state regulations.
(11) Stormwater, surface water, ground water, artesian well water, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, swimming pool drainage, condensate, deionized water, noncontact cooling water and unpolluted wastewater, unless specifically authorized by the director.
(12) Sludges, screenings or other residues from the pretreatment of industrial wastes or from the treatment or pretreatment of municipal wastes.
(13) Medical wastes, except as specifically authorized by the director in a wastewater discharge permit.
(14) Wastewater causing, alone or in conjunction with other sources, the treatment plant's effluent to fail a toxicity test.
(15) Aqueous Film-Forming Foam (AFFF), fire-fighting foam, fluorosurfactants, detergents, surface-active agents, or other substances that might cause, alone or in conjunction with other sources, interference or excessive foaming in the WWF.
(16) Use of nitrate- based chemicals to control odors within the collection system.
(17) Industrial wastewater containing organic solvents. Industrial users having organic solvents on site shall provide and use a separate collection and disposal system outside the sewer system and shall provide safeguards against their accidental discharge to the sewer.
(C) Pollutants, substances or wastewater prohibited by this section shall not be processed or stored in such a manner that they could be discharged to the WWF.
(Ord. 679, passed 9-26-2017)