(A) (1) It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit, or permit to be deposited in any unsanitary manner on public or private property within the Town of Murphy or in any area under the jurisdiction of the Murphy any human or animal excrement, garbage, or objectionable waste.
(2) It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet within the Town of Murphy or in any area under jurisdiction of the town, any wastewater or other polluted sewers, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions of this chapter.
(3) Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful to construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool, or other facility intended or used for the disposal of sewer.
(4) The owner(s) of all houses, buildings, or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purposes, situated within the town and abutting on any street, alley, or right-of-way in which there is now located or may be in the future be located a public sanitary or combined sewer of the town, is hereby required at the owners(s) expense to install suitable toilet facilities directly with the proper public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, within 90 days after date of official notice to do, provided that the public sewer is within 100 feet (30.5 meters) of the property line.
(5) It shall be unlawful to deposit any substance which will cause the POTW to violate its NPDES and/or State Disposal System Permit or the receiving water quality standards.
(6) It shall be unlawful to deposit any wastewater with objectionable color not removed in the treatment process, such as, but not limited to, dye wastes and vegetable tanning solutions.
(7) It shall be unlawful to deposit any wastewater having a temperature which will inhibit biological activity in the POTW treatment plant resulting in interference, but in no case wastewater with a temperature at the introduction into the POTW which exceeds 40°C (104°F) unless the POTW treatment plant is designed to accommodate the temperature.
(8) It shall be unlawful to deposit any pollutants, including oxygen demanding pollutants (BOD, and the like) released at a flow rate and/or pollutant concentration which a user knows or has reason to know will cause interference to the POTW. In no case shall a slug load have a flow rate or contain concentration or qualities of pollutants that exceed for any time period longer than 15 minutes more than five times the average 24-hour concentration, quantities, or flow during normal operation.
(9) It shall be unlawful to deposit any wastewater containing any radioactive wastes or isotopes of the half-life or concentration as may exceed limits established by the appropriate authority in compliance with applicable state or federal regulations.
(10) It shall be unlawful to deposit any wastewater which causes a hazard to human life or creates a public nuisance.
(B) When the appropriate authority determines that a user(s) is contributing to the POTW, any of the above enumerated substances in the amounts as to interfere with the operation of the POTW, the appropriate authority shall:
(1) Advise the user(s) of the impact of the contribution on the POTW; and
(2) Develop effluent limitation(s) for the user to correct the interference with the POTW.
(Ord. passed 3-9-1987) Penalty, see § 54.99