(A) No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any of the following waters or wastes to any public sewers.
(1) Any gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil, or other flammable or explosive liquid, solid, or gas.
(2) Any waters or wastes containing toxic or poisonous solids, liquids, or gases in sufficient quantity, either singularly 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 POTW.
(3) Any waters or wastes having properties capable of damaging or causing hazards to structures, equipment and personnel of the Wastewater Department.
(4) 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 POTW.
(B) No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged the following described substances, materials, waters, or wastes if it appears likely in the opinion of the Superintendent that such wastes can harm either the sewers, wastewater treatment process, or equipment, have an adverse effect on the receiving stream, or can otherwise endanger life, limb, public property, or constitute a nuisance. In making his decision as to the acceptability of these wastes, the Superintendent will give consideration to such factors as the quantities of subject wastes in relation to flows and velocities in the sewers, materials of construction of the sewers, nature of the wastewater treatment process, capacity of the wastewater treatment plant, degree of treatability of wastes in the wastewater treatment plant, and other pertinent factors.
(C) No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged water or wastes containing substances which are not amenable to treatment or reduction by the wastewater treatment processes employed, or are amenable only to treatment to such degree that the wastewater treatment plant effluent cannot meet the requirement of other agencies having jurisdiction over discharge to the receiving waters.
(D) All system users are subject to the provisions of the Peru Utilities Industrial Pretreatment Sewer Use Ordinance, Ord. 25-2000, as adopted in Chapter 56.
(E) If any waters or wastes are discharged, or are proposed to be discharged, to the public sewers, which waters contain the prohibited substances or characteristics which, in the judgment of the Superintendent, may have a deleterious effect on the POTW, or receiving waters, or which otherwise create a hazard to life or constitute a public nuisance, the Superintendent 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; or
(4) Require payment to cover the added cost of handling and treating the wastes not covered by existing taxes or sewer charges, under the provisions of § 50.20.
(F) If the Superintendent permits the pretreatment or equalization of waste flow, the design and installation of the plants and equipment shall be subject to the requirements of all applicable codes, ordinances, and laws of the United States, State of Indiana and City of Peru.
(Ord. 12-2001, 5-7-01) Penalty, see § 50.99