No person shall deposit, drain or divert, into or upon any public highway, street or alley, drainage ditch, storm drain, sewer, gutter, paving, creek, river, lake or lagoon, any oil or liquid with a substantial petroleum content of a harmful character, or any oil substance, or any mud, rotary mud, sand or salt water of a harmful nature, or in any manner permit, by seepage, overflow or otherwise, any of such substances to escape from any property owned, leased or controlled by such person and to flow or be carried into or upon any such public highway, street or alley, drainage ditch, storm drain, sewer, gutter, paving, creek, river, lake or lagoon within the corporate limits, except in such cases where the mud, water or slush is carried in pipelines or a flume pursuant to a permit. Council may permit the depositing, placing or discharging of mud, water or slush in such places as may be approved by Council when such mud or slush is carried in pipelines or a flume.
(Ord. 907. Passed 9-26-77.)