(A) No person, except upon written permission of the borough, shall discharge or cause to be discharged any stormwater, surface water, ground water, roof runoff, sub-surface drainage, cooling water or unpolluted industrial or commercial process water into any sewer.
(B) Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter, no person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any of the following described wastes or waters into the sewer system:
(1) Any liquid or vapor having a temperature higher than 150°F;
(2) Any water or waste containing more than 100 ppm of fats, oils or greases;
(3) Any gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil, solvent or other flammable or explosive liquid, solid or gas which, by reason of its nature or quality, may cause fire or explosion or which, in any other way, may be injurious to persons or the sewer system or the sewage treatment plant;
(4) Any noxious or malodorous gas or substance which, either singly or by interaction with other wastes, shall be capable of creating a public nuisance or hazard to life or of preventing entry into any sewer or the sewage treatment plant for maintenance and repair;
(5) Any garbage, except properly chopped garbage;
(6) Any ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags, bones, feathers, tar, plastics, wood, paunch manure, butchers offal or any other solid or viscous substance which shall be capable of causing obstruction to the flow in any sewer or other interference with the proper operation of the sewer system or the sewage treatment plant;
(7) Any water or waste having a pH (as determined by the borough) lower than 5.0 or higher than 9.0 or having any corrosive property capable of causing damage or hazard to structures or equipment of the sewer system or the sewage treatment plant or to personnel engaged in operation and maintenance thereof;
(8) Any water or waste containing any toxic substance in quantity sufficient to constitute a hazard to humans or animals or to interfere with any sewage treatment process of the sewage treatment plant or that will pass through the sewage treatment plant in such condition so that it will exceed state, federal or other validly existing requirements for the receiving stream;
(9) Any water or waste containing total solids of such character and quantity that unusual attention or expense shall be required to handle such water or waste at the sewage treatment plant for sewage treatment processes; and
(10) Any drainage from building construction.
(C) The borough reserves the right to refuse permission to connect to the sewer system, to compel discontinuance of use of the sewer system or to compel pretreatment of industrial wastes in order to prevent discharges deemed harmful or to have a deleterious effect upon any portion of the sewer system.
(D) Nothing contained in this section shall be construed as prohibiting any special agreement or arrangement between the borough and any person whereby industrial wastes of unusual strength or character may be admitted into the sewer system by the borough, either before or after preliminary treatment.
(Ord. 329, passed 8-27-1962) Penalty, see § 10.99