No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any of the following described waters or wastes to any public sewers:
(A) Any gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil, waste engine oil, or other flammable or explosive liquid, solid, or gas.
(B) Any waters or wastes containing toxic or poisonous solids, liquids, or gases in sufficient quantity, either singly 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 sewage treatment plant.
(C) Any waters or wastes having a pH higher than 9.5 or lower than 5.5, or having any other corrosive property capable of causing damage or hazard to structures, equipment, and personnel of the sewage works.
(D) Solid or viscous substances in quantities or of such size capable of causing obstruction to the flow in sewers, or other interference with the proper operation of the sewage works such as, but not limited to, ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags, feathers, tar, plastics, wood, unground garbage, whole blood, paunch manure, hair and fleshings, entrails, and paper dishes, cups, milk containers, and so forth, either whole or ground by garbage grinders.
(E) Any mercury or any of its compounds in excess of 0.0005 mg/l as Hg at any time. The discharge of mercury in excess of 0.0005 mg/l may be permitted based on the conditions of the Water Pollution Regulations of Illinois, Rule 702. A special permit must be obtained from the Superintendent prior to the discharge of any mercury in excess of 0.0005 mg/l as Hg.
(F) Any waste containing detectable levels of cyanide at any time except as permitted with the approval of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency as specified as specified in the Water Pollution Regulations of Illinois, Rule 703.
(Ord. 75-0-2, passed 4-28-75; Am. Ord. 89-0- 8, passed 9-25-89) Penalty, see § 51.99