Except as otherwise provided in this article, no person shall discharge, or cause to be discharged, any of the following waters or wastes to any public sewer:
(a) Any liquid or vapor having a temperature higher than 100 degrees Fahrenheit;
(b) Any water or waste which may contain more than 200 parts per million, by weight, of fat, oil, or grease;
(c) Any gasoline, benzene, naptha, fuel oil, or other flammable or explosive liquid, solid, or gas;
(d) Any garbage which has not been properly shredded and contains any particle greater than one-half (1/2”) inch in any dimension;
(e) Any ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags, feathers, tar, plastics, wood, paunch manure, or any other solid or viscous substance capable of causing obstruction to the flow in sewers or other interference with the proper operation of the sewage works;
(f) Any waters or wastes having a pH lower than five and five-tenths (5.5) or higher than nine and five-tenths (9.5), or having any other corrosive property capable of causing damage or hazard to structures, equipment, or personnel of the sewage works;
(g) Any waters or wastes containing a toxic or poisonous substance in sufficient quantity to injure or interfere with any sewage treatment process, constitute a hazard to humans or animals, or create any hazard in the receiving waters of the sewage treatment plant;
(h) Any waters containing radioactive wastes of sufficient quantity to injure or interfere with any sewage treatment process, constitute a hazard to humans or animals, or create any hazard in the receiving waters of the sewage treatment plant;
(i) Any waters containing synthetic detergents in sufficient quantity to injure or interfere with any sewage treatment process or create problems in the receiving waters of the sewage treatment plant;
(j) Any waters or wastes containing suspended solids of such character and quantity that unusual attention or expense is required to handle such materials at the sewage treatment plant;
(k) Any noxious or malodorous gas or substance capable of creating a public nuisance; and
(l) Industrial wastes, waters, or liquids which are odorless, stable, and free from deleterious chemicals shall, where practicable, be discharged into storm drains or storm water channels. For the purposes of this subsection, any industrial wastes, waters, or liquids containing sufficient oxygen to prevent putreficaction when incubated for a period of five (5) days at a temperature of twenty-five (25) degrees centigrade shall be deemed stable. (§ 502, Ord. 497; as amended by § 2, Ord. 1470, eff. July 14, 2016)