§ 86-43. Prohibited discharges.  


Latest version.
  • Except as provided in this article, no person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any of the following described waters or wastes to any public sewer:

    (1)

    Gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil, motor oil, mineral spirits, commercial solvent, or other flammable or explosive liquid, solid or gas;

    (2)

    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 or to constitute a hazard in the receiving waters of the sewage treatment plant;

    (3)

    Waters or wastes having pH lower than 6.0 or higher than 8.5 or having other corrosive property capable of causing damage or hazard to structures, equipment, and personnel of the sewage works;

    (4)

    Water or wastes that contain more than ten parts per million, by weight, of the following gases: hydrogen sulfide, sulfur dioxide, or nitrous oxide;

    (5)

    Ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, straw shavings, metal, ground paper products, glass, rags, feathers, offal, plastics, wood, paunch, manure, hair, and fleshings, entrails, lime slurry, lime residues, beer or distillery slops, chemical residues, paint or ink residues, cannery waste, bulk solids, or 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; and

    (6)

    Wastes from hospitals containing radioactive materials and high BOD wastes from funeral parlors or other embalming facilities, milk and milk products processing plants, slaughter houses and similar industries or contributing waste products difficult to treat and assimilate in the receiving stream.

(Res. No. 98-3, § 3-2.1, 3-10-1998)