Section 13.12.290 Certain items into public sewer prohibited.
Except as herein provided, no person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any of the
following described waters and wastes to any sewer system:
A. Any liquid or vapor having a temperature higher than one hundred fifty (150)
degrees
Fahrenheit;
B. Any water or waste which may contain more than one hundred (100) parts per
million, by
weight, of fat, oil, or grease;
C. Any gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil or other flammable or explosive liquids,
solids or
gasses;
D. Any garbage that has not been properly shredded in a garbage disposal type
unit;
E. Any ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags, feathers,
tar, plastics,
wood, 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 water or wastes having a pH lower than 5.5 or higher than 9.0 or
having any other
corrosive property capable of causing damage or hazard to structures, equipment and personnel
of the sewage works;
G. Any waters or wastes containing a toxic or poisonous substance in sufficient
quantity to
injure or interfere with the 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 or wastes containing suspended solids of such character and quantity
that
unusual attention or extreme expense is required to handle such materials at the sewage treatment
plant;
I. Any noxious or malodorous gas or substance capable of creating a public nuisance.
(Ord. 215
(part), 2003: Ord. 111 (part), 1996: prior code § 4.05 .290)
