Henrietta |
Code of Ordinances |
Chapter 20. PUBLIC UTILITIES AND SERVICES |
Article V. SEWERS AND SEWAGE DISPOSAL |
Division 1. GENERALLY |
§ 20-98. Prohibited discharges.
No person shall discharge, or cause to be discharged, into any sanitary sewer any of the following described substances, material, waters, or wastes:
(1)
Any liquid or vapor having a temperature higher than one hundred fifty (150) degrees Fahrenheit (sixty-five (65) degrees centigrade), or any discharge which causes the temperature of the total treatment plant influent to increase at a rate of ten (10) degrees Fahrenheit or more per hour or a combined total increase to a plant influent temperature of one hundred ten (110) degrees Fahrenheit;
(2)
Any water or wastes which contain wax, grease or oil, plastic, or other substance that will solidify or become discernibly viscous at temperatures between thirty-two (32) degrees to one hundred fifty (150) degrees Fahrenheit;
(3)
Flammable or explosive liquids, solids or gas, such as gasoline, kerosene, benzine, naphtha, etc.;
(4)
Solid or viscous substances in quantities capable of causing obstruction to the flow in sewers, or other interference with the proper operation of the sewage works such as ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags, feathers, tar, plastics, wood, whole blood, paunch manure, hair and fleshings, entrails, lime slurry, lime residues, slops, chemical residues, paint residues or bulk solids;
(5)
Any garbage not within a definition of properly shredded garbage as defined in section 20-96 of this article;
(6)
Any noxious or malodorous substance and which can form a gas, which either singly or by interaction with other wastes, is capable of causing objectionable odors; or a hazard to life; or forms solids in concentration exceeding limits established in section 20-99 of this article; or creates any other condition deleterious to structures or treatment processes; or requires unusual provisions, attention, or expense to handle such materials;
(7)
Any hexavalent chromium greater than 0.05 parts per million.
(8)
Any trivalent chromium greater than 5.0 parts per million.
(9)
Any copper greater than 1.0 part per million.
(10)
Any nickel greater than 1.0 part per million.
(11)
Any cadmium greater than 0.02 parts per million.
(12)
Any zinc greater than 1.0 part per million.
(13)
Any phenols greater than 0.005 parts per million.
(14)
Any iron greater than 0.3 parts per million.
(15)
Any tin greater than 1.0 part per million.
(16)
Any barium greater than 1.0 part per million.
(17)
Any lead greater than 0.1 part per million.
(18)
Any silver greater than 0.1 part per million.
(19)
Any chlorides greater than 250.0 parts per million.
(20)
Any radioactivity as radium-226 and strontium-90 greater than 3 uuc per liter and 10 uuc per liter respectively. In the known absence of strontium-90 and alpha emitters the known concentration shall not be greater than 1,000 uuc per liter.
(21)
Any cyanide greater than 1.0 part per million, as CN.
(22)
Any selenium greater than 0.01 part per million.
(23)
Any arsenic greater than 0.05 parts per million.
(24)
Any manganese greater than 0.05 parts per million.
(25)
Any mercury greater than 0.005 parts per million.
(26)
Any boron greater than 1.0 part per million.
(27)
Any antimony greater than 0.005 parts per million.
(28)
Any beryllium greater than 0.005 parts per million.
(29)
Any bismuth greater than 0.005 parts per million.
(30)
Any cobalt greater than 0.005 parts per million.
(31)
Any molybdenum greater than 0.005 parts per million.
(32)
Any rhenium greater than 0.005 parts per million.
(33)
Any telurium greater than 0.005 parts per million.
(34)
Any uranyl ion greater than 0.005 parts per million.
(Ord. of 8-28-54, § 5; Ord. No. 7206, § 2(A), 12-7-72)