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Sec. 118-203. Prohibited discharges.

No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any of the following described waters or wastes to any public sewers:

(1) Any gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil, or other inflammable or explosive liquid, solid or gas.

(2) Any wastewater containing toxic pollutants in sufficient quantity, either singly or by interaction with other pollutants, to injure or interfere with any wastewater treatment or sludge disposal process, constitute a hazard to humans or animals, create a toxic effect in the receiving waters of the sewage treatment plant, or to exceed the limitation set forth in a national categorical pretreatment standard. A toxic pollutant shall include, but not be limited to, any pollutant identified pursuant to section 307(a) of the Act. In no case shall any industrial wastes discharged to the public sewers cause the following concentrations of toxic substances to be exceeded in the influent to the sewage treatment plant:
ElementMaximum concentration (mg/l)
Cadmium0.02
Mercury0.002
Cyanide0.05
PCB'sdetection limit

(3) Any waters or wastes having a pH lower than 5.0 or higher than 11.0 units, or having any other corrosive property capable of causing damage or hazard to structures, equipment, and personnel of the sewage works.

(4) Solid or viscous substances in quantities or of such size capable of causing obstruction to the flow of 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, paper dishes, cups, milk containers, etc., either whole or ground by garbage grinders.

(5) Heat in amounts which will inhibit biological activity in the sewage treatment plant resulting in interference, but in no case heat in such quantities that the temperature at the sewage treatment plant exceeds 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit).

(Code 1973, § 33-69)

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