Boonville Items specifically prohibited ordinance (§ 21-94)

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

(1) Any waters or wastes containing more than a daily average of 300 mg/l BOD except as provided.

(2) Any waters or wastes containing more than a daily average of 300 mg/l total suspended solids except as provided.

(3) Any waters or wastes having a pH lower than 6.0, or higher than 9.5, or having any other corrosive property capable of causing damage or hazard to structures, equipment, and personnel of the sewage works.

Any waters or wastes containing toxic or (4) poisonous solids, liquids or gases in suffi-

cient quantity, either single or by interaction with other wastes, to injure or interfere with any sewage treatment process, constitute a hazard to humans or animals, create a public nuisance, or create any hazard in the receiving waters of the sewage treatment plant.

(5) Any liquid or vapor having a temperature

higher than 150 degrees Fahrenheit or 65 degrees centigrade.

(6) Any gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil or

other flammable or explosive liquid, solid or gas.

(7) Solid or viscous substances in quantities or

of such size capable of causing obstruction to the flow in 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, plastic, wood, underground garbage, whole blood, paunch manure, hair and fleshings, entrails and paper dishes, cups, milk containers, etc., either whole or ground by garbage grinders.

(8) Any garbage that has not been properly

shredded. The installation and operation of any garbage grinder equipped with a motor of three-fourths horsepower or greater shall be subject to the review and approval of the superintendent.

(9) Any water or waste containing fats, wax,

grease or oils, whether emulsified or not, in excess of 100 mg/l or containing substances which may solidify or become viscous at temperatures between 32 and 150 degrees Fahrenheit (zero and 65 degrees centigrade).

(10) Materials which exert or cause unusual con-

centrations of inert total suspended solids such as, but not limited to, Fullers earth, lime slurries, and lime residues or of dissolved solids such as, but not limited to, sodium chloride and sodium sulfate.

(11) Any radioactive wastes or isotopes of such

half-life or concentration as may exceed limits established by applicable state or federal regulations.

(12) Any water or waste of unusual volume of flow or concentration of pollutant constituting "slugs" as defined herein.

(13) Waters or wastes containing substances which are not amenable to treatment or reduction by the sewage treatment process employed, or are amenable to treatment only to such degree that the sewage treatment plant effluent cannot meet the requirements of other agencies having jurisdiction over discharge to the receiving waters.

(14) Any waters or wastes containing taste-or odor producing substances, in such concentrations exceeding limits which may be established by the superintendent as necessary, after treatment of the composite sewage, to meet the requirements of the state, federal or other public agencies of jurisdiction for such discharge to the receiving waters or as may be necessary to prevent a public nuisance.

(15) Any waters or wastes which are in violation of any federal, state, or local pretreatment standards.

(16) Any water customer having an average daily flow greater than two per cent of the average waste water flow of the city, shall be subject to review by the director of public works. If necessary in the opinion of the director of public works, the owner will provide to the city, at the owner's sole expense, such preliminary treatment as may be deemed necessary to control quantities and rates of discharge.