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Glasgow Prohibited Substances from All Public Sewers ordinance (§ 700.450)

Chapter 700: Water and Sewer · Article IV. Sewer Regulations

In short: Nobody may put into public sewers anything flammable or explosive (gasoline, fuel oil), toxic enough to cause harm (including cyanide over 2 mg/l), corrosive (pH below 5.5), or likely to clog them, such as sand, rags, plastics, unground garbage, or paper cups, even if ground up.

Our plain-English summary, not the official text or legal advice. The ordinance below is what counts.

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

1. Any gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil, or other flammable or explosive liquid, solid, or gas.

2. Any 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, constitute a hazard to humans or animals, create a public nuisance, or create any hazard in the receiving waters of the sewage treatment plant, including but not

limited to cyanide in excess of two (2) mg/l as CN in the wastes as discharged to the public sewer.

3. Any waters or wastes having a pH lower than five and five-tenths (5.5), 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 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, plastics, woods, unground garbage, whole blood, paunch manure, hair and fleshings, entrails and paper dishes, cups, milk containers, etc., either whole or ground by garbage grinders.

Official source: City of Glasgow official Code of Ordinances (online), § 700.450

Last checked November 1, 2026. The city's official copy controls; this page is a reading copy, not legal advice.