No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any stormwater,
surface water, groundwater, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, cooling
water or impounded or unpolluted industrial process waters to any
sanitary sewer.
Stormwater and all other unpolluted drainage shall be discharged
to such sewers as are specifically designated as storm sewers or to
a natural outlet approved by the Town Board. Industrial cooling water
or other unpolluted process waters may be discharged, upon approval
of the Town Board, to a storm sewer or natural outlet.
Except as hereinafter provided, no person shall discharge or
cause to be discharged any of the following described waters or wastes
to any public sewer:
A. Any liquid or vapor having a temperature lower than 32° F. or
higher than 150° F.
B. Any waste or water which may contain more than 100 milligrams per
liter, by weight, of fats, oils or grease.
C. Any gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil or other flammable or explosive
liquid, solid or gas.
D. Any garbage that has not been properly shredded.
E. Any ashes, cinders, sand, mud, grit, straw, animal wastes, 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, in the opinion of the Town Board.
F. Any water or wastes having a pH lower than 6.0 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,
in the opinion of the Town Board.
G. Any water or wastes containing a toxic or poisonous substance in
sufficient quantity to injure or interfere with any sewage treatment
process, constitute a hazard to humans or animals or create any hazard
in the receiving waters of the sewage treatment plant, in the opinion
of the Town Board.
H. Any water or wastes containing suspended solids of such character
and quantity that unusual attention or expense is required to handle
such materials at the sewage treatment plant.
I. Any noxious or malodorous gas or substance.
When required by the Town Board, the owner of any property served
by a building sewer carrying commercial-industrial wastes shall install
a suitable control manhole in the building sewer to facilitate observation,
sampling and measurement of the wastes. Such manhole, when required,
shall be conveniently and safely located. It is to be constructed
in accordance with plans approved by the Town Board. The manhole shall
be installed by the owner at his expense and shall be maintained by
him so as to be safe and accessible at all times.
All measurements, tests and analyses of the characteristics of waters and wastes to which reference is made in §§Â
405-12 and
405-14 shall be determined in accordance with Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater or with methods approved by New York State Department of Health and may be determined at the control manhole provided for in §Â
405-15 or upon suitable samples taken at said manhole. In the event that no special manhole has been required, the control manhole may be considered to be the nearest downstream manhole in the public sewer to the point at which the building sewer is connected. If, in the judgment of the Town Board, analyses must be performed which are beyond the scope of the laboratory at the sewage treatment plant, these analyses shall be performed at a laboratory designated by the Superintendent, and the cost of these analyses shall be borne by the owner.
No statement contained in this article shall be construed as
preventing any special agreement or arrangement between the Town Board
and any industrial, commercial or other owner whereby an industrial-commercial
or domestic waste which is of unusual strength or character may be
accepted by the Town Board for treatment, subject to payment therefor
by such owner.