[HISTORY: Adopted by the Village Board of the Village of Westfield
as Title 4, Ch. 6 of the 1985 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
This chapter is designated to prevent polluting or spilled material
from reaching lakes or streams where it can create a hazard to health or a
nuisance or produce ecological damage and to assess responsibility and costs
of cleanup to the responsible party.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to release,
discharge, or permit the escape of domestic sewage, industrial wastes or any
potential polluting substance into the waters adjacent to or within the boundaries
of the Village of Westfield, or into any stream within the jurisdiction of
the Village, or into any street, sewer, ditch or drainageway leading into
any lake or stream, or to permit the same to be so discharged to the ground
surface without authorization from the Village Board.
A.Â
Cleanup required. All persons, firms or corporations
delivering, hauling, disposing, storing, discharging or otherwise handling
potentially polluting substances, solid or liquid, such as, but not limited
to, fuel oil, gasoline, solvents, industrial liquids or fluids, milk, grease
trap and septic tank wastes, sewage sludge, sanitary sewer wastes, storm sewer
catch basin wastes, and oil or petroleum wastes, shall immediately clean up
any such spilled material to prevent its becoming a hazard to health or safety
or directly or indirectly causing the pollution of the lakes and streams under
the jurisdiction of the Village of Westfield.
B.Â
Notification. Spills or accidental release of hazardous
materials or pollutants at a site or of a quantity or nature that cannot adequately
be cleaned up by the responsible party or parties shall be immediately reported
to the Village of Westfield Police Department so that assistance can be given
by the proper agency.
C.Â
Financial liability. The party or parties responsible
for the release, escape or discharge of wastes may be held financially liable
for the cost of any cleanup or attempted cleanup deemed necessary or desirable
and undertaken by the Village of Westfield, or its designated agent, in an
effort to minimize the pollution effects of the discharged waste.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to store any
potentially polluting substances unless such substances are stored in such
manner as to securely prevent them from escaping into the ground surface and/or
into any street, sewer, ditch or drainageway, lake or stream within the jurisdiction
of the Village of Westfield.
