[HISTORY: Adopted by the Common Council of the City of Montello 5-7-1984
as Title 4, Ch. 2 of the 1984 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
This chapter is designed to prevent polluting or spilled material from
reaching lakes or streams where it can create hazards 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 City of Montello, or into any stream within the jurisdiction of the
City, 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 Common Council.
A.
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 the following, 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
City of Montello: 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.
B.
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 Montello Police Department so that assistance can be given by the proper
agency.
C.
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 City of Montello, or its designated agent, in an effort
to minimize the pollutional 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 onto the ground surface and/or
into any street, sewer, ditch or drainageway, lake or stream within the jurisdiction
of the City of Montello.
