[Adopted 5-12-1970 by Ord. No. 694
(Ch. XIX, Part 4 of the 1970 Code)]
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of
terms used in this article shall be as follows:
The Borough of Waynesboro.
The Borough Engineer of the Borough of Waynesboro, or his authorized
deputy, agent or representative.
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food,
and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
The liquid wastes from industrial processes as distinct from sanitary
sewage.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of
surface water or groundwater.
Any firm, association, organization, partnership, trust, company,
corporation, society, or group, as well as an individual. The present tense
includes the future tense, the singular includes the plural, and the plural
number includes the singular.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which stormwaters, surface waters
and groundwaters are not intentionally admitted.
A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business
buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, together with such
groundwaters, surface waters and stormwaters as may be present.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
Is mandatory; and the word "may" is permissive.
A sewer which carries stormwaters and surface waters and drainage,
but excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes.
Solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension
in water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by filtering.
Any liquid that will emit an inflammable vapor at a temperature below
160° F.
A channel in which water flows either continuously or intermittently.
No person, firm, association or corporation shall discharge or cause
to be discharged any stormwater, surface water, groundwater, roof runoff or
subsurface drainage, into any sanitary sewer.
Stormwater and all other unpolluted drainage shall be discharged into
such sewers as are specifically designated as storm sewers, or to a natural
outlet approved by the Engineer.
Industrial cooling water or unpolluted process waters may be discharged
upon approval of the Engineer to a storm sewer or natural outlet.
No person, firm, association or corporation shall allow or cause to
be allowed in or on any court, yard, area or the premises of any habitable
building, or in, or on any vacant lot or other place, or direct or divert
the flow on the property of others, any surface drainage which may be or may
become a public health nuisance.
No person, firm, association or corporation shall place, put, discharge
or cause to be discharged any of the following described waters or wastes
into any of the storm sewers of the Borough, nor shall any person, firm, association
or corporation place any such product or matter where it might flow, be washed,
or find its way into the storm sewers of the Borough:
A.
Any garbage, human or animal excrement or other objectionable
wastes.
B.
Any sanitary sewage, industrial wastes or polluted waters.
C.
Any liquid or vapor having a temperature higher than
150° F.
D.
Any water or waste which contains fat, oil or grease
in a concentration of more than one to 100.
E.
Any gasoline, grease, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil, lubricating
oil, kerosene, cleaning fluid, liquid asphaltum and any volatile inflammable
liquid, gas, vapor, oils or grease. A volatile inflammable liquid is any liquid
that will emit an inflammable vapor at a temperature below 160° F.
F.
Any ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal,
glass, rags, feathers, tar, plastics, wood, iron or metal filings, waste or
by-products, paper, pulp, industrial wastepaper, gravel or any other solid
or viscous substance or water mixed with any of such substances.
G.
Any waters or wastes containing inorganic acid or acids
in a concentration of more than one to 100.
H.
Any water or wastes containing suspended solids in excess
of 200 ppm, of an unusual character or quantity and having a deleterious effect
upon the receiving stream.
I.
Any waters or wastes containing toxic, poisonous, noxious
or deleterious substances to the extent of being harmful or injurious to public
health, animal or aquatic life or for industrial, domestic or recreation uses,
including any waters or wastes containing any contamination that would cause
or is likely to cause, impairment of the water's purity by any process
or action.
It is declared to be unlawful for any person to place, deposit or discharge, or to cause, suffer or permit to be placed, deposited or discharged, any of the prohibited substances listed above in § 220-17, into any of the storm sewers of the Borough, or on or upon any street, alley or public place, or upon any private property in the Borough, in such manner that such substances will be permitted to run into any such storm sewer, or in such manner that the same will flow or remain loosely deposited in or upon any street, sidewalk, gutter or other public place in the Borough; provided, however, that nothing contained herein shall prohibit the use of said substances in making authorized street repairs, and provided further, that this article shall not be construed as prohibiting the ordinary drippings of oil from automobiles and other motor-propelled vehicles upon the roads, streets or highways of the Borough of Waynesboro.
Any person, firm, association or corporation violating any of the provisions
of this article, or aiding, abetting or assisting in the violation of said
provisions shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $25 nor more
than $100 and costs of prosecution, and, in default of payment thereof, to
imprisonment in the County Jail for not more than 10 days. Provided, each
day on which any such violation shall take place shall constitute a separate
violation.
