[Adopted 11-22-2004 as
Title 8, Ch. 2, of the 2004 Code]
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 pollution to the lakes and streams under the jurisdiction
of the Village: 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, 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 Village Clerk 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 shall be held financially liable for
the cost of any cleanup or attempted cleanup deemed necessary or desirable
and undertaken by the Village, 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 Village of Athens.
