[HISTORY: Adopted by the Village Board of the Village of
Coloma 6-30-1994 as Title 6, Ch.
2, of the 1994 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
A.
Legislative intent. This chapter is designed to prevent polluting
or spilled material from reaching lakes or streams where it can create
hazard to health, a nuisance or produce ecological damage and to assess
responsibility and costs of cleanup to the responsible party.
B.
Discharge or release prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person,
firm or corporation to release, discharge or permit the escape of
domestic sewage, industrial waste or any potentially polluting substance
into the waters adjacent to or within the boundaries of the Village
or into any stream within the jurisdiction of the Village or into
any street, sewer, ditch or drainage way leading into any lake or
streams or to permit the same to be so discharged to the ground surface
without authorization from the Village Board or appropriate state
regulatory agencies.
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: 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,
shall immediately clean up any such spilled material to prevent its
becoming a hazard in health or safety or directly or indirectly causing
the pollution to the lakes and streams under the jurisdiction of the
Village.
B.
Notification. Spills or accidental releases 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 Coloma 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 Village, 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
onto the ground surface and/or into any street, sewer, ditch or drainageway,
lake or stream within the jurisdiction of the Village.
