It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to
obstruct or impede without legal authority any river or collection
of water, or to corrupt and render unwholesome or impure any watercourse,
stream, or other water. The standards for water quality established
or adopted by the State of Nebraska shall be presumptive evidence
as to when the water is deemed to be polluted under this Section.
Such a corruption of the water in or about the Municipality shall
constitute a nuisance and shall be summarily abated upon written notice
to the violator by the Board of Health. The said abatement may be
in addition to the penalty for water pollution. (Ref. 18-1720, 28-1321
RS Neb.)
It is unlawful for the owner or occupant of any lot or parcel
of land within the corporate limits of the City to permit any stagnant
water or other deleterious substance to collect or remain thereon;
and every owner or occupant of such lot or parcel of land, when the
same is necessary, shall drain or fill the same so as to prevent any
such accumulations thereon.
Upon the failure of the owner or occupant of such real estate
to comply with the orders of the Council in regard to draining, the
City Council may, after five days' notice by publication and by certified
mail, have such work done and may levy and assess the costs and expenses
thereof upon the property so benefited in the same manner as other
special taxes for improvements are levied and assessed. (Ref. 16-221,
16-230 RS Neb.)
Whenever any cellar, basement, or part thereof, of any tenement
house or building within the limits of the City shall be found to
be damp or moist by reason of leaking or defective hydrants, water
pipes, sewer pipes, cisterns or wells, gutters, drains, rain spouts
or seepage from the surrounding earth, then such leakage, seepage
or moisture shall be deemed a nuisance.
