[HISTORY: Adopted by the Common Council of the City of Neillsville as Title 6, Ch. 2, of the 1985 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
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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 clean-up to the responsible party.
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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 wastes or any potentially polluting substance into the waters adjacent to or within the boundaries of the City of Neillsville, 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 or appropriate state regulatory agencies.
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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 to health or safety or directly or indirectly causing the pollution of the lakes and streams under the jurisdiction of the City of Neillsville.
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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 Neillsville Police Department so that assistance can be given by the proper agency.
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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 Neillsville, 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 Neillsville.