[Adopted 7-31-1972 as Ch. XXI, Part 2, of the 1972 Code]
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation to discharge or to permit the discharge or infiltration into any borough sewer which is connected directly or indirectly with the Sanitary Authority's sewage disposal system or into a sewer connected to such a borough sewer or into the Sanitary Authority's sewage disposal system of any of the following substances:
A. 
Mineral acids, waste acid pickling or plating liquors from the pickling or plating of chromium or any other dissolved or solid substances which will endanger health or safety, interfere with the flow in sewers, attack or corrode sewers or sewage structures or equipment or otherwise interfere with the operation of the sewers or other facilities of the borough or the Sanitary Authority.
B. 
Cyanides or cyanogen compounds capable of liberating hydrocyanic gas on acidification.
C. 
Fats, entrails and the like from meat processing plants, rendering plants and similar industries and establishments.
D. 
Gas tar, phenols, residues from petroleum storage, refining or processing, fuel or lubricating oil, gasoline, naphtha, benzene or explosive or inflammable liquids, solids or gases.
E. 
Ashes, cinders, sand, mud, lime or acetylene sludges, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags, feathers, tar, plastics, wood, sawdust, paunch manure, hair, hides, dead animals, spent mash and grain, pulp from food processing, water or wastes containing grease in excess of 100 parts per million or any other solids or viscous substances capable of causing obstruction to the flow in sewers or other interference with the proper operation of the borough's or the Sanitary Authority's facilities.
F. 
Sludges or other materials from septic tanks or similar facilities or from sewage or industrial waste treatment plants or from water treatment plants.
[Amended 11-30-1994 by Ord. No. 2472]
G. 
Garbage, whether ground or not, except properly shredded garbage in a private dwelling, apartment building, hotel, commercial restaurant or retail food store, resulting from the proper use of a garbage grinder or disposer of a type approved by the borough, the Allegheny County Health Department and the Sanitary Authority and maintained in good operating condition; provided, however, that no retail food store shall operate more than one grinder or disposer which shall be not greater than three horsepower in size and, when so required by the Allegheny County Health Department, shall be equipped with an approved water meter and limited in use to the consumption of an average of not more than 1,500 gallons of water per day; and provided further that the foregoing restrictions shall not apply to any existing installation in a retail food store of a garbage grinder or disposer larger than three horsepower in size until such time as the equipment now in use can no longer be kept in good operating condition by ordinary maintenance and repair, at which time such larger-than-three-horsepower grinder or disposer shall be abandoned and shall not be renewed or replaced.
H. 
Water or wastes having a pH lower than five point five (5.5) or higher than nine point zero (9.0) or having any other corrosive property capable of causing damage or hazard to structures, equipment or personnel of the borough or the Sanitary Authority.
I. 
Roof water or surface water.
Any person, firm, association or corporation discharging or permitting the discharge or infiltration of any of the foregoing wastes or materials into a borough sewer which is connected directly or indirectly with the Sanitary Authority's sewage disposal system or into a sewer connected to such a borough sewer or into the Sanitary Authority's sewage disposal system shall immediately cease to discharge or permit the discharge of such materials or wastes thereinto.
[Added 11-30-1994 by Ord. No. 2472]
Any person, firm, association or corporation violating any provision of this Article shall, for each and every such violation, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $1,000 and costs of prosecution, and, in default of payment of such fine and costs, to imprisonment for not more than 30 days. Each day that a violation is continued shall constitute a separate violation. In the case of firms or associations, the penalty may be imposed upon the partners or members thereof and, in the case of corporations, upon the officers thereof.