Except as hereinafter provided, no person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any of the following described waters or wastes to any public sewer:
A. 
Any liquid or vapor having a temperature higher than 150° F. (65° C.).
B. 
Any waters or wastes which contain grease or oil or other substances that will solidify or become discernibly viscous at temperatures between 32° F. and 150° F.
C. 
Any waters or wastes containing emulsified oil and grease exceeding an average of 50 parts per million gallons ether-soluble matter.
D. 
Any gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil or mineral oil or other flammable or explosive liquid, solid or gas.
E. 
Any noxious or malodorous gas such as hydrogen sulfide, sulfur dioxide or nitrous oxide or other substance, which either singly or by interaction with other wastes, is capable of creating a public nuisance or hazard to life or of preventing entry into sewers for their maintenance and repair.
F. 
Any garbage that has not been properly pulverized or ground to fine powder.
G. 
Any ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags, feathers, tar, plastic, wood, paunch manure, hair and fleshings, entrails, lime, residues, beer and distillery slops, chemical residue, paint residues, cannery waste, bulk solids or any other solid or viscous substance capable of causing obstruction to the flow of the sewers or other interference with the proper operation of the sewage system.
H. 
Any waters or wastes, acid and alkaline in reaction, having corrosive properties capable of causing damage or hazard to structures, equipment and personnel of the sewage system; free acids and alkalis must be neutralized at all times within a permissible pH range of 6.0 to 9.0.
I. 
Any long half-life (over 100 days) of toxic radioactive isotopes without a special permit.
J. 
Any waters or wastes that, for a duration of 15 minutes, have a concentration greater than five times the average of that of normal sanitary sewage, as defined in Subsection M of this section, as measured by suspended solids and BOD and/or which is discharged continuously at a rate exceeding 1,000 gallons per minute, except by special permit.
K. 
Any stormwater, roof drains, spring water, cistern or tank overflow, cellar or footing drains, discharge from any vehicle rack or motor or the contents of any privy vault, holding tank, septic tank or cesspool or the discharge of effluent from any air-conditioning machine or refrigeration unit.
L. 
Any waters or wastes containing a toxic or poisonous substance, a high chlorine demand or suspended solids in sufficient quantity to injure or interfere with any sewage treatment process, constitute a hazard to humans or animals or create any hazard in the receiving waters or the effluent of the Town's sewage treatment plant. Such toxic substances shall be limited to the average concentrations listed hereinafter in the sewage. If concentrations listed are exceeded, individual establishments will be subject to control in volume and concentration by the Engineer.
M. 
Normal sanitary sewage shall be construed to fall within the following ranges at the effluent of the industrial plant in question:
Constituents
Normal Range
(parts per million)
Suspended solids
180 to 350
BOD
140 to 300
Chlorine demand
5 to 15
N. 
Any natural gas and oil production by-products.
[Added 11-15-2012 by L.L. No. 3-2012]
A. 
Grease, oil and sand interceptors shall be provided when, in the opinion of the Superintendent, they are necessary for the proper handling of liquid wastes containing grease in excessive amounts, or any flammable wastes, sand, or other harmful ingredients; except that such interceptors shall not be required for private living quarters or dwelling units. All interceptors shall be of a type and capacity approved by the Superintendent, and shall be located as to be readily and easily accessible for cleaning and inspection. The Superintendent shall require grease interceptors on all restaurants and food processing establishments. A periodic inspection of these interceptors shall be made by the Superintendent at least four times per year.
B. 
In the maintaining of these interceptors, the owner(s) shall be responsible for the proper removal and disposal by appropriate means of the captured material and shall maintain records of the dates and means of disposal and a copy of the receipt provided by the industrial waste hauler indicating the waste transported and the location of the disposal, as required by the regulations of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, which are subject to review by the Town. Any removal and hauling of the collected materials must be performed by state-licensed waste disposal firms. All restaurants and food handling or processing facilities shall install and maintain such interceptor and removal facilities. Failure to maintain and provide the records to the Town shall be presumptive evidence of noncompliance with this provision.
No person shall cause the discharge of slugs to the POTW. Each person discharging into the POTW greater than 10,000 gallons per day or greater than 5% of the average daily flow in the POTW, whichever is lesser, shall install and maintain, on his property and at his expense, a suitable storage and flow control facility to ensure equalization of flow over a twenty-four-hour period unless exempted by the Superintendent of Sewers. The facility shall have a capacity for at least 50% of the daily discharge volume and shall be equipped with alarms and a rate of discharge controller, the regulation of which shall be directed by the Superintendent. A wastewater discharge permit may be issued solely for flow equalization.
The admission into the public sewers of any waters or wastes having a five-day biochemical oxygen demand greater than 300 parts per million by weight, containing more than 350 parts per million by weight of suspended solids, containing more than 15 parts per million of chlorine demand, containing any quantity of substances having the characteristics above the previously described limits or having an average daily flow greater than 2% of the average daily sewage flow of the Town shall be subject to the review and approval of the Engineer. Where necessary, in the opinion of the Engineer, the owner shall provide, at his expense, such preliminary treatment as may be necessary to reduce the solids to 350 parts per million by weight, reduce the chlorine demand to 15 parts per million, reduce objectionable characteristics or constituents to within the maximum limits provided for or control the quantities and rates of discharge of such waters or wastes.
A. 
Plans, specifications and any other pertinent information relating to proposed preliminary treatment facilities shall be submitted for the approval of the Engineer and of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, and no construction of such facilities shall be commenced until said approvals are obtained in writing.
B. 
Where preliminary treatment facilities are provided for any waters or wastes, they shall be maintained continuously in satisfactory and effective operation by the owner at his expense.
All measurements, tests and analyses of the characteristics of waters and wastes to which reference is made shall be determined in accordance with Ulster County Health Department Methods of Examination of Water and Sewage upon suitable samples taken at control manholes provided for above. In the event that no special manhole has been required, the control manhole shall be considered to be the nearest downstream manhole in the public sewer to the point at which the building sewer is connected.
No statement contained in this article shall be construed as preventing any special agreement or arrangement between the Town and any industrial concern whereby an industrial waste of unusual strength or character may be accepted by the Town for treatment, subject to payment therefor by the industrial concern.