[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township of Franklin 12-18-1967 as Ch. 74 of the 1967 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Environmental Commission — See Ch. 49.
Sanitation Department — See CH. 117.
Dump site — See Ch. 210.
Landfills — See Ch. 257.
Swimming, boating and fishing — See Ch. 341.
No person or corporation shall deposit or discharge or cause to be placed or discharged into any of the waters of the Township of Franklin, especially its principal lakes, Franklinville Lake, Iona Lake and Malaga Lake, and its tributaries, or place on the shores or banks of said waters any of the hereinafter named substances or any other substance which may render said waters unfit or undesirable for bathing, boating, fishing or other recreational purposes or which may be deposited upon the public beaches or shores of the township and/or the parks or which may be carried by tides or floods into wells or springs along the banks of said waters.
Such forbidden substances as hereinbefore mentioned shall include but not be limited to garbage, manure, dead animals, sewage or the outflow from any sewage-disposal plant or drain or drainage system, whether such waste outflow or drainage be of solids or liquid, or any refuse or chemical or other substance which may impair or prevent the growth and multiplication of fish in any of said waters or which may or shall interfere with either the home use or marketability of such fish or which shall render such waters, their banks and shores unpleasant or unsuitable for the above-named purposes of industry or recreation or which shall impair the value of the real property contiguous to such waters or disturb or interfere with the repose and comfort of its occupants.
Any present outflow from any existing sewage-disposal plant shall be such that the same shall not promote the growth of duckweed or algae and which effluent does not contain nutrients such as phosphates and nitrates which promote such growths.
Any person, firm, association or corporation violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of an offense and shall be subject to a penalty in a sum not exceeding $200 or by imprisonment in jail for 90 days, or both.