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<br />(1) Industrial cooling water or unpolluted processed waters may be <br />discharged, on approval of the City Engmeer, to a storm sewer or <br />natural outlet. <br />(2) Roof runoff is required to be directed by a downspout or roof drain <br />away from a building by means of underground storm sewer piping. <br />Such storm sewer piping shall be constructed in accordance with <br />standards set by the City Engineer and shall discharge to a storm <br />sewer. In the event that a storm sewer is not readily available, as <br />determined by the City Engineer, to serve storm sewer piping for <br />roof runoff, then such roof runoff may be discharged by <br />underground storm sewer piping to a ditch or stream or to a <br />leaching bed designed and constructed in accordance with standards <br />set by the City Engineer. Splash blocks may only be used when <br />authorized under the provisions of Section 911.19, or for small roof <br />areas such as sheds or garages accessory to existing single family <br />residences when approved by the City Engineer, and no water is <br />allowed to drain onto adjacent property, accumulate in depressions <br />or otherwise become a public hazard or nuisance. <br />(c) No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any of the following <br />described waters or wastes into any public sewers: <br />(1) Any wastewater having a temperature which will inhibit biological <br /> activity in the POTW treatment plant resulting in interference; but <br /> in no case, wastewater with a temperature at the introduction into <br /> the POTW which exceeds forty degrees Centigrade, 104 degrees <br /> Fahrenheit. <br />(2) Any gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil or other flammable or <br /> explosive liquids, solids or gases which by reason of their nature or <br /> quantity are or may be sufficient, either alone or by interaction, to <br /> cause fire or explosion or be injurious in any other way to the <br /> operation of the POTW. Under no circumstances shall the <br /> flashpoint of any discharge be less than 140 degrees Fahrenheit or <br /> sixty degrees Centigrade as measured using the closed cup test <br /> method specified in 40 CFR 261.21. <br />(3) Any discharge of petroleum oil, nonbiodegradeable cutting oil or <br /> products of mineral oil origin in amounts that can cause interference <br /> or pass through; but in no case, water or wastes containing free oils, <br /> emulsified oils and grease exceeding an average of 100 4-99 ?59 <br /> parts per million or 833 833 2-ASS pounds per million gallons, of <br /> ether soluble matter. <br />(4) Any waters or wastes containing toxic or poisonous solids, liquids <br /> or gases in sufficient quantity, either singly or by interaction with <br /> other quantity, either singly or by interaction with other wastes, to <br /> injury or interfere with any sewage treatment process, constitute a <br /> hazard to humans or animals, create a public nuisance or create any <br /> hazard in the receiving waters of the sewage treatment plant, <br /> including cyanides. <br />(5) Any garbage that has not been properly shredded. The installation <br /> and operation of any garbage grinder equipped with a motor of <br /> three-fourths horsepower, 0.76 hp metric, or greater shall be subject <br /> to the review and approval of the Building Commissioner. <br />(6) Any ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags, <br /> feathers, tar plastics, wood paunch, manure, hair and fleshings, <br /> entrails, lime slurry, lime residues, chemical residues, pamt <br />