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Ordinance No. 92 - 133 Page 7 8. Any noxious or malodorous gas or substance capable of creating a public rna.isance, or substances causing the release of rioxious or poisonous gases after discharge into the public sewer system, or which result in the presence of toxic gases, vapors or fumes within the POTW in a quantity that may cause acute worker health and safety problems. 9. Any waters or wastes containing strong acid iron pickling wastes or concentrated plating solutions, whether neutralized or not. 10. Any waters or wastes containing iron, chromium, copper, zinc and similar objectionable or toxic substances or wastes exerting an excessive chlorine requirement, to such degree that any such material received in the composite sewage at the sewage treatment works exceeds the limits established by the Service Director as authorized in Chapter 917 for such materials, and which might cause the POTW to violate its NPDES and/or other disposal system permits. 11. Any waters or wastes containing phenols or other taste or odor- producing substances, in such concentrations exceeding limits which ma.y be established by the Service Director as necessary, after treatment of the composite sewage, to meet the requirements of State, Federal or other public agencies of jurisdiction for such discharge to the receiving waters, and which might cause the POTW to violate its NPDES and/or other disposal system permits. 12. Any radioactive wastes or isotopes of such half-life or concentration as may exceed limits established by the Service Director in compliance with applicable State or Federal regulations. 13. Any waters or wastes having a pH of less than 5.5 or in excess of 9.0. 14. Ma.terials which exert or cause: a. Unusual concentrations of inert TSS such as, but rwt limited to Fullers earth, lime slurries and lime residues, or of dissolved solids such as, but not limited to, sodium chloride and sodium sulfate. b. Excessive discoloration such as, but not limited to, dye wastes and vegetable tanning solutions. c. Unusual biochemical oxygen demand, TSS, or chlorine requirements in such quantities as to constitute a significant load on the sewage treatment works. d. Unusual volume of flow or concentration of wastes constituting "slugs" as defined in Section 911.03(81). 15. Waters or wastes containing substances which are not amenable to treatment or reduction by the sewage treatment or reduction by the sewage treatment processes eznployed or are amenable to treatment only to such degree that the sewage treatment plant effluent cannot meet the requirements of other agencies ha.ving jurisdiction over discharge to the receiving waters. 16. Any water or waste that for a duration of fifteen minutes has a concentration greater than three times that which is specified for TSS and BOD under Section 911.14 and/or which is discharged continuously at a rate exceeding 200 gallons per minute will be unacceptable. (d) If any waters or wastes are discharged or are proposed to be discharged to the public sewers, which waters contain the substance or possess the characteristics enumerated in subsection (c) hereof, and which in the judgment of the Service Director ha.y have a deleterious effect upon the sewage works, processes, equipment or receiving waters, or which otherwise create a hazard to life or constitute a public nuisance, the Service Director may: