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<br /> (3) By a service connection to a treatment
<br /> plant with a valid NPDES permit where such
<br /> connection is approved by the City Adminis-
<br /> trator or his designated agent.
<br /> B. Service Connection Permit Required. No person other
<br /> than city personnel or other persons authorized by the City shall
<br /> undertake maintenance and repair work on, uncover, open into, make
<br /> service connections with, use, alter or disturb any portion of the
<br /> City's POTW or manhole covers without first obtaining a City Service
<br /> Connection Permit. All service connections shall be at the
<br /> permittee's expense, shall comply with all applicable provisions of
<br /> this ordinance and all applicable City standards and specifications
<br /> and provisions of the Municipal Code as may be adopted from time to
<br /> time, and shall be subject to all applicable fees and charges as may
<br /> be established by the City.
<br /> C. Outhouses Prohibited. No person shall erect or
<br /> maintain any outhouse or privy within the City; except that chemical
<br /> toilets shall be permitted at construction sites.
<br /> D. Wastewater or Septic Tank Haulers. Commercial
<br /> wastewater or septic tank-nauler~snarr not discharge any wastewater
<br /> into the POTW, without prior approval of the City Administrator;
<br /> recreational vehicles with a holding tank capacity of less than fifty
<br /> gallons may discharge into the POTW through designated discharge
<br /> points.
<br /> E. Discharge of Sewage. All sewage shall be discharged to
<br /> sanitary sewers through authorized connections. No person shall
<br /> discharge any sewage from any premises within the City into or upon
<br /> any stream, water course, drainage channel, ditch, pond, lake, lagoon
<br /> or public property or into any drain, cesspool, or storm sewer.
<br /> F. Storm Water. No person shall make a connection which
<br /> would allow any storm water to discharge into any sanitary sewer.
<br /> 13.32.040 General Discharge Prohibitions
<br /> No user shall contribute or cause to be contributed,
<br /> directly or indirectly, any pollutant or wastewater which will
<br /> interfere with the operation or performance of the POTW. These
<br /> general prohibitions apply to all such Users of a POTW whether or not
<br /> the User is subject to National Categorical Pretreatment Standards or
<br /> any other National, State, or Local Pretreatment Standards or
<br /> Requirements. A User may not contribute the following substances to
<br /> any POTW:
<br /> (a) Any liquids, solids or gases which by reason of their
<br /> nature or quantity are, or may be, sufficient either alone or by
<br /> interaction with other substances to cause fire or explosion or be
<br /> injurious in any other way to the POTW or to the operation of the
<br /> POTW. At no time shall two successive readings on an explosion
<br /> hazard meter, at the point of discharge into the system, or at any
<br /> point in the system, be more than five percent (5%) nor any single
<br /> reading over ten percent (lOOt) of the Lower Explosive Limit (LEL) of
<br /> the meter. Prohibited materials include, but are not limited to,
<br /> gasoline, kerosene, fuel oil, mineral oil, naphtha, benzene, toluene,
<br /> xylene, ethers, alcohols, ketones, aldehydes, peroxides, chlorates,
<br /> perchlorates, bromates, carbides, hydrides and sulfides and any other
<br /> substances which the City, the State or the EPA has notified the User
<br /> is a fire hazard or a hazard to the POTW.
<br /> (b) Solid or viscous substances which may cause
<br /> obstruction to the flow in a sewer or other interference with the
<br /> operation of the wastewater treatment facilities such as, but not
<br /> limited to: grease, garbage with particles greater than one-half
<br /> inch (1/2") in any dimension, paunch manure, bones, hair, hooves,
<br /> hides or fleshings, whole blood, feathers, ashes, cinders, sand,
<br /> stone or marble dust, metal, glass, straw, shavings, grass clippings,
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