HomeMy WebLinkAbout1998_3_18_Local_Law_No_5 LOCAL LAW NO. 5 - 1998
This Local Law shall be known as "Amendment to Section 173-10 of the Town of
Mamaroneck Environmental Facilities Sewer Act."
Section 1. Purpose
The purpose of this amendment is to prohibit the discharge of materials, substances and
waste as specified in Section 173.10 into storm sewers or storm drains.
Section 2. Amendment
Section 173.10 Prohibited materials, substances and wastes shall be amended to read as
follows:
"Except as hereinafter provided, no person shall discharge or cause to be discharged
into any town sanitary sewer system or public sewer tributary thereto, storm sewer or
storm drain or any private sewer connecting with a public sewer any of the following
materials, substances or wastes:
A. Any liquids, solids or gases which by reason of their nature or quantity
are or may be sufficient, either alone or by interaction with other
substances, to cause fire or explosion injurious in any other way to the
town sanitary sewer system, storm sewers or storm drain. At no time
shall two (2) successive readings on an explosion hazard meter, at the
point of discharge into the system (or at any point in the system) be more
than five percent (5%) nor any single reading over ten percent (10%) of
the lower explosive limit (LEL) of the meter. Prohibited materials
include but are not limited to gasoline, diesel, kerosene, naphtha,
benzene, toluene, xylene, ethers, alcohols, diesel, ketones, aldehydes,
peroxides, chlorates, perchlorates, bromates, carbides, hydrides, and
sulfides and any other substances which the town, county or the state or
the EPA has notified the user is a fire hazard or a hazard to the system.
B. Solid or viscous substances which may cause obstruction to the flow in a
sewer, storm sewer or storm drain, or other interference with the
operation of the town sanitary sewer system, such as but not limited to:
grease, garbage with particles greater than one-half (1/2) inch in any
dimension, animal guts or tissues, paunch manure, bones, hair, hides or
fleshings, entrails, whole blood, feathers, ashes, cinders, sand, spent
lime, stone or marble dust, metal, glass, straw, shavings, grass clippings,
rags, spent grains, spent hops, wastepaper. wood plastics, gas, tar
asphalt, residues, residues from refining or processing of fuel or
lubrication oil, mud or glass grinding, polishing wastes, ethelenyene
glucol or petroleum products.
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C. Any wastewater or waste material having a pH lower than five point five
(5.5) or having a pH higher than nine point five (9.5) or having any
other corrosive property capable of causing damage or hazard to structures,
equipment of the sewer system, storm sewer or storm drain or personnel
employed in its operation.
D. Any wastewater containing toxic pollutants or prohibited substances or
wastes, as defined herein, in sufficient quantity, either singly or by
interaction with other pollutants, to injure or interfere with any wastewater
treatment process, constitute a hazard to human or animals, create a toxic
effect in the receiving waters of the town sanitary sewer system or exceed
the limitation set forth in a categorical pretreatment standard.
E. Any noxious or malodorous liquids, gases or solids which, either singly or
by interaction with other wastes, are sufficient to create a public nuisance
or hazard to life or are sufficient to prevent entry into the sewers, storm
sewer or storm drain for maintenance and repair.
Section 3. Severability
Should any provision of this Local Law be declared illegal or unconstitutional by a
court of competent jurisdiction, to the extent that the other provisions of this Local Law
can be implemented without such illegal or unconstitutional provision, such other
provisions shall remain in effect.
Section 4. Effective Date
This Local Law shall take effect immediately.