§ 20-87. Specific prohibitions.

(a)

The specific prohibitions and requirements in this section are not inclusive of all discharges prohibited by the general prohibitions in section 20-85.

(b)

No person shall release or allow to be released any of the following substances directly into the MS4 or in or upon any street, alley, parking lot, sidewalk, curb, gutter, storm drains, catch basin, conduit, or other drainage structure:

(1)

Any refuse, pet waste, rubbish, garbage, yard waste, or other discarded or abandoned objects;

(2)

Any used motor oil, antifreeze or any other petroleum product or waste;

(3)

Any industrial waste;

(4)

Any hazardous waste, including household hazardous waste;

(5)

Any wastewater that contains soap, degreaser, solvent or surfactant based cleaner from commercial vehicle wash facility; from any vehicle washing, cleaning, or maintenance at any new or used vehicle dealership, rental agency, body shop, repair shop, or maintenance facility; or from any washing, cleaning, or maintenance of any business or commercial or public service vehicle, including a truck, bus, or heavy equipment;

(6)

Any wastewater from the washing, cleaning, de-icing, of other maintenance of aircraft;

(7)

Any wastewater from commercial mobile power washer or from the washing or other cleaning of a building exterior that contains harmful soap, detergent, degreaser, solvent or any surfactant based cleaner;

(8)

Any wastewater from commercial floor, rug, or carpet cleaning;

(9)

Any wastewater from the wash down or other cleaning of pavement that contains any soap, detergent, solvent, degreaser, emulsifier, dispersant, or other cleaning substance; or any wastewater from the wash down or other cleaning of any pavement where any spill, leak, or other release of oil, motor fuel, or other petroleum ort hazardous substance has occurred, unless all such materials have been previously removed;

(10)

Any effluent from cooling tower, condenser, compressor, emissions scrubber, emission filter or the blow down from a boiler;

(11)

Any ready mix concrete, mortar, ceramic, or asphalt base material or discharge resulting from the cleaning of vehicles or equipment containing or used in transporting or applying such material;

(12)

Any runoff, wash down water or waste from any animal pen, kennel, fowl or livestock containment area or any pet wastes generally;

(13)

Any discharge from water line disinfection by super chlorination if it contains a harmful level of chlorine at the point of entry into the MS4 or surface waters;

(14)

Any contaminated runoff from a vehicle wrecking yard;

(15)

Any substance or material that will damage, block, or clog the MS4;

(16)

Any release from petroleum storage tank (PST), or any leachate or runoff from soil contaminated by leaking PST; or any discharged or pumped, confined, or treated wastewater from the remediation of any such PST release, unless the discharge has received an LPDES permit from the state;

(17)

Any domestic sewage or septic tank waste, grease trap waste, or grit trap waste;

(18)

Any water from a water curtain in a spray room used for painting vehicles or equipment;

(19)

Any harmful quantity of sediment, silt, earth, soil, or other material associated with clearing, grading, excavation or other construction activities in excess of what could be retained on site or captured by employing sediment and erosion control measures to the maximum extent practicable under prevailing circumstances;

(20)

Any waste cooking oil or food waste;

(21)

Any other discharge that causes or contributes to causing the parish to violate a state water quality standard, the parish's LPDES water discharge permit or any state issued discharge permit for discharges from its MS4.

(c)

Regulation of pesticides and fertilizers.

(1)

No person shall use or cause to be used any pesticide or fertilizer, in any manner that the person knows, or reasonably should know, is likely to cause, does cause, a harmful quantity of the pesticide or fertilizer to enter the MS4 or waters of the United States.

(2)

No person shall dispose of, discard, store, or transport a pesticide or fertilizer, or its container, in a manner that the person knows, or reasonably should know, is likely to cause, does cause, a harmful quantity of the pesticide or fertilizer to enter the MS4 or waters of the United States.

(Ord. No. 992, § 7, 1-5-2010)