67-87 ORDINANCE NO. 67-87
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DELRAY
BEACH, FLORIDA, AMENDING CHAPTER 29, "WATER AND
SEWERS", OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF
DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA, BY AMENDING ARTICLE III, "SEWERS
AND SEWAGE DISPOSAL", DIVISION 3, "INDUSTRIAL AND
COMMERCIAL WASTE", SECTION 29-86, "CRITERIA FOR WASTES
DISCHARGED TO PUBLIC SEWERS", PARAGRAPHS (c)(2) AND (?),
TO CHANGE THE LIMITS FOR ANY WASTE CONTAINING TOXIC
SUBSTANCES TO MEET WITH THE STANDARDS SET FORTH BY
THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; PROVIDING A
SAVING CLAUSE; PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA, AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. That Chapter 29, "Water and Sewers", Article. III, "Sewers and
Sewage Disposal", Division 3, "Industrial and Commercial Waste", Section 29-86,
"Criteria for wastes discharged to public sewers", of the Code of Ordinances of the
City of Delray Beach, Florida, be, and the same is hereby, amended by amending
paragraph (c)(2) to read as follows:
(2) Any waters or wastes contalninK toxic or poisonous solids, liquids or gases in
sufficient quantity, either singly or by interaction with other wastes, to
injure or interfere with any wastewater treatment process, constitute a hazard
to humans or animals, create a public nuisance, or create any hazard in the
receiving waters of the wastewater treatment plant
Section 2. That Chapter 29, "Water and Sewers", Article III, "Sewers and
Sewage Disposal", Division 3, "Industrial and Commercial Waste", Section 29-86,
"Criteria for wastes discharged to public sewers", of the Code of Ordinances of the
City of Delray Beach, Florida, be, and the same is hereby, amended by amending
paragraph (7) to read as follows:
(?) Any waste containing toxic substances in quantifies in excess of the following
limits and measured at the point of discharge into the sewer system:
Aluminum 15 mg/l
Anitmony 2 rog/1
Arsenic 0.5 mg/l
B eryllium 11 m g/1
Cadmium 0. ! rog/1
Chromium iotal 34~ 48976--m1~'4 2.0 m~/l
Chromium (+6) ~?~94~--m~-1 1.0 m~/1
Copper 0.833333 rog/1
Cyanide 0. 113636 mg/l
Fluorides 50 mg/l
Irons 3 rog/1
Lead ~6~90--ml/+I 0.5 m~/1
Mercury 0.002040 rog/1
Nickel ~4~9588--m~ 0.6 m~/1
Phenolic Comp 0.01 m~/1
Selenium 0.25 rog/1
Silver 0.0005 rog/1
Zinc 4~=66666--mg+1 4.5 rog/1
or any substance that will pass through the waste treatment facilities and
exceed the state and federal requirements for receiving waters.
Section ~. That should any section or provision of this ordinance or any
portion thereof, any paragraph, sentence, or word be declared by a court of competent
jurisdiction to be invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remainder
hereof as a whole or part thereof other than the part declared to be invalid.
Section 4. That this ordinance shall become effective ten (10) days after its
passage on second and final reading.
PASSED AND ADOPTED in regular session on second and final reading on this
the 8th day of September , 1987.
MAYOR
ATTEST:
First Reading August 25r 1987
Second Reading Se_Dtember 8. 1987
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