[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Cedarburg 1-2-1991
as Title 6, Ch. 2 of the 1991 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
A.
Cleanup required. All persons, firms, or corporations
delivering, hauling, disposing, storing, discharging or otherwise handling
potentially polluting substances, solid or liquid, such as, but not limited
to, the following, shall immediately clean up any such spilled material to
prevent its becoming a hazard to health or safety or directly or indirectly
causing pollution to the lakes and streams under the jurisdiction
of the Town: fuel oil, gasoline, solvents, industrial liquids or fluids, milk,
grease trap and septic tank wastes, sewage sludge, sanitary sewer wastes,
storm sewer catch basin wastes, oil or petroleum wastes.
B.
Notification. A spill or accidental release of hazardous
materials or pollutants at a site or of a quantity or nature that cannot adequately
be cleaned up by the responsible party or parties shall be immediately reported
to the Emergency Management Director so that assistance can be given by the
proper agency.
C.
Financial liability. The party or parties responsible
for the release, escape or discharge of wastes shall be held financially liable
for the cost of any cleanup or attempted cleanup deemed necessary or desirable
and undertaken by the Town, or its designated agent, in an effort to minimize
the polluting effects of the discharged waste.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to store any
potentially polluting substances unless such substances are stored in such
manner as to securely prevent them from escaping onto the ground surface and/or
into any street, sewer, ditch or drainageway, lake or stream within the jurisdiction
of the Town.
