[HISTORY: Adopted by the Common Council of the City of Manawa 10-18-1993
as Title 8, Ch. 2 of the 1989 Code of Ordinances. 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 city:
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 City Clerk-Treasurer 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 city or its designated agent in an effort to minimize
the pollutional 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 city.
