The sewer system and treatment plant within your City represents a multi-million dollar investment. Routine maintenance and cleaning is conducted daily in an effort to keep the lines cleared of obstruction and maintain a steady flow from your residence to the treatment plant.

At the plant, routine maintenance of equipment is a daily procedure. It is important that each of us do our part to maintain our system and keep it running smoothly. NEVER FLUSH, DRAIN, OR PUT IN MANHOLES:

• Excessive cooking grease and oil, and large food particles
  
  
• Nail polish, floor care products, furniture polish, shoe polish
  
  
• Paint, paint brush cleaner or thinner, turpentine, varnish, glue
  
  
• Fertilizer, fungicide, herbicide, insecticide, rat poison, weed killer
  
  
• Auto body repair products such as transmission fluid, antifreeze, brake fluid, battery acid, car wax, fuel, metal polish, motor oil paint
  
  
• Ammunition, dry cleaning solvents, fiberglass epoxy, gun cleaning solvents, lighter fluid, mercury batteries, moth balls, swimming pool acid
  
  
• Explosive liquids, solids or gasses such as gasoline, kerosene, ethers, alcohols, carbides, hydrides, sulfides, and other similar materials
  
  
• Substances which may cause obstruction to flow such as excessive grease, garbage particles, animal guts or tissues, bones, hair, hides or fleshing, sand, metal, glass, grass clippings, wood plastics, and other similar materials
  
  
• Toxic pollutants
  
  
• Noxious or malodorous liquids, gases, or solids
  
  
• Water with objectionable color not removed in the treatment process such as dye wastes and vegetable tanning solutions
  
  
• Radioactive wastes or isotopes of such half-life as may exceed limits
  
  
• Petroleum oil, non-biodegradable cutting oils, or products of mineral oil origin
  
  
• Hauled or trucked water or wastewater