21-287 - Discharge into waters of matter causing pollution. - Virginia Statutes

§ 21-287. Discharge into waters of matter causing pollution.

No county, city, town or other public body, or person shall discharge, orsuffer to be discharged, directly or indirectly into any waters of thedistrict any sewage, industrial wastes or other refuse which may or willcause or contribute to pollution of any waters of the district, provided,that this provision shall be applicable only to such part or parts of thewaters of a district as shall be bounded and described in a notice, publishedin a newspaper or newspapers having, in the aggregate, general circulation inall of the counties and cities within which or bordering upon which such partor parts of the waters of the district are located, to the effect that thecommission has provided facilities reasonably sufficient in its opinion forthe disposal of sewage, which by discharge from public sewer systems mightcause or contribute to pollution of the bounded and described part or partsof such waters, and that pollution of the same is forbidden by law. Such anotice shall constitute prima facie evidence of the existence of facilitiessufficient for the disposal of such sewage. The provisions of this sectionshall not prohibit the disposal of sewage and industrial wastes in the mannerin which the same is now being disposed of, or in any other reasonablemanner, by any county, city or town, no part of which constitutes a part ofany district, or by any person in any such county, city or town, no part ofwhich constitutes a part of any district.

(1946, p. 363; Michie Suppl. 1946, § 1560iii22.)