penalties and/or sanctions for acts in violation of the provision of this code, such as, but not limited to, the following:
a. No person shall operate and maintain any collection system, sewage disposal system, treatment facility or wastewater treatment facility unless the same is provided with adequate and effective treatment and covered by a current and valid discharge permit issued by EMB per (RA 9275).
b. No industrial or domestic sewage shall discharge into drinking water source as defined under DENR Administrative Order No. 34, Series of 1990.
c. In order to avoid deterioration of the quality of a receiving water body (RWB), no industrial plant with high waste load potential shall discharge into a body of water where the dilution or assimilative capacity of said water body during dry weather conditions is insufficient to maintain its prescribed water quality according to its usage and classification.
d. No person shall discharge, wholly or partially, untreated or inadequately treated industrial effluents directly into bodies of water or through the use of bypass canals and/or pumps and other unauthorized means.
e. No industrial or manufacturing plant shall be operated without control facilities of wastewater treatment system in good order or in proper operation.
f. No industrial or manufacturing plant or source of pollution shall be operated at capacities beyond the limits of operation or capability of wastewater treatment facility in order to maintain the effluent quality within the standards or pertinent conditions required by law and/or as stipulated in the permit to operate.
g. No person shall build, erect, install or use any equipment, contrivance or any means the use of which will conceal and/or dilute an effluent discharge and which otherwise constitute a violation of the provisions of this Code.
h. The construction of houses and other physical structures within the banks of river and waterway, natural or man-made and banks of irrigation canals shall be governed by existing laws.
i. No private person or entity except those authorized by law shall develop a stream, lake, marshland or pond for recreational or commercial purposes without first securing a permit from the National Water Resources Board and the local government chief executive, in addition to an Environmental Compliance Certificate issued by the DENR.
j. No person shall raise or lower or cause the raising or lowering of the water level of a stream, river, lake, marsh or pond, nor drain the same without the necessary government clearances and/or permits.
k. Impounding of water in large amounts such as to prejudice downstream or upstream users shall be prohibited unless otherwise social acceptability requirements are satisfied.
l. No person shall drill a well without a permit from the National Water Resources Board in coordination with the local government units, and the Mayor in the case of subterranean waters, provided, that in no case shall groundwater be extracted if this will result to the deterioration of critically important surface waters.
m. The construction or setting up of any structure, temporary or otherwise, that would destroy the scenic value as per determination by Department of Tourism (DOT) and or Local Tourism Office of natural waterways or result to the disruption of water flows shall be prohibited unless a water permit is secured.
n. Dumping of tailings and sediments from mining and quarrying operations, as well as farm water carrying pesticide residues, is hereby banned and therefore prohibited.
