Any owner or owners of any sawmill, reduction works, smelter,
milling, refining or concentration works, or other manufacturing
or industrial works, or any agent, servant or employee thereof,
or any person or persons whomsoever, who shall throw or deposit
in, or in any way permit to pass into any natural stream or lake
within the state, wherein are living fish, any sawdust,
chemicals, mill-tailing, or other refuse matter of deleterious
substance or poisons of any kind or character whatsoever, that
will or may tend to the destruction or driving away from such
waters any fish, or kill or destroy any fish therein, or that
will or may tend to pollute, contaminate, render impure or unfit
for domestic, irrigation, stock or other purposes for which
appropriated and used, the waters of any such nat
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Any owner or owners of any sawmill, reduction works, smelter,
milling, refining or concentration works, or other manufacturing
or industrial works, or any agent, servant or employee thereof,
or any person or persons whomsoever, who shall throw or deposit
in, or in any way permit to pass into any natural stream or lake
within the state, wherein are living fish, any sawdust,
chemicals, mill-tailing, or other refuse matter of deleterious
substance or poisons of any kind or character whatsoever, that
will or may tend to the destruction or driving away from such
waters any fish, or kill or destroy any fish therein, or that
will or may tend to pollute, contaminate, render impure or unfit
for domestic, irrigation, stock or other purposes for which
appropriated and used, the waters of any such natural streams or
lake, or that will or may tend to obstruct, fill in or otherwise
interfere with the flow, channel or condition of such streams,
lake or waters, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon
conviction thereof shall be fined not less than fifty dollars
($50.00) or more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) or shall be
imprisoned in the county jail for not less than thirty (30) days
nor more than six (6) months, or by both such fine and
imprisonment for each offense; and where any of the foregoing
unlawful acts are committed continuously, each of the days upon
which committed shall be treated and considered as a separate
and distinct offense; provided, that nothing in this section or
W.S. 23-3-204 shall apply to the slag from smelter furnaces;
provided further, that nothing in this section nor in any of the
other laws of this state shall prevent the owner or owners of
any mill, concentration works, reduction works or tailings pond
or basin used in connection therewith, in this state, now or
hereafter to be located upon any natural stream, or lake, from
operating said mill, concentration works, reduction works or
tailings pond or basin used in connection therewith, where the
said owner or owners thereof shall build or cause to be built a
dam or dams for settling purposes; provided however that before
any dam or dams shall be built for any such purposes, the
director of the state department of health, the director of the
state game and fish department and the state engineer, acting as
a joint committee and each member casting a vote of his
department, shall review such plans and according to their
findings shall approve or disapprove such plans for preventing
any deleterious substances from entering any waters beyond the
project area; provided, that whenever a majority of the
landowners on any irrigation stream shall petition the director
of the state game and fish department to allow sawdust to be put
in any stream that does not reach a main body of water or living
stream he shall have the power to grant such permits.
Division 2. Drinking Water Standards