(a) Comprehensive Storm Water Management Plan: The Post-Construction Water Quality Plan developed to meet this regulation will be coordinated and combined with the Riparian and Wetland Setback Plan and the Construction Site Conservation Plan that are developed for the same site. These plans will be titled and numbered in one consecutive sequence to make a Comprehensive Storm Water Management Plan for the site. The Comprehensive Storm Water Management Plan so developed will serve as the Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan (SWP3) required by Ohio EPA as part of the NPDES Storm Water Permit for General Construction.
(b) Purpose: The purpose and intent of this chapter are to:
(1) Allow development while reducing damage to receiving water resources and drainage systems that may be caused by new development or redevelopment activities.
(2) Protect and maintain the receiving stream's physical, chemical, biological characteristics and stream functions.
(3) Provide perpetual management of storm water runoff quality and quantity.
(4) Establish consistent technically feasible and operationally practical standards to achieve a level of storm water quantity and quality control that will minimize damage to public and private property and degradation of water resources, and will promote and maintain the health, safety, and welfare of the residents of the City of Berea.
(5) Control storm water runoff resulting from soil disturbing activities.
(6) Preserve, to the maximum extent practicable (MEP), the natural drainage characteristics of the building site.
(7) Preserve, to the maximum extent practicable (MEP), natural infiltration and groundwater recharge, and maintain subsurface flow that replenishes water resources, wetlands, and wells.
(8) Assure that storm water quality controls are incorporated into site planning and design at the earliest possible stage.
(9) Reduce the need for costly treatment and mitigation for the damage to and loss of water resources that are the result of inadequate storm water quality control.
(10) Reduce the long-term expense of remedial projects needed to address problems caused by inadequate storm water quality control.
(11) Require the incorporation of water quality protection that encourages and promotes habitat preservation into the construction of storm water management practices.
(12) Ensure that all storm water quality practices are properly designed, constructed, and maintained.
(c) Scope: This chapter applies to development areas having new or relocated projects involving highways, underground cables, pipelines, subdivisions, industrial projects, commercial projects, building activities on farms, redevelopment of urban areas and all other land uses not specifically exempted. This chapter does not apply to:
(1) Land-disturbing activities related to producing agricultural crops or Silviculture operations regulated by the Ohio Agricultural Sediment Pollution Abatement Rules (1501: 15-3-01 to 1501: 15-3-09 of the Ohio Administrative Code) and existing at the time of passage of this regulation.
(2) Strip mining operations regulated by Chapter 1513 of the Ohio Revised Code and existing at the time of passage of this regulation.
(3) Surface mining operations regulated by Chapter 1514 of the Ohio Revised Code and existing at the time of passage of this regulation.
(4) Construction activities that do not include the installation of any impervious surface (e.g. soccer fields), abandoned mine reclamation activities regulated by ODNR, stream and wetland restoration activities and wetland mitigation activities.
(5) Linear construction projects, (e.g., pipeline or utility line installation), which do not result in the installation of impervious surface and are independent of other construction projects (not part of a larger common plan of development or sale). However, linear construction projects must be designed to minimize the number of stream crossings and the width of disturbance.
(6) Transportation projects that are subject to industry specific Ohio EPA Rules are exempt from these rules.
(7) It is not the role of the City of Berea to point out each and every part of the rules and how to implement them on the individual job sites. It is the project owner's responsibility to be proactive in meeting the intent, purpose and requirements of these regulations.
(Ord. 2011-4. Passed 1-3-11.)