(a) (1) The City Council finds, determines and declares that the storm water system, which provides for the collection, treatment, storage, and disposal of storm water provides benefits and services to all property or parcels within the city limits. Such benefits include, but are not limited to: the provision of adequate systems of collection, conveyance, detention, treatment and release of storm water; the reduction of hazards to property and life resulting from storm water runoff; improvements in general health and welfare through reduction of undesirable storm water conditions; and improvements to the water quality in the storm water, surface water and subsurface water system and its receiving waters.
(2) The purpose of this chapter is to protect and provide for the health, safety, and general welfare of the citizens of the City through the regulation of non-storm water discharges and storm water runoff to the MS4 to the maximum extent practicable as required by Federal and State law. This chapter establishes methods for controlling the introduction of pollutants into the MS4 in order to comply with requirements of the NPDES permit process and protect the Black River watershed.
(b) The objectives of this chapter are:
(1) To protect stream channels from degradation;
(2) To regulate the contribution of pollutants to the MS4 by storm water discharges by any user;
(3) To prohibit illicit connections and discharges to the MS4;
(4) To establish legal authority to ensure compliance with this chapter;
(5) To control the release of materials and debris from construction sites and construction access routes from entering the MS4 and Waters of the State;
(6) To secure future access to flood control and storm water facilities;
(7) To assure that property owners control runoff volume and rate or eliminate soil erosion and sedimentation;
(8) To establish standards and specifications for conservation practices and planning activities that minimize soil erosion and sedimentation;
(9) To minimize increases in storm water runoff and non-point source pollution from development;
(10) To minimize the total annual volume of surface water runoff which flows from any specific site during and following development to not exceed the pre-development hydrologic regime to the maximum extent practicable;
(11) To reduce storm water runoff rates and volumes, soil erosion and non- point source pollution through storm water management controls and to ensure that these management controls are properly maintained and pose no threat to public safety;
(12) To manage surface water and subsurface water system and its receiving waters.
(Ord. 2008-18. Passed 2-19-08; Ord. 2014-71. Passed 8-4-14.)