(A) It is unlawful for any owner, operator, or person to connect any pipe, open channel, or any other conveyance system that discharges anything, except stormwater or other approved discharges into the city’s stormwater system or facility, or waters of the State.
(B) It is unlawful for any owner, operator, or person to continue the operation of any illicit connection regardless of whether the connection was permissible when constructed. Improper connections in violation of this subchapter must be disconnected and redirected, if necessary, to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Works in compliance with federal, state, or local agencies or departments regulating the discharge.
(C) It is unlawful for any owner, operator, or person to throw, drain, or otherwise discharge to any existing stormwater system, the waters of the State or to cause, permit, or allow a discharge that is composed of anything except stormwater or other discharges authorized by the Director of Public Works.
(D) The Director of Public Works will develop procedures for detecting, tracking, and eliminating illicit discharges and improper disposals to the stormwater system.
(E) After a reasonable determination is made by the Director of Public Works that the discharge is not a significant source of pollution, the Director of Public Works may require controls for or exempt from the prohibition provisions in divisions (A), (B), and (C) above the following:
(1) Unpolluted industrial cooling water, but only under the authorization and direction of the Director of Public Works and if appropriate industrial NPDES permit is in place.
(2) Water line flushing, diverted stream flows, rising ground waters, and uncontaminated pumped ground waters, and uncontaminated ground water infiltration.
(3) Discharges from potable water sources, foundation drains, air conditioning condensation, landscape irrigation, springs, water from crawl space pumps, footing drains, lawn watering, individual car washing, dechlorinated swimming pool discharges, flows from riparian habitats and wetlands, and street wash water.
(4) Discharges or flows from firefighting.
(F) The Director of Public Works may develop procedures for allowing other non-stormwater discharges.
(Ord. 23-07, passed 9-25-07) Penalty, see § 53.99