(A) Purpose.
(1) This section is to regulate the water discharge from heating and/or cooling systems into stormwater drainage systems.
(2) This section prohibits persons who utilize heating and cooling with water discharges from releasing the water into certain stormwater drainage systems.
(3) Most stormwater drainage systems are not designed to accommodate the additional water generated by discharge from certain types of heating
and cooling systems.
(B) Definitions. For the purpose of this section, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
HEATING AND/OR COOLING SYSTEM. A heat transfer system which either extracts or expends heat from, or to, a water supply for purposes of heating or cooling a structure.
PERSON. Any individual, partnership, co-partnership, firm, company, corporation, association, trust, estate, or his or her legal representative, or an agent.
STORMWATER DRAINAGE SYSTEM. All ditches, channels, conduits, curbs, gutters, subsurface drains, tile drains, retention-detention systems, swales, sewers, and other natural or artificial means of draining stormwater from land.
WATER DISCHARGE. The water that is released from a heating and/or cooling system after heat is either extracted or expended.
(C) Prohibited discharge. No person shall cause or permit a water discharge into a stormwater drainage system from a heating or cooling system, except as permitted by division (D), and subject to the conditions therein.
(D) Permitted discharge.
(1) Water discharge from a heating and/or cooling system is permitted to an intermittent stream or creek designated as such on the United States Department of Interior Geological Survey Maps, a lake, a pond, or a well.
(2) Other natural ravines and waterways may be used as an outlet to discharge water from heating and/or cooling systems, provided they are approved for such discharge by the County Engineer, which said approval will not be unreasonably withheld.
(3) Open legal drains may be used for heating and/or cooling discharge, provided the discharge is approved by the County Drainage Board.
(E) Enforcement.
(1) The principal enforcement of this section shall be the duty of the County Engineer. Any person found in violation of this section may receive a written notice of the violation from the County Engineer.
(2) Such written notice will give the violator 20 days to correct the violation. If the violation is not corrected, the County Engineer will notify the County Attorney who will institute a suit for injunction in a court of competent jurisdiction.
(3) Any person or persons, jointly or severally, aggrieved may institute a suit for injunction in a county court of competent jurisdiction to restrain a person, or persons, from violating the provisions of this section.
(Ord. 13 1982, passed 10-12-1982)