(a) No person shall discharge to a water body, directly or indirectly, any substance other than storm water or an exempted discharge. Any person discharging storm water shall effectively prevent pollutants from being discharged with the storm water, except in accordance with best management practices.
(b) The City is authorized to require dischargers to implement pollution prevention misuses, utilizing BMPs, necessary to prevent or reduce the discharge of pollutants into the City's storm water drainage system.
(c) Illicit Discharges. No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged into the Municipal storm drain system or watercourses any materials, including, but not limited to, pollutants or waters containing any pollutants that cause or contribute to a violation of applicable water quality standards, other than storm water. The commencement, conduct, or continuance of any illegal discharge to the storm drain system is prohibited except as described as follows:
(1) Discharges specified in writing by the authorized enforcement agency as being necessary to protect public health and safety.
(2) The prohibition shall not apply to any non-storm water discharge permitted under an NPDES permit, waiver, or waste discharge order issued to the discharger and administered under the authority of the Federal Environmental Protection Agency, provided that the discharger is in full compliance with all requirements of the permit, waiver, or order and other applicable laws and regulations, and provided that written approval has been granted for any discharge to the storm drain system.
(d) Illicit Connections.
(1) The construction, use, maintenance or continued existence of illicit connections to the storm drain system is prohibited.
(2) This prohibition expressly includes, without limitation, illicit connections made in the past, regardless of whether the connection was permissible under law or practices applicable or prevailing at the time of connection.
(3) A person is considered to be in violation of this section if the person connects a line conveying wastewater to the MS4, or allows such a connection to continue.
(Ord. 07-2002-10. Passed 7-2-02; Ord. 07-2002-12. Passed 8-12-02.)