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(a) Whenever building footing drains are required or utilized, a direct connection between the footing drains through a sump pump-check valve system to a storm sewer is required. A gravity system is not permitted.
(b) A storm water lateral shall be provided for each parcel at the time of storm sewer construction.
(Ord. 07-2002-10. Passed 7-2-02.)
PROHIBITIONS AND EXEMPTIONS
(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.)
The following non-storm water discharges shall be permissible, provided that they do not result in a violation of State of Michigan water quality standards:
(a) Water supply line flushing;
(b) Landscape irrigation;
(c) Diverted stream flows;
(d) Rising ground water;
(e) Uncontaminated ground water infiltration to storm drains;
(f) Uncontaminated pumped ground water;
(g) Discharges from potable water sources;
(h) Foundation drains;
(i) Air conditioning condensate;
(j) Individual residential car washing;
(k) Dechlorinated swimming pool water;
(l) Street wastewater;
(m) Discharges or flows from emergency fire fighting activities; or
(n) Discharges for which a specific Federal or State permit has been issued.
(Ord. 07-2002-10. Passed 7-2-02.)
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to stop, fill, dam, confine, pave, alter the course of, or otherwise interfere with any natural or constructed drain, or drainageway without first submitting a drainage plan to the City and receiving approval of that plan. Any deviation from the approved plan is a violation of this chapter. This section shall not prohibit, however, necessary emergency action so as to prevent or mitigate drainage that would be injurious to the environment, the public health, safety, or welfare.
(b) No filling, blocking, fencing or above-surface vegetation planting shall take place within a floodway.
(c) For an overland flow way:
(1) Silt screen fences shall not be permitted below the top of the bank of a water body.
(2) Chain link fences shall be permitted if the City determines that the fence will not obstruct or divert the flow of water.
(3) If a fence is removed by the City for drain access or drain, maintenance, the fence shall be replaced by the owner of the fence at the owner's expense.
(4) No shrubs or trees shall be planted below the top of the bank of a water body.
(d) Shrubs, trees or other above-ground vegetation shall not be planted over the top of an underground storm sewer or over the top of the easement within which the storm sewer has been installed.
(Ord. 07-2002-10. Passed 7-2-02.)
Except as permitted by law, it shall be unlawful for any person to store or stockpile within a drainageway any hazardous or toxic materials unless adequate protection and/or containment has been provided so as to prevent any such materials from entering a drainageway.
(Ord. 07-2002-10. Passed 7-2-02.)
INSPECTION, MONITORING, REPORTING AND RECORD KEEPING
To assure compliance with the standards in this pervasively regulated area, the City may inspect and/or obtain storm water samples from storm water runoff facilities of any discharger to determine compliance with the requirements of this chapter. Upon request, the discharger shall allow the City's properly identified representative to enter upon the premises of the discharger at all hours necessary for the purposes of such inspection or sampling. The City shall provide the discharger reasonable advance notice of such inspection and/or sampling. The City or its properly identified representative may place on the discharger's property the equipment or devices used for such sampling or inspection.
(Ord. 07-2002-10. Passed 7-2-02.)
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