(A) Citizen reports of violations.
(1) All citizens are encouraged to report to the Town Administrator or his or her delegate any spills, releases, illicit connections, other instances of anyone discharging pollutants into the MS4 or waters of the United States and any other violation of this chapter of which they become aware.
(2) The Town Administrator will designate an individual or office within his or her division, department, and the like to receive all such citizen reports by telephone, in writing and in person. A written record of each citizen report will be prepared and kept on file for a period of three years, and a copy of the city's record of the report will be furnished to the reporting citizen upon request. Also upon request, the Town Administrator will inform the reporting citizen of any action undertaken by the city in response to the citizen's report.
(B) Publication of dischargers in significant noncompliance.
(1) The Town Administrator may periodically publish in a daily newspaper generally distributed within the city, a list of owners and operators of discharges to the MS4 or waters of the United States from sites of construction and industrial activity which, during the previous 12 months, were in significant noncompliance with the requirements of this chapter.
(2) The term SIGNIFICANT NONCOMPLIANCE
shall mean:
(a) Introducing or causing to be introduced into the waters of the United States any discharge that violates a water quality standard;
(b) Introducing or causing to be introduced into the MS4 any discharge that causes or contributes to causing the city to violate a water quality standard, the city's NPDES permit or any state-issued discharge permit for discharges from the city's MS4;
(c) Any connection of a line conveying sanitary sewage, domestic or industrial, to the MS4, or allowing any such connection to continue;
(d) Any discharge of pollutants to the MS4 or waters of the United States that has caused an imminent or substantial endangerment to the health or welfare of persons or to the environment or has resulted in the (city engineer's) exercise of his or her emergency authority to halt or prevent such a discharge;
(e) Any violation that has resulted in injunctive relief, civil penalties or criminal fine being imposed as a judicial remedy under § 54.11 of this chapter;
(f) Any other violation(s) which the Town Administrator determines to be chronic or especially dangerous to the public or to the environment; or
(g) Any failure to comply with a compliance schedule whether imposed by the city or by a court.
(Ord. 365, passed 12-12-2013)