(a) The City shall establish a program to detect and eliminate illicit discharges and illegal connections to the MS4. This program shall include the mapping of the MS4, including MS4 outfalls and home sewage treatment systems; inspection of storm water outfalls to the MS4, and the systematic investigation of potential residential, commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities for the sources of any dry weather flows found as the result of these inspections.
(b) Inspection of Construction Sites, Residential, Commercial, Industrial, or Institutional Facilities:
(1) The City shall be permitted to enter and inspect facilities subject to this chapter as often as may be necessary to determine compliance with this chapter. If a discharger has security measures in force which require proper identification and clearance before entry into its premises, the owner / operator shall make the necessary arrangements to allow access to the City of Loveland's representatives and assigns.
(2) The City shall have the right to set up at facilities subject to this chapter such devices as are necessary to conduct monitoring and / or sampling of the facility's storm water discharge, as determined by the City.
(3) The City shall have the right to require the facility owner / operator to install monitoring equipment as necessary. This sampling and monitoring equipment shall be maintained at all times in a safe and proper operating condition by the facility owner / operator at the owner / operator's expense. All devices used to measure storm water flow and quality shall be calibrated by the City of Loveland or a contracted third party to ensure their accuracy.
(4) Any temporary or permanent obstruction to safe and reasonable access to the facility to be inspected and / or sampled shall be promptly removed by the facility's owner / operator at the written or oral request of the City and shall not be replaced. The costs of clearing such access shall be borne by the facility owner / operator.
(5) Facility owners / operators shall allow the City of Loveland ready access without unreasonable delays to all parts of the premises for the purposes of illicit discharge inspection, sampling, examination and copying of records that must be kept under the conditions of an NPDES permit to discharge storm water, and the performance of any additional duties as defined by state and federal law.
(6) If an employee or agent of the City of Loveland is refused access to any part of the facility from which storm water is discharged, and the City of Loveland demonstrates probable cause to believe that there may be a violation of this chapter, or that there is a need to inspect and / or sample as part of an inspection and sampling program designed to verify compliance with this chapter or any order issued hereunder, or to protect the public health, safety, and welfare, the City may seek issuance of a search warrant, civil remedies including but not limited to injunctive relief, and / or criminal remedies from any court of appropriate jurisdiction.
(7) Any costs associated with these inspections shall be assessed to the facility owner / operator.
(Ord. 2012-14. Passed 2-28-12.)