The purpose of this chapter is to promote health, safety, and welfare within the Municipality and its watershed by minimizing the harms and maximizing the benefits described in Section 1044.02, through provisions designed to:
(a) Manage stormwater runoff impacts at their source by regulating activities that cause the problems.
(b) Provide review procedures and performance standards for stormwater planning and management.
(c) Utilize and preserve the existing natural drainage systems as much as possible.
(d) Manage stormwater impacts close to the runoff source, which requires a minimum of structures and relies on natural processes.
(e) Focus on infiltration of stormwater, to maintain groundwater recharge, to prevent degradation of surface and groundwater quality and to otherwise protect water resources.
(f) Maintain existing flows and quality of streams and watercourses.
(g) Meet legal water quality requirements under State law, including regulations at 25 Pa. Code Chapter 93.4a to protect and maintain "existing uses" and maintain the level of water quality to support those uses in all streams, and to protect and maintain water quality in "special protection" streams.
(h) Prevent scour and erosion of streambanks and streambeds.
(i) Provide for proper operations and maintenance of all permanent stormwater management BMPs that are implemented in the Municipality.
(j) Provide a mechanism to identify controls necessary to meet the NPDES permit requirements.
(k) Implement an illegal discharge detection and elimination program to address non-stormwater discharges into the Municipality's separate storm sewer system.
(Ord. 2004-03A. Passed 7-19-04.)