(A) The purpose of this chapter is to protect and promote the public health, safety and welfare by preventing the introduction of potentially harmful materials into the city storm drainage system; to protect property from potential stormwater damage; to maintain and enhance water quality; to meet the requirements of the city’s National Pollutant Discharge Elimination Permit; and to establish the administration and enforcement procedures through which the purposes can be fulfilled.
(B) The provisions of this chapter are supplemental to regulations administered by federal and state governments. The city’s stormwater management needs are met through programs designed to protect and manage water quality and water quantity before discharge to receiving streams.
(C) The City Council makes the following findings: Stormwater poses a serious threat to public health, safety and welfare. This threat cannot be eliminated entirely. Factors affecting this threat which are beyond the city’s control include: frequency and intensity of precipitation; the topography in and around the city; the types of soils and other geologic structures found in and around the city, body of law established under state and federal authority concerning water rights generally and including, but not limited to, navigable and non-navigable waters, surface waters, and underground waters; unauthorized interference with the city’s stormwater drainage system; and the amount of impervious surfaces associated with a reasonable level of development. The management of stormwater can reduce this threat through constructing, operating and maintaining facilities; and regulating and controlling the use and development of land to reduce the adverse effects of stormwater.
(Code 2019, § 23-1) (Res. 04142014, passed - -)