(a) Establishment of an Illicit Discharge and Illegal Connection Monitoring Program. The City Engineer in conjunction with the Service Director will establish a program to detect and eliminate illicit discharges and illegal connections to the MS4. This program will include the mapping of the MS4, including MS4 outfalls and home sewage treatment systems; the routine 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 Residential, Commercial, Industrial, or Institutional Facilities.
(1) The City of North Royalton shall be permitted to enter and inspect facilities after obtaining consent from the property owner or authorized tenant, subject to this regulation as often as may be necessary to determine compliance with this regulation. Chapter 1046 shall govern the City's authority to enforce and inspect unless expressly stated otherwise herein.
(2) The City of North Royalton shall have the right to set up at facilities subject to this regulation such devices as are necessary to conduct monitoring and/or sampling of the facility's storm water discharge, as determined by the City of North Royalton.
(3) The City of North Royalton 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 safe and proper operating condition by the facility owner/operator at the owner/operators expense. All devices used to measure storm water flow and quality shall be calibrated by the City of North Royalton 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 of North Royalton and shall not be replaced. The costs of clearing such access shall be borne by the facility owner/operator.
(5) Unreasonable delays in allowing the City of North Royalton access to a facility subject to this regulation for the purposes of illicit discharge inspection is a violation of this regulation.
(6) Any costs associated with these inspections shall be assessed to the facility owner/operator.
(Ord. 09-119. Passed 11-17-09.)