The purpose of this chapter is to protect the health, safety and welfare of the city and its inhabitants by improving the city storm sewer system, managing and controlling stormwater runoff, protecting property, preventing polluted water from entering the city stormwater system and other receiving waters to the maximum extent practicable as required by federal and state law. The objectives of this chapter are to:
A. Provide and maintain an adequate municipal separate storm sewer system (MS4) for handling stormwater runoff.
B. Provide fair, equitable and nondiscriminatory rates for using the storm drainage system, which rates will generate sufficient revenues for operating, improving and maintaining the storm drainage utility adequately. Rates shall be applied consistently for like classes of customers.
C. Establish a policy that rates set will consider:
1. Intensity of development of land parcels;
2. Types of development on land parcels;
3. Cost of maintaining, operating, repairing and improving the system;
4. Quantity and quality of the runoff generated;
5. Public health, safety and welfare; and
6. Any other factors that should be considered.
D. Regulate the contribution of pollutants to the municipal separate storm sewer system (MS4) by stormwater discharges by any user.
E. Prohibit illicit connections and discharges to the MS4.
F. Guide, regulate and control the design, construction, use and maintenance of any development or other activity that results in the movement of earth on land within the city.
G. Minimize increases in nonpoint source pollution caused by stormwater runoff from development which would otherwise degrade local water quality.
H. Reduce stormwater runoff rates and volumes, soil erosion and nonpoint source pollution, wherever possible, through stormwater management controls and to ensure that these management controls are properly maintained and pose no threat to public safety.
I. Establish legal authority to carry out all inspection, surveillance and monitoring procedures necessary to ensure compliance with this chapter. (Ord. 2016-12, 8-16-2016)