(a) Prohibition of Illegal Discharges. No person shall or allow others under their control to throw, drain, discharge, cause to be discharged, into the municipal separate storm sewer system or watercourse any materials other than stormwater, including but not limited to pollutants or waters containing pollutants.
(b) Exemptions. The following non-stormwater discharges or flows are excluded from Section 951.03(a) above:
(1) Water line flushing or other potable water sources;
(2) Landscape irrigation or lawn watering;
(3) Diverted, natural riparian habitat and/or wetland flows;
(4) Rising ground water, ground water infiltration to storm drains, and/or uncontaminated pumped groundwater;
(5) Foundation or footing drains (not including active groundwater dewatering systems), sump pumps, and crawl space pumps;
(6) Air conditioning condensation;
(7) Springs;
(8) Individual residential car washing;
(9) Declorinated (less than one part per million chlorine) swimming pool water;
(10) Fire fighting and training activities by the Fire Department and other discharges specified in writing by the Administrator as being necessary to protect public health and safety;
(11) Fire protection water that does not contain oil or hazardous substances or materials that the Fire Code requires to be contained and treated prior to discharge, in which case treatment adequate to remove harmful quantities of pollutants must have occurred prior to discharge;
(12) Cold water (or hot water with prior permission of the Administrator) used in street washing or cosmetic cleaning that is not contaminated with any soap, detergent, degreaser, solvent, emulsified, dispersant, or any other harmful cleaning substance;
(13) Uncontaminated stormwater pumped from an excavation or existing pond; and,
(14) Other water sources determined by the Administrator in writing as not containing pollutants that cause or contribute to waterway degradation, including but not limited to a violation of applicable water quality standards and/or degradation of the biotic integrity of surface water bodies and their floodplains.
(15) The prohibition shall not apply to any non-stormwater discharge permitted under an NPDES permit, waiver, or waste discharge order issued to the discharger and administered under the authority of the Federal Environmental Protection Agency, provided that the discharger is in full compliance with all requirements of the permit, waiver, or order and other applicable laws and regulations, and provided that written approval has been granted for any discharge to the storm drain system.
(c) Prohibition of Illicit Connections.
(1) The construction, use, maintenance or continued existence of illicit connections to the storm drain system is prohibited. This prohibition expressly includes, without limitation, illicit connections made in the past, regardless of whether the connection was permissible under law or practices applicable or prevailing at the time of connection.
(2) A person is considered to be in violation of this Chapter if the person connects a line conveying sewage to the MS4, or allows such a connection to continue.
(3) Any drain or conveyance that has not been documented in plans, maps or equivalent, and which may be connected to the storm sewer system, shall be located by the owner or occupant of that property upon receipt of written Notice of Violation from the Administrator requiring that such locating be completed. Such notice will specify a reasonable time period within which the location of the drain or conveyance is to be completed, that the drain or conveyance be identified as storm sewer, sanitary sewer or other, and the outfall location or point of connection to the storm sewer system, sanitary sewer system or other discharge point be identified. Results of these investigations are to be documented and provided to the Administrator.
(Ord. 34-09. Passed 12-14-09.)