(A) City Code Enforcement, Public Works, building inspection staff and the City Engineer are authorized to enter and inspect sites and facilities subject to regulation under this chapter or discharging stormwater to the city's MS4 to determine if the discharger is complying with all requirements of this chapter and any state or federal discharge permit, limitation, or requirement.
(B) Facility operators shall allow such city staff access to all parts of the premises for the purposes of inspection, sampling, records examination, photo recording, and copying of records that must be kept under this chapter, NPDES, TPDES or TXR 150000, as it may be amended, permit to discharge stormwater, including pollution control measures or modifications thereto, self-inspection reports, monitoring records, compliance evaluations, notices of intent, and any other records, reports, or documents related to compliance with this chapter and with any state or federal stormwater discharge permit.
(C) City staff shall have the right to set-up on any permitted facility such devices as are necessary in the opinion of the staff to monitor and/or sample the facility's or the site's stormwater discharge.
(D) Any temporary or permanent obstruction to safe and easy access to the facility or site to be inspected and/or sampled shall be promptly removed by the operator at the written or oral request of the city staff and shall not be replaced. The costs of clearing such access shall be borne by the operator.
(E) The city may require, at its reasonable discretion, any discharger to conduct specified sampling, testing, analysis, and other monitoring of its stormwater discharges, and may specify the frequency and parameters of any such required monitoring.
(F) The city may require, at its reasonable discretion, the discharger to install monitoring equipment at the discharger's expense. The facility's sampling and monitoring equipment shall be maintained at all times in a safe and proper operating condition by the discharger at its own expense. All devices used to measure stormwater flow, wastewater and quality shall be calibrated to ensure their accuracy.
(G) Where a discharger has security measures in force which require proper identification and clearance before entry into its premises, the discharger shall make necessary arrangements so that, upon presentation of suitable identification, the city staff will be permitted to enter without delay for the purposes of implementing and enforcing this chapter.
(Ord. 2020-02-O, passed 2-4-2020)