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STORM WATER MANAGEMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE
(A) Establishment and composition. The Storm Water Management Advisory Committee shall be composed of five full members, one alternate member, and one Council Member liaison and one youth (between the ages of 14 and 18) as an ex-officio member who shall reside or own property within the town limits. The Council shall appoint the membership of the Committee. Each member shall be appointed for a period of three years except that the Council in appointing the original membership of the Committee may prescribe terms of fewer years to the end that the terms of the various members of Storm Water Management Advisory Committee shall be staggered. The youth member shall serve a term length of one year. Committee members may be re-appointed at the discretion of the Council.
(B) Duties. The Storm Water Management Advisory Committee shall have the following charge and duties:
(1) The Committee shall review and/or recommend to the Council storm water management policies, policy changes, and long range plans and estimate their budgetary and rate impacts.
(2) The Committee shall review and comment to the Council on the annual storm water management capital improvements program.
(3) The Committee shall respond to the Town Council and town staff requests for advice on matters related to storm water services and the storm water management utility.
(4) The Committee shall present the Council with an annual report of key actions and issues and its annual work program.
(C) Procedure. The Storm Water Management Advisory Committee is directed to adopt rules of procedure necessary to the conduct of its affairs and in keeping with the provision of this chapter, all policies of the Town Council, and applicable state laws. Such rules of procedure, and any modifications to same, shall be submitted to the Town Council for review and approval. Except as provided in this chapter, the rules of procedure adopted by the Committee shall at least provide for: selection of the officers of the Committee; the time and place of its regular meetings, which shall at least be held bi-annually, and the calling of special meetings; the procedures of the conduct of public hearings and voting. The Committee shall elect from its membership at least a chairperson and vice-chairperson, who shall serve for terms of one year, who shall be eligible for reelection, and who shall have the right to vote. The chairperson shall preside over the Storm Water Management Advisory Committee. In the absence or disability of the chairperson, the vice-chairperson shall perform the duties of the chairperson. All meetings of the Storm Water Management Advisory Committee shall be open to the public, in accordance with the North Carolina Open Meetings Law, G.S. §§ 143-318.10 et seq., and a public record shall be kept of the Committee's resolutions, proceedings, and actions. The rules of procedure and minutes of the Committee are maintained as separate documents in the nature of a public record at the Town Clerk's Office. The Town Manager or his or her designee shall provide such technical, administrative, and clerical assistance as required by the Committee.
(Ord. passed 6-25-2007; Am. Ord. passed 4-22-2013)
STORM WATER CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT
It shall be illegal for any person to install any pipe, culvert, or casing on any property in such a manner as to cause runoff water to flow into any storm sewer pipe, ditch, or other means of facilitating the flow of water that is maintained by the town without first obtaining approval from the Town Engineer.
(Ord. passed 6-25-2007)
(A) The Town Manager or his or her designee shall not be authorized to approve any connection to town drainage facilities unless he or she is of the opinion that the size, shape, and location of the newly installed drainage facilities are adequate for handling the anticipated amount of water.
(B) It shall be the responsibility of the property owner of any parcel of land when making any improvements or changes affecting the land, which alter the existing flow pattern of runoff water, to install appropriate facilities for carrying the runoff water into a properly approved storm sewer, ditch, or stream. No zoning compliance permit shall be issued for any property within the jurisdiction of the town until the conditions of this section are met.
(C) It shall be illegal for any utility company to allow public water to be connected to any facility on any land that has not complied with the provisions of this section.
(Ord. passed 6-25-2007)
(A) Illegal discharges. No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged into the town storm drain system or watercourses any materials, including but not limited to pollutants or waters containing any pollutants that cause or contribute to a violation of applicable water quality standards, other than storm water. The commencement, conduct, or continuance of any illegal discharge to the storm drain system is prohibited except as described as follows:
(1) Discharges from the following activities will not be considered a source of pollutants to the storm drain system and to waters of the U.S. when properly managed to ensure that no potential pollutants are present, and therefore they shall not be considered illegal discharges unless determined to cause a violation of the provisions of this chapter: potable water line flushing; uncontaminated pumped groundwater and other discharges from potable water sources; landscape irrigation and lawn watering; diverted stream flows; rising groundwater; groundwater infiltration to the storm drain system; uncontaminated foundation and footing drains; uncontaminated water from crawl space pumps; air conditioning condensation; uncontaminated roof drains; springs; individual residential and occasional non-commercial car washing; flows from riparian habitats and wetlands; dechlorinated swimming pool discharges; street wash waters; and flows from fire fighting.
(2) The prohibition shall not apply to any non-storm water discharge permitted under an NPDES permit, waiver, or waste discharge order issued to the discharger and administered by the State of North Carolina 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 notification of such permitted discharge has been filed with the Storm Water Administrator, in a form acceptable to the Storm Water Administrator, for any discharge to the storm drain system.
(3) With written concurrence of the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources, the town may exempt in writing other non-storm water discharges, which are not a source of pollutants to the storm drain system or waters of the U.S.
(B) Illicit connections.
(1) The construction, use, maintenance, or continued existence of illicit connections to the storm drain system is prohibited.
(2) 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.
(C) Waste disposal. No person shall throw, deposit, leave, maintain, keep, or permit to be thrown, deposited, left, or maintained, in or upon any public or private property, driveway, parking area, street, alley, sidewalk, component of the storm drain system, or water of the U.S., any refuse, rubbish, garbage, litter, or other discarded or abandoned objects, articles, and accumulations, so that the same may cause or contribute to pollution. Wastes deposited in streets in proper waste receptacles for the purposes of collection are exempted from this prohibition.
(D) Discharges in violation of industrial or construction activity NPDES storm water discharge permit. Any person subject to an industrial or construction activity NPDES storm water discharge permit shall comply with all provisions of such permit. Proof of compliance with said permit may be required in a form acceptable to the town prior to or as a condition of a subdivision map, site plan, building permit, or development or improvement plan; upon inspection of the facility; during any enforcement proceeding or action; or for any other reasonable cause.
(Ord. passed 6-25-2007)