(A) Citizen reports of violations.
(1) All citizens are encouraged to report to the Storm Water Manager or his or her delegate any spills, releases, illicit connections, other instances of anyone discharging pollutants into the MS4 or waters of the United States, and any other violation of this chapter of which they become aware.
(2) The Storm Water Manager will designate an individual or office within his or her department to receive all such citizen reports by telephone, in writing, and in person. A written record of each citizen report will be prepared and kept on file for a period of three years, and a copy of the city’s record of the report will be furnished to the reporting citizen upon request. Also upon request, the Storm Water Manager will inform the reporting citizen of any action undertaken by the city in response to the citizen’s report.
(B) Publication of dischargers in significant non-compliance. The Storm Water Manager may periodically publish, in a daily newspaper generally distributed within the city, a list of owners and operators of discharges to the MS4 or waters of the United States from sites of construction and industrial activity which, during the previous 12 months, were in significant non-compliance with the requirements of this chapter. The term
SIGNIFICANT NON-COMPLIANCE
shall mean:
(1) Introducing or causing to be introduced into the waters of the United States any discharge that violates a water quality standard;
(2) Introducing or causing to be introduced into the MS4 any discharge that causes or contributes to causing the city to violate a water quality standard, the city’s TPDES permit, or any state-issued discharge permit for discharges from the city’s MS4;
(3) Any connection of a line conveying sanitary sewage, domestic or industrial, to the MS4, or allowing any such connection to continue;
(4) Any discharge of pollutants to the MS4 or waters of the United States that has caused an imminent or substantial endangerment to the health or welfare of persons or to the environment, or has resulted in the Storm Water Manager’s exercise of his or her emergency authority to halt or prevent such a discharge;
(5) Any violation that has resulted in injunctive relief, civil penalties or criminal fine being imposed as a judicial remedy under § 158.99 of this chapter;
(6) Any other violation(s), which the Storm Water Manager determines to be chronic or especially dangerous to the public or to the environment; or
(7) Any failure to comply with a compliance schedule, whether imposed by the city or by a court.
(1998 Code, § 50-281) (Ord. 10-05, passed 3-17-2010)