(a) The City Engineer and City Wastewater Superintendent shall jointly be responsible for oversight of the Stormwater Utility System, or "System" which includes all manmade facilities, structures and natural watercourses used for collecting and conducting stormwater to, through and from drainage areas to the points of final outlet including, but not limited to, any and all of the following: conduits and appurtenant features, canals, creeks, channels, catch basins, detention ponds, ditches, streams, gulches, gullies, flumes, culverts, siphons, streets, curbs, gutters, dams, floodwalls, levees and pumping stations.
(b) All elements of the System which provide for the collection and disposal of stormwater and regulation of groundwater benefit and provide services to all property within the incorporated City limits, including property not presently served by the stormwater elements of the System. The beneficiaries of the System include the owners and occupants of all real properties within the City of Urbana which benefit by the provision, operation and improvement of the System. Such benefits may include, but are not limited to, the provision of adequate systems of collection, conveyance, detention, and release of stormwater, the reduction of hazard to property and life resulting from stormwater runoff, improvement in general health and welfare
through reduction of undesirable stormwater conditions, and improvement to the water quality in
the storm and surface water system and its receiving waters.
(c) Floods from stormwater runoff may occasionally occur which exceed the capacity of the System. This chapter does not imply that property subject to the utility fee will always be free from stormwater flooding or flood damage, or that the System shall ever be capable of handling all storm events; nor does this Chapter create a liability on the part of, or cause of action against, the City or its personnel for any flood damage; nor does it reduce the need or the necessity for obtaining flood insurance.
(d) City personnel, in implementing the utility and administering the System, have power to:
(1) Adopt procedures as required to implement these regulations as well as take action to protect and maintain water quality within the System in compliance with water quality standards established by state, regional and/or federal agencies as now in effect, or hereafter amended;
(2) Administer the acquisition, design, construction, maintenance and operation of the System, including capital improvements;
(3) Administer and enforce this chapter and all regulations and procedures adopted relating to the design, construction, maintenance, operation and alteration of the System including, but not limited to, the quantity, quality and/or velocity of stormwater conveyed;
(4) Inspect private systems as necessary to determine the compliance of such systems with this chapter and any regulations adopted pursuant to this chapter;
(5) Prepare and revise a comprehensive drainage plan;
(6) Review plans, approve or deny, inspect and accept extensions to the System;
(7) Analyze the cost of services and benefits provided, and the system and structure of fees, charges, fines and other revenues of the System annually, with a report available to City Council and the Stormwater Review Committee upon request.
(Ord. 4466-16. Passed 1-18-17.)