(a) Establishment of an Illicit Discharge and Illegal Connection Monitoring Program: The Village of Woodmere shall establish a program to detect and eliminate illicit discharges and illegal connections to the MS4. This program shall include the mapping of the MS4, including MS4 outfalls; the routine inspection of storm water outfalls to the MS4, and the systematic investigation of potential residential, commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities for the sources of any dry weather flows found as the result of these inspections.
(b) Inspection of Residential, Commercial, Industrial, or Institutional Facilities.
(1) The Village of Woodmere shall be permitted to enter and inspect facilities subject to this regulation as often as may be necessary to determine compliance with this regulation.
(2) The Village of Woodmere shall have the right to set up at facilities subject to this regulation such devices as are necessary to conduct monitoring and/or sampling of the facility's storm water discharge, as determined by the Village of Woodmere.
(3) The Village of Woodmere shall have the right to require the facility owner/operator to install monitoring equipment as necessary. This sampling and monitoring equipment shall be maintained at all times in safe and proper operating condition by the facility owner/operator at the owner/operator's expense. All devices used to measure storm water flow and quality shall be calibrated by the Village of Woodmere to ensure their accuracy.
(4) Any temporary or permanent obstruction to safe and reasonable access to the facility to be inspected and/or sampled shall be promptly removed by the facility's owner/operator at the written or oral request of the Village of Woodmere and shall not be replaced. The costs of clearing such access shall be borne by the facility owner/operator.
(5) Unreasonable delays in allowing the Village of Woodmere access to a facility subject to this regulation for the purposes of illicit discharge inspection is a violation of this regulation.
(6) If the Village of Woodmere is refused access to any part of the facility from which storm water is discharged, and the Village of Woodmere demonstrates probable cause to believe that there may be a violation of this regulation, or that there is a need to inspect and/or sample as part of an inspection and sampling program designed to verify compliance with this regulation or any order issued hereunder, or to protect the public health, safety, and welfare, the Village of Woodmere may seek issuance of a search warrant, civil remedies including but not limited to injunctive relief, and/or criminal remedies from any court of appropriate jurisdiction.
(7) Upon confirmation of any illicit discharge from a facility by the Village of Woodmere, any costs associated with the review of proposed remediation plans, inspecting the facility to determine compliance with this regulation, and monitoring and/or sampling of the facility's storm water discharge, throughout the time period it takes to adequately resolve the illicit discharge, shall be assessed to the facility owner/operator.
(Ord. 2008-23. Passed 5-21-08.)