This chapter shall be known as the "Stormwater Quality Management
and Discharge Control Ordinance" of the Town of Windsor Locks and
may be so cited.
The purpose and intent of this chapter is to ensure the health,
safety, and general welfare of citizens, and protect and enhance the
water quality of watercourses and water bodies in a manner pursuant
to and consistent with the Federal Clean Water Act by reducing pollutants
in stormwater discharges to the maximum extent practicable and prohibiting
nonstormwater discharges to the storm drain system.
The terms used in this chapter shall have the following meanings:
Activities, practices, and procedures to prevent or reduce
the discharge of pollutants directly or indirectly to the municipal
storm drain system and waters of the United States. Best management
practices include, but are not limited to, treatment facilities to
remove pollutants from stormwater; operating and maintenance procedures;
facility management practices to control runoff; spillage or leaks
of nonstormwater, waste disposal, and drainage from materials storage;
erosion and sediment control practices; and the prohibition of specific
activities, practices, and procedures and such other provisions as
the Town determines appropriate for the control of pollutants.
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act and any subsequent
amendments thereto.
Activities subject to NPDES construction permits. These include
construction projects resulting in land disturbance of one acre or
more. Such activities include but are not limited to clearing and
grubbing, grading, excavating, and demolition.
Any material, including any substance, waste, or combination
thereof which, because of its quantity, concentration, or physical,
chemical, or infectious characteristics, may cause, or significantly
contribute to, a substantial present or potential hazard to human
health, safety, property, or the environment when improperly treated,
stored, transported, disposed of, or otherwise managed.
Any direct or indirect nonstormwater discharge to the storm drain system, except as exempted in § 307-8 of this chapter.
Either of the following:
Any drain or conveyance, whether on the surface or subsurface,
which allows an illegal discharge to enter the storm drain system,
including but not limited to any conveyances which allow nonstormwater
discharge including sewage, process wastewater, and wash water to
enter the storm drain system and any connections to the storm drain
system from indoor drains and sinks, regardless of whether said drain
or connection had been previously allowed, permitted, or approved
by a government agency; or
Any drain or conveyance connected from a commercial or industrial
land use to the storm drain system which has not been documented in
plans, maps, or equivalent records and approved by the Town.
Activities subject to NPDES industrial permits as defined
in 40 CFR 122.26(b)(14).
General, group, and individual stormwater discharge permits
which regulate facilities defined in federal NPDES regulations pursuant
to the Clean Water Act.
Any discharge to the storm drain system that is not composed
entirely of stormwater.
Anything which causes or contributes to pollution. Pollutants
may include, but are not limited to, paints, varnishes, and solvents;
oil and other automobile fluids; nonhazardous liquid and solid wastes
and yard wastes; refuse, rubbish, garbage, litter, or other discarded
or abandoned objects, articles, and accumulations, so that same may
cause or contribute to pollution; floatables; pesticides, herbicides,
and fertilizers; hazardous substances and wastes; sewage, fecal coliform
and pathogens; dissolved and particulate metals; animal wastes; wastes
and residues that result from constructing a building or structure
(including but not limited to sediments, slurries, and concrete rinsates);
and noxious or offensive matter of any kind.
The human-made or human induced alteration of the quality
of waters by waste to a degree which reasonably affects, or has the
potential to unreasonably affect, either the waters for beneficial
uses or the facilities which serve these beneficial uses.
Any building, lot, parcel of land, or portion of land, whether
improved or unimproved, including adjacent sidewalks and parking strips.
Publicly owned facilities operated by the Town by which stormwater
is collected and/or conveyed, including but not limited to any roads
with drainage systems, municipal streets, gutters, curbs, inlets,
piped storm drains, pumping facilities, retention and detention basins,
natural and man-made or altered drainage channels, reservoirs, and
other drainage structures which are within the Town and are not part
of a publicly owned treatment works as defined at 40 CFR 122.2.
Any surface flow, runoff, and drainage consisting entirely
of water from rain storm events.
The Town of Windsor Locks.
Surface watercourses and water bodies as defined at 40 CFR
122.2, including all natural waterways and definite channels and depressions
in the earth that may carry water, even though such waterways may
only carry water during rains and storms and may not carry stormwater
at and during all times and seasons.
This chapter shall apply to all water entering the storm drain
system generated on any developed and undeveloped lands lying within
the Town of Windsor Locks, including any amendments or revisions thereto.
The Director of Public Works of the Town of Windsor Locks shall
administer, implement and enforce the provisions of this chapter.
Any powers granted or duties imposed upon the Director of Public Works
may be delegated in writing by the Director of Public Works to persons
or entities acting in the beneficial interest of or in the employ
of the Town of Windsor Locks.
This chapter shall be construed to assure consistency with the
requirements of the Clean Water Act and acts amendatory thereof or
supplementary thereto, or any applicable implementing regulations.
The standards set forth herein and promulgated pursuant to this
chapter are minimum standards; therefore, this chapter does not intend
nor imply that compliance by any person will ensure that there will
be no contamination, pollution, nor unauthorized discharge of pollutants
into waters of the United States caused by said person. This chapter
shall not create liability on the part of the Town of Windsor Locks,
or any agent or employee thereof, for any damages that result from
the discharger's reliance on this chapter or any administrative
decision lawfully made thereunder.
