[Ord. No. SW-1, 10-14-2004]
(a) No person shall discharge to a water body, directly or indirectly,
any substance other than stormwater or an exempted discharge. Any
person discharging stormwater shall effectively prevent pollutants
from being discharged with the stormwater, except in accordance with
best management practices.
(b) The Township is authorized to require dischargers to implement pollution
prevention measures, utilizing BMPs, necessary to prevent or reduce
the discharge of pollutants into the Township's stormwater drainage
system.
[Ord. No. SW-1, 10-14-2004]
The following nonstormwater discharges shall be permissible,
provided that they do not result in a violation of state water quality
standards:
(1) Water supply line flushing;
(5) Uncontaminated groundwater infiltration to storm drains;
(6) Uncontaminated pumped groundwater;
(7) Discharges from potable water sources;
(9) Air conditioning condensate;
(10) Individual residential car washing;
(11) Dechlorinated swimming pool water;
(13) Discharges or flows from emergency firefighting activities; and
(14) Discharges for which a specific federal or state permit has been
issued.
[Ord. No. SW-1, 10-14-2004]
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to stop, fill, dam, confine,
pave, alter the course of, or otherwise interfere with, any natural
or constructed drain or drainageway without first submitting a drainage
plan to the Township and receiving approval of that plan. Any deviation
from the approved plan is a violation of this article. This section
shall not prohibit, however, necessary emergency action so as to prevent
or mitigate drainage that would be injurious to the environment or
the public health, safety, or welfare. When any of the activities
mentioned in this section involves an established county drain, a
drain use permit is required from the OCDC.
(b) No filling, blocking, fencing or above-surface vegetation planting
shall take place within a floodplain/floodway.
(c) For an overland flow-way:
(1)
Silt fence shall not be permitted below the top of the bank
of a water body.
(2)
Chain-link fences shall be permitted if the Township and the
OCDC determine that the fence will not obstruct or divert the flow
of water.
(3)
If a fence is removed by the Township or OCDC for drain access
or drain maintenance, the fence shall be replaced by the owner of
the fence at the owner's expense, as long as the owner complies
with Subsection (c)(2) of this section.
(4)
No shrubs or trees shall be planted below the top of the bank
of a water body, or within an easement for a waterway (for example,
a backyard swale).
(d) Shrubs, trees or other aboveground vegetation shall not be planted
over the top of an underground storm sewer or over the top of the
easement within which the storm sewer has been installed.
[Ord. No. SW-1, 10-14-2004]
Except as permitted by law, it shall be unlawful for any person
to store or stockpile within a drainageway any hazardous or toxic
materials unless adequate protection and/or containment has been provided
so as to prevent any such materials from entering a drainageway.
[Ord. No. SW-1, 10-14-2004]
(a) Prohibition of illicit discharges. No person shall discharge or cause
to be discharged into the municipal 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 stormwater. The
commencement, conduct, or continuance of any illegal discharge to
the storm drain system is prohibited except as described as follows:
(1)
Discharges specified in writing by the authorized enforcement
agency as being necessary to protect public health and safety.
(2)
The prohibition shall not apply to any nonstormwater discharge
permitted under an NPDES permit, waiver, or water discharge order
issued to the discharger and administered under the authority of the
federal environmental requirements of the permit, waiver, or order
and other applicable laws and regulations, and provided that written
approval has been granted for any discharge to the storm drain system.
(b) Prohibition of 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.
(3)
A person is considered to be in violation of this article if
the person connects a line conveying wastewater to the MS4, or allows
such a connection to continue.