[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;
(2) 
Landscape irrigation;
(3) 
Diverted stream flows;
(4) 
Rising groundwater;
(5) 
Uncontaminated groundwater infiltration to storm drains;
(6) 
Uncontaminated pumped groundwater;
(7) 
Discharges from potable water sources;
(8) 
Foundation drains;
(9) 
Air conditioning condensate;
(10) 
Individual residential car washing;
(11) 
Dechlorinated swimming pool water;
(12) 
Street wash 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.