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(a) Prohibition of illicit discharges.
(1)
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged into the City's stormwater drainage system or water bodies any materials, including but not limited to pollutants or waters containing any pollutants, other than stormwater, or an exempted discharge pursuant to Sections
29-7 and
29-126, or discharges specified in writing by the authorized enforcement agency as being necessary to protect public health and safety.
(2)
The City is authorized to require dischargers to implement pollution
prevention measures, utilizing BMPs, necessary to prevent or reduce
the discharge of pollutants into the City's stormwater drainage system.
(3)
No water shall be discharged in a manner that causes it to run over the City sidewalk, over the street or over neighboring properties. Pursuant to Section
29-49(a)(3), all unpolluted water shall be discharged onto the person's private property to soak into the ground, into a dry well, or through a direct connection to the City storm sewer system upon issuance of a permit by the City.
(b) Prohibition of illicit connections.
(1)
The construction, use, maintenance or continued existence of
illicit connections to the stormwater drainage 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.
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The following non-stormwater discharges shall be permissible, provided that they do not result in a violation of state water quality standards or Section
29-125(a)(3):
(a) Water supply line flushing;
(e) Uncontaminated groundwater infiltration to storm drains;
(f) Uncontaminated pumped groundwater;
(g) Discharges from potable water sources;
(i) Air conditioning condensate;
(j) Individual residential car washing;
(k) Dechlorinated swimming pool water;
(m) Discharges or flows from emergency firefighting activities; and
(n) Discharges for which a specific federal or state permit has been
issued.
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(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 City 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 County Drain or Water Resources
Commissioner.
(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 City determines
that the fence will not obstruct or divert the flow of water.
(3)
If a fence is removed by the City or the County Drain or Water
Resources Commissioner 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 above-ground 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.
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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.