The purposes and objectives of this article are as follows:
(1)
To
maintain and improve the quality of surface water and groundwater
within the city, the North Central Texas region and the state.
(2)
To
prevent the discharge of contaminated stormwater runoff from industrial,
commercial, residential, and construction sites into the municipal
separate storm sewer system (MS4) and natural waters within the city.
(3)
To
promote public awareness of the hazards involved in the improper discharge
of hazardous substances, petroleum products, household hazardous waste,
industrial waste, sediment from construction sites, pesticides, herbicides,
fertilizers and other contaminants into the storm sewers and natural
waters of the city.
(4)
To
encourage recycling of used motor oil and safe disposal of other hazardous
consumer products.
(5)
To
facilitate compliance with state and federal water quality standards,
limitations, and permits by owners and operators of industrial and
construction sites within the city.
(6)
To
enable the city to comply with all federal and state laws and regulations
applicable to stormwater discharges.
(1998 Code, sec. 113-1; Ordinance 2010-05-003, sec. 2 (113-1), adopted 7/20/10; 2013 Code, sec. 48-1)
Except for public works construction projects, as provided herein,
the building official shall implement and enforce the provisions of
this article. For public works construction projects that are administered,
performed, contracted, or funded (in whole or in part) by the city,
the director of the city department that is administering, performing,
or contracting for the construction project shall implement and enforce
the provisions of this article. Any powers granted to or duties imposed
in this article upon the building official or the director of another
city department may be delegated by him to other city personnel.
(1998 Code, sec. 113-2; Ordinance 2010-05-003, sec. 2 (113-2), adopted 7/20/10; 2013 Code, sec. 48-2)
The following abbreviations, when used in this article, shall
have the designated meanings:
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BMP
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Best management practices
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BOD5
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Five-day biochemical oxygen demand
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CFR
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Code of Federal Regulations
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COD
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Chemical oxygen demand
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EPA
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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HHW
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Household hazardous waste
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mg/l
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Milligrams per liter
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MS4
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Municipal separate storm sewer system
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NOI
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Notice of intent
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NOT
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Notice of termination
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NPDES
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National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
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pH
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Measure of acidity or alkalinity
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POTW
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Publicly owned treatment works
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PST
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Petroleum storage tank
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PE
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Licensed professional engineer
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SWPPP
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Stormwater pollution prevention plan
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TSS
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Total suspended solids
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USC
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United States Code
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(1998 Code, sec. 113-3; Ordinance 2010-05-003, sec. 2 (113-3), adopted 7/20/10; 2013 Code, sec. 48-3)
The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article,
shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where
the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
means any stormwater runoff from orchards, cultivated crops,
pastures, range lands, and other nonpoint source agricultural activities,
but not discharges from concentrated animal feeding operations as
defined in 40 CFR 122.23 or discharges from concentrated aquatic animal
production facilities as defined in 40 CFR 122.24.
means schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices,
maintenance procedures, and other management practices to prevent
or reduce the pollution of waters of the United States. The term “BMPs”
also includes treatment requirements, operating procedures, and practices
to control plant site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge or waste disposal,
or drainage from raw material storage.
means the initial disturbance of soils associated with clearing,
grading, excavation, land filling, and other construction activities.
means pertaining to any business, trade, industry or other
activity engaged in for profit.
means a contiguous area where multiple separate and distinct
construction activities may be taking place at different times on
different schedules under one plan.
means any human activity that involves clearing, grading,
excavation, land filling, or other placement, movement, removal, or
disposal of soil, rock or other earth materials.
means containing a harmful quantity of any substance.
means the building official, or duly authorized representative,
except in the case of public works construction projects that are
administered, performed, contracted or funded (in whole or in part)
by the city. In the case of such city public works projects, the term
“director” means the director of the city department that
is administering, performing or contracting for the construction project,
or duly authorized representative.
means any addition or introduction of any pollutant, stormwater
or any other substance whatsoever into the municipal separate storm
sewer system (MS4) or into waters of the United States.
means any person who causes, allows, permits, or is otherwise
responsible for a discharge, including, without limitation, any operator
of a construction site or industrial facility.
means human excrement, gray water (from home clothes-washing,
bathing, showers, dishwashing, and food preparation), other wastewater
from household drains, and waterborne waste normally discharged from
the sanitary conveniences of dwellings (including apartment houses
and hotels), office buildings, factories and institutions that is
free from industrial waste.
means an outflowing of water or gas from a natural body of
water, or from a man-made structure.
means the United States Environmental Protection Agency,
the regional office thereof, any federal department, agency or commission
that may succeed to the authority of the EPA, and any duly authorized
official of the EPA or such successor agency.
means any building, structure, installation, process or activity
from which there is or may be a discharge of a pollutant.
The term “fertilizer” means a solid or non-solid
substance or compound that contains an essential plant nutrient element
in a form available to plants and is used primarily for its essential
plant nutrient element content in promoting or stimulating growth
of a plant or improving the quality of a crop, or a mixture of two
or more fertilizers.
The term “fertilizer” does not include the excreta
of an animal, plant remains, or a mixture of those substances, for
which no claim of essential plant nutrients is made.
means the status when all soil disturbing activities at a
site have been completed, and a uniform perennial vegetative cover
with a density of 70 percent of the cover for unpaved areas and areas
not covered by permanent structures has been established, or equivalent
permanent stabilization measures (such as the use of riprap, gabions,
or geotextiles) have been employed.
means the fire department of the city, or any duly authorized
representative thereof.
means any water, and any substances or materials contained
therein, used by any person other than the fire department to control
or extinguish a fire.
means putrescible animal and vegetable waste materials from
the handling, preparation, cooking, or consumption of food, including
waste materials from markets, storage facilities, and the handling
and sale of produce and other food products.
means the amount of any substance that will cause pollution
of waters in the state.
means any substance listed in table 302.4 of 40 CFR 302.
means any substance identified or listed as a hazardous waste
by the EPA pursuant to 40 CFR 261.
means all contiguous land, structures, other appurtenances
and improvements on the land used for the treatment, disposal or recovery
of hazardous waste.
means a substance or mixture of substances used to destroy
a plant or to inhibit plant growth.
means any material generated in a household (including single
and multiple residences, hotels and motels, bunkhouses, ranger stations,
crew quarters, campgrounds, picnic grounds, and day use recreational
areas) by a consumer which, except for the exclusion provided in 40
CFR 261.4(b)(1), would be classified as a hazardous waste under 40
CFR 261.
means any waterborne liquid or solid substance that results
from any process of industry, manufacturing, mining, production, trade
or business.
means the deposition of soil and other inert materials on
the land to raise its grade and/or smooth its features.
means a person who has been duly licensed and registered
by the state board of registration for professional engineers to engage
in the practice of engineering in the state.
means any vehicle crankcase oil, antifreeze, transmission
fluid, brake fluid, differential lubricant, gasoline, diesel fuel,
gasoline/alcohol blend and any other fluid used in a motor vehicle.
means an area of land or an excavation in which municipal
solid waste is placed for permanent disposal, and which is not a land
treatment facility, a surface impoundment, an injection well, or a
pile (as these terms are defined in regulations promulgated by the
state commission on environmental quality).
means the system of conveyances (including roads with drainage
systems, municipal streets, catchbasins, curbs, gutters, ditches,
man-made channels or storm drains) owned and operated by the city
and designed or used for collecting or conveying stormwater, and which
is not used for collecting or conveying sewage.
means solid waste resulting from or incidental to municipal,
community, commercial, institutional, or recreational activities,
and includes garbage, rubbish, ashes, street cleanings, dead animals,
abandoned automobiles, and other solid waste other than industrial
waste.
means any source of any discharge of a pollutant that is
not a point source.
means the notice of intent that is required by the baseline
industrial general permit, the construction general permit or the
multisector general permit.
means the notice of termination that is required by the baseline
industrial general permit, the construction general permit or the
multisector general permit.
means the baseline industrial general permit issued by the
EPA on August 27, 1992, and published in volume 57 of the Federal
Register at page 41304 on September 9, 1992, and any subsequent modifications
or amendments thereto.
means the construction general permit issued by the EPA on
August 27, 1992, and published in volume 57 of the Federal Register
at page 41217 on September 9, 1992, and any subsequent modifications
or amendments thereto.
means a permit issued by the EPA or by the state under authority
delegated pursuant to 33 USC 1342(b) that authorizes the discharge
of pollutants to waters of the United States, whether the permit is
applicable on an individual, group, or general area-wide basis.
means the multisector general permit for stormwater discharges
associated with specified industrial activities published by the EPA
in volume 60 of the Federal Register at page 51109 on September 29,
1995, and any subsequent modifications or amendments thereto.
means any kind of oil in any form, including, but not limited
to, petroleum, fuel oil, crude oil or any fraction thereof which is
liquid at standard conditions of temperature and pressure, or sludge,
oil refuse and oil mixed with waste.
means the person or persons who, either individually or taken
together, meet either of the following two criteria:
They have operational control over the facility specifications
(including the ability to make modifications in specifications); or
They have the day-to-day operational control over those activities
at the facility necessary to ensure compliance with pollution prevention
requirements and any permit conditions.
means the person who owns a facility or part of a facility.
means any individual, partnership, co-partnership, firm,
company, corporation, association, joint stock company, trust, estate,
governmental entity, or any other legal entity, or their legal representatives,
agents, or assigns. The term “person” includes all federal,
state and local governmental entities.
means a substance or mixture of substances intended to prevent,
destroy, repeal, or mitigate any pest, or any substance or mixture
of substances intended for use as a plant regulator, defoliant, or
desiccant (as these terms are defined in Texas Agriculture Code section
76.001).
means a product that is obtained from distilling and processing
crude oil and that is capable of being used as a fuel for the propulsion
of a motor vehicle or aircraft, including motor gasoline, gasohol,
other alcohol blended fuels, aviation gasoline, kerosene, distillate
fuel oil and no. 1 and no. 2 diesel.
means any one or combination of above-ground or underground
storage tanks that contain petroleum products and any connecting underground
pipes.
The term “point source” means any discernible, confined
and discrete conveyance including, but not limited to, any pipe, ditch,
channel, tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling
stock, concentrated animal feeding operation, landfill leachate collection
system, vessel or other floating craft from which pollutants are or
may be discharged.
The term “point source” does not include return
flows from irrigated agriculture or agricultural stormwater runoff.
The term “pollutant” means dredged spoil, solid
waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions,
chemical waste, biological materials, radioactive materials, wrecked
or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, and industrial, municipal,
and agricultural waste discharged into water.
The term “pollutant” does not include tailwater
or runoff water from irrigation or rainwater runoff from cultivated
or uncultivated range land, pasture land, and farm land.
means the alteration of the physical, thermal, chemical or
biological quality of, or the contamination of, any waters in the
state that renders the water harmful, detrimental or injurious to
humans, animal life, vegetation or property, or to the public health,
safety or welfare, or impairs the usefulness or the public enjoyment
of the water for any lawful or reasonable purpose.
means the general time period beginning at the completion
of the construction phase of any construction activity.
means any construction performed or funded in whole or part,
separately or collectively, by the federal, state, county or local
government, including the city.
means persons who possess the appropriate competence, skills
and ability (as demonstrated by sufficient education, training, experience
and/or, when applicable, any required certification or licensing)
to perform a specific activity in a timely and complete manner consistent
with the applicable regulatory requirements and generally accepted
industry standards for such activity.
means any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting,
emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping or disposing,
directly or indirectly, into the municipal separate storm sewer system
(MS4) or the waters of the United States.
means nonputrescible solid wastes that consist of combustible
waste materials, including paper, rags, cartons, wood, excelsior,
furniture, rubber, plastics, yard trimmings, leaves and similar materials,
and noncombustible waste materials, including glass, crockery, tin
cans, aluminum cans, metal furniture and similar materials that do
not burn at ordinary incinerator temperatures (1,600 to 1,800 degrees
Fahrenheit).
means the system of pipes, conduits, and other conveyances
which carry industrial waste and domestic sewage from residential
dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial and manufacturing facilities,
and institutions, whether treated or untreated, to the sewage treatment
plant utilized by the city (and to which stormwater, surface water
and groundwater are not intentionally admitted).
means any domestic sewage from holding tanks such as vessels,
chemical toilets, campers, trailers and septic tanks.
means any retail establishment engaged in the business of
selling fuel for motor vehicles that is dispensed from stationary
storage tanks.
means the domestic sewage and/or industrial waste that is
discharged into the city sanitary sewer system and passes through
the sanitary sewer system to the sewage treatment plant utilized by
the city for treatment.
means the land or water area where any facility or activity
is physically located or conducted, including adjacent land used in
connection with the facility or activity.
means any garbage, rubbish, refuse, sludge from a waste treatment
plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility,
and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semi-solid
or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, municipal,
commercial, mining and agricultural operations, and from community
and institutional activities.
means stormwater runoff, snow melt runoff, and surface runoff
and drainage.
means the discharge from any conveyance which is used for
collecting and conveying stormwater and which is directly related
to manufacturing, processing, or raw materials storage areas at an
industrial plant which is within one of the categories of facilities
listed in 40 CFR 122, and which is not excluded from the EPA’s
definition of the same term.
means a plan required by either the construction general
permit, the baseline industrial general permit, or the multisector
general permit and which describes and ensures the implementation
of practices that are to be used to reduce the pollutants in stormwater
discharges associated with construction or other industrial activity
at the facility.
means not containing a harmful quantity of any substance.
means any oil that has been refined from crude oil or a synthetic
oil that, as a result of use, storage or handling, has become unsuitable
for its original purpose because of impurities or the loss of original
properties, but that may be suitable for further use and is recyclable
in compliance with state and federal law.
means any water or other liquid, other than uncontaminated
stormwater, discharged from a facility.
means the designation of a body or segment of surface water
in the state for desirable uses and the narrative and numerical criteria
deemed by the state to be necessary to protect those uses, as specified
in 31 Tex. Admin. Code chapter 307.
means any groundwater, percolating or otherwise, lakes, bays,
ponds, impounding reservoirs, springs, rivers, streams, creeks, estuaries,
marshes, inlets, canals, the Gulf of Mexico, inside the territorial
limits of the state, and all other bodies of surface water, natural
or artificial, inland or coastal, fresh or salt, navigable or non-navigable,
and including the beds and banks of all watercourses and bodies of
surface water, that are wholly or partially inside or bordering the
state or inside the jurisdiction of the state.
The term “waters of the United States” means:
All waters which are currently used, were used in the past,
or may be susceptible to use in interstate or foreign commerce, including
all waters which are subject to the ebb and flow of the tide;
All interstate waters, including interstate wetlands;
All other waters the use, degradation or destruction of which
would affect or could affect interstate or foreign commerce;
All impoundments of waters otherwise defined as waters of the
United States under this definition;
All tributaries of waters identified in this definition;
All wetlands adjacent to waters identified in this definition;
and
Any waters within the federal definition of “waters of
the United States” at 40 CFR 122.2.
The term “waters of the United States” does not
include any waste treatment systems, treatment ponds or lagoons designed
to meet the requirements of the federal Clean Water Act.
means an area that is inundated or saturated by surface water
or groundwater at a frequency and duration sufficient to support,
and that under normal circumstances does support, a prevalence of
vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions.
The term “wetlands” generally includes swamps, marshes,
bogs and similar areas.
means leaves, grass clippings, yard and garden debris, and
brush that results from landscaping maintenance and land-clearing
operations.
(1998 Code, sec. 113-4; Ordinance 2010-05-003, sec. 2 (113-3), adopted 7/20/10; 2013 Code, sec. 48-4; Ordinance 2018-06-27, sec. 2, adopted 6/26/18)
(a)
Non-stormwater discharges prohibited.
No person shall
introduce or cause to be introduced into the municipal separate storm
sewer system (MS4) any discharge that is not composed entirely of
stormwater.
(b)
Affirmative defenses.
It is an affirmative defense to any enforcement action for violation of subsection (a) of this section, upon presentation of evidence by the discharger, that the discharge was composed entirely of one or more of the following categories of discharges:
(1)
A discharge authorized by, and in full compliance with, an NPDES
permit (other than the NPDES permit for discharges from the MS4);
(2)
A discharge or flow resulting from firefighting by the fire department;
(3)
A discharge or flow of fire protection water that does not contain oil or hazardous substances or materials that chapter 6 (fire protection and prevention) requires to be contained and treated prior to discharge, in which case treatment adequate to remove harmful quantities of pollutants must have occurred prior to discharge;
(4)
Agricultural stormwater runoff;
(5)
A discharge or flow from water line flushing, but not including a
discharge from water line disinfection by super-chlorination or other
means unless it contains no harmful quantity of chlorine or any other
chemical used in line disinfection;
(6)
A discharge or flow from lawn watering, landscape irrigation or other
irrigation water;
(7)
A discharge or flow from a diverted stream flow or natural spring;
(8)
A discharge or flow from uncontaminated pumped groundwater or rising
groundwater;
(9)
Uncontaminated groundwater infiltration (as defined in 40 CFR 35.2005(20))
to the MS4;
(10)
Uncontaminated discharge or flow from a foundation drain, crawl space
pump or footing drain;
(11)
A discharge or flow from a potable water source not containing any
harmful substance or material from the cleaning or draining of a storage
tank or other container;
(12)
A discharge or flow from individual residential car washing (external
surfaces only);
(13)
A discharge or flow from a riparian habitat or wetland;
(14)
A discharge or flow from water used in street washing that is not
contaminated with any soap, detergent, degreaser, solvent, emulsifier,
dispersant, or any other harmful cleaning substance, and the temperature
of which has not been elevated by induced heating.
(c)
Determination of pollutant.
No affirmative defense shall be available under subsection (b) of this section if the discharge or flow in question has been determined by the director to be a source of a pollutant or pollutants to the waters of the United States or to the MS4, written notice of such determination has been provided to the discharger, and the discharge has occurred more than 15 calendar days beyond such notice. The correctness of the director’s determination that a discharge is a source of a pollutant or pollutants may be reviewed in any administrative or judicial enforcement proceeding.
(d)
Burden of proof.
The burden of proof that a discharge was composed entirely of one or more of the categories in subsection (b) of this section and that it was not a source of a pollutant or pollutants to the waters of the United States or to the MS4 is upon the person or entity responsible for the discharge.
(1998 Code, sec. 113-4; Ordinance 2010-05-003, sec. 2 (113-4), adopted 7/20/10; 2013 Code, sec. 48-5)
(a)
Enumeration not exclusive.
The specific prohibitions and requirements in this section are not inclusive of all the discharges prohibited by the general prohibition in section 7.07.005.
(b)
Discharge causing violation of water quality standard, NPDES permit
or state permit.
No person shall introduce or cause to
be introduced into the MS4 any discharge that causes or contributes
to causing the city to violate a water quality standard, the city’s
NPDES permit, or any state-issued discharge permit for discharges
from its MS4.
(c)
Prohibited substances.
No person shall dump, spill,
leak, pump, pour, emit, empty, discharge, leach, dispose or otherwise
introduce or cause, allow or permit to be introduced any of the following
substances into the MS4:
(1)
Any used motor oil, antifreeze, or any other motor vehicle fluid;
(2)
Any industrial waste;
(3)
Any hazardous waste, including household hazardous waste;
(4)
Any domestic sewage or septic tank waste, grease trap waste or grit
trap waste;
(5)
Any garbage, rubbish, yard waste or other floatable material;
(6)
Any wastewater from:
(A)
A commercial carwash facility;
(B)
Any vehicle washing, cleaning, or maintenance at any new or used
automobile or other vehicle dealership, rental agency, body shop,
repair shop or maintenance facility; or
(C)
Any washing, cleaning or maintenance of any business or commercial
or public service vehicle, including a truck, bus or heavy equipment;
(7)
Any wastewater from the washing, cleaning, deicing, or other maintenance
of aircraft;
(8)
Any wastewater from a commercial mobile power washer or from the
washing or other cleaning of a building exterior that contains any
soap, detergent, degreaser, solvent or any other harmful cleaning
substance, or that is at a temperature that has been elevated by induced
heating;
(9)
Any wastewater from commercial floor, rug, or carpet cleaning;
(10)
Any wastewater from the wash-down or other cleaning of any pavement:
(A)
Which contains any harmful quantity of soap, detergent, solvent,
degreaser, emulsifier, dispersant, or any other harmful cleaning substance,
or that is at a temperature that has been elevated by induced heating;
or
(B)
Where any spill, leak, or other release of oil, motor fuel, or other
petroleum or hazardous substance has occurred, unless all harmful
quantities of such released material have been previously removed;
(11)
Any effluent from a cooling tower, condenser, compressor, emissions
scrubber, emissions filter or the blow-down from a boiler;
(12)
Any ready-mixed concrete, mortar, ceramic or asphalt base material
or hydro-mulch material, or any wastewater or substance from the cleaning
of any vehicle or equipment containing, or used in transporting or
applying, such material;
(13)
Any runoff or wash-down water from any animal pen, kennel, or fowl
or livestock containment area;
(14)
Any filter backwash from a swimming pool;
(15)
Any discharge from water line disinfection by super-chlorination
or other means if it contains any harmful quantity of chlorine or
any other chemical used in line disinfection;
(16)
Any fire protection water containing oil or hazardous substances or materials that chapter 6 (fire protection and prevention) requires to be contained and treated prior to discharge, unless treatment adequate to remove pollutants occurs prior to discharge. This prohibition does not apply to discharges or flow from firefighting by the fire department;
(17)
Any wastewater from a water curtain in a spray room used for painting
vehicles or equipment;
(18)
Any contaminated runoff from a vehicle salvage yard or any other
facility classified as Standard Industrial Classification 5015 or
5093;
(19)
Any substance or material that will damage, block or clog the MS4;
(20)
Any release from a petroleum storage tank (PST), or any leachate
or runoff from soil contaminated by a leaking PST, or any discharge
of pumped, confined, or treated wastewater from the remediation of
any such PST release.
(d)
Earth materials.
No person shall introduce or cause
to be introduced into the MS4 any harmful quantity of sediment, silt,
earth, soil, or other material associated with clearing, grading,
excavation, land filling, or other construction activities (including
any placement, movement, removal, or disposal of soil, rock, or other
earth materials) in excess of what could be retained on-site or captured
by employing sediment and erosion control measures to the maximum
extent practicable.
(e)
Connection of interior floor drain or other source of wastewater.
No person shall connect an interior floor drain or any other
source of wastewater, domestic or industrial, to the MS4, or allow
such a connection to continue.
(f)
Regulation of pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers.
(1)
No person shall use or cause to be use any pesticide or herbicide
contrary to any directions for use on any labeling required by state
or federal statute or regulation.
(2)
No person shall use or cause to be used any pesticide, herbicide,
or fertilizer in any manner that the person knows, or reasonably should
know, is likely to cause, or does cause, a harmful quantity of the
pesticide, herbicide, or fertilizer to enter the MS4 or waters of
the United States.
(3)
No person shall dispose of, discard, store, or transport a pesticide,
herbicide, or fertilizer, or a pesticide, herbicide, or fertilizer
container, in a manner that the person knows, or reasonably should
know, is likely to cause, or does cause, a harmful quantity of the
pesticide, herbicide or fertilizer to enter the MS4 or waters of the
United States.
(4)
If provided with a display notice containing the provisions of this
subsection, pertaining to the regulation of pesticides, herbicides
and fertilizers (or a reasonable description thereof), and the information
that any user of the product may obtain further information from the
director, any person selling pesticides, herbicides or fertilizers
at retail or wholesale shall post the notice prominently where it
may be read by purchasers of the product.
(g)
Used oil regulation.
(1)
No person shall:
(A)
Discharge used oil into the MS4 or a sewer, drainage system, septic
tank, surface water, groundwater or watercourse;
(B)
Knowingly mix or commingle used oil with solid waste that is to be
disposed of in a landfill or knowingly directly dispose of used oil
on land or in a landfill;
(C)
Apply used oil to a road or land for dust suppression, weed abatement,
or other similar use that introduces used oil into the environment.
(2)
All businesses that change motor oil for the public, municipal waste
landfills, and fire stations are encouraged to serve as public used
oil collection centers as provided by state statute in Texas Health
and Safety Code section 371.024.
(3)
A retail dealer who annually sells directly to the public more than
500 gallons of oil in containers for use off-premises shall post in
a prominent place a sign provided by the city or by the state informing
the public that improper disposal of used oil is prohibited by law.
The sign shall prominently display the toll-free telephone number
of the state used oil information center. If a sign is provided by
the city, it shall also prominently display the city telephone number
where information concerning the proper disposal of used oil may be
obtained.
(h)
Prohibited discharges to sanitary sewer system.
No person
shall introduce or cause to be introduced into the sanitary sewer
system any discharge of stormwater, polluted or unpolluted, or any
discharge that causes or contributes to causing the city to violate
a water quality standard, its agreements associated with the regional
sewage treatment plants or any state-issued permit.
(1998 Code, sec. 113-5; Ordinance 2010-05-003, sec. 2 (113-5), adopted 7/20/10; 2013 Code, sec. 48-6)
