[Ord. No. 2057, 6-29-1992]
LOC §§
38.24.500 to 38.24.599 shall be known as the Surface Water Management Utility Section of the Utility Code.
[Ord. No. 2057, 6-29-1992]
The City Council finds and declares
that absent effective maintenance, operation, regulation and control,
existing surface water drainage conditions in all drainage basins
within the City constitute a potential hazard to the health, safety
and property of the citizens of the city. The City Council further
finds that natural and man-made surface water facilities and conveyances
together constitute a surface water drainage system. A Surface Water
Management Utility is therefore created.
[Ord. No. 2057, 6-29-1992]
1. The Surface Water Management Utility shall
plan, design, construct, maintain, administer and operate all City
surface water conveyances and facilities, and the regulations for
its control, as well as establish standards for design and construction.
2. The City Manager shall be the administrator
of the Program.
[Ord. No. 2057, 6-29-1992]
The following assets are hereby vested
in the Surface Water Management Utility:
All properties, interests, and physical
or intangible rights owned or held by the City insofar as they concern
surface water or surface water management. These rights include all
properties or interests in property acquired by adverse possession
or prescription, directly or through another, in the drainage or storage
of surface waters via lands, watercourses, sloughs, streams, wetlands,
ponds and lakes (with the specific exclusion of Oswego Lake), all
beginning at a point where surface waters first enter the system of
the City and ending in each instance at a point where the surface
waters exit from the system of the City, and in width to the full
extent of inundation caused by storm or flood conditions.
[Ord. No. 2057, 6-29-1992; Ord.
No. 2695, Amended, 2-16-2016]
1. The City shall adopt and from time to time
may amend a Surface Water Management Master Plan. The Plan shall establish
an appropriate level of maintenance for surface water facilities,
including catch basins and pollution control manholes. The City shall
monitor the effectiveness of this level of maintenance, and may adjust
the frequency of cleaning or maintenance as necessary.
2. All privately owned catch basins and pollution
control manholes that drain to the public surface water management
system shall be maintained and cleaned. The property owner or customer
shall be responsible for such maintenance as necessary to ensure operability.