9542-04 Amend the Municipal Code book - Adding new article 11, to Chapter 17 - Regulating Storm Water Discharges to the City's separate

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(b) The City's Department of Public Works shall administer, implement, and enforce the provisions of this Chapter, and the Director of Public Works may delegate in writing any powers granted or duties imposed in this Chapter to persons or entities acting in the beneficial interest of or in the employ of the City. (c) The standards set forth in this Chapter are minimum standards and compliance by any person with these standards does not ensure that there will be no ultimate determination of contamination, pollution, nor unauthorized discharge of pollutants. (d) The provisions of this Article are hereby declared to be severable. If any provision, clause, sentence, or paragraph of this Article or the application thereof to any person, establishment, or circumstances shall be held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect the other provisions or application of this Article. Section 17-91 Prohibited Illegal Discharges; Exceptions (a) No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged into the City's 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. (b) The commencement, conduct or continuance of any illegal discharge to the storm drain system is prohibited except as described as follows: (i) The following discharges are exempt from discharge prohibitions established by this Article: water line flushing or other potable water sources, landscape irrigation or lawn watering, diverted stream flows, rising groundwater, groundwater infiltration to storm drains, uncontaminated pumped groundwater, foundation or footing drains (not including active groundwater dewatering systems), crawl space pumps, air conditioning condensation, springs, non-commercial washing of vehicles, natural riparian habitat or wet-land flows, swimming pools (if dechlorinated -typically less than one PPM chlorine), fire fighting activities, and any other water source not containing Pollutants. (ii) Discharges specified in writing by the authorized enforcement agency as being necessary to protect public health and safety. (iii) Dye testing is an allowable discharge, but requires a verbal notification to the authorized enforcement agency prior to the time of the test. (iv) The prohibition shall not apply to any non-stormwater discharge permitted under an NPDES permit, waiver, or waste discharge order issued to the discharger and administered under the authority of the Federal Environmental Protection Agency, -4-