Title 16 - Buildings and Construction

16.210.010  Purpose and Findings.

1. A.
   The purpose of this Act is to minimize and prevent the discharge of pollutants from developed land into the surface waters of the City by establishing reasonable requirements for the treatment of stormwater runoff from new development and redevelopment activities.
2. B.
   The Governing Body finds that land development and the associated increases in impervious cover can increase the quantity and nature of pollutants carried by stormwater runoff, increase stormwater runoff rates and volumes, aggravate stream channel erosion and sediment transport, alter the hydrologic response of watersheds, and degrade the ecological function of downstream rivers, creeks, streams, lakes and other water bodies.
3. C.
   Further, the Governing Body finds that stormwater treatment facilities and requirements can minimize those impacts by reducing pollutant levels carried in stormwater runoff, removing or reducing the concentrations of those pollutants that are carried, reducing stream bank erosion, and by restoring stormwater runoff rates and volumes to levels closer to the pre-development hydrologic regimes.

(History: Ord. SWT-2669 §1, 2008)

Effective on: 1/1/1901