Title 7 - Health and Sanitation

7.58.040 General Prohibition.

1. A.
   No person shall release or cause to be released into the municipal separate storm sewer system (MS4), or into any surface water within the City, any discharge that is not composed entirely of stormwater that is free of pollutants, except as allowed in subsection B.
2. B.
   The following non-stormwater discharges are deemed acceptable and not a violation of this section:

   1. 1.
      Discharges authorized by, and in full compliance with, an NPDES permit;
   2. 2.
      Discharges or flows resulting from fire fighting activities;
   3. 3.
      Water line flushing;
   4. 4.
      Lawn watering, landscape irrigation, or other irrigation water;
   5. 5.
      Diverted stream flow;
   6. 6.
      Uncontaminated pumped groundwater or rising groundwater;
   7. 7.
      Uncontaminated groundwater infiltration;
   8. 8.
      Uncontaminated discharge or flow from a foundation drain, crawl space pump, footing drain, or sump pump;
   9. 9.
      A discharge or flow from a potable water source;
   10. 10.
       Air conditioning condensate;
   11. 11.
       Individual residential car washing;
   12. 12.
       A discharge or flow from a riparian habitat, wetland or natural spring;
   13. 13.
       Street wash waters (excluding street sweepings which have been removed from the street);
   14. 14.
       Dechlorinated swimming pool discharges excluding filter backwash;
   15. 15.
       Heat pump discharge waters (residential only). 
3. C.
   Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection B of this section, any discharge shall be prohibited by this section if the discharge in question has been determined by the Director to be a source of a pollutants to the MS4 or to surface waters, written notice of such determination has been provided to the property owner or person responsible for such discharges, and the discharge has occurred more than ten days beyond such notice.

(History: Ord. SWP-2562 §1, 2006)

Effective on: 1/1/1901