§ 98-583. Specific prohibitions and requirements.

(a)

The specific prohibitions and requirements in this Section are not necessarily inclusive of all the discharges prohibited by the general prohibition in Section 98-582.

(b)

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)

No person shall dump, spill, leak, pump, pour, emit, empty, discharge, leach, dispose, or otherwise introduce, 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 hazardous household waste;

(4)

Any domestic sewage or septic tank waste, grease trap waste, or grit trap waste;

(5)

Any garbage, rubbish, or yard waste;

(6)

Any wastewater from a commercial carwash facility; from 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 from any washing, cleaning, or maintenance of any business or commercial or public service vehicle, including a truck, bus, or heavy equipment, by a business or public entity that operates more than two such vehicles;

(7)

Any wastewater from the washing, cleaning, de-icing, 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;

(9)

Any wastewater from floor, rug, or carpet cleaning;

(10)

Any wastewater from the washdown or other cleaning of pavement that contains any harmful quantity of soap, detergent, solvent, degreaser, emulsifier, dispersant, or any other harmful cleaning substance; or any wastewater from the washdown or other cleaning of any pavement 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 blowdown from a boiler;

(12)

Any ready-mixed concrete, mortar, ceramic, or asphalt base material or hydromulch material, or material from the cleaning of vehicles or equipment containing, or used in transporting or applying, such material;

(13)

Any runoff or washdown water from any animal pen, kennel, fowl or livestock containment area;

(14)

Any filter backwash from a swimming pool, fountain, or spa;

(15)

Any swimming pool water containing a harmful quantity of chlorine, muriatic acid or other chemical used in the treatment or disinfection of the swimming pool water or in pool cleaning;

(16)

Any discharge from water line disinfection by superchlorination or other means if it contains any harmful quantity of chlorine or any other chemical used in line disinfection;

(17)

Any fire protection water containing oil or hazardous substances or materials, unless treatment adequate to remove pollutants occurs prior to discharge;

(18)

Any water from a water curtain in a spray room used for painting vehicles or equipment;

(19)

Any contaminated runoff from a vehicle salvage yard;

(20)

Any substance or material that will damage, block, or clog the MS4;

(21)

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, unless the discharge:

(a)

Complies with all state and federal standards and requirements;

(b)

Does not contain a harmful quantity of any pollutant; and

(c)

Does not contain more than 50 parts per billion of benzene; 500 parts per billion combined total quantities of benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene; or 15 mg/l of total petroleum hydrocarbons.

(d)

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 or other construction activities, or associated with land filling or other placement 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 as required by the City's Erosion and Sediment Control Ordinance.

(e)

No person shall connect a line conveying sanitary sewage, domestic or industrial, to the MS4, or allow such a connection to continue.

(f)

No person shall cause or allow any pavement-wash water from a service station to be discharged into the MS4 unless such wash water has passed through a properly functioning and maintained, grease, oil, and sand interceptor before discharge into the MS4.

(g)

No person shall:

(1)

Discharge used oil into the MS4 or a sewer, drainage system, septic tank, surface water, groundwater, or water course;

(2)

Mix or commingle used oil with solid waste that is to be disposed of in a landfill or directly dispose of used oil on land or in a landfill; or

(3)

Apply used oil to a road or land for dust suppression, weed abatement, or other similar use that introduces used oil into the environment.

(Ord. No. O-2009-025-11, § 1, 11-16-09)