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REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION <br />DATE: 11 / 13/06 <br />L'1'E.��' �S. <br />Department Approval: Manager Reviewed: Agenda Section: <br />�� � <br />l � <br />Item Description: Consider Approval of Erosion & Sediment Control Ordinance <br />Background: At the 9/18/06 work session, City staff presented to the City Council a proposed <br />Erosion and Sediment control ordinance. The Council discussed the ordinance and directed staff <br />to come back at a regular meeting for a formal reading. This ordinance was discussed by the <br />Public Works Environment and Transportation commission meetings in February and April of <br />this year. <br />Since 2003, the City of Roseville has had a permit to operate as an MS4 (municipal separate <br />storm sewer system) city. Under this federally mandated stormwater program, M�4s are required <br />to develop and implement a Stormwater Pollution Prevention Program (SWPPP). The SWPPP <br />must cover six minimum control measures: <br />Public education and outreach; <br />Public participatiodinvolvement; <br />■ Illicit discharge, detection and elimination; <br />• Constructionsite runoff control; <br />■ Post-construction site runoff control; and <br />■ Pollution preventianlgood housekeeping. <br />The City has had to identify best management practices (BM�'s) and measurable goals associated <br />with each of these six minimum control measure. As required by our permit, we submit an <br />annual report to the MPCA on the implementation of the SWPPP each spring. <br />One BMP the City of Roseville has implemented to meet the Construction Site Runoff Control <br />minimum control measure was the issuance of erosion control permits. The Council approved <br />the fee structure for the new permit last winter and we started to issue them this year. <br />Discussion: In enforcing the erosion control permits for construction sites, we have found that <br />our current erosion control requirements are scattered throughout various sections of the City <br />Code. As a result staff has worked on developing an updated erosion and sediment control <br />(ESC) ordinance, which would address construction site runoff controls. This proposed <br />ordinance would relocate all of these references to one section of the code. This, in iurn, would <br />ease and improve the implementation and enforcement of these permits. <br />