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CITY OF ROSEVILLE
<br />STORM WATER ILLICIT DISCHARGE AND CONNECTIONS ORDINANCE
<br />803,03: STORM WATER ILLICIT DISCHARGE AND CONNECTIONS
<br />A. Purpose:
<br />The purpose of the ordinance is to promote, preserve and enhance the natural resources within
<br />the City and protect them from adverse effects occasioned by non-storm water discharged by
<br />regulating discharges that would have an adverse and potentially irreversible impact on water
<br />quality and environmentally sensitive land. Thise ru~rc~°~c~„~ ordinance will i-s-t~provide for
<br />the health, safety, and general welfare of the citizens of the City of Roseville through the regulation
<br />of non-storm water discharges to the storm drainage system to the maximum extent practicable as
<br />required by federal and state law. This ordinance establishes methods for controlling the introduction
<br />of pollutants into the municipal separate storm sewer system (MS4) in order to comply with
<br />requirements of the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit process. The
<br />objectives of this ordinance are:
<br />1. To regulate the contribution of pollutants to the municipal separate storm sewer system (MS4) by
<br />storm water discharges by any user
<br />2. To prohibit Illicit Connections and Discharges to the municipal separate storm sewer system
<br />3. To establish legal authority to carry out all inspection, surveillance and monitoring procedures
<br />necessary to ensure compliance with this ordinance
<br />B. Definitions:
<br />For the purposes of this ordinance, the following terms, phrases, words and their derivatives shall
<br />have the meaning stated below.
<br />1. BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE (BMP): Erosion and sediment control and water quality
<br />management practices that are the most effective and practicable means of controlling, preventing, and
<br />minimizing the degradation of surface water, including construction-phasing, minimizing the length of
<br />time soil areas are exposed, prohibitions, and other management practices published by state or
<br />designated area-wide planning agencies.
<br />2. DISCHARGE: Adding, introducing, releasing, leaking, spilling, casting, throwing, or emitting any
<br />pollutant, or placing any pollutant in a location where it is likely to pollute waters of the state.
<br />3. EQUIPMENT: Implements used in an operation or activity. Examples include, but are not
<br />limited to; lawn mowers, weed whips, shovels, wheelbarrows.
<br />~4. EROSION: any process that wears away the surface of the land by the action of water, wind, ice, or
<br />gravity. Erosion can be accelerated by the activities of man and nature.
<br />~5. GROUNDWATER: Water contained below the surface of the earth in the saturated zone including,
<br />without limitation, all waters whether under conned, unconfined, or perched conditions, in near
<br />surface unconsolidated sediment or regolith, or in rock formations deeper underground.
<br />~6. ILLEGAL DISCHARGE: Any direct or indirect non-storm water discharge to the storm drain system,
<br />except as exempted in this chapter.
<br />~7. ILLICIT CONNECTION: Either of the following:
<br />(i) Any drain ar conveyance, whether on the surface or subsurface, which allows an illegal discharge to
<br />enter the storm drain system (including any non-storm water discharge) including sewage, process
<br />wastewater, and wash water and any connections to the storm drain system from indoor drains and
<br />sinks, regardless of whether said drain or connection had been previously allowed, permitted, or
<br />approved by the u~~ u~'~ ~ ' ° ~* ~ °
<br />~z~~ City; or,
<br />(ii) Any drain or conveyance coruiected from a residential, commercial or industrial land use to the
<br />storm drain system which has not been documented in plans, maps, or equivalent records and
<br />approved by the City.
<br />~8. ILLICIT DISCHARGE: Any direct or indirect non-storm water discharge to the storm sewer system,
<br />except as exempted in this chapter.
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