§ 16.32.030. 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 16.32.020.

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 KDHE water quality standard, the city's NPDES stormwater 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 or cause, allow, or permit to be introduced the following substances into the MS4:

1.

Any used motor oil, antifreeze or any other petroleum product or waste;

2.

A harmful quantity of industrial waste;

3.

Any hazardous waste, including household hazardous waste;

4.

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

5.

Any garbage, rubbish, or yard waste;

6.

Wastewater that contains a harmful quantity of soap, detergent, degreaser, solvent, or surfactant based cleaner 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 five such vehicles;

7.

Wastewater from the washing, cleaning, de-icing, or other maintenance of aircraft;

8.

Wastewater from a commercial mobile power washer or from the washing or other cleaning of a building exterior that contains any harmful quantity of soap, detergent, degreaser, solvent, or any surfactant based cleaner;

9.

Any wastewater from commercial 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 wash-down 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, emission filter, or the blowdown from a boiler;

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Any filter backwash from a swimming pool or fountain;

15.

Any swimming pool water containing a harmful level 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 super chlorination if it contains a harmful level of chlorine at the point of entry into the MS4 or waters of the United States;

17.

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

18.

Any contaminated runoff from a vehicle wrecking yard;

19.

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

20.

Any release from a petroleum storage tank (PST), or any leachate or runoff from soil contaminated by leaking PST; or any discharge of pumped, confined, or treated wastewater from the remediation of any such PST release, unless the discharge has received an NPDES permit from the state.

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 in excess of what could be retained on site or captured by employing sediment and erosion control measures to the maximum extent practicable under prevailing circumstances.

E.

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

F.

Regulation of Pesticides and Fertilizers.

1.

No person shall use or cause to be used any pesticide or fertilizer in any manner that the person knows, or reasonably should know, is likely to cause, or does cause, a harmful quantity of the pesticide or fertilizer to enter the MS4 or waters of the United States.

2.

No person shall dispose of, discard, store, or transport a pesticide or fertilizer, or its container, in a manner that the person knows, or reasonably should know, is likely to cause, or does cause, a harmful quantity of the pesticide or fertilizer to enter the MS4 or waters of the United States.

G.

Used Oil Regulation.

1.

No person shall discharge used oil into the MS4 or a sewer, drainage system, septic tank, surface water, groundwater, or water course.

H.

Cleanup. Should it be determined by the director that any person or business has allowed any pollutant into the MS4 or waters of the United States, immediate measures will be taken by the responsible party to remove the pollutants. If the pollutants are not removed within the time period specified by the director, the city may remove the pollutants and assess the cost thereof to the responsible party. The city may use any legal means to collect said cost, should the responsible party fail to pay said cost within forty-five days.

(Ord. No. 44-123 § 3)