A. Any person engaging in activities that may result in pollutants entering the City’s storm drain system shall undertake all practicable measures to reduce and/or eliminate such pollutants.

B. Any construction contractor performing work in the City shall implement appropriate best management practices to prevent the discharge of construction wastes or debris or contaminants from construction materials, tools, and equipment from entering the stormwater system.

C. Persons owning, operating, or maintaining a paved parking lot, the paved areas of a gas station, a paved private street, road, or driveway and related stormwater systems shall clean those structures as frequently and thoroughly as practicable in a manner that does not result in discharge of pollutants to the stormwater system.

D. Every person owning or leasing property through which a watercourse passes shall keep and maintain that part of the watercourse within the property reasonably free of trash, debris, excessive vegetation, and other obstacles that would pollute, contaminate, or significantly retard the flow of water through the watercourse. In addition, the owner or lessee shall maintain existing privately owned structures within or adjacent to a watercourse, so that such structures will not become a hazard to the use, function, or physical integrity of the watercourse. The owner or lessee shall not remove healthy bank vegetation beyond that actually necessary for maintenance, nor remove said vegetation in such a manner as to increase the vulnerability of the watercourse to erosion. The property owner or lessee shall be responsible for maintaining and stabilizing that portion of the watercourse that is within their property lines in order to protect against erosion and degradation of the watercourse originating or contributed from their property.

E. The occupant or tenant, or in the absence of occupant or tenant, the owner or proprietor of any real property in the City in front of which there is a paved sidewalk shall maintain that portion of the sidewalk in front of the property free of dirt or litter to the maximum extent practicable. Sweepings from the sidewalk shall not be swept or otherwise made or allowed to go into the gutter or roadway or any element of any drainage system, but shall be disposed of in receptacles maintained as required for the disposal of solid waste.

F. Each industrial discharger, discharger associated with construction activity or other discharger described in any general stormwater permit addressing such discharges as may be adopted by the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the State Water Resources Control Board, or the California Regional Water Quality Control Board, North Coast Region, shall provide the notice of intent, comply with and undertake all other activities required by any general stormwater permit applicable to such dischargers, and shall provide a copy of the notice of intent and of each annual report pursuant to any general stormwater permit to the program leader, and shall pay any associated monitoring and enforcement fees to the City that may be set by the City Council. Each discharger identified in an individual NPDES permit relating to stormwater discharges shall comply with and undertake all activities required by such permit.

G. Where best management practice guidelines or requirements have been adopted or published by the Environmental Protection Agency, any State of California agency, any North Coast Area agency, or the City, for any activity, operation or facility which may cause or contribute to prohibited discharges, every person undertaking such activity or operation or owning or operating such commercial facility shall comply with such guideline or requirement.

H. The program leader may require any business in the City that is engaged in activities which may result in prohibited discharges to develop and implement a stormwater pollution prevention plan, which must include an employee training program. Business activities which may require a stormwater pollution prevention plan include, but are not limited to, maintenance, storage, manufacturing, assembly, equipment operations, vehicle loading or fueling, or cleanup procedures which are carried out partially or wholly out of doors.

I. The City may adopt requirements identifying appropriate best management practices to control the volume, rate, and potential pollutant load of stormwater runoff from new development and redevelopment projects as may be appropriate to minimize the generation, transport and discharge of pollutants. The City shall incorporate such requirements in any land use entitlement and construction or building-related permit to be issued relative to such development or redevelopment. The owner and developer shall comply with the terms, provisions, and conditions of such land use entitlements and building permits as required in this chapter. (Ord. 1068, 2014)