13.34.010 Purpose.
The purpose of this chapter is to provide for the health, safety, and general welfare of the citizens of Monroe, Washington, through the regulation of nonstormwater discharges to the stormwater drainage system to the maximum extent practicable as required by federal and state law. This chapter establishes methods for controlling the introduction of pollutants into the stormwater drainage system in order to comply with requirements of the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit process. The objectives of this chapter are:
A. To regulate the contribution of pollutants to the stormwater drainage system by stormwater discharges by any person.
B. To prohibit illicit connections and illicit discharges to the stormwater drainage systems.
C. To establish legal authority to carry out all inspection, surveillance and monitoring procedures necessary to ensure compliance with this chapter.
D. To protect the quality of the city’s municipal separate stormwater sewer system (MS4), receiving waters, groundwater, aquatic resources and sediments, from the discharge of contaminants and the adverse impacts of stormwater runoff.
E. To protect the function and integrity of public infrastructure related to stormwater control, including drainage facilities, associated rights-of-way, and city roadways.
F. To reduce, prevent, and improve the adverse impacts of contaminated discharges on public health, safety, and welfare.
G. To protect, maintain, and improve the quality of the city’s water resources for fish and wildlife habitat, human recreation, and other ecological and aesthetic purposes and beneficial uses.
H. To establish minimum requirements pursuant to which owners, occupants, or operators of real property must effectively implement all known, available and reasonable methods of treatment and control of discharges from their real property, consistent with the Washington State Department of Ecology’s Stormwater Management Manual for Western Washington (SWMM) as adopted by the city pursuant to Chapter 23.40 MMC, RCW 90.48.260, the Clean Water Act, and the city’s NPDES phase II municipal stormwater general permit.
I. To establish procedures pursuant to which the city may enforce compliance with the requirements described above. (Ord. 023/2022 § 1; Ord. 016/2021 § 2; Ord. 013/2009 § 1)