14.20.230 Testing, monitoring or mitigation required – When.
A. The enforcement official may require that any person engaged in any activity and/or owning or operating any facility which causes or may contribute to storm water pollution or contamination, illegal discharges, and/or discharge of non-storm water to the storm water conveyance system perform monitoring, including physical and chemical monitoring and/or analyses, and furnish reports as the enforcement official may specify, if:
1. The person, or facility owner or operator, fails to eliminate illegal discharges within a specified time after receiving a written notice to do so by the enforcement official; or
2. The enforcement official has documented repeated violations of this chapter by the person or facility owner, or operator, which have caused or contributed to storm water pollution.
It is unlawful for such person or facility owner or operator to fail or refuse to undertake and provide the monitoring, analyses, and/or reports specified. Specific monitoring criteria shall bear a relationship to the types of pollutants which may be generated by the person’s activities or the facility’s operations. If the enforcement agency has evidence that a pollutant is originating from a specific premises, then the enforcement agency may require monitoring for that pollutant regardless of whether said pollutant may be generated by routine activities or operations. The person or facility owner or operator shall be responsible for all costs of these activities, analyses and reports.
B. Any persons required to monitor, pursuant to subsection (A) of this section, shall implement a storm water monitoring program including, but not limited to, the following:
1. Routine visual monitoring for dry weather flows;
2. Routine visual monitoring for spills which may pollute storm water runoff;
3. A monitoring log including monitoring date, potential pollution sources, as noted in subsections (B)(1) and (B)(2) of this section, and a description of the mitigation measures taken to eliminate any potential pollution sources.
C. If testing, monitoring or mitigation required pursuant to this chapter is deemed no longer necessary by the enforcement official, then any or all of the requirements contained in subsections (A) and (B) of this section may be discontinued.
D. A storm water monitoring program prepared and implemented pursuant to any NPDES permit shall be deemed to meet the requirements of a monitoring program for the purposes of this chapter. All monitoring data and analytical evaluation/assessment reports required by such a permit shall be submitted to the City at the same time the data and reports are submitted to the Regional Water Quality Control Board. (Ord. 3348 § 1, 2015; Ord. 2854 § 12, 2002; Ord. 2597 § 11, 1994).