§ 13.16.100. Reduction of pollutants in storm water.

Any person engaged in activities which will or may result in pollutants entering the city storm sewer system shall eliminate such pollutants to the maximum extent practicable. Examples of such activities include, but are not limited to ownership and operation of leaking vehicles and ownership and use of facilities which may be a source of pollutants such as parking lots, gasoline stations, industrial facilities, commercial facilities, stores fronting city streets, etc. The following minimal requirements shall apply:

A.

Littering. No person shall throw, deposit, leave, maintain, keep, or permit to be thrown, deposited, placed, left or maintained, any refuse, rubbish, garbage, or other discarded or abandoned objects, articles, and accumulations, in or upon any street, alley, sidewalk, storm drain, inlet, catch basin, conduit or other drainage structure, business place, or upon any public or private lot of land in the city, so that the same might be or become a pollutant, except in lawfully established garbage containers or in lawfully established dumping grounds.

The occupant or tenant, or in the absence of occupant or tenant, the owner, lessee, or proprietor of any real property in the city in front of which there is a paved sidewalk shall maintain said sidewalk free of dirt or litter to the maximum extent practicable. Sweepings from said sidewalk shall not be swept or otherwise made or allowed to go into the gutter or roadway, but shall be disposed of in receptacles maintained on said real property as required for the disposal of garbage.

No person shall throw or deposit litter in any fountain, pond, lake, creek or any other body of water in a park or elsewhere within the city.

B.

Standard for Parking Lots and Similar Structures. Persons owning or operating a parking lot, gas station pavement or similar structure shall clean those structures as frequently and thoroughly as practicable in a manner that does not result in discharge of pollutants to the city storm sewer system.

C.

Best Management Practices for New Developments and Redevelopments. Any person or construction contractor performing work in the city shall, at a minimum, provide filter materials at the catch basin to prevent any debris and dirt from flowing into the city's storm sewer system. In addition, any person or construction contractor performing work in the city is subject to all the provisions of Ordinance No. 10446 C.M.S., entitled "Ordinance for Erosion and Sedimentation Control to Supplement Ordinance No. 10312 C.M.S. (Section 15.04.780 of the Oakland Municipal Code) dated January 18, 1983" and to any amendment or revision thereof.

The Chief of Building Services or his or her designee may establish controls on the volume and rate of storm water runoff from new developments and redevelopments as may be appropriate to minimize the discharge and transport of pollutants. The Chief of Building Services or his or her designee may require as a condition of development or redevelopment implementation of continuous or post construction best management practices such as good housekeeping practices or storm water treatment systems.

When required by the Chief of Building Services or his or her designee, best management practices shall be incorporated into required grading plans, erosion and sedimentation control plans, private improvement plans, plans associated with a building permit and subdivision development.

Any person or construction contractor performing work in the city shall ensure that best management practices required by the Chief of Building Services or his or her designee are properly maintained at all times during construction. Best management practices shall be employed as shown on said plans approved by the city, as required on the conditions on a permit, or as directed by the city's field representative.

Where continuous or post construction best management practices or storm water treatment systems have been required by the Chief of Building Services or his or her designee, proper maintenance of watercourse of said continuous or post construction best management practices or said treatment systems employed on a site shall be the responsibility of the property owner or, when applicable, the local homeowner association.

D.

Notification of Intent and Compliance with General Permits. Each industrial discharger, discharger associated with construction activity, or other discharger, described in any general storm water permit addressing such non-storm-water discharges or increase in flow, as may be adopted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the State Water Resources Control Board, or the California Regional Water Quality Control Board, San Francisco Bay Region, shall provide notice of intent, comply with, and undertake all other activities required by any general storm water permit applicable to such non-storm-water discharges or increase in flow.

Each discharger identified in an individual NPDES permit relating to non-storm-water discharges or increase in flow shall comply with and undertake all activities required by such permit.

E.

Compliance with Best Management Practices. Where best management practices guidelines or requirements have been adopted by any federal, state of California, regional, and/or city agency with jurisdiction for such adoption, for any activity, operation, or facility which may cause or contribute to storm water pollution or contamination, increase of flow, illicit discharge, and/or discharge of non-storm water to the storm water system, or watercourses, every person undertaking such activity or operation, or owning or operating such facility shall comply with such guidelines or requirements as such compliance is identified by the Environmental Services Manager.

(Ord. 12024 § 1 (part), 1997)