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action or failure to act. Discharges include but are not limited to surface runoff, <br />dumping, leaching by stormwater, point source connections, and spilling of pollutants. <br />Enforcement action. Citations, civil penalties, or abatement charges issued, <br />assessed, or billed against a responsible party. <br />Enforcement officer. The Director of the City's Public Works Department, <br />or his or her designee. <br />Hindered. 'Any action which inhibits the ability of City staff to investigate or <br />mitigate illegal/improper discharges to the city stormwater system. This includes, but <br />is not limited to: denying access to a facility to City staff or contract workers <br />attempting to investigate, or contain a discharge; providing false information; <br />withholding information such as product identification, time of spill, source of <br />material, or quantity of material discharged. <br />Ille ag 1/Improper discharge. Factors which constitute an improper/illegal <br />discharge include, but are not limited to: <br />1. Actions or the lack thereof that create an immediate potential <br />for pollutants to enter the city. stormwater system. If the facility has a <br />stormwater permit, the pollutant concentration must be above that allowed by <br />the .facility's permit to be considered a violation. <br />2. Failure to maintain a private system to prevent pollutants from <br />entering the city stormwater system. If the facility has a stormwater permit, <br />the pollutant concentration must be above that allowed by the facility's permit <br />to be considered a violation. <br />3. Discharges from a point source prohibited by either local, state, <br />or federal law. This includes discharges once allowed by these laws which are <br />now prohibited. This would include cooling water which has been chemically <br />altered or .has an elevated temperature. If the facility has a stormwater <br />permit, the pollutant concentration must be above that allowed by the facility's <br />permit to be considered a violation. <br />4. Intentional dumping of. waste products into (a) the city <br />stormwater system; or {b) a private system which, if the private system is not <br />cleaned or the situation mitigated, creates the potential for pollutants to enter <br />the city stormwater system. <br />S. Pollutants leached by rainwater from stored materials or from <br />leaking or spilled products which are then carried by surface runoff or other <br />means to the city stormwater system. <br />6. Release of pollutants due to: washing spilled materials into the <br />city stormwater system or to a private system which, if the private system is <br />not cleaned or the situation mitigated, creates the potential for pollutants to <br />enter the city stormwater system; failure to clean-up or mitigate a spill; failure <br />to store materials under cover; cleaning equipment so as to allow the <br />x°-- <br />Proposed stormwater System. Administrative Rule - 2 01/12/96 <br />