13.30.010 Purpose.
The purpose of this chapter is to protect the health, safety, and welfare of citizens by improving the city’s storm system, managing and controlling storm water runoff, protecting property, preventing polluted water from entering the city’s storm water system and other receiving waters to the extent practicable as required by federal and state law. The objectives of this chapter are:
A. To regulate the contribution of pollutants to the municipal separate storm sewer system (the system) by storm water discharges by any user.
B. To prohibit illicit connections and discharges to the system.
C. To guide, regulate, and control the design, construction, use, and maintenance of any development or other activity that results in the movement of earth on land within West Point City.
D. To minimize increases in nonpoint source pollution caused by storm water runoff from development which would otherwise degrade local water quality.
E. To reduce storm water runoff rates and volumes, soil erosion and nonpoint source pollution, wherever feasible, through storm water management controls and ensure that these management controls are properly maintained and reduce threats to public safety.
F. To establish legal authority to carry out all inspections, surveillance, and monitoring procedures to ensure compliance with this chapter. [Code 2000 § 9-3a-1].