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Chapter 9.14 <br />STORMWATER MANAGEMENT AND DISCHARGE CONTROL <br />§ 9.14.010 Purpose and intent. <br />This chapter shall be known as the "City of Pleasanton Stormwater Management and Discharge Control <br />Ordinance" and may be so cited. <br />The purpose of this chapter is to ensure the future health, safety and general welfare of city Pleasanton <br />citizens by: <br />A. Eliminating the non-stormwater discharges to the municipal separate storm sewer (hereinafter referred <br />to as MS4). <br />B. Controlling the discharge to municipal separate storm sewers from spills, dumping or disposal of <br />materials other than stormwater.; <br />C. Reducing pollutants and wastes in stormwater discharges to the maximum extent practicable (MEP);. <br />E. Establishing the City of Pleasanton to comply with the California Regional Water Quality Control Board <br />San Francisco Bay Area Region Municipal Regional Stormwater National Pollutant Discharge <br />Elimination System (NPDES) permit (hereinafter referred to as the MRP), or amended as revised, <br />NPDES Permit No. CAS612008, any reissuance thereof, and applicable federal and state regulations. <br />The MRP is available on the Regional Water Board website at: <br />https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/sanfranciscobay/water_issues/programs/stormwater/ <br />The intent of this chapter ordinance is to protect and enhance the water quality of our watercourses, water <br />bodies, and wetlands in a manner pursuant to and consistent with the Clean Water Act and the California <br />Water Code. <br />§ 9.14.020 Compliance with Other Laws <br />A. The requirements of this chapter are minimum requirements. They do not replace, repeal, abrogate, <br />supersede, or affect any other more stringent requirements, rules, regulations, covenants, standards, or <br />restrictions. Where this chapter imposes requirements that are more protective of human health or the <br />environment than those set forth elsewhere, the provisions of this chapter shall prevail. <br />B.Approvals and permits granted under this chapter are not waivers of the requirements of any other <br />laws, nor do they indicate compliance with any other laws. Compliance is still required with all <br />applicable federal, state, regional, and local laws and regulations, including rules promulgated under <br />authority of this chapter. <br />(Ord. 1572 § 2, 1992) <br />§ 9.14.0320 Definitions. <br />A. A.Any terms defined in the MRP, Federal Clean Water Act, or the California water Code and acts <br />amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, and/or defined in the regulations for the stormwater <br />discharge permitting program issued by the United States Environmental Protection Agency on <br />November 16, 1990 (as may, from time to time, be amended), as used in this chapter, shall have the <br />same meaning as in that statute or regulations. Specifically, the definition of the following terms <br />included in that statute or regulation are hereby incorporated by reference, as now applicable or as <br />may hereafter be amended: discharge, illicit discharge, pollutant and stormwater. These terms <br />presently are defined as follows: <br />1. “Applicant” means any Person applying to the City of Pleasanton for permitting or approval of a <br />Page 281 of 428