Bakersfield Municipal Code Ch. 8.34 Industrial Stormwater

Sections: 8.34.010 Definition of industrial stormwater. 8.34.020 General. 8.34.030 Compliance with state and federal standards and regulations. 8.34.040 Noncomplying industrial activity. 8.34.050 Notices of self-monitoring. 8.34.060 Compliance with city’s NPDES permit. 8.34.070 Notification of industrial activity, NPDES permit. 8.34.080 Access to industrial activity sites.

“Industrial stormwater” means those flows resulting from precipitation originating upon or flowing across industrial uses, as specified in the California Water Resources Control Board’s General Industrial Storm Water Permit adopted November 19, 1991, prior to discharging into city maintained and operated stormwater systems or facilities. (Ord. 3527 § 1, 1993)

No person shall discharge, or cause to be discharged, any industrial wastewaters directly or indirectly to the city’s stormwater collection systems, surface canals or any waterway within the city. Stormwater runoff from industrial sites, not including industrial wastewater, may be discharged into the city’s stormwater collection system, surface canals or any other waterway included in the city’s National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) May 17, 1992 application only after filing proper “Notice of Intent” and complying with other permit requirements of the state’s General Industrial Storm Water Permit. (Ord. 3527 § 1, 1993)

All industrial activities shall comply with the strictest of any applicable federal or state standards or regulations covering the discharge of stormwater or surface water, including but not limited to those adopted pursuant to the Clean Water Act, PL 95-217, as amended, and the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES). (Ord. 3527 § 1, 1993)

Any industrial activity not complying with the standards or regulations, as required by Section 8.34.030, may be required by the public works director to develop and implement a compliance schedule for any measures or facilities as may be necessary to meet said standards and regulations. (Ord. 3527 § 1, 1993)

The public works director may require the submission of such notices of self-monitoring report from the site of industrial activities as he or she may consider necessary to assure compliance with said standards and regulations. (Ord. 3527 § 1, 1993)

Holders of NPDES industrial stormwater permits which discharge stormwater or surface water to the city’s storm drainage facilities shall comply with applicable requirements of the city’s NPDES permit for its municipal separate storm water system. (Ord. 3527 § 1, 1993)

Industrial activities required to obtain NPDES permits regulating the discharge of stormwater and surface water to the city’s storm drainage facilities shall notify the public works director that they are subject to such permit. NPDES permit holders shall notify the director immediately by telephone upon discovery of any discharge in violation of their permit. (Ord. 3527 § 1, 1993)

The public works director or a representative shall have access to the site of the industrial activity regulated by a NPDES industrial stormwater permit, for purposes of inspection and monitoring, upon notice to the designated representative of the NPDES permit holder or in the event of no NPDES permit being in effect, the operator of the industrial activity. (Ord. 3527 § 1, 1993)