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system shall undertake all practicable measures to re-
<br />duce such pollutants. Examples of such activities in-
<br />clude ownership and use of facilities which may be a
<br />source of pollutants such as parking lots, gasoline sta-
<br />tions, industrial facilities, commercial facilities, stores
<br />fronting city streets, etc. The following minimal re-
<br />quirements shall apply:
<br />A. Littering.
<br />1. No person shall throw, deposit, leave, main-
<br />tain, keep or permit to be thrown, deposited, placed, left
<br />or maintained, any refuse, rubbish, garbage or other dis-
<br />carded or abandoned objects, articles and accumulations,
<br />in or upon any street, alley, sidewalk, storm drain, inlet,
<br />catch basin, conduit or other drainage structures, busi-
<br />ness place or upon any public or private lot of land in
<br />the city, so that the same might be or become a pollut-
<br />ant, except in containers or in lawfully established
<br />dumping grounds.
<br />2. The occupant or tenant, or in the absence of
<br />occupant or tenant, the owner, lessee or proprietor of
<br />any real property in the city in front of which there is a
<br />paved sidewalk shall maintain said sidewalk free of dirt
<br />or litter to the maximum extent practicable. Sweepings
<br />from said sidewalk shall not be swept or otherwise made
<br />or allowed to go into the gutter or roadway but shall be
<br />disposed of in receptacles maintained on said real prop-
<br />erty as required for the disposal of garbage.
<br />3. No person shall throw or deposit litter in any
<br />fountain, pond, lake, stream or any other body of water
<br />in a park or elsewhere within the city.
<br />B. Standard for Parking Lots and Similar Struc-
<br />tures. Persons owning or operating a parking lot, gas
<br />station pavement or similar structure shall clean those
<br />structures as frequently and thoroughly as practicable in
<br />a manner that does not result in discharge of pollutants
<br />to the city storm sewer system.
<br />C. Best Management Practices for New Devel-
<br />opments and Redevelopments. Any construction con-
<br />tractor performing work in the city shall endeavor,
<br />whenever possible, to provide filter materials at the
<br />catch basin to retain any debris and dirt flowing into the
<br />city's storm sewer system. The operations services di-
<br />rector may establish controls on the volume and rate of
<br />stormwater runoff from new developments and redevel-
<br />opments as may be appropriate to minimize the dis-
<br />charge and transport of pollutants.
<br />D. Notification of Intent and Compliance with
<br />General Permits.
<br />1. Each industrial discharger, discharger asso-
<br />ciated with construction activity or other discharger,
<br />described in any general stormwater permit addressing
<br />such discharges, as may be adopted by the United States
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<br />Environmental Protection Agency, the state Water Re-
<br />sources Control Board, or the California Regional Water
<br />Quality Control Board, San Francisco Bay Region, shall
<br />provide notice of intent, comply with and undertake all
<br />other activities required by any general stormwater per-
<br />mit applicable to such discharges.
<br />2. Each discharger identified in an individual
<br />NPDES permit relating to stormwater discharges shall
<br />comply with and undertake all activities required by
<br />such permit.
<br />E. Compliance with Best Management Prac-
<br />tices. Where best management practices guidelines or
<br />requirements have been adopted by any federal, state,
<br />regional and /or city agency, for any activity, operation
<br />or facility which may cause or contribute to stormwater
<br />pollution or contamination, illicit discharges and /or dis-
<br />charge of non- stormwater to the stormwater system,
<br />every person undertaking such activity or operation or
<br />owning or operating such facility shall comply with such
<br />guidelines or requirements as may be identified by the
<br />operations services director. (Ord. 2000 § 1, 2009; Ord.
<br />1572 § 2, 1992)
<br />9.14.090 Watercourse protection.
<br />A. Maintenance. Every person owning property
<br />through which a watercourse passes, or such person's
<br />lessee or tenant, shall keep and maintain that part of the
<br />watercourse within the property reasonably free of trash,
<br />debris, excessive vegetation and other obstacles which
<br />would pollute, contaminate or significantly retard the
<br />flow of water through the watercourse; shall maintain
<br />existing privately owned structures within or adjacent to
<br />a watercourse, so that such structures will not become a
<br />hazard to the use, function or physical integrity of the
<br />watercourse; and shall not remove healthy bank vegeta-
<br />tion beyond that actually necessary for said mainte-
<br />nance, nor remove said vegetation in such a manner as
<br />to increase the vulnerability of the watercourse to ero-
<br />sion.
<br />B. Prohibited Acts. No person shall commit or
<br />cause to be committed any of the following acts, unless
<br />a written permit has first been obtained from the opera-
<br />tions services director:
<br />1. Discharge into or connect any pipe or chan-
<br />nel to a watercourse.
<br />2. Modify the natural flow of water in a water-
<br />course.
<br />3. Carry out development within 30 of the cen-
<br />ter line of any creek or 20 feet of the top of a bank.
<br />4. Deposit in, plant in or remove any material
<br />from a watercourse including its banks, except as re-
<br />quired for necessary maintenance.
<br />(Pleasanton Supp. No. 3, I -10)
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