14.28.020 Purpose and intent.

The purpose of this chapter is to ensure the future health, safety, and general welfare of the city of American Canyon citizens: to secure benefits from the use of stormwater as a resource; and to protect and enhance watercourses, fish, and wildlife habitat by:

(A) Minimizing discharges other than stormwater to storm drains or watercourses;

(B) Responding to the discharge of spills, preventing and controlling the discharge of spills, and prohibiting the dumping or disposal of materials other than stormwater to storm drains or watercourses;

(C) Reducing pollutants in stormwater discharges to the maximum extent practicable;

(D) Requiring operators of construction sites, new or redeveloped land, and industrial and commercial facilities to install, implement, or maintain appropriate best management practices (BMPs); and

(E) Requiring development projects to maintain or reduce the volume, velocity, peak flow rate, and duration of runoff as compared to pre-development runoff, and preventing stormwater pollution whenever possible, through stormwater management controls and ensuring that these management controls are properly maintained.

The intent of this chapter is to protect and enhance the water quality of the state's and the nation's watercourses, water bodies and wetlands in a manner pursuant to and consistent with the Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. Section 1951 et seq.), the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act (California Water Code Section 13000 et seq.), and the Phase II Small Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permit, Water Quality Order No. 2013-0001—DWQ, General Permit No. CAS000004 (Phase II Stormwater Permit), and subsequent revisions and amendments thereto.