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Sec. B11 1/2-24. Storm water treatment measures inspection responsibility.

A. The property owner(s) of Group 1 (including Group 1 HMP projects), Group 2A, and Group 2B projects shall be responsible for having all storm water management facilities periodically inspected for condition and function by a privately employed professional civil engineer who is registered by the State of California. (Alternatively, maintenance of landscape-based storm water treatment designs may also be inspected by a landscape architect who is licensed by the State of California.)

B. Unless otherwise required by the Development Services Office, storm water facility inspections shall be inspected according to the following schedule:

1. Landscape based facilities: once every three years (i.e., vegetated swales).

2. Detention based facilities: once every two years (i.e., detention ponds).

3. Growing (or green) roof systems: once every year (i.e., roofs that are covered with vegetation designed to trap storm water pollutants).

4. Proprietary devices, installed either underground or at the surface, that use filtration, baffles, chambers, or inverts to trap sediment: once every year (i.e., concrete chambers or flow devices designed for storm water treatment).

5. Infiltration based devices: once every three years (i.e. shallow rock filled dry wells, infiltration trenches, or pervious pavement).

6. Devices that use multiple methods of storm water treatment: once every year (i.e. a combination of a detention pond and an infiltration trench).

7. Devices that utilize powered pumping equipment: once every six months (i.e. any storm water treatment device where the discharge is higher than the inlet, requiring the pumping to a higher elevation of the treated storm water discharge).

C. Written records shall be kept of all inspections and shall include, at minimum, the following information:

1. Site address.

2. Date and time of inspection.

3. Name and signature of the person conducting the inspection.

4. Name, signature, and stamp of the privately employed professional civil engineer, or landscape architect for landscape-based designs, who is registered by the State of California, and who is responsible for the inspection.

5. List of storm water facilities inspected.

6. Condition of each storm water facility inspected.

7. Description of any needed maintenance or repairs.

8. As applicable, the need for site re-inspection prior to the next routine inspection.

9. Any noted violations of this ordinance or of the NPDES Storm Water Discharge Permit.

(Ord. No. NS-517.74, § 1, 10-17-06)

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