Industrial Urban Runoff Requirements Manual Chapter 1 Introduction 1.2 What are Urban Runoff and Storm Water? The terms, Urban Runoff and storm water (sometimes written as one word, “stormwater”), are commonly used in discussions about the quality of water in urbanized areas. These terms are often This Industrial Urban Runoff Requirements Manual used interchangeably and, therefore, are confusing. (Manual) details requirements of industrial Urban Runoff refers to water that originates in businesses, which were developed by the City of urbanized areas. Sources of Urban Runoff include Oceanside (City) as part of the City’s Jurisdictional precipitation, industry discharges, leaks, washing, Urban Runoff Management Program (JURMP) and irrigation, and natural springs. Storm water refers to the City’s Clean Water Program. The City produced water generated from precipitation during a storm this Manual in conjunction with the amendments to event. However, in some cases inconsistent with its the City’s Municipal Code, Chapter 40, Urban definition, storm water is used to refer to or to Runoff Management and Discharge Control include Urban Runoff not exclusively resulting from Regulations. precipitation. Inversely, the definition of non-storm water is water that is not the direct product of storm precipitation such as water from industry 1.1 How to Use this Manual discharges, leaks, washing, irrigation, and springs. Therefore, Urban Runoff is composed of both storm This Manual is provided to assist businesses in water and non-storm water. complying with the City’s Urban Runoff Management and Discharge Control Regulations. Information is provided to assist businesses in Regardless of the terminology, water located in determining their applicability to the City’s urbanized areas and the quality of that water is of requirements and it details the requirements that the utmost importance. The water in urbanized applicable businesses must comply with. areas drains to the creeks, lakes, lagoons in the City, and ultimately to the ocean. Many people recreate and fish in these waters, and still others This Manual is divided into the following six enjoy the plants and wildlife that these aquatic chapters: habitats support. All water used in the homes and businesses in the City drain to the ocean, creeks, Chapter 1 Provides an introduction to the Manual and lakes. Spills, trash, and pollutants wash from and a brief overview of its purpose properties and roads into the public drainage and relevance system, which flows directly to these water bodies. Chapter 2 Describes the general applicability of the requirements of this Manual and lists the general requirements of 1.3 Background applicable businesses In February 2001, the California Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB) issued a National Chapter 3 Describes activity-specific BMPs Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Order, or permit, that regulates storm water Chapter 4 Summarizes the inspection and discharges from the City’s public drainage system, enforcement procedures of the City referred to as the Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) or Storm Water Conveyance System. The Order (NPDES Order CAS0108758) requires the City to develop and implement a JURMP that identifies and describes the methods that the City will use to eliminate significant pollutants from the City’s MS4. As part of the Order, the City is required City of Oceanside—Clean Water Program 1 Industrial Urban Runoff Requirements Manual Chapter 1 Introduction to implement a plan to eliminate pollutant standard. In general, implementation requirements discharges from industrial activities by requiring the for industrial activities are primarily non-structural implementation of appropriate Best Management BMPs, such as, controlling sources of pollutants and Practices (BMPs) at applicable sites and activities. altering operational activities to reduce potential for BMPs are activities, practices, procedures, or pollution. However, structural BMPs such as facilities implemented to avoid, prevent, or reduce coverage of equipment area and treatment systems pollution of our Storm Water Conveyance System are also typically required to achieve adequate and Receiving Waters. reduction of pollution potential. This is especially true when the business’s activities, storage, On January 24, 2007, an updated permit, Order No. equipment, or other potential sources of pollution R9-2007-001 was released. This new Municipal are located outside and exposed to precipitation. In Permit required each Copermittee, as defined in addition, if a business is determined to be negatively Section B of the Municipal Permit, to update its impacting water quality, the City may impose JURMP document to comply with new additional BMP requirements that may involve non- requirements. This BMP Manual has been updated structural and structural measures. to reflect changes to the City’s JURMP document. This Manual provides BMPs that are developed BMPs for all industrial activities should achieve the based on the appropriate performance standards for Maximum Extent Practicable (MEP) performance industrial activities. City of Oceanside—Clean Water Program 2 Industrial Urban Runoff Requirements Manual Chapter 2 General Requirements of Regulated Industrial Facilities and Activities codes if available, and classify the activity as industrial or commercial. Requirements in this Manual are applicable to Regulated Industrial Facilities and Activities and are restricted to facilities and activities within the limits and extraterritorial jurisdiction areas of the City. Residences within this area are also included in this definition if they are used for industrial activity, unless those activities are conducted by the resident 2.1 Applicability and exclusively for the private non-commercial purposes of the resident. This chapter describes BMP requirements for owners and operators of Regulated Industrial Facilities and Activities within the City. 2.2 Submittal Requirements An Industrial Facility and/or Activity is defined as All businesses must submit a complete and any activity conducted for the purposes of business accurate Urban Runoff Information form with a or commerce, within the limits and extraterritorial business license application for a new license or jurisdiction areas of the City, whether for profit or renewal. Businesses shall also provide an update to not-for-profit, or publicly or privately owned, and the City if information requested on the form which meets one or both of the following criteria: changes. Updates should be provided by filling in those areas of the form for which information has The activity is subject or conditionally subject to changed and submitting the form to the City’s the General Industrial Storm Water Permit Business License administration personnel. A copy The activity consists of the manufacturing, of the form can be obtained at City Hall. Prior to processing, storage or handling of raw using this form, the City should be contacted to materials, wholesale quantities of processed confirm that this is the most current version. materials, or refuse If your business does not meet the criteria it is may 2.3 General Requirements be a Commercial Facility and/or Activity. To determine if your business is a Commercial Facility Regulated Industrial Facilities and Activities are or Activity and subject to other requirements not required to comply with two interrelated sets of described in this Manual, refer to the Commercial directives: (1) compliance with applicable discharge Manual. prohibition requirements, and (2) implementation of BMPs to prevent non-storm water discharges and to To assist in the process of determining if your reduce contaminants in Urban Runoff. Regardless business is an Industrial Facility or Activity, a of their categorization, Regulated Industrial Facilities Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code based and Activities are subject to the applicable BMP reference table is provided by the City. This table is requirements of City Code section 40.2.3, as well as provided for the purpose of assistance only and the discharge prohibitions of City Code sections should not be used as the sole reference in making 40.2.1 and 40.2.2, both summarized in this section. a determination of applicability. The table contains a Failure to comply with applicable discharge list of all SIC codes and the business activities that prohibitions is a violation of the City’s Code and may they represent, and specifies whether they are be considered evidence of an inadequate BMP considered industrial or commercial for the program, although BMPs can also be determined to purposes of the City’s Urban Runoff regulations. be inadequate prior to the occurrence of actual Based on the activities conducted by a business, discharges. the business should be able to identify those activities in the table, or the corresponding SIC City of Oceanside—Clean Water Program 3 Industrial Urban Runoff Requirements Manual Chapter 2 General Requirements of Industrial Facilities and Activities 2.3.1 Discharge Prohibitions Lawn watering Without exception, discharges of both storm water Individual residential vehicle washing and non-storm water to the City’s Storm Water Conveyance System or Receiving Waters (see Dechlorinated swimming pool discharges. Definitions for more information) are prohibited if the discharge contains pollutants that have not been As further information becomes available, the City reduced to the MEP. may determine that some