(1) Requirement to Eliminate Illicit Discharges. The Administrator may require by written notice that a property owner or person responsible for an illicit discharge immediately, or by a specified date, discontinue the discharge, clean up the polluting matter and, if necessary, take measures to eliminate the source of the discharge to prevent the reoccurrence of discharges.

(2) Requirement to Eliminate Illicit Connections. The Administrator may require by written notice that a property owner or person responsible for an illicit connection to the stormwater drainage system eliminate the connection by a specified date, regardless of whether or not the connection had been established or approved previously.

(3) Requirement to Implement Best Management Practices. The owner or operator of a commercial or industrial establishment and property owners shall provide, at their own expense, reasonable protection from accidental discharge of prohibited materials or other wastes into the stormwater drainage system or waters of the state through the use of structural and non-structural BMPs (as listed and described in the Stormwater Management Manual for Eastern Washington). The Administrator may require any person responsible for a property or premises, which is, or may be, the source of an illicit discharge to implement, at their own expense, additional structural and non-structural BMPs to prevent the further discharge of pollutants to the stormwater drainage system.

(4) Watercourse Protection. Any person owning property through which a watercourse passes shall keep and maintain that part of the watercourse within the property free of trash, debris, and other items that would pollute or contaminate the flow of water through the watercourse.

(5) Notification of Illicit Discharges. Notwithstanding other requirements of law, as soon as any person responsible for any premises has information of any known or suspected illicit discharges into the stormwater drainage system or waters of the state, said person shall take all necessary steps to ensure the discovery, containment, and cleanup of such release, and shall notify the Public Works Department through the Illicit Discharge Detection and Elimination hotline (509-338-3213) and, in the case of a hazardous material discharge, Whitcom at 911. (Ord. 09-21 §7, 2009).