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(a)
Unmitigated storm water from areas altered by development may pose public health and safety threats. Potential contaminants in storm water runoff may include suspended solids, nitrogen, phosphorus, hydrocarbons, heavy metals, pathogenic organisms (bacteria and viruses), and road salts.
(b)
This chapter establishes the administrative mechanisms necessary for the city to ensure proper storm water management of runoff from new development and re-development projects. The ordinance is written to work in conjunction with the Rhode Island department of environmental management's General Permit Rhode Island Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Storm Water Discharge from Small Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems and from Industrial Activity at Eligible Facilities Operated by Regulated Small MS4s.
(Ord. No. O-16-17, § I(Exh. A), 8-17-16)