(a) Protect the quality of the county’s aquatic resources, including receiving waters, groundwater, and aquatic sediments, from the discharge of contaminants and the adverse impacts of stormwater runoff;

(b) Ensure the function and integrity of public infrastructure related to stormwater control, including county roads, associated rights-of-way, and stormwater control facilities;

(c) Reduce, prevent and ameliorate the adverse impacts of contaminated discharges on public health, safety and welfare; and

(d) Protect, maintain and improve the quality of the county’s water resources for fish and wildlife habitat, human recreation and other ecological and aesthetic purposes and beneficial uses.

(a) Establish minimum requirements for the regular inspection and maintenance of constructed stormwater control facilities, pursuant to which the owners, occupants and operators of real property on which such facilities are located must keep such facilities in good condition and repair so that such facilities perform their intended function, thereby controlling, reducing and preventing the discharge of pollutants to the waters of the state as required by chapter 90.48 RCW, the Clean Water Act, the county’s Drainage Manual and the county’s Phase I NPDES municipal stormwater permit; and

(b) Establish procedures pursuant to which the county may enforce compliance with the requirements described above. (Added by Amended Ord. 13-022, Apr. 17, 2013, Eff date Apr. 28, 2013; Reenacted by Ord. 19-009, Apr. 10, 2019, Eff date Apr. 21, 2019).