14.30.070 Inspections and investigations.
A. Facility and Property Inspections. The administrator shall be permitted to enter and inspect facilities subject to regulation under this chapter as often as may be necessary to determine compliance with this chapter. If a property owner has security measures in force which require proper identification and clearance before entry into its premises, the property or facility owner/operator shall make the necessary arrangements to allow access to the administrator.
B. Facility and Property Access.
1. Facility operators shall allow the administrator ready access to all parts of the premises for the purposes of inspection, sampling, examination, and copying of records that must be kept under the conditions of an NPDES permit to discharge stormwater, and the performance of any additional duties as defined by state and/or federal law.
2. Any temporary or permanent obstruction to safe and easy access to the facility to be inspected and/or sampled shall be promptly removed by the property owner at the written or oral request of the administrator and shall not be replaced. The costs of clearing such access shall be borne by the property owner.
C. Monitoring and Sampling.
1. The administrator has the right to install or require the property owner to install monitoring equipment as is reasonably necessary in the opinion of the administrator to conduct appropriate monitoring and/or sampling of the facility’s stormwater discharge. The facility’s sampling and monitoring equipment shall be maintained at all times in a safe and proper operating condition by the property owner at his/her own expense. All devices used to measure stormwater flow and quality shall be calibrated to ensure their accuracy.
2. All data shall be collected in accordance with a sampling and analysis plan that is approved by the administrator. (Ord. 1168 § 2, 2009).