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Timestamp: 2019-04-23 20:32:26
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 19', '§ 19', '§ 19', '§ 19', '§ 19', '§ 19', '§ 19', '§ 19', 'art 1', '§ 19', '§ 680']

Borough of Shillington, PA GENERAL PROVISIONS
§ 19-101 Short Title.
§ 19-102 Statement of Findings.
§ 19-103 Purpose.
§ 19-104 Statutory Authority.
§ 19-105 Applicability; Regulated Activities.
§ 19-106 Repealer.
§ 19-107 Severability.
§ 19-108 Compatibility With Other Requirements.
Chapter 19 Stormwater Management Part 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Schuylkill River Watershed Stormwater Management Ordinance."
The Shillington Borough Council finds that:
Inadequate planning and management of stormwater runoff resulting from land development and redevelopment throughout a watershed can also harm surface water resources by changing the natural hydrologic patterns, accelerating stream flows (which increase scour and erosion of streambeds and streambanks, thereby elevating sedimentation), destroying aquatic habitats, and elevating aquatic pollutant concentrations and loadings, such as sediments, nutrients, heavy metals and pathogens. Groundwater resources are also impacted through loss of recharge.
A comprehensive program of stormwater management (SWM), including minimization of impacts of development, redevelopment and activities causing accelerated erosion, is fundamental to the public health, safety, welfare, and the protection of the people of the Borough of Shillington and all the people of the commonwealth, their resources, and the environment.
Inadequate management of accelerated stormwater runoff resulting from development throughout a watershed poses a threat to surface water and groundwater quality.
Impacts from stormwater runoff can be minimized by using project designs that maintain the natural hydrologic regime and sustain high water quality, groundwater recharge, stream baseflow and aquatic ecosystems. The most cost-effective and environmentally advantageous way to manage stormwater runoff is through nonstructural project design, minimizing impervious surfaces and sprawl, avoiding sensitive areas (i.e., stream buffers, floodplains, steep slopes), and designing to topography and soils to maintain the natural hydrologic regime.
Nonstormwater discharges to municipal separate storm sewer systems can contribute to pollution of waters of the commonwealth by the Borough of Shillington.
The purpose of this chapter is to promote the public health, safety, and welfare within the Schuylkill River watershed by maintaining the natural hydrologic regime by minimizing the impacts described in § 19-102 of this chapter through provisions designed to:
Promote alternative project designs and layout that minimize impacts to surface water and groundwater.
Minimize increases in stormwater volume.
Focus on infiltration of stormwater, to maintain groundwater recharge, to prevent degradation of surface water and groundwater quality and to otherwise protect water resources.
Maintain existing base flows and quality of streams and watercourses, where possible.
Meet legal water quality requirements under state law, including regulations at 25 Pa. Code Chapter 93.4a, to protect and maintain "existing uses" and maintain the level of water quality to support those uses in all streams and to protect and maintain water quality in special-protection streams.
Implement an illegal-discharge detection and elimination program to address nonstormwater discharges into the Borough of Shillington's separate storm sewer system.
Provide proper operation and maintenance of all permanent stormwater management facilities and BMPs that are implemented in the Borough of Shillington.
Meet NPDES Requirements. Federal regulations approved October 1999 require operators of small municipal separate storm sewer systems (MS4s) to obtain NPDES Phase II permits from DEP by March 2003. (NPDES II is an acronym for the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Phase II Stormwater Permitting Regulations.) This program affects all municipalities in "urbanized areas" of the state. This definition applies to all Schuylkill River watershed municipalities identified in Table III-1 of the Schuylkill River Stormwater Management Plan Volume II as NPDES Phase II municipalities. Therefore, these identified municipalities will be subject to the NPDES Phase II requirements mandated by the Federal Clean Water Act as administered by DEP. For more information on NPDES II requirements, contact the DEP regional office.
Primary Authority. The Borough of Shillington is empowered to regulate these activities by the authority of the Act of October 4, 1978, P.L. 864 (Act 167), 32 P.S. § 680.1 et seq., as amended, the "Storm Water Management Act," and the (appropriate municipal code).
Secondary Authority. The Borough of Shillington also is empowered to regulate land use activities that affect runoff by the authority of the Act of July 31, 1968, P.L. 805, No. 247, the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, as amended.[1]
Any ordinance or ordinance provision of the Borough of Shillington inconsistent with any of the provisions of this chapter is hereby repealed to the extent of the inconsistency only.
Approvals issued and actions taken under this chapter do not relieve the applicant of the responsibility to secure required permits or approvals for activities by any other code, law, regulation or ordinance.