Montgomery, AL Environmental Rules: Stormwater Management (2026)

Montgomery City Code § 12-205 bars anyone from spilling, dumping, draining, or otherwise discharging any pollutant, or water containing a pollutant, into the city's MS4 or a watercourse unless it's storm water or one of the section's listed exceptions, such as water line flushing, landscape irrigation, air conditioning condensate, or dechlorinated pool discharges. The same section separately prohibits illicit connections, including a line carrying sewage tied into the storm system, and that prohibition reaches connections made in the past regardless of whether they were once permitted.

O. Box 1111. Operating a facility that discharges storm water tied to industrial or construction activity without an NPDES permit and NOI on file is itself an offense. The city official can enter and inspect any regulated premises during normal business hours under § 12-208, install monitoring equipment, and, if refused entry, seek a search warrant from the municipal court. Anyone with knowledge of a release that could reach the MS4 must report a hazardous release to 911 and the city official within 24 hours, and a non-hazardous release to the fire department and city official on the same 24-hour clock, under § 12-210. 00 for a second within 30 days under § 12-224, appealable within 14 days to Montgomery County Circuit Court.