San Rafael, CA Environmental Rules: Stormwater Management (2026)

060 flatly prohibits discharging anything other than stormwater to the city's storm drain system, and requires any non-stormwater discharge to be covered by its own NPDES permit. 070 exempts specific low-risk discharges, such as fire-fighting flows, individual residential car washing, foundation and footing drains, air conditioning condensation, dechlorinated pool water, and incidental irrigation runoff, provided property owners implement listed best management practices, including repairing irrigation leaks within 72 hours and properly aiming sprinkler heads. 090 separately bans illicit connections to city storm drains or watercourses and applies retroactively to connections made in the past regardless of whether they were once permitted.

130 specifically requires parking lots and similar paved areas to be cleaned as frequently as practicable so they don't discharge pollutants. 110 bars littering that could become a pollutant discharge into any street, storm drain, catch basin, or drainage structure. 030 to include the city manager, director of public works, fire chief, stormwater program manager, code enforcement officer, and health officer, implementing the Phase II Stormwater Permit issued under the federal Clean Water Act and California's Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act.