Victorville, CA Environmental Rules: Stormwater Management (2026)
Key Facts
- Governs discharges to
- City's MS4 storm drain system
- Legal basis
- NPDES Permit No. CAS000004 / Water Code §13000
- Landscape debris dumping
- Expressly prohibited (§10.30.090(b))
- Responsible party
- Property owner/operator, not just the discharger
- Penalty
- Misdemeanor, each day a separate offense
- Exempt discharges
- e.g. residential car washing, pool dechlorination
Summary
Victorville bans dumping anything but rainwater into its storm drain system. Section 10.30.090 prohibits discharging any illicit, non-storm water pollutant, including hazardous materials, to the city's MS4, and separately makes it unlawful to intentionally sweep leaves, dirt or landscape debris into a storm drain, with the prohibition enforced under the city's federally mandated municipal stormwater permit.
(a)Except as exempted in section 10.30.100 of this chapter, no person shall discharge, facilitate, cause, permit or allow to be discharged to the MS4, either directly or indirectly, any illicit discharge, including but not limited to, pollutants, hazardous materials and other non-stormwater discharges.(b)It is prohibited to intentionally dispose of leaves, dirt, or other landscape debris into the MS4.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 57).
Full Breakdown
The chapter was enacted under the authority of the State Water Resources Control Board's Water Quality Order No. 2013-0001-DWQ and NPDES General Permit No. 010. 080 places "ultimate responsibility for discharges" on the property owner, tenant or facility operator who causes or allows the discharge, not just whoever physically dumped the pollutant. 100 exempts things like individual residential car washing, air conditioning condensate, dechlorinated swimming pool discharges and incidental landscape runoff, though several exempted categories (water line flushing, diverted stream flows, foundation drains and others marked with an asterisk in the code) require the discharger to submit a "non-storm water discharge notification form" to the city's engineering department at least five days before a planned discharge. 290 that can halt an active construction or business operation until the illicit discharge is corrected. 330.
Violations & Fines
Violating any provision of chapter 10.30, including the discharge ban and the landscape-debris rule, is unlawful and punishable as a misdemeanor under chapter 1.04, with each day the violation continues charged as a separate offense under section 10.30.340. The city may also pursue a civil action for legal or equitable relief in any court of competent jurisdiction, or issue an administrative citation, cease-and-desist order or stop-work order under sections 10.30.270 through 10.30.330.
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