8.36.100 Watercourse protection.
A. Every person owning, occupying, leasing, renting, or in control of premises through which a watercourse passes, shall:
1. Keep and maintain that part of the watercourse within the property reasonably free of trash, debris, excessive vegetation, and other obstacles which would and/or could pollute, contaminate, or significantly retard the flow of water through the watercourse;
2. Maintain existing privately owned structures within or adjacent to a watercourse, so that such structures will not become a hazard to the use, function, or physical integrity of the watercourse; and
3. Not remove healthy bank vegetation beyond that actually necessary for said maintenance, nor remove said vegetation in such a manner as to increase the vulnerability of the watercourse to erosion.
B. No person shall commit or cause to be committed any of the following acts, unless a written permit has first been obtained from the City:
1. Discharge into or connect any pipe or channel to a watercourse;
2. Modify the natural flow of water in a watercourse;
3. Deposit in, plant in, or remove any material from a watercourse including its banks, except as required for necessary maintenance;
4. Construct, alter, enlarge, connect to, change or remove any structure in a watercourse; or
5. Place any loose or unconsolidated material adjacent to or within a watercourse so as to cause a diversion of the flow, or to cause a probability of such material being carried away by stormwaters passing through such watercourse. (Ord. 2015-2 § 2, 2015.)