§ 8-59. Compliance monitoring.

Access and inspection of properties and facilities. Okaloosa County shall be permitted to enter and inspect facilities subject to regulation under this ordinance as often as may be necessary to determine compliance with this article.

(1)

If a discharger has security measures in force which require proper identification and clearance before entry into its premises, the discharger shall make the necessary arrangements to allow access to representatives of Okaloosa County.

(2)

Facility operators shall allow Okaloosa County ready access to all parts of the premises for the purposes of inspection, sampling, photographing, examination and copying of records that must be kept under conditions of a NPDES permit, and the performance of any additional duties as defined by state and federal law.

(3)

Okaloosa County shall have the right to set up on any permitted facility such devices as are necessary in the opinion of Okaloosa County to conduct monitoring and/or sampling of the facility's storm water discharge.

(4)

Okaloosa County shall have the right to require the discharger to install monitoring equipment as necessary. The facility's sampling and monitoring equipment shall be maintained at all times in a safe and proper operating condition by the discharger at its own expense. All devices used to measure stormwater flow and quality shall be calibrated to ensure their accuracy.

(Ord. No. 11-13, § 9, 9-20-11)