Council hears first reading to require covered, impervious salt storage under MS4 permit
City staff presented a first reading to amend City Code 406 to require designated salt-storage areas at commercial and institutional sites to be covered or indoors, located on impervious surfaces, and use transfer protections — a step required by the MS4 general permit and intended to reduce chloride pollution.
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Miss Talon presented the ordinance amendment as a first reading, outlining that as an MS4 permittee White Bear Lake must meet Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) requirements related to chloride and stormwater. She said the MPCA's updated permit cycle added a requirement that regulated entities adopt a local regulatory mechanism for proper salt storage at commercial, institutional, and non-NPDES-permitted industrial facilities.
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