Definitions of Selected Terms
Sec. 18.21. Definitions of Selected Terms.
The following words, terms, and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning: Applicant: Any person(s), corporation, or public or private organization proposing a development which would involve disturbance to the natural terrain as herein defined. Best Management Practices (BMPs):Schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, general good house keeping practices, pollution prevention and educational practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices to prevent or reduce the discharge of pollutants directly or indirectly to stormwater, receiving waters, or stormwater conveyance systems. BMPs also include treatment practices, operating procedures, and practices to control site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge or water disposal, solid waste disposal, or drainage from raw materials storage.
Construction wastes: Solid and/or liquid wastes generated from the construction/site
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| designated excavation. Development | point | of project: | lower | |||
| structures, including Disturbed | any area: | roadways, action An | area | |||
| altered Erosion: | and, The | therefore, removal | of | |||
| and/or | Excavate: | gravity. Any | act | by | ||
| into, Fill: | cut, resulting Any | act | removed, therefrom. by | which | displaced, | |
| Gabion: | aboveground. undisturbed | A | The ground rectangular | fill | is and or | |
| used Land | as a | disturbing | protecting | activity: | agent, | |
| actions soil Limit | as or of | mineral | clearance disturbance: | of resources, | Line | |
| development Multifamily: | or | Any | site, | redevelopment | ||
| family, | townhouses. Reinspection | including | Fee: | but The | not fee |
includes, but not limited to, discarded building materials, chemicals, litter, sanitary wastes, and fill material containing difference between a point on the original ground and a elevation on the final grade. Also, the material removed in Any construction, reconstruction, demolition, or removal of parking, or other paved areas, utilities, or other similar facilities, requiring a building permit by the Town.
in which the natural vegetative soil cover has been removed or susceptible to erosion. mineral and/or organic matter by the action of wind, water, which earth, sand, gravel, rock, or any other similar material is dug relocated, or bulldozed and shall include the conditions earth, sand, or other material is placed or moved to a new location also the difference in elevation between a point of existing designed point of higher elevation of the final grade. cylindrical wire mesh cage (wire basket) filled with rock and revetment, etc., against erosion.
Any physical land development activity which includes such vegetation, moving or filling of land, removal or excavation of or similar activities. delineating the boundary of the area to be disturbed during a project. Area outside this boundary shall not be touched. property, building, structure intended for use by more than one limited to apartments, condominiums, duplexes, and charged to the applicant or owner for repeated inspections necessitated by any oversight in the compliance with the approved soil erosion sediment control plan.
Sediment: Solid material, both mineral and/or organic, that is in suspension, is being
| transported, product Soil | of | amendment: | or have erosion. | been moved from Any material, such | its as | site or compost, |
| etc., that Stormwater | is | worked Pollution | into the soil. Generally Prevention Plan | pertains —SWPPP: | ||
| before herein Runoff: | any | regulated. The | person surface | may cause a disturbance The document may water discharge | also or | to the be referred rate of |
| of rain surface off the Watercourse: | or to land | snow the | and land. surface. The | including seepage Also, that portion term watercourse | of shall | flows that water that be held |
origin by wind, water, gravity or ice as a lime, animal manures, crop residues, to materials other than fertilizers.
The (approved) document required natural terrain within the Town as to as "SWPPP." discharge of a given watershed after a fall do not enter the soil but run off the is not absorbed by the soil, but runs to mean any tidewater or coastal wetland at its mean high water level, and any freshwater wetland at its seasonal high water level, including but not limited to, any river, stream, brook, pond, lake, swamp, marsh, bog, fen, wet meadow, or any other standing or flowing body of water. The edge of the watercourse as herein defined shall be used for delineation purposes.