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Town of Tiverton Zoning Ordinance
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§ VI-7

Setbacks from certain water bodies

  • a. The installation of individual sewage disposal systems (ISDS), or other facilities for the leaching of fluid waste into the soil, shall be set back from the water bodies listed in subsection c below, as follows, except where they are exceeded by state requirements:

    • (1) For single-family homes: 125 feet.

    • (2) For all other uses: 200 feet.

Setbacks shall be measured to the water body's average annual high-water mark, or biological edge of wetland, whichever is greater.

  • b. Any such facility which cannot meet the setback requirements listed above shall require the issuance of a special use permit by the zoning board of review under the provisions of article XVI.

  • c. The specific water bodies to which the setback requirements shall apply include, but are not limited to, the following: Pocasset Cedar Swamp; Sucker Brook; Sakonnet River; Creamer (Lent) Pond; Archer Brook; Sin and Flesh Brook; Quaket River; Basket Swamp; Borden Brook; Cedar Swamp; Seapowet Marsh; Adamsville Brook; Great Swamp; Nonquit Pond; Nonquit Brook; Almy Brook; Fogland Marsh; unnamed perennial streams as designated on the United States Geologic Service (USGS) quadrangle map; and any other waters or wetland as defined herein.

Stafford Pond and associated wetlands and watercourses within the Stafford Pond watershed overlay district shall have setbacks as established in article VIII of this ordinance.