The following definitions are hereby adopted for this chapter and any resolutions adopted by the Board:
BOARD. The Board of Directors of the Department of Storm Water Management.
COMBINED SEWER. Pipe or conduit primarily used to convey sanitary sewage and secondarily intended to convey storm water.
CUSTOMER (or USER). A property owner benefiting from the storm water system.
DEPARTMENT. The Department of Storm Water Management.
DETENTION. The temporary storage of storm runoff in a basin, pond or other structural or non-structural device to control the peak discharge rates by holding the storm water for a lengthened period of time and which provides gravity-settling of pollutants.
DEVELOPED. The condition of real property altered from its natural state by the addition to or construction on such property of impervious surfaces or physical improvements such that the hydrology of the property or a portion thereof is affected.
DISTRICT. All areas and properties within the corporate boundaries of Town of Andrews.
DITCH-OPEN. A relatively deep drainage channel which may have a continuous water flow. OPEN DITCHES are outlets for both surface, subsurface, or storm sewer drainage systems.
DITCH-LEGAL. Any drainage system under the jurisdiction of the Huntington County Drainage Board.
DRAIN. Relative to storm water drainage, any sewer, tile, ditch, stream or other storm water runoff conveyance channel or conduit.
DRAINAGE EASEMENT. The land required for the installation of storm water sewers or drainage ditches or required along a natural stream or water course for preserving the channel and providing for the flow of water therein to safeguard the public against flood damage.
DRAINAGE FACILITIES. All ditches, channels, conduits, retention-detention systems, tiles, drainage swales, sewers, and other natural or artificial means of draining storm water from land.
DRAINAGE REQUIREMENTS. Includes the following:
(1) Minimum drainage standards as established by a town ordinance or separate resolution of the Department;
(2) Obligations and requirements relating to drainage established under a subdivision control ordinances of the town;
(3) Requirements contained in the zoning ordinances of town, including floodway zoning requirements;
(4) Obligations and requirements relating to drainage established by the Drainage Board of Huntington County; and
(5) Conditions relating to drainage attached to a grant of variance by the Board of Zoning Appeals.
DRAINAGE-SUBSURFACE. A system of pipes, tile, conduit, or tubing installed beneath the ground used to collect underground water from individual parcels, lots, building footings, or pavements.
DRAINAGE-SURFACE. A system by which the storm water runoff is conducted to an outlet. This would include the proper grading of parking lots, streets, driveways and yards so that storm runoff is removed without ponding and flows to a drainage swale, open ditch, or a storm sewer.
DRAINAGE-SWALE. A natural or constructed waterway, usually broad and shallow, covered with erosion-resistant grasses, used to conduct surface water from a field, diversion, or other site feature.
DRAINAGE-SYSTEM. Any combination of surface and/or subsurface drainage components fulfilling all applicable drainage requirements.
EASEMENT. A grant by the property owner of the use of a strip of land by the public, a corporation or other legal entity for specified purposes.
ENGINEER. The Town of Andrews’s Engineer.
EQUIVALENT RESIDENTIAL UNIT (ERU). A unit value, equal to the average residential amount of impervious area of a single (ERU) family residential property within the town, and established at 2,500 square feet of (measured) impervious area. It is also the basis for calculating the proper assessment of storm water service charges to all users of the town’s storm water system.
IMPERVIOUS AREA. Area within developed land that prevents or significantly impedes the infiltration of storm water into the soil. Included in this definition are areas that have been paved and/or covered with buildings and materials which include, but are not limited to, concrete, asphalt, rooftop and blacktop, such that the infiltration of water into the soil is prevented. Excluded from this definition are undisturbed land, lawns and fields.
INFILTRATION. A complex process of allowing runoff to penetrate the ground surface and flow through the upper soil surface.
LAND ALTERATION. Any action taken relative to land which either: (1) changes the contour; or (2) increases the runoff rate; or (3) changes the elevation; or (4) decreases the rate of which water is absorbed; or (5) changes the drainage pattern; or (6) creates or changes a drainage facility; or (7) involves construction, enlargement or location of any building on a permanent foundation; or (8) creates an impoundment. LAND ALTERATION includes (by way of example and not of limitation) terracing, grading, excavating, constructing earthwork, draining, installing drainage tile, filling and paving.
MAINTENANCE. Cleaning out of, spraying, removing obstructions from and making minor repairs in a drainage facility so that it will perform the function for which it was designed and constructed.
NPDES. The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, the EPA program initiated to reduce and eliminate pollutants reaching water bodies of all types.
NPDES PERMIT. Storm water management permit required of municipalities and certain industries by the EPA pursuant to Section 402 of the Clean Water Act.
OTHER PROPERTY. All properties not encompassed within the definition of RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY, including but not limited to: commercial, industrial, retail, multi-family, governmental, institutional, schools and churches.
PEAK DISCHARGE. The maximum rate of flow of water passing a given point during or after a rainfall event, sometimes called peak flow.
PRIVATE STORMWATER FACILITIES. Various storm water and drainage works not under the control or ownership of Town of Andrews, the State of Indiana, or the federal government which may include inlets, conduits, pipes, pumping stations, manholes, structures, channels, outlets, retention or detention basins, other structural components and equipment designed to transport, move or regulate storm water.
PROPERTY OWNER. The individual, partnership, corporation or other legal entity holding the deed or record title to real property as shown in the records of the Auditor of Huntington County.
PUBLIC DRAINAGE SYSTEM. Various storm water and drainage works under the control and/or ownership of Town of Andrews, the State of Indiana, or the federal government which may include inlets, conduits, pipes, pumping stations, manholes, structures, channels, outlets, retention or detention basins, other structural components and equipment designed to transport, move or regulate storm water.
RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY. A lot or parcel of real estate encompassing State Land Use Codes 101 and 500 through 599 on which a single building or house trailer is situated which building or house trailer contains a group of rooms forming an inhabitable dwelling unit with facilities which are used or are intended to be used primarily for living, sleeping, cooking and eating.
RETENTION. The holding of storm water runoff in a constructed basin or pond or in a natural body of water with a controlled release rate.
RIGHT-OF-WAY. Any highway, street, avenue, boulevard, road, lane or alley and includes the entire RIGHT-OF-WAY for public use thereof and all surface and subsurface improvements thereon including, without limitation, sidewalks, curbs, shoulders, utility lines and mains.
STATE LAND USE CODES. The classification system used by Indiana Counties for purposes of classification of the assessment of real property.
STORM SEWER. A sewer designed or intended to convey only storm water, surface runoff, street wash waters and drainage, and not intended for sanitary sewage and industrial wastes. A storm sewer begins at the grating or opening where water enters said sewer, through the sewer and any other conduits to the outlet structure where water enters a channel, natural watercourse, or combined sewer.
STORM WATER CONVEYANCES. The publicly-owned facilities by which storm water is collected and/or conveyed, including but not limited to any roads with drainage systems, municipal streets, gutters, curbs, inlets, piped storm drains, pumping facilities, retention and detention basins, natural and human-made or altered drainage channels, reservoirs, and other drainage structures.
STORM WATER SERVICE CHARGE. The service charge imposed on each and every lot and parcel of land within the District which directly or indirectly contributes to the storm water system of the Town, which shall be assessed against the property owner thereof, who shall be considered the user for the purposes of this Chapter. The storm water service charge is deemed reasonable and is necessary to pay for the repair, replacement, extension, planning, improvement, operation, regulation and maintenance of the existing and future storm water system.
STORM WATER SYSTEM. All constructed facilities, including separate storm sewers and conveyances, combined sewers, structures and natural watercourses owned by or under the jurisdiction
of Town of Andrews, the State of Indiana, or the Federal Government used for collecting and conducting storm water to, through and from drainage areas to the point of final outlet, including, but not limited to, any and all of the following: inlets, conduits and appurtenant features, creeks, channels, catch basins, ditches, streams, culverts, retention or detention basins and pumping stations.
(Ord. 2018-2, passed 3-12-2018)