(a) “Board” shall mean the Storm Water Management Board of the Town of Dyer, Indiana.
(b) “Drainage Facilities” as used herein, shall mean all ditches, channels, conduits, retention-detention systems, tiles, swales, sewers, and other natural or artificial means of draining storm water from land.
(c) “Drainage Requirements” as used herein, shall mean:
(1) Minimum drainage standards stated in this Article.
(2) Regulations promulgated by the Board.
(3) Obligations and requirements relating to drainage established under the Subdivision Control Ordinance (see Chapter 10 of this Code) or other Town drainage specifications.
(4) Requirements stated under the Flood Hazard Ordinance. (see Chapter 10 of this Code)
(5) Commitments relating to drainage made pursuant to agreement.
(6) Conditions relating to drainage attached to a grant of a variance by the Board of Zoning Appeals.
(d) “Impacted Drainage Areas” as used herein, shall be those areas defined and identified by the Board, which are unlikely to be easily drained because of one or more actors such as topography, soil type or distance from adequate drainage facilities.
(e) “Land Alteration” is used herein, shall mean any action taken relative to land which, either on a temporary or permanent basis:
(1) Changes the contour; or
(2) Increases or decreases the runoff rate; or
(3) Changes the elevation; or
(4) Decreases the rate at 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, building construction, earthwork, draining, installing drainage tile, filling and paving.
(f) “Maintenance” as used herein, shall mean 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.
(e) “Short Title”: This Article may be referred to as the Dyer Drainage Control Ordinance. (Ord. No. 92-4, § 2, 2-10-92)