(a) "Developer" means all individuals, corporations and/or partnerships having overall responsibility for a development including the landowner and prime contractor as well as individuals, corporations and/or partnerships undertaking development activities without the consent or direction of the landowner and/or prime contractor.
(b) "Development" means the man-made improvement or modification of real estate involving the moving of earth or the removal of existing vegetation so as to expose the earth to erosion.
(c) "Erosion" means the wearing away of the land surface by running water, wind, ice or gravity.
(d) "Erosion and Sediment Control Plan" means a written description acceptable to the City Engineer, of methods for controlling sediment pollution from erosion on a development area or from soil erosion caused by accelerated runoff from a development area.
(e) "Sediment" means a solid material both mineral and organic, that is in suspension, is being transported, or has been moved from its place of origin by wind, water, gravity or ice, and has come to rest on the earth's surface.
(f) "Storm water" means any water moving across the surface of the earth or collected from the same except waste water contained in sanitary sewers.
(g) "Storm frequency" means the average period of time within which a storm of a given duration and intensity can be expected to be equalled or exceeded.
(Ord. 12-93. Passed 4-5-93.)