For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES: Cultivation of the soil, dairying, forestry, raising or harvesting any agricultural or horticultural commodity, including livestock, or the operation, management, conservation, improvement, or maintenance of a farm and its buildings, tools, and equipment.
BOCA: Refers to the currently adopted BOCA national building code; please note these regulations are designed to be used with the adopted BOCA codes as a reference for minimum performance standards.
DEBRIS OR SEDIMENT BASIN: A barrier or dam built across a waterway or at other suitable locations to retain rock, sand, gravel, silt or other materials.
DISTURBED AREA: An area where the ground cover is destroyed or removed leaving the land subject to accelerated erosion.
DIVERSION: A channel, with or without a supporting ridge on the lower side, constructed across or at the bottom of a slope.
EROSION: The wearing away of the land surface by the action of wind, water, ice or gravity.
EXCAVATION OR CUT: The removal, stripping or disturbance of soil, earth, sand, rock, gravel or other similar substances from the ground.
EXISTING GRADE: The vertical location of the existing ground surface prior to excavation or filling.
FEMA: Federal emergency management agency.
FILL OR FILLING: The placing of any soil, earth, sand, rock, gravel, or other substance on the ground.
FINISHED GRADE: The final grade or elevation of the ground surface conforming to the proposed design.
GRADING: Any excavation, grubbing, filling, removal, or stockpiling of earth materials or combination thereof.
NATURAL WATERCOURSE: A channel formed in the existing surface topography of the earth prior to changes made by unnatural conditions.
OPEN CHANNEL: A constructed ditch or channel designed for water flow.
SEDIMENT: Solid material, mineral or organic, that has been moved by erosion and deposited in a location other than the point of origin.
SILT TRAPS OR FILTERS: Staked bales or silt fencing systems that function as a filter and a velocity check to trap fine grained sediment while allowing satisfactory passage of stormwater runoff.
SITE: A lot or parcel of land, or a contiguous combination thereof, where grading work is performed as a single unified operation.
SITE DEVELOPMENT: Altering terrain and/or vegetation and constructing improvements.
STREAM BANK, TOP OF EXISTING: The usual boundaries, not the flood boundaries, of a stream channel. The top of the natural incline bordering a stream. (Ord. 2015-19, 4-14-2015)