The provisions of this section only apply to the city.
(A) A person engaged in a development activity that will disturb land shall submit a sedimentation control plan and time schedule that will prevent excessive soil loss or sediment from damaging adjacent land, bodies of water, watercourses, or wetlands to the city or its agent for approval.
(B) A sedimentation control plan and time schedule must specify how the movement of soil and damage to other lands and regions will be minimized, during the construction process; these methods include but are not limited to the use of: temporary and permanent seedlings, fabric, plastic, or straw barriers, mulch, sediment control basins, or other conservation practices adequate to prevent erosion and sediment damage. A sedimentation control plan shall not be required for the following development activities.
(1) Minor land disturbance activities such as home gardens and individual home landscaping, repairs, and maintenance work;
(2) Construction, installation, maintenance of electric and telephone utility lines or individual service connection to the utility lines;
(3) Septic tank lines or drainage fields, unless included in an overall plan for a land development activity relating to construction of a building to be served by the septic tank system;
(4) Preparation for single-family residences separately built, unless in conjunction with multiple construction in subdivision development;
(5) Disturbance of land areas less than 10,000 square feet for commercial or noncommercial uses, except that the governing body of the local unit of government may reduce this exception to a smaller area of disturbed land or qualify the conditions under which this exception applies;
(6) Installation of fence, sign, telephone and electric poles, and other kinds of posts or poles; and
(7) Emergency work and repairs to protect life, limb, or property.
(C) The following shall be addressed in developing and implementing a sedimentation control plan:
(1) Stabilization of denuded areas and stockpiles;
(2) Establishment of permanent vegetation;
(3) Protection of adjacent areas;
(4) Timing and stabilization of sediment trapping measures;
(5) Use of sediment basins;
(6) Stabilization of cut and fill slopes;
(7) Stormwater management for controlling off-site erosion;
(8) Stabilization of waterways and outlets;
(9) Storm sewer inlet protection;
(10) Working in or crossing water bodies;
(11) Underground utility construction;
(12) Construction access roads;
(13) Disposition of all temporary measures; and
(14) Maintenance of all temporary and permanent urban conservation practices.
(D) The time schedule accompanying the sedimentation control plan shall establish deadlines for the implementation and completion of each phase or element of the sedimentation control plan.
(Prior Code, § 403.210) (Ord. 7462, passed 10-20-1992)