For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT. Land uses normally associated with the production of food, fiber and livestock for sale. For purposes of this
chapter, such uses shall not include the development of land for the processing or sale of food and the manufacturing of agriculturally related products.
APPLICANT. A property owner or agent of a property owner who has filed an application for a stormwater management permit.
BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE (BMP). A structural device or a nonstructural practice for pollution management, which is deemed to provide the best available treatment or control of a pollution source such as stormwater.
DESIGN MANUAL. The State of Rhode Island Stormwater Design and Installation Standards Manual, as amended, which serves as the official guide for stormwater management principles, methods, and practices.
DETENTION BASIN. An embankment and associated space for impoundment of water or, alternatively, the space for impoundment partially or entirely created by excavation rather than by embankment, in either case designed to temporarily retain stormwater runoff.
DEVELOPMENT. The construction, reconstruction, conversion, structural alteration, relocation or enlargement of any structure; any mining, excavation, landfill or land disturbance; any change in use, or alteration or extension of the use, of land.
INFILTRATION BASIN. A detention facility, which is not an injection well, which is designed to gradually filter and pass retained water to the subsurface.
NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION. Pollution from any source that is not discernible, confined and discrete. Potential sources of NONPOINT POLLUTION include, but are not limited to, stormwater runoff, agriculture, silviculture, mining, construction, septic systems and urban development.
RECHARGE. The replenishment of underground water reserves.
STORMWATER RUNOFF. Flow on the surface of the ground, resulting from precipitation.
WET BASIN. A detention basin designed to retain some water on a permanent basis.
WETLAND. An area, as defined by the R.I. Gen. Laws § 2-1-14 (Coastal Wetland) and R.I. Gen. Laws § 2-1-20 (Freshwater Wetland) and as determined by the Department of Environmental Management or the Coastal Resources Management Council, which is inundated or saturated by surface water or groundwater at a frequency and duration sufficient to support–and under normal circumstances does support–a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions, commonly known as hydrophytic vegetation.
(Ord. passed 2-21-06)