For the purpose of this chapter, the following terms shall have the meaning herein indicated:
(a) ACRE: A unit of measure equaling 43,560 square feet.
(b) BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES: Structural or nonstructural facilities or activities that control soil erosion and/or storm water runoff at a development site. Includes treatment requirements, operating and maintenance procedures, or other practices to control site runoff, leaks, or waste disposal.
(c) COMMUNITY: Throughout these regulations, this shall refer to North Perry Village or its designated representatives.
(d) CUT: An excavation that reduces an existing elevation, as in road or foundation construction.
(e) DEVELOPMENT AREA: A contiguous area owned by one person or persons, or operated as one development unit, and used or being developed for non-farm commercial, industrial, residential, or other institutional construction or alteration which changes the runoff characteristics of a parcel of land.
(f) DISTURBED AREA: An area of land subject to erosion due to the removal of vegetative cover and/or soil disturbing activities.
(g) DRAINAGE: The removal of excess surface water or groundwater from land by surface or subsurface drains.
(h) EROSION: The process by which the land surface is worn away by the action of wind, water, ice, gravity, or any combination of those forces.
(i) EROSION AND SEDIMENT CONTROL: The control of soil material, both mineral and organic, during soil disturbing activities to minimize the removal of soil material from the land surface and to prevent its transport out of the disturbed area by means of wind, water, ice, gravity, or any combination of those forces.
(j) FINAL STABILIZATION: All soil disturbing activities at the site have been completed and a uniform perennial vegetative cover with a density of at least eighty percent (80%) cover for the area has been established or equivalent stabilization measures, such as the use of mulches or geotextiles, have been employed.
(k) LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT: A Professional Landscape Architect registered in the State of Ohio.
(l) LARGER COMMON PLAN OF DEVELOPMENT: A contiguous area where multiple separate and distinct construction activities may be taking place at different times on different schedules under one plan.
(m) MAXIMUM EXTENT PRACTICABLE: The level of pollutant reduction that operators of small municipal separate storm sewer systems regulated under 40 C.F.R. Parts 9, 122, 123, and 124, referred to as NPDES Storm Water Phase II, must meet.
(n) NPDES: National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System; a regulatory program in the Federal Clean Water Act that prohibits the discharge of pollutants into surface waters of the United States without a permit.
(o) PERSON: Any individual, corporation, firm, trust, commission, board, public or private partnership, limited liability company or partnership, joint venture, agency, unincorporated association, municipal corporation, township, county or state agency, the federal government, other legal entity, or an agent thereof.
(p) PHASING: Clearing a parcel of land in distinct sections, with the stabilization of each section before the clearing of the next.
(q) PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER: A Professional Engineer registered in the State of Ohio.
(r) RAINWATER AND LAND DEVELOPMENT: Ohio’s standards for storm water management, land development, and urban stream protection. Developed by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resource Conservation Service, and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency ("OEPA"). The most current edition of these standards shall be used with this regulation.
(s) RUNOFF: The portion of rainfall, melted snow, or irrigation water that flows across the ground surface and is eventually returned to water resources.
(t) SEDIMENT: The soils or other surface materials that can be transported or deposited by the action of wind, water, ice, or gravity as a product of erosion.
(u) SEDIMENTATION: The deposition of sediment in water resources.
(v) SETBACK: A designated transition area around a water resources or wetland left in a natural, usually vegetated, state so as to protect the water resources or wetland from runoff pollution. Construction activities in this area are restricted or prohibited as required in these regulations.
(w) SOIL DISTURBING ACTIVITY: Clearing, grading, excavating, filling, or other alteration of the earth’s surface where natural or human made ground cover is destroyed and which may result in, or contribute to, erosion and sediment pollution.
(x) SOIL & WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT: An entity organized under Chapter 1515 of the Ohio Revised Code referring to either to the Soil and Water Conservation District Board or its designated employee(s).
(y) STABILIZATION: The use of Best Management Practices that reduce or prevent soil erosion by storm water runoff, wind, ice, gravity, or a combination thereof.
(z) EROSION AND SEDIMENT CONTROL PLAN: The written document meeting the requirements of these regulations which sets forth the plans and practices to be used to minimize soil erosion and prevent off-site disposal of soil sediment by containing sediment on-site or by passing sediment-laden runoff through sediment control measures during and after development.
(aa) UNSTABLE SOILS: A portion of land surface or area which is identified by the Community Engineer as prone to slipping, sloughing, or landslides, or is identified by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resource Conservation Service methodology as having a low soil strength.
(bb) WATER RESOURCE: Any public or private body of water including lakes or ponds, and streams, gullies, swales, or ravines having banks, a defined bed, and a definite direction of course, either continuously or intermittently flowing.
(cc) WETLAND: Those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or ground water at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions, including swamps, marshes, bogs, and similar areas (40 CFR 232, as amended).
(Ord. 02-30. Passed 8-1-02.)