For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES (BMPs). Those measures described in the latest edition of the Kentucky Erosion Prevention and Sediment Control Field Guide as published by the State Division of Water and Best Management Practices for Construction Activities as published by the State Division of Conservation and Division of Water. This shall also include related documents published and distributed by the county.
BUILDER. A person, partnership or corporation constructing one or more buildings for occupancy or any other use.
CERTIFICATION. A signed, written statement that specific constructions, inspections or tests (when required) have been performed and that such comply with the applicable requirements of this chapter.
CONSTRUCTION WEATHER DAYS. Days in which a needed activity could occur.
CONTRACTOR. A person who contracts with the permittee, landowner, developer or another contractor to undertake any or all of the land-disturbing activities covered by this chapter.
COUNTY. A representative or designee of the county government to include persons from the County Engineer’s office.
COUNTY ENGINEER. The person currently employed by County Fiscal Court to serve as County Engineer or its designee.
DETENTION BASIN. A drainage facility constructed to restrict the runoff of stormwater to a prescribed maximum rate, and to detain for a specified period of time the excess waters that accumulate upstream from the outlet structure.
DEVELOPMENT. A planning or construction project involving substantial property improvement and, usually, a change of land-use character within the site; the act of using land for building purposes.
DRAINAGE AREA. The area from which water drains to a point of consideration.
ENGINEER. A person licensed as a professional engineer in the state in accordance with KRS Chapter 322.
EROSION PREVENTION AND SEDIMENT CONTROL (EPSC) MEASURE. The practice, or a combination of practices, to prevent erosion and to abate the resulting off-site sedimentation.
FINAL STABILIZATION. That:
(1) All soil disturbing activities at the site have been completed;
(2) There are no areas of active erosion evident; and
(3) A uniform perennial vegetative cover with a density of 70% of the cover for the area has been established or equivalent measures, i.e., mulches or geotextile fabrics, have been employed.
FLOODPLAIN. Any area inundated by a 100-year flood or as determined by the flood insurance rate map(s) or an engineering study.
FLOODWAY. The channel of a river or stream and those portions of the floodplain adjoining the channel that are required to carry and discharge the peak flow of the regulatory flood of any river or stream. The FLOODWAY is where the water is likely to be deepest and fastest and includes the channel and the portion of the adjacent floodplain required to pass the 100-year flood without increasing flood heights.
LAND-DISTURBING ACTIVITY. All clearing and grubbing, clear cutting, construction, reconstruction, grading, modification, extension or expansion of structures or parking areas, placement of till and dumping that change the natural cover or topography, thereby creating the potential for erosion and contribution of sediment.
LAND SURVEYOR. A person licensed as a professional land surveyor in the state according to KRS 322.
LANDOWNER. A person, firm or governmental agency holding legal title who directly or indirectly allows the land-disturbing activity or who benefits from it.
MUNICIPAL SEPARATE STORM SEWER SYSTEM (MS4). A conveyance or system of conveyances, including roads with drainage systems, municipal streets, catch basins, curbs, gutters, ditches, human-made channels or storm drains, that is designed or used for collecting or conveying stormwater; not privately owned; not a combined sewer; and not part of a publicly owned treatment works (POTW).
OUTFALL. The point or location where stormwater runoff discharges from a conduit, stream or drain, storm sewer, channel or detention/retention facility.
PERIMETER CONTROL PLAN (PCP). The portion of a stormwater quality management plan that documents how sediment is controlled from leaving the project site.
PERIMETER OUTFALL. The locations from which stormwater flow(s) from the project site/disturbed area.
PERMITTEE. The person responsible for the land-disturbing activity and who must have ownership interest in the property.
PERSON. Except to the extent exempted from this chapter, any individual, partnership, firm, association, joint venture, public or private corporation, trust, estate, commission, board, public or private institution, utility, cooperative, city, town, county or other political subdivision of the state, any interstate body or any other legal entity conducting land-disturbing activities subject to this chapter.
PROJECT SITE. The area of land-disturbing activity.
QUALIFIED PROFESSIONAL. An individual who is trained and experienced in stormwater treatment techniques and related fields as may be demonstrated by state registration, professional certification, experience or completion of coursework that enable the individual to make sound, professional judgments regarding stormwater control or treatment and monitoring, pollutant fate and transport and drainage planning. This includes, but is not limited to, licensed professional engineers and licensed land surveyors and certified erosion prevention and sediment control professionals.
RETENTION BASIN. A drainage facility constructed to contain the runoff of stormwater to a prescribed maximum rate/volume to pass into the groundwater system without discharging the retained volume to surface waters except through an emergency bypass under conditions beyond the designed capacity.
SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL. Property zoned and used for residential activity that includes up to duplex residential structures with exclusion of triplex or higher, apartment and/or condominium land uses.
SITE. The entire area of the land-disturbing activity as proposed in the permit application.
STOP WORK ORDER. An order directing a permittee to suspend all construction and/or operations except for work related to remediation of the violation.
STORM SEWER. An open or closed conduit for conveying collected stormwater.
STORMWATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT PERMIT. A legal document that allows the permit holder to break ground or disturb soil on an entire construction site within the provisions of a grading plan and a stormwater pollution prevention plan.
STORMWATER POLLUTION PREVENTION PLAN (SWPPP). The portion of a stormwater quality management plan that illustrates how the suspension of sediment and other construction pollutants will be prevented.
STORMWATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT PLAN (SWQMP).
(1) Illustration and documentation of how sediment and other construction pollutants are managed on the project site.
(2) This is composed of two primary elements:
(a) The perimeter control plan; and
(b) The stormwater pollution prevention plan.
(Ord. 05-830-326, passed 12-20-2005)