The definition of terms set forth in this article shall be given the meaning indicated unless the content clearly requires a different meaning.
A. Applicant means a person, partnership, corporation, or public agency requesting permission to engage in construction.
B. Construction means any alteration of land for the purpose achieving its development or changed use, including particularly any preparation for, building of, or erection of a structure;
C. Detention means a temporary storage of determined quantity of water for a specified period of time with a release rate, that is either fixed or variable for releasing stormwater into a downstream drainage system during the storm.
D. Developer means any person, persons, corporation, or other entity who in his or her own behalf, or as an agent of another, engages in development, subdivision, construction of structures, or alteration of land in preparation therefor.
E. Drainage system means the surface and subsurface system for the removal of water from the land, including both the natural elements of streams, marshes, swales, and, ponds, whether of an intermittent or; continuous nature, and the man-made element which includes culverts, ditches, channels, retention facilities, detention facilities, gutters, streets, and storm sewer systems.
F. Minor maintenance means any maintenance activity for the maintenance of a drainage system specifically excluding repair or replacement of paved channel liners, replacement of revetments or rip-rap, or replacement of soil lost due to meandering of a channel. Minor maintenance includes, but is not limited to, mowing, replacement of vegetation, filling of erosion gullies and removal of restrictions (debris, trees, etc.).
G. Natural drainage means the dispersal of surface waters through ground absorption and by drainage channels formed by the existing surface topography which exist at the time adoption of this article or formed by any natural or approved man-made changes in the surface topography.
H. Retention means long-term storage of stormwater runoff and controlled release of this runoff during and/or after a flood or storm.
(Ord. No. 02-08, § 2, 5-6-2002)