For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions are adopted:
(1) "Detention facility" means any structure that is designed to collect and store surface water for subsequent gradual discharge.
(2) "Drainage facility" means any component of the drainage system.
(3) "Excess stormwater runoff" means that portion of stormwater that exceeds the safe storm drainage capacity of storm sewers or natural drainage channels serving a specific watershed.
(4) "Individual Lot" means a residential lot suitable for building that is not apart of a subdivision.
(5) "Protected channel" means a channel which receives stormwater discharge and which is paved, rip-rapped or otherwise improved by addition of man-made materials so as to reduce the potential for erosion.
(6) "Safe storm drainage capacity" means the quantity of stormwater runoff that can be transported by a channel or conduit without having the water surface rise above the top of the channel or conduit.
(7) "Stormwater channel" means a natural or man-made open watercourse with definite bed and banks which periodically or continuously contains moving water, or which forms a connecting link between two bodies of water.
(8) "Stormwater runoff" means water that results from precipitation which is not absorbed by the soil or vegetation or evaporated and which flows over the ground surface or is collected in channels or conduits.
(9) "Stormwater runoff release rate" means the rate at which stormwater runoff is released from dominant to subservient land.
(Ord. 03-2004. Passed 7-13-04.)