A person may not cause, conduct, contract for, or authorize an activity that causes excessive soil loss.
(A) Agricultural activity. A land occupier shall:
(1) If engaged in an agricultural use, prevent excessive soil loss and ensure that proper management and conservation practices are being applied to the land;
(2) If using wooded or open land for pasture, ensure that proper management is used to prevent excessive soil loss due to overgrazing or cattle paths;
(3) If using wooded land for timber harvest, ensure that proper management is used to prevent excessive soil loss; and
(4) If a body of water, watercourse, or wetland is located within an agricultural use area, wooded or open land used for pasture, or a wooded area used for lumber harvest, ensure that proper management and conservation practices are being applied to the surrounding land.
(B) Development activity. A person engaged in a development activity that will disturb land must submit a sedimentation control plan and time schedule that will prevent excessive soil loss or sediment from damaging adjacent land, bodies of water, watercourses, or wetlands, to the local government or its agent for approval.
(Ord. 30, passed 1-20-1990)