For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ABATEMENT. Any action taken to remedy, correct or eliminate a condition within, associated with or impacting a drainage system.
ADJUSTMENT. A modification in a non-residential customer’s storm water service fee for certain activities that impact storm water runoff or impacts the village’s costs of providing storm water management.
ADMINISTRATOR. The Village Administrator.
AGRICULTURAL PROPERTY. Is considered to be a residential property and assigned 1 ERU for billing purposes unless it is determined by the Lucas or Fulton County Auditor’s office that the property is designated as a Commercial Agricultural Use Valuation designation for tax reduction purposes and will then be treated as a non-residential property.
APARTMENT/CONDOMINIUM PROPERTY. Is considered to be a lot or parcel of real estate on which is situated a building containing three or more single-family dwelling units.
APPROVED PLANS. Plans approved according to a permit and plan review which will govern all improvements made within the village that require storm water facilities or changes or alterations to existing storm water facilities.
CODE. The Codified Ordinances of the village.
COMBINED SEWER. A pipe or conduit primarily designed to convey sanitary sewage and secondarily intended to convey storm water.
DETENTION. Described as a temporary storage of storm water runoff in a basin, pond or other structure to control the peak discharge rates by holding the storm water for a lengthened period of time and which provides some gravity settling of particulate.
DETENTION FACILITY. A facility by means of a single control point which provides temporary storage of storm water runoff in ponds, parking lots, depressed areas, rooftops, buried underground vaults or tanks, and the like for future release, and is used to relay and attenuate flow.
EQUIVALENT RESIDENTIAL UNIT (ERU). A value, equal to 3,460 square feet of measured impervious area and is equal to the average amount of impervious area of residential properties within the village.
FACILITIES. Various storm water and drainage works that may include inlets, pipes, pumping stations, conduits, manholes, energy dissipation structures, channels, outlets, retention/detention basins and other structural components.
IMPERVIOUS AREA. Areas that have been paved and/or covered with buildings and materials that do not allow natural infiltration, which include, but are not limited to, concrete, asphalt, rooftop and blacktop.
INFILTRATION. A complex process of allowing runoff to penetrate the ground surface and flow through the upper soil surface.
NON-RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES. All properties not encompassed by the definition of residential and shall be defined as non-residential. NON-RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES will include:
(1) Agricultural property with Commercial Agricultural Use Valuation designation;
(2) Apartment and condominium properties;
(3) Mobile home parks;
(4) Commercial property;
(5) Industrial property;
(6) Institutional property;
(7) Governmental property;
(8) Churches;
(9) Schools;
(10) Federal, state and local properties; and
(11) Any other property not mentioned in this or the list of residential properties below.
OWNER. The owner of the property and shall be defined as the person who holds actual, not merely equitable, title to the property. Executors, administrators of estates and persons who hold property in trust shall be considered owners.
NPDES. National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System.
NPDES PERMIT. A permit issued to the village pursuant to § 402 of the Clean Water Act.
PEAK DISCHARGE or PEAK FLOW. The maximum rate of flow of water passing a given point during or after a rainfall event.
PRIVATE STORM WATER FACILITIES. Various storm water and drainage works not under the control or ownership of the village, county, state and/or federal government which may include inlets, conduits, pipes, pumping stations, manholes, structures, channels, outlets, retention or detention basins, other structural components and equipment designed to transport, move or regulate storm water.
PUBLIC STORM WATER FACILITIES. Various storm water and drainage works under the control and/or ownership of the village, county, state or federal government which may include inlets, roadside drainage ditches within the right-of-way, conduits, pipes, pumping stations, manholes, structures, channels, outlets, retention or detention basins, other structural components and equipment designed to transport, move or regulate storm water.
PUBLIC STORM WATER OPEN CHANNEL. All open channels, which convey, in part or in whole, storm water, and are owned, operated or maintained by the village, or a storm water open channel which has a permanent drainage/storm water easement owned by the village and drains an area which includes village-owned property or right-of-way. A PUBLIC STORM WATER OPEN CHANNEL does not include roadside ditches, which convey only immediate right-of-way drainage.
RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY. All single-family properties and duplexes within the village.
RETENTION. The holding of storm water runoff in a constructed basin or pond or in a natural body of water without release except by means of evaporation, infiltration or emergency bypass.
RETENTION FACILITY. A facility, which provides storage of storm water runoff and is designed to eliminate subsequent surface discharges.
SQUARE FOOTAGE OF IMPERVIOUS AREA. For the purpose of assigning an appropriate number of ERUs to a parcel of real property, the square footage of all impervious area using the outside boundary dimensions of the impervious area to include the total enclosed square footage, without regard for topographic features of the enclosed surface.
STORM SEWER. A sewer, which carries storm water, surface runoff, street wash waters and drainage, but which excludes sanitary sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling water.
STORM WATER. Storm water runoff, snowmelt runoff, and surface runoff and drainage.
STORM WATER SERVICE CHARGE. A charge billed to users of the village’s storm water collection, impounding and transportation system.
STORM WATER SYSTEM. All man-made facilities, structures and natural watercourses owned by the village, used for collection and conducting storm water to, through, and from drainage areas to the points of final outlet including, but not limited to, any and all of the following: conduits and appurtenant features, canals, creeks, catch basins, ditches, streams, gulches, gullies, flumes, culverts, siphons, streets, curbs, gutters, dams, floodwalls, levees and pumping stations.
(Ord. 2005-21, passed 1-23-2006)