"City" City of West Liberty, Iowa.
"Adjustment" means a modification in a nonresidential customer's stormwater service fee for certain activities that impact stormwater runoff or impact the City's cost of providing stormwater management.
"Director" means the director of the stormwater utility.
"Detached dwelling unit" shall mean developed land containing one structure which is not attached to another dwelling and which contains one or more bedrooms, with a bathroom and kitchen facilities, designed for occupancy by one family. Detached dwelling units may include houses, manufactured homes, and mobile homes located on one or more individual lots or parcels of land.
"Equivalent residnetial unit" (ERU) shall mean the average impervious area of a detached dwelling unit property within the City and shall be used as the basis for determining stormwater service charges to detached dwelling unit properties. Three thousand nin hundred sity-one (3,961) square feethshall be equivalent to 1 ERU.
"ERU rate" the dollar value periodically determined and assigned to each ERU as a charge for stormwater management services, expressed as dollars per ERU.
"Impervious area" the number of square feet of hard-surfaced areas which either prevent or resist the entry of water into soil surface, as it entered under natural conditions as undeveloped property, and/or cause water to run off the surface in greater quantites or at an increase rate of flow from that present under natural conditions as undeveloper property. This includes but is not limited to roofs, roof extensions, patios, porches, driveways, sidewalks, pavement, athletic courts, and semi-impervious surfaces such as gravel which are used as driveways or parking lots.
"Occupant" shall mean the person residing or doing business on the property. In a family or household situation, the person responsibile for the obligation imposed shall be the adult head of the household. In a shared sdwelling or office situation, the adult legally responsible for the management or condition of the property shall be responsible.
"Owner" shall mean the legal owner(s) of record as shown on the tax rolls of City of West Liberty, except where there is a recorded land sale contract, the purchaser thereunder shall be deemed the owner.
"Stormwater" means stormwater runoff, snowmelt runoff, and surface runoff and drainage.
"Storm sewer" means a sewer, which carries stormwater, surface runoff, strett wash waters, and drainage, but which excludes sanitary sewage and industrial wastes, other than permitted discharges.
"Service charges" shall mean the periodic rate, fee, or charge applicable to a parcel of developed land, which charge shall be reflective of the service provided by the West Liberty stormwater utility. Service charges are based on measurable parameters which influence the stormwater utility's cost of providing services and facilitis, with the most important factor being the amount of impervious area on each parcel of developed land.
"Stormwater drainage system" means all man-made facilities, structures, and natural watercourses owned by the City of West Liberty, used for collection and conduting stormwater to, though, 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, gullies, ravines, flumes, culverts, siphons, streets, curbs, gutters, dams, floodwalls, levees, and pumping stations.
"Stormwater management" means the tasks required to control stormwater runoff using stormwater management systems, to protect the health, sasfety, and welfare of the public, and comply with relevant State and federal regulations.
"Stormwater management systems" address the issues of drainage management (flooding) and evnironmental quality (pollution, erosion, and sedimentation) of receiving rivers, streams, creeks, lakes, ponds, and reservoirs through improvemetns, maintenance, regulation, and funding of plants, works, instrumentalitiess and properties use or useful in the collection, retention, detention, and treatment of stormwater or surface water drainage.
"Stormwater utility" means the utility established under this section for the purpose of managing stormwater and imposing charges for the recovery of costs connected with such stormwater management.
"Surface water" means water bodies and any water temporarily residing on the surface of the ground including lakes, reservoirs, rivers, ponds, streams, puddles, channelized flow, and runoff.
"Undeveloped property" describes land in its unaltered natural state, or which has been modified to such minimal degree as to have a hydrologic response comparable to land in an unaltered natural state shall be deemed undeveloped. Undeveloped land shall have minimal concrete pavement, asphalt, or compacted fravel surfaces or structures which create an impervious surface.
"Water course" a natural overland route through which water passes, including drainage courses, streams, creeks, and rivers.