For purposes 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 stormwater drainage system.
AGRICULTURAL PROPERTY. A parcel of land or lot having an area in excess of five acres and encompassing two or more structures used to support agricultural activities.
APARTMENT/CONDOMINIUM PROPERTY. A lot or parcel of land on which is situated a building containing five or more single-family dwelling units, or on which two or more buildings each containing multiple single-family dwelling units are situated.
APPROVED PLANS. Plans approved by the Town of Winfield Department of Stormwater Management according to a permits and plan review which will govern all improvements made within the town that require stormwater facilities or changes or alterations to existing stormwater facilities.
CODE. Winfield Town Code.
COMBINED SEWER. Pipe or conduit primarily designed to convey sanitary sewage and secondarily intended to convey stormwater.
DETENTION. The temporary storage of stormwater runoff in a basin, pond or other structure to control the peak discharge rates by holding the stormwater for a period of time and which provides some gravity settling of particulates.
DIRECT DISCHARGE. Stormwater runoff from a lot or parcel of real property contiguous to any creek, ditch or lateral thereto, that is regulated by the Lake County Drainage Board and enters either such ditch or lateral without crossing other properties or entering the public stormwater facilities or stormwater system.
DIRECTOR. The lead superintendent designated by the Town of Winfield Department of Stormwater Management.
DSM. Winfield Department of Stormwater Management.
EQUIVALENT RESIDENTIAL UNIT. A unit value equal to the average amount of impervious area of a single-family residential property (ERU) within the town and established at 4,343 square feet of (measured) impervious area. It is also the basis for calculating the proper assessment of stormwater charges to all users of the town stormwater system.
IMPERVIOUS AREA. Area that has been paved and/or covered with buildings and materials which include, but are not limited to, concrete, asphalt, rooftop, blacktop, and compacted gravel, such that the natural infiltration of water into the soil is prevented. Excluded from this definition are undisturbed land, lawns and fields.
NON-RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY. All properties not encompassed within the definition of RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY shall be defined as non-residential property. NON-RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY shall include, but not necessarily be limited to:
(1) Agricultural property;
(2) Apartment and condominium property;
(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 government owned property; and
(11) Any other property not mentioned herein or in the list of residential properties below.
NPDES. National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System. Regulations for stormwater discharges as described in The Federal Register, 40 CFR Parts 122, 123 and 124, as amended.
NPDES PERMIT. Permit which may be required to be obtained by the town pursuant to Section 402 of the Clean Water Act, as amended.
PEAK DISCHARGE. The maximum rate of flow of water passing a given point during or after a rainfall event.
PRIVATE STORMWATER FACILITIES. Various stormwater and drainage works not under the control or ownership of the town, 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, hold or regulate stormwater.
PUBLIC STORMWATER FACILITIES. The various stormwater and drainage works under the control and/or ownership of the town, county state 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, hold or regulate stormwater.
RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY. For the purpose of this chapter, refers to a lot or parcel of real property on which a building or mobile home is situated, which building contains a group of rooms forming a single inhabitable dwelling unit with facilities that are used or are intended to be used primarily for living, sleeping, cooking and eating. This definition also includes a lot containing one individual building containing four or fewer separate or contiguous single-family dwelling units. Each and every residential property shall be assigned one ERU.
RETENTION. The holding of stormwater 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.
SQUARE FOOTAGE 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 to topographic features of the enclosed surface.
STORM SEWER. A sewer designed or intended to convey only stormwater, surface runoff, street wash waters, and drainage, and not intended for sanitary sewage and industrial wastes other than unpolluted cooling water. The portion of a sewer intended to carry stormwater only, which begins at the grating or opening where water enters said sewer, through the sewer and any other conduits to the outlet structure where water enters a channel, natural watercourse or combined sewer.
STORMWATER. The chemical compound of hydrogen and oxygen which is produced from atmospheric clouds as rain, snow, sleet, and hail.
STORMWATER SYSTEM. All constructed facilities, including combined sewers, structures and natural watercourses under the ownership, and/or control of the town and/or the DSM, used for collecting and conducting stormwater to, through and from drainage areas to the point of final outlet, including, but not limited to, any and all of the following: inlets, conduits and appurtenant features, creeks, channels, catch basins, ditches, streams, culverts, retention or detention basins and pumping stations; and excluding therefrom, any part of the system of drains and watercourses under the jurisdiction of the Lake County Drainage Board.
STORMWATER UTILITY CUSTOMER/USER. The owner of a lot or parcel of residential or non- residential property.
STORMWATER UTILITY USER FEE. A charge imposed on users of the town's public stormwater facilities and stormwater system.
(Ord. 194, passed 11-16-2010)