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215. Vegetation. Means the sum total of plant life in some area; or a plant community <br />with distinguishable characteristics. <br />216. Visually Inconspicuous. Difficult to see or not readily noticeable. <br />217. Water- Oriented Accessory Structure or Facility. A small, above ground building <br />or other improvement, except stairways, fences, docks, and retaining walls, <br />which, because of the relationship of its use to a surface water feature, reasonably <br />needs to be located closer to public waters than the normal structure setback. <br />Examples of such structures and facilities include boathouses, gazebos, screen <br />houses, fish houses, pump houses, and detached decks. <br />218. Waterbody. Means a body of water (lake, pond) in a depression of land or <br />expanded part of a river, or an enclosed basin that holds water and is surrounded <br />by land. <br />219. Watercourse. Means a channel or depression through which water flows, such as <br />rivers, streams, or creeks, and may flow year- around or intermittently. <br />220. Watershed. The area drained by the natural and artificial drainage system, <br />bounded peripherally by a bridge or stretch of high land dividing drainage areas. <br />221. Wetlands. Those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or ground water <br />at a frequency and duration sufficient to support and that in normal circumstances <br />do support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil <br />conditions. Wetlands generally include swamps, marshes, bogs and similar areas. <br />Wetlands shall be those areas that meet the definitions and requirements of the <br />Minnesota. Wetlands Conservation ! Act. <br />vegetation, consists; of maorophytes that aro <br />Hydrology. The arca is muiidated'cifher peimanontly o <br />periodioully at <br />e <br />9m_'7 <br />.55- <br />