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Chapter 153 Water Resource Management Adopted 6/28/2022
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<br />RESPONSIBLE PARTY. The property owner or his or her agent.
<br />RIGHT-OF-WAY (R-O-W). A strip of land acquired by reservation, dedication, prescription, or
<br />condemnation and intended to be occupied or used by a road, street, trail, water line, sewer line,
<br />electrical transmission line or similar public and/or utility service. Unless otherwise specified, the term
<br />RIGHT-OF-WAY (R-O-W) as used in this chapter refers to road or street right-of-way.
<br />SEDIMENT. The product of an erosion process; solid material both mineral and organic that is in
<br />suspension, is being transported, or has been moved by water, air or ice, and has come to rest on the
<br />earth's surface either above or below water level.
<br />SEDIMENT CONTROL. Methods employed to prevent sediment from leaving the site. Sediment control
<br />practices include, but are not limited to silt fences, sediment traps, earth dikes, drainage swales, check
<br />dams, subsurface drains, pipe slope drains, storm drain inlet protection and temporary or permanent
<br />sedimentation basins.
<br />SENSITIVE AREAS. Areas that are within 50 feet of and drain to one or more of the following resources:
<br />DNR protected waters, watercourses as defined, designated floodplain, bluffs and bluff tops, Wellhead
<br />Protection Areas as adopted by LGU, delineated wetland boundaries, or wetlands as shown on the
<br />National Wetland Inventory (NWI). The distance is measured horizontally from construction limits.
<br />SITE. One or more contiguous properties that are the location of construction activity and are under the
<br />control of the applicant.
<br />SOIL. The unconsolidated mineral and organic mineral material on the immediate surface of the earth.
<br />STABILIZED. The exposed ground surface has been covered by staked sod, riprap, wood fiber blanket, or
<br />other material which prevents erosion from occurring. Grass seed is not stabilization.
<br />STORM EVENT. As defined in Technical Paper 40 from NOAA, Rainfall Frequency Atlas of the United
<br />States for Durations from 30 minutes to 24 Hours and Return Periods from 1 to 100 Years (1961).
<br />STRUCTURE. Anything constructed or erected on or connected to the ground.
<br />SWCD. The Carver County Soil and Water Conservation District.
<br />TOP OF BANK. For natural watercourses, the first major change in slope of the incline above a clearly
<br />defined channel. For altered watercourses, the top of the constructed bank.
<br />TOPSOIL. The uppermost layer of soil, containing organic matter and micro-organisms.
<br />WATERBODY. All waterbasins, watercourses, and wetlands as defined in these rules.
<br />WATERBASIN. An enclosed natural depression with definable banks, capable of containing water, that
<br />may be partly filled with waters of the state.
<br />WATERCOURSE. Any channel having definable beds and banks capable of conducting generally confined
<br />runoff from adjacent lands. During floods water may leave the confining beds and banks but under low
<br />and normal flows water is confined within the channel. A watercourse may be perennial or intermittent.
<br />This definition excludes road ditches and swales constructed solely for the purpose of conveying runoff
<br />from highways, roads and streets and the adjacent lands.
<br />WATERS OF THE STATE. All streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs,
<br />reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems, drainage systems and all other bodies or accumulations of water,
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