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Page 2 <br /> 1. Applicant. Any person who wishes to obtain a building permit, zoning or <br /> subdivision approval: <br /> 2. Control measure. A practice or combination of practices to control erosion and <br /> attendant pollution. <br /> 3. Detention facility. A permanent natural or man-made structure, including <br /> wetlands, for the temporary storage of runoff which contains a permanent pool <br /> of water. <br /> 4. Flood fringe. The portion of the flood plain outside of the flood way. <br /> 5. Flood plain. The areas adjoining a watercourse or water basis that have been or . <br /> may be covered by a regional flood. <br /> 6. Flood way. The channel of the watercourse, the bed of water basins, and those <br /> portions of the adjoining flood plains that are reasonably required to carry and <br /> discharge flood water and provide water storage during a regional flood. <br /> 7. Hvdric soils. Soils that are saturated, flooded, or ponded long enough during <br /> the growing season to develop anaerobic conditions in the upper part. <br /> 8. Hydrophytic vegetation.tation. Macrophytic plant life growing in water, soil or on a <br /> substrate that is at least periodically deficient in oxygen as a result of excessive <br /> water content. <br /> 9. Land disturbing or development activities. Any change of the land surface <br /> including removing vegetative cover, excavating, filling, grading, and the <br /> construction of any structure. <br /> 10. Person. Any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, franchisee, association; <br /> or governmental entity. <br /> 11. Public waters. Waters of the state as defined in Minnesota Statutes Section <br /> 103G.005, subdivision 15. <br /> 12. Regional flood. A flood that is representative of large floods known to have <br /> occurred generally in the state and reasonably characteristic of what can be <br /> expected to occur on an average frequency in the magnitude of a 100-year <br /> recurrence interval. - <br />