The following terms used in this article shall have the meaning set forth in this section:
APPLICANTA property owner or agent of a property owner who has filed an application for a land development activity.
BUILDINGAny structure, either temporary or permanent, having walls and a roof, designed for the shelter of any person, animal, or property, and occupying more than 100 square feet of area.
CHANNELA natural or artificial watercourse with a definite bed and banks that conducts continuously or periodically flowing water.
CLEARINGAny activity that removes the vegetative surface cover.
DEDICATIONThe deliberate appropriation of property by its owner for general public use.
DEPARTMENTThe New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
DESIGN MANUALThe "New York State Stormwater Management Design Manual," most recent version, including applicable updates, that serves as the official guide for stormwater management principles, methods and practices.
DEVELOPERA person who undertakes land development activities.
EROSION CONTROL MANUALThe most recent version of the "New York Standards and Specifications for Erosion and Sediment Control" manual, commonly known as the "Blue Book."
GRADINGExcavation or fill of material, including the resulting conditions thereof.
IMPERVIOUS COVERThose surfaces, improvements and structures that cannot effectively infiltrate rainfall, snow melt and water (e.g., building rooftops, pavement, sidewalks, driveways, etc).
INDUSTRIAL STORMWATER PERMITA State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit issued to a commercial industry or group of industries which regulates the pollutant levels associated with industrial stormwater discharges or specifies on-site pollution control strategies.
INFILTRATIONThe process of percolating stormwater into the subsoil.
JURISDICTIONAL WETLANDAn area that is inundated or saturated by surface water or groundwater at a frequency and duration sufficient to support a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions, commonly known as hydrophytic vegetation.
LAND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITYConstruction activity including clearing, grading, excavating, soil disturbance or placement of fill that results in land disturbance of at least one acre. or activities disturbing less than one acre of total land area that is part of a larger common plan of development or sale, which, in the aggregate, results in land disturbance equal to or greater than one acre, even though multiple separate and distinct land development activities may take place at different times on different schedules.
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LANDOWNERThe legal or beneficial owner of land, including any person or entity holding the right to purchase or lease the land, or any other person or entity holding proprietary rights in the land.
MAINTENANCE AGREEMENTA legally recorded document that acts as a property deed restriction, and which provides for long-term maintenance of stormwater management practices.
NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTIONPollution from any source other than from any discernible, confined, and discrete conveyances, and shall include but not be limited to pollutants from agricultural, silvicultural, mining, construction, subsurface disposal and urban runoff sources.
PHASINGClearing a parcel of land in distinct pieces or parts, with the stabilization of each piece completed before the clearing of the next.
POLLUTANT OF CONCERNSediment or a water quality measurement that addresses sediment (such as total suspended solids, turbidity or siltation) and any other pollutant that has been identified as a cause of impairment of any water body that will receive a discharge from the land development activity.
RECHARGEThe replenishment of underground water reserves.
SENSITIVE AREASCold-water fisheries, shellfish beds, swimming beaches, groundwater recharge areas, water supply reservoirs, habitats for threatened, endangered or special concern species.
STABILIZATIONThe use of practices that prevent exposed soil from eroding.
STOP-WORK ORDERAn order issued which requires that all construction activity on a site be stopped.
STORMWATERRainwater, surface runoff, snowmelt and drainage.
STORMWATER HOTSPOTA land use or activity that generates higher concentrations of hydrocarbons, trace metals or toxicants than are found in typical stormwater runoff, based on monitoring studies.
STORMWATER MANAGEMENTThe use of structural or nonstructural practices that are designed to reduce stormwater runoff and mitigate its adverse impacts on property, natural resources and the environment. This shall include the practices listed on Schedule A included in this article.
STORMWATER MANAGEMENT FACILITYOne or a series of stormwater management practices installed, stabilized and operating for the purpose of controlling stormwater runoff.
STORMWATER MANAGEMENT OFFICERThe Code Official, or other person designated by the Mayor, with the approval of the Board of Trustees, to accept and review stormwater pollution prevention plans, forward the plans to the applicable municipal board, inspect stormwater management practices, and exercise the powers and duties specified for such official in this article.
STORMWATER MANAGEMENT PRACTICES (SMPs)Measures, either structural or nonstructural, that are determined to be the most effective, practical means of preventing flood damage and preventing or reducing point source or nonpoint source pollution inputs to stormwater runoff and water bodies.
SURFACE WATERS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORKLakes, bays, sounds, ponds, impounding reservoirs, springs, wells, rivers, streams, creeks, estuaries, marshes, inlets, canals, the Atlantic Ocean within the territorial seas of the state of New York and all other bodies of surface water, natural or artificial, inland or coastal, fresh or salt, public or private (except those private waters that do not combine or effect a junction with natural surface or underground waters), which are wholly or partially within or bordering the state or within its jurisdiction. Storm sewers and waste treatment systems, including treatment ponds or lagoons which also meet the criteria of this definition are not waters of the state. This exclusion applies only to man-made bodies of water which neither were originally created in waters of the state (such as a disposal area in wetlands) nor resulted from impoundment of waters of the state.
WATERCOURSEA permanent or intermittent stream or other body of water, either natural or man-made, which gathers or carries surface water.
WATERWAYA channel that directs surface runoff to a watercourse or to the public storm drain.