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Section 61 - Definitions
For the purpose of this article, the following
definitions shall apply unless the content clearly indicates or requires a
different meaning.
County plan review staff - The County Road Supervisor
and/or other designated officials.
Controlled release structure - A facility constructed
to regulate the volume of storm water runoff that is conveyed during a specific
length of time.
Conveyance structures - Water-carrying devices or
improvements such as channels, ditches, storm sewers, culverts, inlets, and the
like.
Detention or retention - Restraining the rate of
storm water runoff with some natural or manmade devices.
Developed - Conditions after construction or other
manmade change to improved or unimproved land, including, but not limited to,
buildings or other structures, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving,
excavation, or drilling operations.
Excess storm water - That portion of storm water
runoff, which exceeds the capacity of the storm sewers or natural drainage,
channels serving a specific watershed.
Impervious surface - Asphalt, concrete or any other
surface, which does not allow measurable infiltration.
Natural drainage - Water which follows by gravity in
channels formed by the surface topography of the earth prior to changes made be
the efforts of humans.
Off-site - External to the boundary of a development.
On-site - Internal to the boundary of a development
Point discharge - Release of storm water at a specific location.
Runoff - Rainfall excess after natural losses from
infiltration, evaporation, transportation or incidental poundage.
Storm water runoff release rate - The rate at which storm water runoff
is released from dominant to servient land.
Storm water storage area - An area designed to
temporarily accumulate excess storm water.
Swale - Surface-type conveyance for storm water,
usually designated to carry incidental, localized runoff.
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