As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITY
The activity of an active farm, including grazing and watering
livestock, irrigating crops, harvesting crops, using land for growing
agricultural products, and cutting timber for sale, but shall not
include the operation of a dude ranch or similar operation, or the
construction of new structures associated with agricultural activities.
APPLICANT
A property owner or agent of a property owner who has filed
an application for a land development activity.
BUILDING
Includes any 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.
CHANNEL
A natural or artificial watercourse with a definite bed and
banks that conducts continuously or periodically flowing water.
CLEARING
Includes any activity that removes the vegetative surface
cover.
DEDICATION
The deliberate appropriation of property by its owner for
general public use.
DEC
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
DESIGN MANUAL
The State Stormwater Management Design Manual, most recent
version including applicable updates, which serves as the official
guide for stormwater management principles, methods and practices.
DEVELOPER
A person who undertakes land development activities.
EPA
The United States Environmental Protection Agency.
EROSION CONTROL MANUAL
The most recent version of the "New York Standards and Specifications
for Erosion and Sediment Control" manual, commonly known as the "Blue
Book."
EPA
The United States Environmental Protection Agency.
GRADING
The excavation or fill of material, including the resulting
conditions thereof.
IMPERVIOUS COVER
Includes those surfaces, improvements and structures that
allow little or no penetration of runoff (from precipitation) into
the soil (e.g., building rooftops, pavement, sidewalks, driveways,
etc.).
INDUSTRIAL STORMWATER PERMIT
A SPDES 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.
INFILTRATION
The process by which water seeps into the soil.
JURISDICTIONAL WETLAND
An 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 ACTIVITY
Construction activity, including but not limited to clearing,
grading, excavating, soil disturbance and placement of fill that results
in land disturbance of equal to or greater than one acre, or an activity
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.
LANDOWNER
The legal or beneficial owner of land, including those holding
the right to purchase or lease the land, or any other person holding
proprietary rights in the land.
MAINTENANCE AGREEMENT
A document legally recorded in the Office of the Nassau County
Clerk that acts as a property deed restriction, and which provides
for long-term maintenance of stormwater management practices.
MS4
The municipal separate stormwater sewer systems.
NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION
Includes pollution from any source other than from any discernible,
confined, and discrete conveyances (such as pipe, channel, ditch,
sluice, stream, etc.), and shall include, but not be limited to, pollutants
from agricultural, silvicultural, mining, construction, subsurface
disposal and urban runoff sources.
PHASING
Clearing a parcel of land in distinct pieces or parts, with
the stabilization of each piece completed before the clearing of the
next.
POLLUTANT OF CONCERN
Sediment 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.
RECHARGE
The replenishment of underground water reserves.
SEDIMENT CONTROL
The measures that prevent eroded sediment from leaving the
site.
SENSITIVE AREAS
Includes cold-water fisheries, shellfish beds, swimming beaches,
groundwater recharge areas, water supply reservoirs, and/or other
habitats for threatened, endangered or special concern species.
SMO
The Stormwater Management Officer.
SMPs
Stormwater management practices.
SPDES
The State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System.
STATE
The State of New York.
STABILIZATION
The use of practices that prevent exposed soil from eroding.
STOP-WORK ORDER
An order issued which requires that all, or a specified portion
thereof, construction activity on a site be stopped.
STORMWATER
Includes rainwater, surface runoff, snowmelt and drainage.
STORMWATER HOTSPOT
A 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 MANAGEMENT
The 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.
STORMWATER MANAGEMENT FACILITY
Includes one or a series of stormwater management practices
installed, stabilized and operating for the purpose of controlling
stormwater runoff.
STORMWATER MANAGEMENT OFFICER
The Building Inspector, or his designee, as the designated
officer of the Village to accept and review stormwater pollution prevention
plans, forward the plans to the applicable Village Board or committee
and inspect stormwater management practices.
STORMWATER MANAGEMENT PRACTICES (SMPs)
Measures, either structural or nonstructural, or a combination
of the two, 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.
STORMWATER RUNOFF
The flow on the surface of the ground, resulting from precipitation.
SURFACE WATERS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
Lakes, bays, sounds, ponds, impounding reservoirs, springs,
wells, rivers, streams, creeks, estuaries, marshes, inlets, canals,
the Atlantic Ocean within the territorial seas of the state 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.
SWPPP
The stormwater pollution prevention plan.
WATERCOURSE
A permanent or intermittent stream or other body of water,
either natural or man-made, which gathers or carries surface water.
WATERWAY
A channel that directs surface runoff to a watercourse or
to the public storm drain.