As used in this section, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
CHANNEL
A watercourse with a definite bed and banks which confine
and conduct continuously or intermittently flowing water.
CONSERVATION EASEMENT
An agreement or covenant running with the land which prohibits
all land or vegetation disturbance in favor of a permanent dedication
to natural open space, such agreement to be entered into between the
applicant and the municipality.
DRAINAGEWAY
Any watercourse, trench, ditch, depression or other hollow
space in the ground, either natural or artificial, which collects
or disperses surface water from land.
ENVIRONMENTALLY CRITICAL AREA
Any area which should not be disturbed by uses incompatible
with the paramount public interest in the prevention of surface water
runoff and attendant environmental damage. Examples of environmentally
critical impact areas include but are not limited to lakes, ponds,
floodplains and flood hazard areas, designated stream corridors, steep
slopes, highly erodible soils, wetlands, swamps, marshes, bogs, aquifer
recharge and discharge areas and heavily wooded areas.
LAND DISTURBANCE
Any activity involving the clearing, grading, transporting
or filling of land, and any other activity other than gardening which
alters land, topography or vegetative cover, having a material impact
on surface water drainage or runoff.
NATURAL DRAINAGE FLOW
The topographical pattern or system of drainage of surface
water runoff from a particular site, including the various drainageways
and watercourses which carry surface waters only during periods of
heavy rains, storms or floods.
NONPOINT RUNOFF
Surface water entering a channel from no definable discharge
source.
SURFACE WATER
All water produced by rain, flood drainage, springs and seeps
flowing over the land or contained within a natural or artificial
watercourse.
SURFACE WATER MANAGEMENT PLAN
A plan consistent with the purposes and policies of this
section which fully indicates necessary land treatment measures and
techniques, including a schedule for implementation and maintenance.
SURFACE WATER RUNOFF
The dispersion or drainage of surface water by natural or
artificial means; any overland flow of water across the ground surface
to the nearest conduit.
SURFACE WATER RUNOFF DAMAGE
All damage or harm to property values, land, vegetation and
water supplies, including but not limited to flooding, soil erosion,
siltation and other pollution of watercourses and diminished recharge
of groundwater supply, which damage results or is likely to result
when the dispersion of surface water typical of the land in a meadow
of good hydroponic condition is increased in rate, velocity or quantity.
WATERCOURSE
Rivers, streams, brooks, waterways, lakes, ponds, marshes,
swamps, bogs, and all other bodies of water, natural or artificial,
public or private, other than swimming pools, which are contained
within, flow through or border on the Borough of Westwood.
WATERSHED
An area of surface water runoff related to a point of concentration
(such as the topographically determined confluence with another body
of water or a man-made culvert, etc.).