Unless specifically defined below, words or phrases used in
this Part 2 shall be interpreted so as to give them the meaning they
have in common usage and to give this Part 2 its most reasonable application.
The definitions below are the same as or based on the corresponding
definitions in the Stormwater Management Rules at N.J.A.C. 7:8-1.2.
As used in this Part 2, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
The geographic depiction of the boundaries for Coastal Planning
Areas, CAFRA Centers, CAFRA Cores and CAFRA Nodes pursuant to N.J.A.C.
7:7E-5B.3.[1]
Those areas within boundaries accepted by the Department
pursuant to N.J.A.C. 7:7E-5B.[2]
The City of Estell Manor.
The increase in soil bulk density.
A pedestrian-oriented area of commercial and civic uses serving
the surrounding municipality, generally including housing and access
to public transportation.
An agency designated by the County Board of Chosen Freeholders
to review municipal stormwater management plans and implementing ordinance(s).
The county review agency may either be:
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
A State Development and Redevelopment Plan Center as designated
by the State Planning Commission, such as urban, regional, town, village,
or hamlet.
A person professionally qualified and duly licensed in New
Jersey to perform engineering services that may include, but not necessarily
be limited to, development of project requirements, creation and development
of project design and preparation of drawings and specifications.
The division of a parcel of land into two or more parcels,
the construction, reconstruction, conversion, structural alteration,
relocation or enlargement of any building or structure, any mining
excavation or landfill, and any use or change in the use of any building
or other structure, or land or extension of use of land, by any person,
for which permission is required under the Municipal Land Use Law,
N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1 et seq. In the case of development of agricultural
lands, "development" means any activity that requires a state permit;
any activity reviewed by the County Agricultural Board (CAB) and the
State Agricultural Development Committee (SADC), and municipal review
of any activity not exempted by the Right to Farm Act., N.J.S.A. 4:1C-1
et seq.
A geographic area within which stormwater, sediments, or
dissolved materials drain to a particular receiving water body or
to a particular point along a receiving water body.
An area or feature which is of significant environmental
value, including but not limited to, stream corridors; natural heritage
priority sites; habitat of endangered or threatened species; large
areas of contiguous open space or upland forest; steep slopes; and
wellhead protection and groundwater recharge areas. Habitats of endangered
or threatened species are identified using the Department's Landscape
Project as approved by the Department's Endangered and Nongame Species
Program.
A neighborhood designated by the Urban Coordinating Council
in consultation and conjunction with the New Jersey Redevelopment
Authority pursuant to N.J.S.A. 55:19-69.
The detachment and movement of soil or rock fragments by
water, wind, ice or gravity.
A surface that has been covered with a layer of material
so that it is highly resistant to infiltration by water.
The process by which water seeps into the soil from precipitation.
Any development that provides for ultimately disturbing one
or more acres of land. "Disturbance" for the purpose of this definition
is the placement of impervious surface or exposure and/or movement
of soil or bedrock or clearing, cutting, or removing of vegetation.
Any city, borough, town, township, or village.
An area designated by the State Planning Commission concentrating
facilities and activities which are not organized in a compact form.
A chemical element or compound, such as nitrogen or phosphorus,
which is essential to and promotes the development of organisms.
Any individual, corporation, company, partnership, firm,
association, the City of Estell Manor, or political subdivision of
this state subject to municipal jurisdiction pursuant to the Municipal
Land Use Law, N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1 et seq.
Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, filter
backwash, sewage, garbage, refuse, oil, grease, sewage sludge, munitions,
chemical wastes, biological materials, medical wastes, radioactive
substance [except those regulated under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954,
as amended (42 U.S.C.A. § 2011 et seq.), thermal waste,
wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, industrial,
municipal, agricultural, and construction waste or runoff, or other
residue discharged directly or indirectly to the land, groundwaters
or surface waters of the state, or to a domestic treatment works.
"Pollutant" includes both hazardous and nonhazardous pollutants.
The amount of water from precipitation that infiltrates into
the ground and is not evapotranspired.
Solid material, mineral or organic, that is in suspension,
is being transported, or has been moved from its site of origin by
air, water or gravity as a product of erosion.
The lot or lots upon which a major development is to occur
or has occurred.
All unconsolidated mineral and organic material of any origin.
An area delineated on the State Plan Policy Map and adopted
by the State Planning Commission that is intended to be the focus
for much of the state's future redevelopment and revitalization efforts.
The geographic application of the State Development and Redevelopment
Plan's goals and statewide policies, and the Official Map of these
goals and policies.
Water resulting from precipitation (including rain and snow)
that runs off the land's surface, is transmitted to the subsurface,
or is captured by separate storm sewers or other sewage or drainage
facilities, or conveyed by snow removal equipment.
An excavation or embankment and related areas designed to
retain stormwater runoff. A stormwater management basin may either
be normally dry (that is, a detention basin or infiltration basin),
retain water in a permanent pool (a retention basin), or be planted
mainly with wetland vegetation (most constructed stormwater wetlands).
Any structural or nonstructural strategy, practice, technology,
process, program, or other method intended to control or reduce stormwater
runoff and associated pollutants, or to induce or control the infiltration
or groundwater recharge of stormwater or to eliminate illicit or illegal
nonstormwater discharges into stormwater conveyances.
Water flow on the surface of the ground or in storm sewers,
resulting from precipitation.
A flood hazard area, which may be influenced by stormwater
runoff from inland areas, but which is primarily caused by the Atlantic
Ocean.
A neighborhood given priority access to state resources through
the New Jersey Redevelopment Authority.
A zone designated by the New Jersey Enterprise Zone Authority
pursuant to the New Jersey Urban Enterprise Zones Act, N.J.S.A. 52:27H-60
et seq.
Previously developed portions of areas:
The ocean and its estuaries, all springs, streams, wetlands,
and bodies of surface water or groundwater, whether natural or artificial,
within the boundaries of the State of New Jersey or subject to its
jurisdiction.
An area that is inundated or saturated by surface water or
groundwater at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and
that under normal circumstances does support, a prevalence of vegetation
typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions, commonly
known as "hydrophytic vegetation."
