[Ord. 222, 4/7/2014]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
BMP (BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE)
Activities, facilities, designs, measures, or procedures used to manage stormwater impacts from regulated activities, to provide water quality treatment, infiltration, volume reduction, and/or peak rate control, to promote groundwater recharge, and to otherwise meet the purposes of this chapter.
CONVEYANCE
A natural or man-made, existing or proposed facility, feature or channel used for the transportation or transmission of stormwater from one place to another. For the purposes of this chapter, "conveyance" shall include pipes, drainage ditches, channels and swales (vegetated and other), gutters, stream channels, and like facilities or features.
LANDOWNER
The legal or beneficial owner or owners of land including the holder of an option or contract to purchase (whether or not such option or contract is subject to any condition), a lessee if they are authorized under the lease to exercise the rights of the landowner, or other person having a proprietary interest in the land.
MUNICIPALITY
The Borough of Honey Brook, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
PADEP
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
REGULATED ACTIVITY
Any earth disturbance activity(ies) or any activity that involves the alteration or development of land in a manner that may affect stormwater runoff.
WATERS OF THE COMMONWEALTH
Any and all rivers, streams, creeks, rivulets, impoundments, ditches, watercourses, storm sewers, lakes, dammed water, wetlands, ponds, springs, and all other bodies or channels of conveyance of surface and underground water, or parts thereof, whether natural or artificial, within or on the boundaries of the commonwealth.