[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.