The following definitions shall be applicable in this chapter:
AGRICULTURAL LAND USE
Use of land for planting, growing, cultivating and harvesting
of crops for human or livestock consumption and pasturing or yarding
of livestock.
BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE or BMP
Structural or nonstructural measures, practices, techniques
or devices employed to avoid or minimize soil, sediment or pollutants
carried in runoff to waters of the state.
CONSTRUCTION SITE
An area upon which one or more land disturbing construction
activities occur, including areas that are part of a larger common
plan of development or sale where multiple separate and distinct land
disturbing construction activities may be taking place at different
times on different schedules but under one plan.
CONTROL MEASURE
A practice or combination of practices to control erosion
and attendant pollution.
CONTROL PLAN
A written description of the number, locations, sizes and
other pertinent information of control measures designed to meet the
requirements of this chapter submitted by the applicant for review
and approval by the Building Inspector and/or City Engineer.
EROSION
The detachment and movement of soil, sediment or rock fragments
by water, wind, ice or gravity.
EROSION AND SEDIMENT CONTROL PLAN
A comprehensive plan developed to address pollution caused
by erosion and sedimentation of soil particles or rock fragments during
construction.
EXISTING GRADE
The vertical location of the existing ground surface prior
to excavation or filling.
FILL
Any act by which earth, sand, gravel, rock or any other material
is deposited, placed, replaced, pushed, dumped, pulled, transported
or manually transported to a new location and shall include the conditions
resulting therefrom.
GRADING
Altering the elevation of the land surface by stripping,
excavating, filling, stockpiling of soil materials or any combination
thereof and shall include the land from which the material was taken
or upon which it was placed.
LAND DEVELOPING ACTIVITY
The construction of buildings, roads, parking lots, paved
storage areas and similar facilities.
LAND DISTURBING ACTIVITY
Any change to the land surface which may result in soil erosion,
sedimentation or increase in water runoff, including but not limited
to tilling, removal of vegetative cover, stockpiling of soil, grading,
excavating, livestock grazing and filling of land.
LAND DISTURBING CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY
Any man-made change of the land surface, including removing
vegetative cover, excavating, filling and grading but not including
agricultural land uses such as planting, growing, cultivating and
harvesting of crops; growing and tending of gardens; harvesting of
trees; and landscaping modifications.
LANDOWNER
Any person holding title to or having any interest in land.
LAND TREATMENT MEASURES
Structural or vegetative practices (including fencing) used
to control erosion, sediment and water runoff.
LAND USER
Any person who uses land collectively or individually as
owner, operator, lessor or renter or who occupies land by providing
work or service that requires alteration of the land or any person
who has made other arrangements with a landowner which give him the
right and/or responsibility for use of the land.
MAJOR LAND DISTURBING ACTIVITIES
Those activities where the land disturbance covers one or
more acres, where a subdivision (as defined by Ch. 236, Wis. Stats.)
is created, or where the Common Council, Planning Commission, City
Engineer or Building Inspector determines that special circumstances
due to topography, proximity to watercourses or relation to sensitive
environmental areas make the disturbance a major one.
MINOR LAND DISTURBING ACTIVITIES
Those activities where the land disturbance covers less than
one acre and the activities do not otherwise fall within the definition
of "major land disturbing activities."
PARCEL
All continuous lands under the ownership or control of a
land occupier or land user.
PEAK FLOW
The maximum rate of flow of water at a given point in a channel,
watercourse, or conduit resulting from a predetermined storm or flood.
PERSON
Any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture,
agency, unincorporated association, municipal corporation, county,
or state agency within Wisconsin, the federal government or any combination
thereof.
PUBLIC LANDS
All lands owned or controlled by any unit of government.
RUNOFF
Includes but is not limited to ice or water flowing over
the ground surface.
SEDIMENT
Solid material, mineral or organic, that is in suspension,
is being transported to or has been moved from its site of origin
by air, water, gravity or ice and has come to rest or has been deposited
on the earth's surface at another location.
SEDIMENTATION
The transportation and deposition of sediment that may ultimately
degrade water quality by the presence of suspended solid particles
derived from soils by erosion or discharged into surface waters from
other sources, or the deposition of waterborne sediments in stream
channels, lakes, reservoirs, or on floodplains, usually resulting
from a decrease in the velocity of the water flow.
SITE
The entire area included in the legal description of the
land on which the land disturbing or land development activity is
proposed in the permit application.
SOIL LOSS
Soil removed from a given site by land disturbing activities
or by the forces of erosion and redeposited at another site.
STORM FREQUENCY
The average period of time during which a storm of a given
duration and intensity can be expected to be equaled or exceeded.
STORM SEWER
A closed conduit for conducting collected stormwater.
STORMWATER RUNOFF
The waters derived from rains falling within a tributary
drainage basin, flowing over the ground surface or collected in a
water drainage system.
STRUCTURAL MEASURES
Land treatments intended to prevent erosion, sediment or
runoff that include, but are not limited to, gully control structures,
grass waterways, riprap, detention basins or ponds, sediment basins
or ponds, flood retention dams, diversions, and lining channels with
rock, concrete or other materials. Contour strip cropping is not considered
a structural measure under this chapter.
TECHNICAL STANDARDS
A document that specifies design, predicted performance and
operation and maintenance specifications for a material, device or
method.
WATER DRAINAGE SYSTEM
All facilities used for conducting runoff to, through or
from a drainage area to the point of final outlet, including but not
limited to any of the following: conduits and appurtenant features,
canals, channels, ditches, streams, culverts, reservoirs, detention
basins or ponds, storm sewers, streets, and pumping stations.
WORKING DAY
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, excluding,
however, any such day officially observed by the City as a legal holiday.
Also referred to as "business day."
All control measures required to comply with this chapter shall
be measures based on accepted design criteria, standards and specifications
periodically established by the United States Natural Resources Conservation
Service and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, the technical
standards identified or developed by the Wisconsin Department of Natural
Resources under Subchapter V of Ch. NR 151, Wis. Adm. Code, or those
otherwise identified as acceptable by the Building Inspector or City
Engineer. Where design criteria, standards or specifications conflict,
the most restrictive provisions shall apply.
All sedimentation basins and other control measures necessary
to meet the requirements of this chapter shall be maintained by the
applicant or subsequent landowner during the period of land disturbance
and land development of the site in a satisfactory manner to ensure
adequate performance and to prevent nuisance conditions.
The fees referred to in other sections of this chapter shall
be established by the Common Council and may from time to time be
modified by resolution. A schedule of the fees shall be available
for review in the Municipal Building.