Definitions.
When used in this chapter, the following words shall have the meanings
indicated:
CUT
An excavation, the difference between a point on the original
ground and a designated point of lower elevation on the final grade;
the material removed in excavation.
DISTURBANCE
Any activity involving the clearing, grading, excavating,
storing, filling or transporting of soil or any other activity that
causes soil to be exposed to the danger of erosion. The area of lot
"disturbance" shall include all portions of a lot which will be disturbed
by grading activity during construction including vehicle access and
stockpiling of materials.
EXCAVATION
Any act by which earth, sand, gravel, rock, asphalt, or other
similar material is dug into, cut, quarried, uncovered, removed, displaced,
relocated or bulldozed and shall include the conditions resulting
therefrom. Normal agricultural activities are excluded.
FILL
Any act by which earth, sand, gravel, rock or other similar
material is deposited, placed, pushed, dumped, pulled, transported
or moved to a new location above the natural surface of the ground
or on top of the stripped surface and shall include the conditions
resulting therefrom; the difference in elevation between a point on
the original ground and a designated point of higher elevation in
the final grade; the material used to make a fill.
GRADE
The elevation of the existing ground surface at the location
of any proposed excavation or fill.
GRADING
Excavation or fill, or any combination thereof, and shall
include the conditions resulting from any excavation or fill.
LIMIT OF GRADING
The boundary line formed between those areas of a site that
are to be graded and the existing natural topography of the property.
The limit of grading shall be synonymous with a no-cut/no-fill line.
PERSON
An individual, corporation, company, association, society,
firm, partnership, limited liability corporation or limited liability
partnership.
RETAINING WALL
A structure 24 inches or greater but less than 48 inches
in height composed of concrete, steel, wood or other approved building
material constructed for the purpose of supporting a cut or filled
embankment which would otherwise not comply with the requirements
of the standards set forth in this chapter.
RUNOFF
The surface water discharge or rate of discharge of a given
watershed after a fall of rain or snow that does not enter the soil
but runs off the surface of the land.
SWALE
A low-lying stretch of land which gathers or carries surface
water runoff and having an acceptable point of end discharge.
TOPSOIL
Surface soils and subsurface soil that presumably are fertile
soil material, ordinarily rich in organic matter or humus debris.
Topsoil is usually found in the uppermost soil layer called the "A-horizon."
WATERCOURSE
A permanent stream, intermittent stream, river, brook, creek,
channel, ditch, swale or culvert for water, whether natural or man-made.