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City of Arden Hills Chapter 15 Erosion and Sediment Control Ordinance
<br />B. Three hundred (300) feet from a river or stream, or the landward extent of a flood
<br />plain on such rivers or streams, whichever is greater; and,
<br />C. The practical limits of shorelands may be less than the statutory limits where the
<br />limits are designated by natural drainage divides at lesser distances, as shown on
<br />the official map of the City.
<br />��3Subd. 24 Stabilization. The use of ineasures which protect soil from the erosion
<br />forces of wind, rain and flowing water.
<br />�4Subd. 25 Steep Slope. Land where agricultural activity or development is either
<br />not recommended or described as poorly suited due to slope steepness and the site's soil
<br />characteristics, as mapped and described in available county soil surveys or other technical
<br />reports, unless appropriate design and construction techniques and farming practices are used
<br />in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. Where specific information is not
<br />available, steep slopes are lands having average slopes over twelve percent (12%), as
<br />measured over horizontal distances of fifty (50) feet or more, that are not bluffs.
<br />Subd 26 Surface Water or Waters. All streams lakes, ponds, marshes, wetlands,
<br />reservoirs sprin�s rivers drainage systems waterways watercourses, and irri�ation systems
<br />whether natural or artificial, public or private.
<br />&���Subd. 27 Utility. The owner/operator of any underground facility including an
<br />underground line, facility, system, and its appurtenances used to produce, store, convey,
<br />transmit, or distribute communications, data, electricity, power, heat, gas, oil, petroleum
<br />products, water (including stormwater), steam, sewage and other similar substances.
<br />�gSubd. 28 Watercourse. Any natural or improved stream, river, creek, ditch,
<br />channel, canal, conduit, gutter, culvert, drain, gully, swale, or wash in which waters flow
<br />either continuously or intermittently.
<br />S�-?�Subd. 29 Watershed. A region draining to a specific river, river system, or body
<br />of water.
<br />�-x�SSubd. 30 Wetlands. A lowland area such as a marsh, that is saturated with
<br />moisture, as defined in Sec. 404, Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1987,
<br />or the Minnesota Wetland Conservation Act of 1991.
<br />Section 1520 - Erosion and Sediment Control Plans and Review
<br />1520.01 Erosion and Sediment Control Plan.
<br />Subd. l Required. An Erosion and Sediment Control Plan must be submitted to the PWD
<br />for every project involving a land disturbance activity. No building permit, site plan
<br />approval, subdivision approval, or permit to allow land disturbing activities shall be issued
<br />and no earth disturbing activity shall commence until approval of the Erosion and Sediment
<br />Control Plan.
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