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• Stabilization. The use of measures which protect soil from the erosion forces of wind,
<br />rain and flowing water.
<br />• Steep Slope. Land where agricultural activity or development is either not
<br />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
<br />used 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 />• Surface Water or Waters. All streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, wetlands, reservoirs,
<br />springs, rivers, drainage systems, waterways, watercourses, and irrigation systems
<br />whether natural or artificial, public or private.
<br />• Utility. The owner/operator of any underground facility including an underground
<br />line, facility, system, and its appurtenances used to produce, store, convey, transmit, or
<br />distribute communications, data, electricity, power, heat, gas, oil, petroleum products,
<br />water (including stormwater), steam, sewage and other similar substances.
<br />• Watercourse. Any natural or improved stream, river, creek, ditch, channel, canal,
<br />conduit, gutter, culvert, drain, gully, swale, or wash in which waters flow either
<br />continuously or intermittently.
<br />Watershed. A region draining to a specific river, river system, or body of water.
<br />• Wetlands. A lowland area such as a marsh, that is saturated with moisture, as defined
<br />in Sec. 404, Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1987, or the Minnesota
<br />Wetland Conservation Act of 1991.
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