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C. Definitions: The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article,
<br />shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the
<br />context clearly indicates a different meaning:
<br />1. Best Management Practice (BMP): Erosion and sediment control and water
<br />quality management practices that are the most effective and practicable
<br />means of controlling, preventing, and minimizing the degradation of
<br />surface water, including construction -phasing, minimizing the length of
<br />time soil areas are exposed, prohibitions, and other management practices
<br />published by state or designated area -wide planning agencies.
<br />2. Certificate of Completion: the certificate issued after the final inspection of
<br />the site has been completed, temporary erosion control has been removed
<br />and the site has been fully restored.
<br />3. City of Roseville Erosion Control Specifications: practices described in, but
<br />not limited to, the following manuals:
<br />a. Minnesota Stormwater Manual
<br />b. Minnesota DOT Erosion Control Manual
<br />c. Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's "Protecting Water Quality
<br />in Urban Areas" handbook (Ord. 1550, 6-4-2018)
<br />4. Erosion: any process that wears away the surface of the land by the action
<br />of water, wind, ice, or gravity. Erosion can be accelerated by the activities
<br />of man and nature.
<br />5. Erosion and sediment control plan: a document containing the requirements
<br />of Section 803.04 D that, when implemented, will prevent or minimize soil
<br />erosion on a parcel of land and off -site sediment damages.
<br />6. Erosion and sediment control practice specifications and erosion and
<br />sediment control practices: the management procedures, techniques, and
<br />methods to control soil erosion and sedimentation as officially adopted by
<br />the City.
<br />7. Land disturbance activity: Any activity, including clearing, grading,
<br />excavating, transporting and filling of land, greater than 5,000 square feet,
<br />and/or placement or grading of 50 cubic yards of earthen materials on a
<br />parcel of land located u:ree*'•�r� -Rajaeemwithin 300 feet of -to a water
<br />resource_ or loeated within .�aiva the skier v�au a ever -lay d t *. Land disturbance
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<br />activity does not mean the following:
<br />a. Minor land disturbance activities such as home gardens and an
<br />individual's home landscaping, repairs, and maintenance work
<br />disturbing less than 500 square feet.
<br />b. Tilling, planting, or harvesting or agricultural, horticultural, or
<br />silvicultural crops disturbing less than 500 square feet.
<br />c. Installation of fence, sign, telephone, and electric poles and other
<br />kinds of posts or poles.
<br />d. Emergency work to protect life, limb, or property and emergency
<br />repairs. However, if the land disturbance activity would have
<br />required an approved erosion and sediment control plan except for
<br />the emergency, the land area disturbed shall be shaped and stabilized
<br />in accordance with the requirement of the local plan -approving
<br />authority or the city when applicable. (Ord. 1550, 6-4-2018)
<br />8. Permittee: a person, entity, state agency, corporation, partnership, or
<br />political subdivision thereof engaged in a land disturbance activity.
<br />9. Sediment: solid mineral or organic material that, in suspension, is being
<br />transported or has been moved from its original site by air, water, gravity,
<br />or ice, and has been deposited at another location.
<br />10. Sedimentation: the process or action of depositing sediment that is
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