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C. Definitions: The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, 521
<br />shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the 522
<br />context clearly indicates a different meaning: 523
<br />1. Best Management Practice (BMP): Erosion and sediment control and water 524
<br />quality management practices that are the most effective and practicable 525
<br />means of controlling, preventing, and minimizing the degradation of 526
<br />surface water, including construction-phasing, minimizing the length of 527
<br />time soil areas are exposed, prohibitions, and other management practices 528
<br />published by state or designated area-wide planning agencies. 529
<br />2. Certificate of Completion: the certificate issued after the final inspection of 530
<br />the site has been completed, temporary erosion control has been removed 531
<br />and the site has been fully restored. 532
<br />3. City of Roseville Erosion Control Specifications: practices described in, but 533
<br />not limited to, the following manuals: 534
<br />a. Minnesota Stormwater Manual 535
<br />b. Minnesota DOT Erosion Control Manual 536
<br />c. Minnesota Pollution Control Agency’s “Protecting Water Quality 537
<br />in Urban Areas” handbook (Ord. 1550, 6-4-2018) 538
<br />4. Erosion: any process that wears away the surface of the land by the action 539
<br />of water, wind, ice, or gravity. Erosion can be accelerated by the activities 540
<br />of man and nature. 541
<br />5. Erosion and sediment control plan: a document containing the requirements 542
<br />of Section 803.04 D that, when implemented, will prevent or minimize soil 543
<br />erosion on a parcel of land and off-site sediment damages. 544
<br />6. Erosion and sediment control practice specifications and erosion and 545
<br />sediment control practices: the management procedures, techniques, and 546
<br />methods to control soil erosion and sedimentation as officially adopted by 547
<br />the City. 548
<br />7. Land disturbance activity: Any activity, including clearing, grading, 549
<br />excavating, transporting and filling of land, greater than 5,000 square feet, 550
<br />and/or placement or grading of 50 cubic yards of earthen materials on a 551
<br />parcel of land located directly adjacentwithin 300 feet of to a water 552
<br />resource. or located within the shoreland overlay district[JF1][RJ2][RJ3]. Land 553
<br />disturbance activity does not mean the following: 554
<br />a. Minor land disturbance activities such as home gardens and an 555
<br />individual’s home landscaping, repairs, and maintenance work 556
<br />disturbing less than 500 square feet. 557
<br />b. Tilling, planting, or harvesting or agricultural, horticultural, or 558
<br />silvicultural crops disturbing less than 500 square feet. 559
<br />c. Installation of fence, sign, telephone, and electric poles and other 560
<br />kinds of posts or poles. 561
<br />d. Emergency work to protect life, limb, or property and emergency 562
<br />repairs. However, if the land disturbance activity would have 563
<br />required an approved erosion and sediment control plan except for 564
<br />the emergency, the land area disturbed shall be shaped and stabilized 565
<br />in accordance with the requirement of the local plan-approving 566
<br />authority or the city when applicable. (Ord. 1550, 6-4-2018) 567
<br />8. Permittee: a person, entity, state agency, corporation, partnership, or 568
<br />political subdivision thereof engaged in a land disturbance activity. 569
<br />9. Sediment: solid mineral or organic material that, in suspension, is being 570
<br />transported or has been moved from its original site by air, water, gravity, 571
<br />or ice, and has been deposited at another location. 572
<br />10. Sedimentation: the process or action of depositing sediment that is 573
<br />RCA Attachment B
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