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Permit issued: November 16, 2020 <br />Permit expires: November 15, 2025 <br />M N RO40000 <br />Page 25 of 28 <br />potentially harmful or detrimental or injurious to public health, safety or welfare, to domestic, agricultural, commercial, <br />industrial, recreational or other legitimate uses, or to livestock, animals, birds, fish or other aquatic life; or (b) the alteration <br />made or induced by human activity of the chemical, physical, biological, or radiological integrity of waters of the state. <br />[Minn. Stat. 115.01, subd. 13] <br />27.42 <br />"Water Quality Standards" means those provisions contained in Minn. R. 7050 and 7052. [Minn. R. 7090] <br />27.43 <br />"Water Quality Volume" means either: <br />a. for construction activity (excluding linear projects), one (1) inch of runoff from the sum of the new and fully <br />reconstructed impervious surfaces created by the project (calculated as an instantaneous volume); or <br />b. for linear projects, the greater of one (1) inch of runoff from the new impervious surface or one-half (0.5) inch of runoff <br />from the sum of the new and fully reconstructed impervious surfaces created by the project (calculated as an instantaneous <br />volume). [Minn. R. 7090] <br />27.44 <br />"Waters of the State" means all streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, reservoirs, <br />aquifers, irrigation systems, drainage systems and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface or underground, <br />natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained within, flow through, or border upon the state or any portion <br />thereof. [Minn. Stat. 115.01, subd. 22] <br />27.45 <br />"Wetlands" means those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface water or groundwater at a frequency and <br />duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation typically <br />adapted for life in saturated soil conditions. Wetlands generally include swamps, marshes, bogs, and similar areas. <br />Constructed wetlands designed for wastewater treatment are not waters of the state. Wetlands must have the following <br />attributes: <br />a. a predominance of hydric soils; <br />b. inundated or saturated by surface water or groundwater at a frequency and duration sufficient to support a prevalence <br />of hydrophytic vegetation typically adapted for life in a saturated soil condition; and <br />c. under normal circumstances support a prevalence of such vegetation. [Minn. R. 7050.0186, Subp. 1a.B] <br />Page 95 of 115 <br />