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<br />District - means the Cabarrus Soil and Water Conservation District
<br />(also referred to as the "SWCD") created pursuant to Chapter 139 of the
<br />North Carolina Statutes.
<br />Enerqy Dissipater - means a structure or a shaped channel section with
<br />mechanical armoring placed at the outlet of pipes or conduits to
<br />receive and break down the energy from high Velocity flow.
<br />Erosion - means the wearing away of land surface by the action of wind,
<br />water, gravity, or any combination thereof.
<br />Ground Cover - means any natural vegetative growth or other material
<br />which renders the soil surface stable against Accelerated Erosion.
<br />Hiqh Quality Waters - means those classified as such in 15A NC
<br />2B.0101(e) (5) - General Procedures, which is incorporated herein by
<br />reference to include further amendments.
<br />Lake or Natural Watercourse - means any stream, river, brook, swamp,
<br />creek, run, branch, and any reservoir, lake or pond, natural or
<br />impounded, in which Sediment may be moved or carried in suspension, and
<br />which could be damaged by accumulation of Sediment.
<br />Land-Disturbinq Activity - means any use of the land by any Person in
<br />residential, industrial, educational, institutional, or commercial
<br />development, highways and road construction and maintenance that
<br />results in a change in the natural cover or topography and that may
<br />cause or contribute to Sedimentation.
<br />Local Government - means any county, village, town, or city, or any
<br />combination of counties, villages, towns and cities acting through a
<br />joint program with the County pursuant to the provisions of the Act.
<br />NCSCC - means the North Carolina Sedimentation Control Commission.
<br />Natural Erosion - means the wearing away of the earth's surface by
<br />water, wind or other natural agents under natural environmental
<br />Conditions undisturbed by man.
<br />Ordinance - the Cabarrus County Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control
<br />Ordinance, as adopted and amended from time to time.
<br />Parent - an Affiliate that directly or indirectly, through one or more
<br />intermediaries, controls another Person.
<br />Person - means any individual, partnership, firm, association, joint
<br />venture, public or private corporation, trust, estate, commission,
<br />board, public or private institution, utility, cooperative, interstate
<br />body, or other legal entity.
<br />Person Conductinq Land-Disturbinq Activity - means any Person who may
<br />be held responsible for a violation unless expressly provided otherwise
<br />by this Ordinance, the Act, or any order adopted pursuant to this
<br />Ordinance or the Act.
<br />Person ResDonsible for the Violation - as used in this Ordinance, and
<br />G.S. 113A-64 means:
<br />a. The developer or other Person who has or holds themselves out as
<br /> having financial or operational control over the Land-Disturbing
<br /> Activity; and/or
<br />b. The landowner or Person in possession or control of the land who
<br /> has directly or indirectly allowed the Land-Disturbing Activity
<br /> or has benefited from it or has failed to comply with any
<br /> provision of this Ordinance, the Act, or any order adopted
<br /> pursuant to this Ordinance or the Act.
<br /> Phase of Gradinq - means one of two types of grading, rough or fine.
<br /> Plan - means a complete Erosion and Sedimentation Control Plan.
<br /> Sediment - means solid particulate matter, both mineral and organic,
<br /> that has been or is being transported by water, air, gravity, or ice
<br /> from its site of origin.
<br /> Sedimentation - means the process by which Sediment resulting from
<br /> Accelerated Erosion has been or is being transported off the site of
<br /> the Land-Disturbing Activity or into a lake or natural watercourse.
<br /> Siltation - means Sediment resulting from Accelerated Erosion which is
<br /> removable by properly designed, constructed, and maintained control
<br /> measures; and which has been transported from its point of origin
<br /> within the site of a Land-Disturbing Activity; and which has been
<br /> deposited in or is in suspension in water.
<br /> Storm Drainaqe Facilities - means the system of inlets, conduits,
<br /> channels, ditches and appurtenances which serve to collect and convey
<br /> storm water through and from a given drainage area.
<br /> Storm Water Runoff - means the direct runoff of water resulting from
<br /> precipitation in any form.
<br /> Subsidiary - an Affiliate that is directly or indirectly, through one
<br /> or more intermediaries, controlled by another Person.
<br /> SWCD - means the Cabarrus Soil and Water Conservation District.
<br /> Ten-Year Storm - means the surface runoff resulting from a rainfall of
<br /> an intensity expected to be equaled or exceeded, on the average, once
<br /> in ten years, and of a duration which will produce the maximum peak
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