Coastal wetlands definition

Coastal wetlands means marshland as defined in G.S. 113-229.

Coastal wetlands means such areas as defined by and subject to the Coastal Wetlands Protection Act.

Coastal wetlands means natural or man-made ponds and marshes having variable salinity, basin limits, and permanence. These wetlands usually adjoin the coastline and may be subject to tidal, seasonal, or perennial flooding. Coastal wetlands are generally maintained by surface and subterranean sources of fresh and salt water. Many natural coastal wetlands have been modified significantly by man and are characterized by introduced aquatic life. Coastal wetlands include, but are not limited to, salt marshes, open ponds, mudflats, man-made or natural waterbird refuges, isolated seasonal lakes and mangrove flats.

Examples of Coastal wetlands in a sentence

• NOTE: Coastal wetlands, by definition, include all areas affected by tidal action, not just those areas where salt marshes and salt meadows exist.

• Coastal wetlands, which provide protection from rough weather and seas and support fisheries and other commerce, endangered plants and animals, energy supplies and navigation routes, must be protected, and where appropriate, restored.

• Coastal wetlands have been substantially altered by urban development and changes to the watersheds that drain to those wetlands (Mitsch and Hernandez 2013).

• Coastal wetlands may include portions of coastal sand dunes.[PL 2005, c.

• Coastal wetlands" means all tidal and subtidal lands; all lands with vegetation present that is tolerant of salt water and occurs primarily in a salt water or estuarine habitat; and any swamp, marsh, bog, beach, flat or other contiguous low land that is subject to tidal action during the highest tide level for the year in which an activity is proposed as identified in tide tables published by the National Ocean Service.

More Definitions of Coastal wetlands

Coastal wetlands means wetlands, as the term is defined by Section11.502, Water Code, located:

Coastal wetlands means all tidal and subtidal lands; all areas with vegetation present that is tolerant of salt water and occurs primarily in a salt water or estuarine habitat; and any swamp, marsh, bog, beach, flat, or other contiguous lowland that is subject to tidal action during the highest tide level for the year in which an activity is proposed as identified in tide tables published by the National Ocean Service.

Coastal wetlands means the Coastal Wetlands designated by the Wetlands Act of 1970, N.J.S.A. 13:9A-1 et seq., and the Coastal Zone Management Rules, N.J.A.C. 7:7.

Coastal wetlands means wetlands, as the term is defined by Section 11.502, Water Code, located:

Coastal wetlands means such areas as defined by and subject to the Coastal

Coastal wetlands means all publicly owned lands subject to the ebb and flow of the tide; which are below the watermark of ordinary high tide; all publicly owned accretions above the watermark of ordinary high tide and all publicly owned submerged water-bottoms below the watermark of ordinary high tide.

Coastal wetlands means the Coastal Wetlands designated by the Wetlands Act of 1970,