Designated wetland definition

Designated wetland means an area on the land surface established under the provisions of the Coastal Area Management Act or the Federal Clean Water Act.
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Designated wetland means the same as defined in section 459.102.
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Designated wetland means land designated as a
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Examples of Designated wetland in a sentence

  • Designated wetland sites will be assigned and monitors will be asked to survey 3 sites, at minimum, 3-5 times during the mating season (mid March-late July).

  • Wetlands Designated wetland habitat is primarily located at the southeast area of Black Lake and totals approximately 46 acres of emergent, forested, and shrub wetland habitat.


More Definitions of Designated wetland

Designated wetland means the same as defined in
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Designated wetland means those lands identified through the classification process established by this SMP.
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Designated wetland means land designated as a pro- tected wetland by the United States Department of the Interi- or or the department of natural resources, including but not limited to a protected wetland as defined in Iowa Code sec- tion 456B.1, if the land is owned and managed by the federal government or the department of natural resources. How- ever, a designated wetland does not include land where an agricultural drainage well has been plugged causing a tempo- rary wetland or land within a drainage district or levee dis- trict. Designated wetlands in the state are listed in “Desig- nated Wetlands in Iowa,” [month and day to be inserted when amendment is adopted], 2006, which is incorporated by ref- erence; this document is on file at the state law library where it is also available via the Internet at [Internet address to be inserted when amendment is adopted].
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Designated wetland means land designated as a pro- tected wetland by the United States Department of the Interi- or or the department of natural resources, including but not limited to a protected wetland as defined in Iowa Code sec- tion 456B.1, if the land is owned and managed by the federal government or the department of natural resources. Howev-
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Designated wetland means the same as defined
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Related to Designated wetland

  • Constructed wetlands means areas intentionally designed and created to emulate the water quality improvement function of wetlands for the primary purpose of removing pollutants from stormwater.

  • Wetlands or “wetland” means an area that is inundated or saturated by surface water or ground water at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances does support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions, commonly known as hydrophytic vegetation.

  • Wetland or "wetlands" means areas that are inundated or saturated by surface water or groundwater at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions. Wetlands generally include swamps, marshes, bogs, and similar areas. Wetlands do not include those artificial wetlands intentionally created from nonwetland sites, including, but not limited to, irrigation and drainage ditches, grass-lined swales, canals, detention facilities, wastewater treatment facilities, farm ponds, and landscape amenities, or those wetlands created after July 1, 1990, that were unintentionally created as a result of the construction of a road, street, or highway. Wetlands may include those artificial wetlands intentionally created from nonwetland areas created to mitigate conversion of wetlands.

  • Floodplain or flood-prone area means any land area susceptible to being inundated by water from any source (see definition of “flood”).

  • Coastal high hazard area means a Special Flood Hazard Area extending from offshore to the inland limit of a primary frontal dune along an open coast and any other area subject to high velocity wave action from storms or seismic sources. The area is designated on a FIRM, or other adopted flood map as determined in Article 3, Section B of this ordinance, as Zone VE.

  • Wildlife habitat means a surface water of the state used by plants and animals not considered as pathogens, vectors for pathogens or intermediate hosts for pathogens for humans or domesticated livestock and plants.

  • Flood-related erosion area management means the operation of an overall program of corrective and preventive measures for reducing flood-related erosion damage, including but not limited to emergency preparedness plans, flood-related erosion control works and floodplain management regulations.

  • Potential geologic hazard area means an area that:

  • Native vegetation means plant species that are indigenous to the region.

  • Stormwater management measure means any practice, technology, process, program, or other method intended to control or reduce stormwater runoff and associated pollutants, or to induce or control the infiltration or groundwater recharge of stormwater or to eliminate illicit or illegal non-stormwater discharges into stormwater conveyances.

  • chemical tanker means a ship constructed or adapted and used for the carriage in bulk of any liquid product listed in chapter 17 of the International Bulk Chemical Code;

  • Stormwater management planning area means the geographic area for which a stormwater management planning agency is authorized to prepare stormwater management plans, or a specific portion of that area identified in a stormwater management plan prepared by that agency.

  • Zone means a transit operations finance zone established under this section.

  • Stormwater management facility means a control measure that controls stormwater runoff and changes the characteristics of that runoff including, but not limited to, the quantity and quality, the period of release or the velocity of flow.

  • Area of shallow flooding means a designated AO or AH Zone on a community's Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) with one percent or greater annual chance of flooding to an average depth of one to three feet where a clearly defined channel does not exist, where the path of flooding is unpredictable and indeterminate; and where velocity flow may be evident. Such flooding is characterized by ponding or sheet flow.

  • Animal means any nonhuman animate being endowed with the power of voluntary action.

  • Regulated impervious surface means any of the following, alone or in combination:

  • Stormwater management plan means the set of drawings and other documents that comprise all the information and specifications for the programs, drainage systems, structures, BMPs, concepts and techniques intended to maintain or restore quality and quantity of stormwater runoff to pre-development levels.

  • Management Area means the area within the boundaries of a Member or group of Members to be managed by that Member or group of Members under any GSP adopted by the Authority.