Finally Stabilized definition

Finally Stabilized means that all soil disturbing activities at the site have been completed, and a uniform perennial vegetative cover with a density of 70% of the typical or native background vegetative cover for the area has been established on all disturbed unpaved areas and areas not covered by permanent structures. Final stabilization using vegetation must be accomplished using plants or seed mixtures of forbs, grasses and/or woody vegetation that are adapted to the conditions of the site.

Finally Stabilized means that all ground surface disturbing activities at the site have been completed, and all disturbed areas have been either built on, paved, or a uniform vegetative cover has been established with an individual plant density of at least 70 percent of pre-disturbance levels, or equivalent permanent, physical erosion reduction methods have been employed. Re-seeding alone does not qualify.What are the requirements for recommencing construction activities at a later date at a site that has beencompletely stabilized and the permit terminated?If a common plan of development is completely stabilized such that the entire common plan of development meets the definition of finally stabilized and permit coverage for that common plan of development has been terminated (the permittee has submitted a notice of termination to the division and the division has confirmed that the certification has been inactivated), then a new determination of “common plan of development” shall be made for any future construction activities conducted by a different owner(s)/developer(s) that occur within the previously permitted area to determine if permit coverage is needed. However, if the original owner/developer of a common plan of development, that achieved final stabilization and terminated permit coverage, is the one who is restarting construction activities within that development, then any construction activity they are engaged in would be considered part of the original larger common plan of development and therefore require permit coverage if one acre or greater. Note that if the site has never been finally stabilized, then this does not apply as the original development is considered ongoing.

Finally Stabilized means that all ground surface disturbing activities at the site have been completed, and all disturbed areas have been either built on, paved, or a uniform vegetative cover has been established with an individual plant density of at least 70 percent of pre-disturbance levels, or equivalent permanent, physical erosion reduction methods have been employed. Re-seeding alone does not qualify.

Examples of Finally Stabilized in a sentence

• In addition to the monitoring exception included the draft permit (i.e., Monitoring Exceptions for Inactive and Unstaffed Sites), the final permit contains an additional monitoring exception (Monitoring Exceptions for Completed and Finally Stabilized Areas) for mine sites, or areas of the mine site, where the pollutant potential and potential for control measure failure is significantly reduced.

• In response to comments received during the public notice period, the division added an additional exception to the inspection requirements in the final permit, specifically for the runoff event inspection at Completed and Finally Stabilized Areas (see response to Comment ID COG50-5.11).

• Finally, Stabilized RED (S-RED) [57] utilizes a marking probability based both on the evaluated number of active flows and the instant queue size.

• Therefore, the division determined it is appropriate to reduce the permittee’s sampling/reporting burden for qualifying facilities (or portions of facilities), and added a new monitoring exception for visual monitoring, benchmark sampling, or water quality standards monitoring of stormwater discharges at Part I.H.8 of the permit (Monitoring Exceptions for Completed and Finally Stabilized Areas).