Mound definition

Mound means a soil treatment area whereby the infiltrative surface is at or above original grade at any point.
Mound means an above-grade soil treatment area designed and installed with at least 12 inches of clean sand between the bottom of the infiltrative surface and the original ground elevation; that utilizes pressure distribution and includes a final cover of suitable soil to stabilize the surface and support vegetative growth.
Mound means a raised embankment of earth intended as a landscaping feature to visually obscure an area or provide design enhancement. Also see “berm.”

Examples of Mound in a sentence

  • Articles of the Agreement between the United Food & Commercial Workers Union, Local No. 832, and Mound Milk Transport Co-op Ltd.

  • Xxxxxxxxx, X.X. 1953 On the Excavation of a Shell Mound at Palo Seco, Trinidad, B.W.I. Yale University Publications in Anthropology no.

  • In addition, the required number of bulk milk trucks to be used by these employees will be based in Pilot Mound.


More Definitions of Mound

Mound means a soil treatment area whereby the infiltrative surface must be placed at or above original grade to meet vertical separation requirements to a limiting layer.
Mound means an above grade pressure distribution dispersal system whereby the invert of the lateral is installed at or above original grade at any point within the soil treatment area and includes a final cover of a sandy textured soil to transport oxygen, stabilize the surface and support vegetative growth.
Mound means an on-site wastewater treatment and dispersal component. The structure contains a distribution cell area surrounded by, and elevated above, the original land surface by suitable fill material. The fill material provides a measurable degree of wastewater treatment and allows effluent dispersal into the natural environment under various soil permeability.
Mound means the treatment and disposal component that is built with a specific sand media and is placed upon the ground surface.

Related to Mound

  • Shoreland means land, as defined in Minn. Stat. § 103F.205, subd. 4, located within 1,000 feet from the normal high water mark of a lake, pond, or flowage and 300 feet of a river or stream or the landward side of floodplain delineated by ordinance on such a river or stream, whichever is greater.

  • Bay means parking bay;

  • Drywell means an unlined or partially lined underground pit (regardless of geometry) into which drainage from roofs, basement floors, water softeners or other non-wastewater sources is discharged and from which the liquid seeps into the surrounding soil.

  • Raffle means a lottery in which the prize is won by (i) a random drawing of the name or

  • Rock means the body of consolidated or partially consolidated material composed of minerals at or below the land surface. Rock includes bedrock and partially weathered rock that is hard and cannot be dug with hand tools. The upper boundary of rock is "saprolite," "soil," or the land surface.

  • Waterway means any body of water.