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Pond definition

Pond means a natural or man-made impoundment of water with a water surface area of one acre or less at the high water level.
Pond means an excavation that is used for the routine storage and/or disposal of produced water and which is not used for crude oil separation or processing.
Pond means a natural or engineered facility for disposing of fine-grained waste, normally tailings, along with varying amounts of free water, resulting from the treatment of mineral resources and from the clearing and recycling of process water;

Examples of Pond in a sentence

  • The two separate culverts located downstream and adjacent (to the right) of the dam that outlet into Pond 14 (Culverts 2 and 3 on Attachment 1) would not be disturbed/would be retained, though the Permanente Creek- facing inlets of these culverts will be improved to limit the potential for sediment to be conveyed along with flow into Pond 14.

  • The Project would remove the concrete dam at Pond 22 and the in-creek culvert (Culvert 1 on Attachment 1) located immediately downstream and adjacent (to the left) to the concrete dam that facilitates flow continuing down Permanente Creek, and restore this area as a natural channel (approximately 350 linear feet through the aggraded pond).

  • The SEP Policy provides for seven categories of SEPs. (SEP Policy, section V.) The Pond 22 Permanente Creek Restoration Project SEP falls under the “Environmental Restoration and Protection” category.

  • Floodplain benches will be constructed along an approximately 250-foot reach of Permanente Creek downstream of the dam removal area to enhance habitat along this portion of the creek and a rock-lined channel will also be constructed at the Pond 14 outlet to stabilize a headcut and prevent it from undermining the existing concrete dam at Pond 14 that will be retained.


More Definitions of Pond

Pond means, consistent with R.I. Gen. Laws § 2-1-20(12), a place, natural or manmade, wholly or partly within the State of Rhode Island, where open standing or slowly moving water shall be present for at least six (6) months a year. For the purpose of these Rules, ponds exclude those places within the State of Rhode Island that meet the definition of vernal pool.
Pond means a natural body of standing water.
Pond means a natural body of water with a volume exceeding
Pond means an earthen-bottomed rearing/holding unit for fish production.
Pond means any place or excavation containing water other than sea water;
Pond means a natural or artificially formed structure with an enclosed body of water more than six hundred (600) gallons.
Pond means a naturally existing or artificially created body of standing water less than twenty acres in size and not defined as “Shorelines of the State” by chapter 90.58 RCW (Shoreline Management Act) or as a wetland under this title. Ponds can include reservoirs which exist on a year-round basis and occur in a depression of land or expanded part of a stream, but shall exclude stormwater or agricultural stock ponds within the Nisqually or long-term agricultural districts. A pond is bounded by the ordinary high water mark or the extension of the elevation of the pond’s ordinary high water mark within the stream, where the stream enters the pond.