Wetland category definition

Wetland category means category as defined in Washington State Wetland Rating System for Western Washington – 2014 Update (Ecology Publication No. 14-06-029, October 2014), or as revised and adopted by the department.
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Wetland category means a rating given to a wetland using the Washington State Wetland Rating System for Eastern Washington (October 2014 publication no. 14-06-030, or as revised). The rating is used for purposes of comparing the relative degree of function and values between wetlands and is also used to help determine the size of buffers that are needed to protect those functions and values. See section 18.06.410.
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Wetland category means category as defined in “Washington State Wetland Rating System for Western Washington, Revised,” Department of Ecology publication #04-06-025, or as revised and adopted by the department.
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Examples of Wetland category in a sentence

  • Deliverables:• Wetland boundary spatial data• Wetland delineation report• Wetland category rating(s) with rating forms• Boundaries flagged/staked in the field for future surveying Biological SurveyTask: Complete a survey in the study area, as shown on sheet 3 of Attachment A, to identify potential Threatened and Endangered species in the vicinity that may be affected by the proposed water alignment.

  • When the production of agricultural crops is not hindered by wetland conditions, such cropland should be included in the Agricultural cate- gory; when lands produce economic commodities as a function of their wild state such as wild rice, cattails, or certain forest products 'commonly associated with wetland, however, they should be included in the Wetland category as defined by James Anderson, USGS.

  • Wetland category is used to regulate activities in a wetland and in determining the standard width of the required wetland buffer.

  • Year Wetland Coverboards Funnel Traps 2012NPPW4 Table 4: Wetland category and AIBI scores from 2012-2014 calculated with funnel traps alone and coverboards and funnel traps combined.

  • Areas of permanent impact on wetlands, streams and upland (including King County buffers) vegetation cover types for the Hancock Creek Hydroelectric Project.Resource ImpactedFeature Namea Wetland category is based on the Ecology wetland rating system (Hruby 2004) that is required by King County (21A.24.318).

  • The traces model is insufficient for our purposes, because it does not record the availability of events and hence only models what a process can do and not what it must do [22].

  • Wetland category and buffer widths under current city code‌ Invasive species, such as Himalayan blackberry, commonly occur in wetland buffers.

  • The Urban & Developed category is expected to respond negatively to precipitation events and result in large volumes of runoff.Conversely, the Forest & Wetland category is expected to respond positively to precipitation events and runoff volume is anticipated to be negligible.

  • Resource Impacted a Wetland category is based on the Ecology wetland rating system (Hruby 2004) that is required by King County (21A.24.318).

  • The new Forest & Wetland category contains the Forest & Woodland and Open Water categories from Table 1 since no wetland category was available.


More Definitions of Wetland category

Wetland category means wetlands that are categorized into Category I, II, III or IV based upon the categorization procedures in the Washington State Wetland Rating System for Eastern Washington, as amended (Hruby T. 2004).
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Related to Wetland category

  • Species means any group of animals classified as a species or subspecies as commonly accepted by the scientific community.

  • 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.

  • Sediment means solid material, mineral or organic, that is in suspension, is being transported, or has been moved from its site of origin by air, water or gravity as a product of erosion.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Inclement Weather means any weather condition that delays the scheduled arrival or departure of a Common Carrier.

  • Aquifer means a geologic formation, group of formations, or part of a formation capable of yielding a significant amount of groundwater to wells or springs.

  • 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.

  • Wildland means an area where development is generally limited to roads, railroads, power lines, and widely scattered structures. Such land is not cultivated (i.e., the soil is disturbed less frequently than once in 10 years), is not fallow, and is not in the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Conservation Reserve Program. The land may be neglected altogether or managed for such purposes as wood or forage production, wildlife, recreation, wetlands, or protective plant cover.

  • 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.

  • Sewage sludge weight means the weight of sewage sludge, in dry U.S. tons, including admixtures such as liming materials or bulking agents. Monitoring frequencies for sewage sludge parameters are based on the reported sludge weight generated in a calendar year (use the most recent calendar year data when the NPDES permit is up for renewal).

  • Portland cement means a hydraulic cement produced by pulverizing clinker consisting essentially of hydraulic calcium silicates, usually containing one or more of the forms of calcium sulfate as an interground addition.

  • Production, Use or Storage of Nuclear Material means the production, manufacture, enrichment, conditioning, processing, reprocessing, use, storage, handling and disposal of Nuclear Material.