§ 200.0. Definitions.

200.1 Adverse impacts: Any deleterious impact on water resources or wetlands affecting their beneficial uses including recreation, aesthetics, aquatic habitat, quality, and quantity.

200.2 Applicant: Any person, firm, or governmental agency who executes the necessary forms to procure official approval of a development or permit to carry out construction of a development from the City of Edwardsville.

200.3 Base flood elevation: The elevation at all locations delineating the level of flooding resulting from the 100-year frequency flood event.

200.4 Bypass flows: Stormwater runoff from upstream properties tributary to a property's drainage system but not under its control.

200.5 Channel: Any river, stream, creek, brook, branch, natural or artificial depression, ponded area, flowage, slough, ditch, conduit, culvert, gully, ravine, wash, or natural or manmade drainage-way, which has a definite bed and bank or shoreline in or into which surface or groundwater flows, either perennially or intermittently.

200.6 Channel modification: Alteration of a channel by changing the physical dimensions or material of its bed or banks. Channel modification includes damming, rip-rapping (or other armoring), widening, deepening, straightening, relocating, lining, and significant removal of bottom or woody rooted vegetation. Channel modification does not include the clearing of debris or removal of trash.

200.7 Compensatory storage: An artificially excavated, hydraulically equivalent volume of storage within the floodplain used to balance the loss of natural flood storage capacity when fill or structures are placed within the floodplain.

200.8 Conduit: Any channel, pipe, sewer, or culvert used for the conveyance or movement of water, whether open or closed.

200.9 Detention basin: A facility constructed or modified to provide for the temporary storage of stormwater runoff and the controlled release by gravity of the runoff at a prescribed rate during and after a flood or storm.

200.10 Detention time: The mean residence time of stormwater in a detention basin.

200.11 Development: Any manmade change to real estate, including:

(a)

Preparation of a plot of subdivision;

(b)

Construction, reconstruction or placement of a building or any addition to a building;

(c)

Installation of a manufactured home on a site, preparing a site for a manufactured home, or installing a travel trailer on a site for more than 180 days;

(d)

Construction of roads, bridges, or similar projects;

(e)

Redevelopment of a site;

(f)

Filling, dredging, grading, clearing, excavating, paving, or other non-agricultural alterations of the ground surface;

(g)

Storage of materials or deposit of solid or liquid waste;

(h)

Any other activity that might alter the magnitude, frequency, deviation, direction, of velocity of stormwater flows from a property.

200.12 Drainage plan: A plan, including engineering drawings and supporting calculations, which describes the existing stormwater drainage system and environmental features, as well as the drainage system and environmental features which are proposed after development of a property.

200.13 Dry basin: A detention basin designed to drain completely after temporary storage of stormwater flows and to normally be dry over the majority of its bottom area.

200.14 Erosion: The general process whereby earth is removed by flowing water or wave action.

200.15 Excess stormwater run-off: The volume and rate of flow of stormwater discharged from an urbanized drainage area which is or will be in excess of that volume and rate which pertained before urbanization.

200.16 Floodplain: That land adjacent to a body of water with ground surface elevations at or below the base flood or the 100-year frequency flood elevation. The floodplain is also known as the special flood hazard area (SFHA).

200.17 Flood fringe: That portion of the floodplain outside of the regulatory floodway.

200.18 Floodway: The channel and that portion of the floodplain adjacent to a stream or watercourse which is needed to store and convey the anticipated existing and future 100-year frequency flood discharge with no more than a 0.1 foot increase in stage due to any loss of flood conveyance or storage and no more than a ten percent increase in velocities.

200.19 Hydrograph: A graph showing for a given location on a stream on conduit, the flow rate with respect to time.

200.20 Infiltration: The passage or movement of water into the soil surfaces.

200.21 Major drainage system: That portion of a drainage system needed to store and convey flows beyond the capacity of the minor drainage system.

200.22 Minor drainage system: That portion of a drainage system designed for the convenience of the public. It consists of street gutters, storm sewers, small open channels, and swales and, where manmade, is usually designed to handle the ten-year runoff event or less.

200.23 Mitigation: Mitigation includes those measures necessary to minimize the negative effects which stormwater drainage and development activities might have on the public health, safety and welfare. Examples of mitigation include compensatory storage, soil erosion and sedimentation control, and channel restoration.

200.24 Natural: Conditions resulting from physical, chemical, and biological processes without intervention by man.

200.25 One hundred-year event: A rainfall, runoff, or flood event having a one percent chance of occurring in any given year.

200.26 Positive drainage: Provision for overland paths for all areas of a property including depressional areas that may also be drained by storm sewer.

200.27 Peak flow: The maximum rate of flow of water at a given point in a channel or conduit.

200.28 Property: A parcel of real estate.

200.29 Retention basin: A facility designed to completely retain a specified amount of stormwater runoff without release except by means of evaporation, infiltration, emergency bypass or pumping.

200.30 Sedimentation: The process that deposits soils, debris, and other materials either on other ground surfaces or in bodies of water or stormwater drainage systems.

200.31 Stormwater drainage system: All means, natural or manmade, used for conducting stormwater to, through or from a drainage area to the point of final outlet from a property. The stormwater drainage system includes but is not limited to any of the following: conduits and appurtenance features, canals, channels, ditches, streams, culverts, streets, storm sewers, detention basins, swales and pumping stations.

200.32 Stormwater runoff: The waters derived from melting snow or rain falling within a tributary drainage basin which are in excess of the infiltration capacity of the soils of that basin, which flow over the surface of the ground or are collected in channels or conduits.

200.33 Storm sewer: A closed conduit for conveying collected stormwater.

200.34 Time of concentration: The elapsed time for stormwater to flow from the most hydraulically remote point in a drainage basin to a particular point of interest in that watershed.

200.35 Tributary watershed: All of the land surface area that contributes runoff to a given point.

200.36 Two-year event: A runoff, rainfall, or flood event having a fifty percent chance of occurring in any given year.

200.37 Wet basin: A detention basin designed to maintain a permanent pool of water after the temporary storage of stormwater runoff.