Recommendations to Avoid or Minimize Specific Impacts Sample Clauses

Recommendations to Avoid or Minimize Specific Impacts. The following recommendations are directed at protecting riparian functions from activities associated with development:  Avoid vegetation removal on shorelines and bluffs. If vegetation must be removed, minimize the area and amount removed and locate the disturbed area as far from the water as possible. Minimize ground disturbance, removal of mature trees, and introduction of nonnative vegetation, especially invasive species such as English Ivy.  Avoid locating impervious surfaces in riparian buffers. If impervious surfaces must be located in riparian areas, minimize footprint, and mitigate impacts through techniques including pervious surfaces such as pervious pavers and concrete; bioretention facilities such as rain gardens; green roofs, cisterns, etc. Promote infiltration and implement approved methods/designs for controlling rates of surface runoff and pollutant loading. Caution should be taken when designing and installing bioretention and other facilities that infiltrate water along slopes and bluffs so as to not increase the likelihood of mass failures or erosion.  Avoid shoreline modification; maintain existing native vegetation, particularly at and near the land-water interface. If shoreline alterations must occur they should be done in a way that minimizes potential negative impacts to natural functions and should use the least intrusive methods including bioengineering or relocating structures where feasible and practicable. All adverse impacts should receive full compensatory mitigation to ensure no net loss of ecological functions.  Remove invasive plant species from marine riparian areas; Purple Loosestrife, Himalayan blackberry, English Ivy and other invasive plants compete with native species, particularly in disturbed sites along marine bluffs and shorelines.  Restore and replant marine riparian areas with native vegetation to improve the connectivity of upland and marine riparian habitat, and to restore functions that benefit the nearshore and beach ecosystems. Ensure that replanted marine riparian areas are properly maintained to improve plant survival.  Avoid building in the riparian buffers. If building must occur, then minimize footprint, site disturbance and locate structures far enough back from the water’s edge to ensure maintenance of functional riparian areas.  Avoid locating septic and waste water systems in the riparian area. If they must be located in the riparian area, then they should be designed, maintained, and ope...