Erosion hazard areas definition

Erosion hazard areas means those areas containing soils that, according to the United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service Soil Survey Program, may experience significant erosion.
Erosion hazard areas means land characterized by soil types that are subject to severe erosion when disturbed. These include, but are not limited to, those identified by the United States Department of Agriculture Soil Conservation Service Soil Classification System, with a water erosion hazard of “severe” or “high” (See Table 24.15-3, Erosion Soils of Thurston County). These areas may not be highly erodible until or unless the soil is disturbed by activities such as clearing or grading.
Erosion hazard areas means lands or areas underlain by soils identified by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) as having "severe" or "very severe" erosion hazards and areas subject to impacts from lateral erosion related to moving water such as river channel migration and shoreline retreat.

Examples of Erosion hazard areas in a sentence

  • Erosion Hazard Areas include areas likely to become unstable, such as: Erosion hazard areas are at least those areas identified by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service as having a “moderate to severe,” “severe,” or “very severe” rill and inter-rill erosion hazard.


More Definitions of Erosion hazard areas

Erosion hazard areas means those areas that because of natural characteristics, including vegetative cover, soil texture, slope, gradient, and rainfall patterns, or human-induced changes to such characteristics, are vulnerable to erosion.
Erosion hazard areas means at least those areas identified by the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Resources Conservation Service as having a severe rill and inter-rill erosion hazard.
Erosion hazard areas means lands or areas underlain by soils identified by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) as having “severe” or “very severe” erosion hazards. These include, but are not limited to, the following group of soils when they occur on slopes of 15 percent or greater: Alderwood gravelly sandy loam, Indianola gravelly loam, Kapowsin gravelly loam, Kitsap silt loam (KpD), and Xerochrepts.
Erosion hazard areas means at least those areas identified by the U.S. Department of
Erosion hazard areas means those areas which are vulnerable to erosion due to natural characteristics including vegetative cover, soil texture, slope, gradient or which have been induced by human activity. Those areas which are rated severe or very severe for building site development on slopes or cut banks, in accordance with the United States Department of Agriculture Soil Conservation Service Soil Survey for Pierce County Area (February 1979), are included within this definition.
Erosion hazard areas means at least those areas identified by the United States Department of
Erosion hazard areas means those areas of the city containing soils which, according to the USDA Soil Conservation Service, County Soils Survey dated July 1983, may experience severe to very severe erosion hazard. This group of soils includes the following when they occur on slopes of fifteen percent or greater: Alderwood gravelly sand loam (AgD), Alderwood-Kitsap (AKF), and Whidbey formation.