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 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;
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.

Examples of Pond in a sentence

  • Xxxxxx-Xxxxxxxx was responsible for design and construction of the Six Pack ponds and re- construction of Hidden Pond.

  • In October of 1999, Hidden Pond was built to rear razorback sucker.

  • A salamander fence was installed around the Hidden Pond perimeter in August of 2003 to exclude predatory tiger salamanders.

  • Hidden Pond was lined with bentonite and contoured and a kettle was installed to facilitate fish harvest.

  • During the first harvesting and draining of a Six-pack Pond, high mortality resulted when the number of fish remaining in the pond could not be removed before they succumbed to the rapidly warming water.


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 a natural or artificially formed structure with an enclosed body of water more than six hundred (600) gallons.
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 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.