Watercourse crossing definition
Watercourse crossing means a feature constructed to enable vehicles and equipment to negotiate a stream. These includes bridges, culverts, fords, and vented fords capable of passing the design flow, and temporary and seasonal crossings capable of passing all flow during the period of use. “Watercourse or Lake Transition Line” for a watercourse with a floodplain means the location of incipient flooding (the location where water begins to spill over banks and on to the floodplain). For a watercourse without a floodplain, it means a line defined by one or more the following features: 1) a change of vegetation from bare surfaces or annual water tolerant species to perennial water tolerant or upland species at least 25 years in age at breast height, 2) physical indicators of scour such as undercut banks, ▇▇▇▇ lines on rocks, the top of exposed roots along the channels, and 3) a change in the size distribution of surface sediments from gravel to fine sand. For a lake, that line closest to the lake where perennial upland or facultative upland woody vegetation is permanently established.
Watercourse crossing means a watercourse crossing as defined in the Code of Practice for Watercourse Crossings adopted in section 3(2).
Watercourse crossing means a road, driveway, bridge, culvert, low-water crossing or similar mean for vehicles, pedestrians or utilities to travel from one side of a watercourse to the other side.
Examples of Watercourse crossing in a sentence
E.1 The Licensee shall minimize the disturbance of riparian vegetation within the immediate boundary of any Watercourse crossing to the extent practicable.
Watercourse crossing construction/reconstruction shall not occur at road work points, where free water is present in the watercourse, unless a visual encounter survey is conducted for all life-stages of FYLF by a qualified individual (knowledgeable with all life stages of FYLF (and similar species) for three pool/▇▇▇▇▇▇/run segments (and not less than 100 feet) above and below the watercourse crossing, and no more than two weeks prior to crossing construction/reconstruction work at such sites.