Wetland buffer definition

Wetland buffer means a designated area contiguous or adjacent to a wetland that is required for the continued maintenance, function, and ecological stability of the wetland.
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Wetland buffer or “wetland buffer zone” means an area that surrounds and protects a wetland from adverse impacts to the functions and values of a regulated wetland.
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Wetland buffer means an area that surrounds and protects a wetland from adverse impacts to the functions and values of a regulated wetland.
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Examples of Wetland buffer in a sentence

  • Wetland buffer zones shall be required for all regulated activities adjacent to regulated wetlands.

  • Wetland buffer condition: Wetland buffer areas shall be retained in a natural condition or may be improved to enhance buffer functions and values.

  • Wetland buffer widths, wetland activities, and replacement ratios shall be based on this rating system.

  • Wetland buffer areas shall not be impacted by any construction activities (other than those impacts permitted under the CUP and DES wetlands permit).

  • Wetland buffer zones shall be retained in their natural condition.

  • Wetland buffer widths shall be measured along a horizontal line perpendicular to the wetland boundary as marked in the field during delineation if required, or based upon site investigation, aerial photographs, or LiDAR images.

  • Wetland buffer areas that are legally filled under this chapter remain as wetland buffer areas.

  • Wetland buffer widths shall be established according to the following tables which are based on wetland classification, habitat function, land use intensity, and local significance: Table 1.

  • Wetland buffer widths may be modified by averaging buffer widths as set forth herein.

  • Wetland buffer zones should be retained in their natural condition unless revegetation is necessary to improve or restore the buffer.


More Definitions of Wetland buffer

Wetland buffer means a designated area contiguous or adjacent to a wetland that is required for the
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Wetland buffer. “buffer,” or “buffer zones” means areas that surround and protect critical areas from adverse impacts to their functions and values. [Ord. 1170B, 2000; Ord. 1157, 1998; Ord. 1150 §2, 1996]
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Wetland buffer or “wetland buffer zone” means an area that surrounds and protects a
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Wetland buffer means an area of an appropriate size to protect the environmental and functional habitat values of the wetland or that are integrally important to support the full range of the wetland and adjacent upland biological community as defined in Resource Protection Ordinance section 86.602.
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Wetland buffer means: All of that land area located within thirty (30) feet landward of a delineated wetland boundary and parallel to that delineated wetland boundary.
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Related to Wetland buffer

  • Wetlands means those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or groundwater at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions. Wetlands generally include swamps, marshes, bogs, and similar areas.

  • Wetland or "wetlands" means areas that are inundated or saturated by surface water or groundwater at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions. Wetlands generally include swamps, marshes, bogs, and similar areas. Wetlands do not include those artificial wetlands intentionally created from nonwetland sites, including, but not limited to, irrigation and drainage ditches, grass-lined swales, canals, detention facilities, wastewater treatment facilities, farm ponds, and landscape amenities, or those wetlands created after July 1, 1990, that were unintentionally created as a result of the construction of a road, street, or highway. Wetlands may include those artificial wetlands intentionally created from nonwetland areas created to mitigate conversion of wetlands.

  • Wildlife habitat means a surface water of the state used by plants and animals not considered as pathogens, vectors for pathogens or intermediate hosts for pathogens for humans or domesticated livestock and plants.

  • Groundwater means all water, which is below the surface of the ground in the saturation zone and in direct contact with the ground or subsoil.

  • Wildlife means all species of the animal kingdom whose

  • Constructed wetlands means areas intentionally designed and created to emulate the water quality improvement function of wetlands for the primary purpose of removing pollutants from stormwater.

  • Sediment means solid material, mineral or organic, that is in suspension, is being transported, or has been moved from its site of origin by air, water or gravity as a product of erosion.

  • Subsurface tracer study means the release of a substance tagged with radioactive material for the purpose of tracing the movement or position of the tagged substance in the well-bore or adjacent formation.

  • Soil means all unconsolidated mineral and organic material of any origin.

  • Environment means ambient air, surface water and groundwater (including potable water, navigable water and wetlands), the land surface or subsurface strata, the workplace or as otherwise defined in any Environmental Law.

  • Pollution means pollution or contamination of the atmosphere or of any water land or other tangible property;

  • Wildlife law means any statute, law, regulation, ordinance, or administrative rule developed and enacted to manage wildlife resources and the use thereof.

  • Inclement Weather means any weather condition that delays the scheduled arrival or departure of a Common Carrier.

  • Stormwater runoff means water flow on the surface of the ground or in storm sewers, resulting from precipitation.

  • Effluent means any liquid, including particles of matter and other substances in suspension in the liquid; "financial year" means the twelve months ending with 31st March;

  • Environmental pollution means the contaminating or rendering unclean or impure the air, land or waters of the state, or making the same injurious to public health, harmful for commer- cial or recreational use, or deleterious to fish, bird, animal or plant life.

  • Vegetation means trees, shrubs, nursery stock and other vegetation and includes the limbs or growth of any Vegetation.

  • toxic a “pollutant”, a “contaminant”, or words of similar meaning and regulatory effect pursuant to any Environmental Law and also including any petroleum product or by-product, asbestos-containing material, lead-containing paint, mold, polychlorinated biphenyls or radioactive materials.

  • Animal means any nonhuman animate being endowed with the power of voluntary action.

  • Environmentally sensitive area means any area in which plant or animal life or their habitats are either rare or especially valuable because of their special nature or role in an ecosystem and which could be easily disturbed or degraded by human activities and developments.

  • Potable means water suitable for drinking by the public.

  • Wildlife violation means any cited violation of a statute, law, regulation, ordinance, or administrative rule developed and enacted for the management of wildlife resources and the uses thereof.

  • Indigenous means, generally, an organism native to and growing and reproducing in a particular region. For purposes of this rule, the term also includes historically nonnative species introduced by the Indiana department of natural resources as part of a program of wildlife management whether such species reproduce or not.

  • Dangerous weapon means any weapon, device, instrument, material, or substance, animate or inanimate, which under the circumstances in which it is used, attempted to be used, or threatened to be used is readily capable of causing death or serious physical injury.

  • Contaminated soil means soil that meets all of the following criteria:

  • Aquifer means a geologic formation, group of formations, or part of a formation capable of yielding a significant amount of groundwater to wells or springs.