Title 16 - Buildings and Construction

16.200 Erosion and Sediment Control

16.200.020  Definitions 

For the purposes of this Ordinance, the following terms, phrases, words and their derivations shall have the meaning given herein or as defined in Title 18:

  1. M.
    Sediment means any solid material, organic, or inorganic, that has been deposited in water, is in suspension in water, is being transported or has been removed from its site of origin by wind, water, ice or gravity as result of soil erosion.  Sedimentation is the process by which eroded material is transported and deposited by the action of wind, water, ice or gravity.

Effective on: 1/1/1901