§ 27-2. Definitions.
The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
Best Management Practice means an effective means of preventing or reducing harmful effects of land use activities, and include recommended methods, structures and practices designed to prevent or reduce pollution of the air, land and/or water from these activities. Best Management Practices may be found in various publications, manuals and documents of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Colorado State University, Colorado Department of Transportation and other sources that may be acceptable to the City of Steamboat Springs.
Director means the director of the department of public works or his/her designee or representative.
Diversion or divert means removing water from its natural course or location, or controlling water in its natural course or location by means of a ditch, canal, flume, reservoir, bypass, pipeline, conduit, well, pump, or any other structure or device.
Exigent circumstances means any situation where there is imminent danger of loss of life, harm by injury or damage to or destruction of property, or any other dangerous or harmful situation regarding the public health, safety and well being.
Mining or mineral resource extraction.
(1)
"Mineral" means an inanimate constituent of the earth in a solid, liquid, or gaseous state which, when extracted from the earth, is useable in its natural form or is capable of conversion into a useable form as a metal, metallic compound, or compound, or chemical, an energy source or a raw material for manufacturing or construction material, but does not include surface or subsurface water.
(2)
"Mining" and "extraction" mean any removal or development of a mineral from its natural occurrence on affected land or from a water course and includes, but is not limited to, drilling, blasting, scaling, crushing, tunneling, excavating, dredging, panning or sluicing, and includes any tailings piles, tailing ponds, waste dumps or concentration, milling, evaporation or other on-site processing activities or any buildings, structures or machinery used in such operation. "Mining" and "extraction" do not include hand panning or the use of battery powered concentrate wheels or mini-sluices.
Permit means any permit issued pursuant to this chapter.
Permittee means a person issued a permit.
Person means and shall include a firm, company, organization, partnership, entity, agency, corporation, association, or other organization acting as a group or unit as well as an individual. It shall also include an executor, administrator, trustee, receiver, or other representative appointed according to law. Whenever the word "person" is used in any section of this chapter prescribing a penalty or fine, as to firms, associations, and other organizations, the word shall include the partners, members or agents who are responsible for any violation of such section hereof, and as to corporations, shall include the officers, agents, or members thereof who are responsible for any violation of this chapter. "Person" includes the singular and the plural.
Pollutant means dredged spoil, dirt, slurry, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, sewage sludge, garbage, trash, chemicals, chemical waste, biological nutrient, biological material, temperature changes, radioactive material, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt or any industrial, municipal or agricultural waste.
Pollution means the people-made, people-induced or natural alteration of the physical, chemical, biological, or radiological integrity of water.
Watercourse means any and all rivers, streams, creeks, intermittent washes, gullies, tributaries, reservoirs, lakes, ponds, wetlands or other types of natural or people-made water bodies, including structures or devices to channel water to, or control or retain water within the watercourse, and further includes all groundwater tributary thereto.
Waterworks means all components of the city's water supply system, including but not limited to all equipment, diversion structures, dams, canals, ditches, flumes, pipelines, conduits, reservoirs, drains, wells, pumps, buildings, structures, roads, watercourses and other facilities necessary for the construction, maintenance and operation of the water supply system.
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 includes by illustration swamps, marshes, bogs and similar areas.
(Ord. No. 2109, § 1(Exh. A), 6-5-07)