The director of public works or his designee. The catchment area from which storm water is carried off by a watercourse or storm drainage system. The area served by a drainage system receiving storm and other surface-borne water. Drainage basin boundaries are a product of natural topography and drainage system configuration. A man-made structure or natural watercourse for the conveyance of storm runoff.
Examples are channels, pipes, ditches, swales, catch basins, and street gutters.
A building or portion thereof, designed to house a family. An envelope of trees delineated by the boundaries of grading limits or land disturbances. A surface on real property where infiltration of storm water into the earth has been virtually eliminated by the works of man. Any activity, including mechanized clearing, which removes the vegetative ground cover. Land disturbance permit.