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Related Natural Resources. Natural resources located within or adjacent to the City's <br />stormwater system, such as waterways, wetlands, and riparian areas, that provide one or <br />more of the following stormwater functions: flood control, water quality treatment, and <br />streambank stabilization. <br />Routine Maintenance. Activities and practices that are necessary to maintain the <br />operating capacity, functional integrity, or aesthetics of a place or facility. Routine <br />maintenance includes, but is not limited to, landscaping, repair of recreation facilities (e.g., <br />ball diamonds, play areas, fields), cleaning of stormwater facilities, and patching of streets. <br />Sensitive area. Sites that meet the criteria contained in R-6.645-E.1. <br />Template. An example of a construction site management plan provided by the City <br />of Eugene that -when modified by the erosion prevention permit holder to address site <br />specific conditions -can be used to satisfy permit requirements for a single dwelling or <br />duplex dwelling. The template may be prepared by the permit holder or the permit holder's <br />designee. <br />Untreated runoff. Contaminated stormwater runoff due to construction activities that <br />has not been filtered, screened, settled, or otherwise treated for the removal of pollutants, <br />prior to discharge into the City's stormwater system or related natural resources. <br />Water features. Permanent or intermittent bodies of water, including creeks, streams, <br />ponds, rivers, lakes, drainage channels and jurisdictional wetlands. <br />Vegetative buffer. A strip. of land not less than 25 feet in width separating a <br />;~ construction activity from either a water feature or a property line, whichever is nearest, <br />containing a. vegetation that covers at least 75% of the buffer area. <br />Visible or measurable erosion.. The deposit of mud, soil, sediment or similar <br />...material exceeding one-half cubic. foot in volume for every 1,000 square feet of lot size onto <br />public rights of way or private streets, into the City's stormwater system or related natural <br />resources, either by direct deposit, dropping, discharge, or as a result of the action of erosion; <br />evidence of concentrated flows of water over bare soils,. turbid or sediment laden flows, or <br />evidence of on-site erosion such as rivulets on bare soil slopes where the flow of water is not <br />filtered or captured on the~site using the. techniques recommended in the City's Erosion <br />Prevention and Construction Site Management Practices Planning and Design Manual, or <br />comparable techniques; and, earth slides, mud flows, earth sloughing, or other earth <br />movement which leaves the property. <br />Wetlands. Any parcel or portion of a parcel which meets the state or federal <br />defuution of wetlands that are under the jurisdiction of state or federal laws. Synonymous <br />Proposed Erosion Prevention Administrative Rule R-6.645 - 5 12/4/96 <br />