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Stantec <br />CITY OF ELK RIVER -STORM WATER UTILITY <br />Appendix C <br />June 25, 2012 <br />point source is derived from and complies with all applicable water quality standards and <br />criteria. (Minn.R. 7052.0010 subp. 45) <br />"Water Quality Standards" means those provisions contained in Minn. R. 7050 and 7052. <br />"Waters of the State" means all streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, <br />wells, springs, reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems, drainage systems and all other bodies or <br />accumulations of water, surface or underground ,natural or artificial, public or private, which are <br />contained within, flow through, or border upon the state of any portion thereof. (Minn. State. <br />115.01 subd. 22.) <br />"Wetlands" are those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface water or groundwater at a <br />frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do support, a <br />prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions. Wetlands <br />generally include swamps, marshes, bogs, and similar areas. Constructed wetlands designed for <br />wastewater treatment are not waters of the state. Wetlands must have the following attributes: <br />1. A predonvnance of hydric soils; <br />2. Inundated or saturated by surface water or groundwater at a frequency and <br />duration sufficient to support a prevalence of hydrophytic vegetation typically <br />adapted for life itl a saturated soil condition; and <br />3. Under normal circumstance support a prevalence of such vegetation. (Minn. <br />R. 7050.0186. subp. laB.). <br />ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS <br />• BMP - Best Management Practice <br />• CFR -Code of Federal Regulations <br />• CWA -Clean Water Act or the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, 33 U.S.C. <br />1251 et seq <br />• DNR -Department of Natural Resources <br />• IDDE -Illicit Discharge Detection and Elitnitlation <br />• MEP - Ma~lium Extent Practicable <br />• MS4 -Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System <br />• NPDES -National Pollutant Discharge Elitliitiation System <br />• SDS -State Disposal System <br />• SOP -Standard Operatitlg Procedure <br />• TMDL- Total Ma~llum Daily Load <br />• TSS -Total Suspended Solids <br />Project No. 193802143 6.35 <br />