Detention Pond/Basin: Temporarily stores stormwater runoff and releases it at a controlled rate; requires alternative standards.
Flood Zone: A geographical area with a specific flood risk, categorized by the likelihood and impact of flooding.
Injunctive Relief: Court ordered remedy which restricts a party from committing specific actions or requires party to complete specific actions.
Legally Non-Conforming: Legal land use that occurred prior to Ordinance Adoption, revision, or amendment.
Retention Pond/Basin: Permanent body of water designed to collect and store stormwater runoff; requires alternative standards.
Road Right-of-Way: An area where there are rights to pass over or through real property owned by someone else; related to "easement".
Septic Field: Any subsurface wastewater disposal facility used to remove contaminants and impurities from the liquid that emerges after anaerobic digestion in a Septic Tank.
Severability: A contractual or statutory provision that allows for invalidation of one or more parts of an agreement or law without affecting validity of remaining document.
Spillway: structure designed to safely release excess water from water impoundment.
Stop Work Order: Formal directive issued by authorized authority, requiring contractor to immediately halt all or part of project.
Wetlands: An area saturated by surface or ground water sufficient to support vegetation adapted for life in saturated soil conditions.
- A Pond Compliance permit shall be required for the construction or enlargement of all private residential or farm ponds. The property owner shall submit a permit application to the Delaware County Building Commissioners' Office. The application shall be accompanied by a site plan that demonstrates compliance with subsections 2 through 19.
- Site plan must include all measurements involved with the job. Plans must indicate:
- North with arrow
- Buildings
- Wells, Septic field, utility structures will require professional locating services
- Road right of way
- Drainage
- Utility easements
- Flood zones and wetlands; if indicated, further documentation will be required.
- Size and depth of pond
- Shore contours
- Ponds shall be setback a minimum of 75 feet from any public roadway as measured from the proposed or actual right-of-way, whichever is greater, to the top of the bank of the pond, unless otherwise approved.
- If approved, any pond constructed within the setback must be protected by a highway barrier guard rail that meets INDOT specifications. Guardrail must be maintained by property owner.