“Best management practices (BMPs)” means schedule(s) of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures, management procedures, and other management and activity practices to prevent or reduce potential or actual injury to the Town of Parachute waterworks or pollution of the Town of Parachute water supply. BMPs also include treatment requirements, operating procedures and other practices to control runoff, erosion, drainage, sediment accumulation and similar events.

“Excavate” or “excavating” means the artificial movement of earth leaving any cut bank over three feet (3') in vertical height or a movement of material in excess of two hundred fifty (250) cubic yards.

“Fill” or “filling” means the artificial movement of earth leaving a filled earth bank over two (2) feet in vertical height or filled earth over two feet (2') deep, or artificial addition of earth above a line sloping up at a grade of one (1) vertical to two (2) horizontal from the ground.

“Grade” or “grading” means the artificial movement of over two hundred fifty (250) cubic yards of material; or movement of any earth or material affecting or creating a drainage channel; or pioneering of roads by the artificial movement of soils, trees or shrubbery creating a roadway or drive­way in excess of two hundred fifty (250) feet in length; or the use of vehicles or keeping of any animals upon any land that would lead to a movement of one hundred (100) cubic yards of material within one (1) year of the commencement of such use or which use, if continued, would result in the movement of any earth or material affecting or creating a drainage channel.

“Person” means any individual, corporation, governmental or governmental subdivision or agency, limited liability company, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association or any other legal entity.

“Pollution” means manmade, man-induced, or artificial alteration of the physical, chemical, biological and radiological integrity of water.

“Remove vegetation” means to artificially cut, chemically kill or in any other manner remove any tree greater than fifteen feet (15') in height, any shrubs or trees covering an area of more than one hundred (100) square feet, or any grasses covering an area of more than one thousand (1,000) square feet.

“Risk” means the reasonable anticipation that harm or injury may result from acts or omissions.

“Sewage disposal system” means an “individual sewage disposal system” as defined in § 25-10-103(8), C.R.S.

“Surface” or “surfacing” means any action resulting in the hardening or covering of the preexisting ground in an area greater than one hundred (100) square feet such that rain or other water striking the area will accumulate or run off the surface to a greater extent than prior to the hardening or covering of the preexisting ground. Surfacing includes, but is not limited to, such things as compacting the surface of the earth, placing gravel, concrete or like substances on the surface of the earth, or placing of structures upon the ground.

“Tributary” means any watercourse, stream, creek, spring or drainage area which provides a source of supply to the Town’s potable water diversion points at the Revelle Springs, the Colorado River, and other points of diversion that may be established.

“Waterworks” means any and all manmade or designed components of the Town’s water system including, but not limited to, all transmission, storage, treatment and filtration facilities and all reservoirs, streams, ditches, pipes, drains, and diversion structures used in and necessary for the construction, maintenance, operation, and repair of the Town’s water system. The term specifically includes not only the treated water system, but the raw water irrigation system. (Ord. 492, 2004; Amended Ord. 705 §14, 2016)