ORDINANCE NO. 20570
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<br />AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING EROSION PREVENTION AND
<br />AMENDING SECTIONS 6.406, 6.625, 6.630, 6.635, AND 6.640 OF THE
<br />EUGENE CODE, 1971.
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<br /> THE CITY OF EUGENE DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
<br /> Section 1.
<br /> The following definitions in Section 6.406 of the Eugene Code, 1971,
<br />are amended to provide as follows:
<br />6.406 Definitions
<br />. For purposes of sections 6.401 through 6.645, unless the
<br />context requires otherwise words and phrases shall have the meaning
<br />ascribed to them. In interpreting the meaning of words in a definition, other
<br />definitions of that word in this Code may be considered:
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<br />City stormwater system
<br />. Those stormwater facilities located on city-owned
<br />property, city right-of-way, city easements and any stormwater facility the city
<br />is contractually or legally obligated to operate and maintain, including but not
<br />limited to:
<br />(a) An open drainage way, headwater stream, creek, wetland, spring, or
<br />pond, including those not maintained by the city which drain onto city-
<br />owned property or into city maintained facilities;
<br />(b) A pipe or sewer and its related appurtenances that convey stormwater
<br />and have been designed and constructed expressly for use by the
<br />general public and accepted by the city;
<br />(c) Streets, curbs and gutters and other surfaces in the public way which
<br />are designed to carry stormwater, roadside drainage ditches along
<br />unimproved city streets but not access drive culverts; and
<br />(d) Flood control and stormwater quality facilities (levees, dikes, overflow
<br />channels, conveyance swales, infiltration facilities, stormwater facilities,
<br />water quality facilities, detention basins, retention basins, dams, pump
<br />stations, groundwater recharge basins, sediment basins, vegetated
<br />buffers, wetlands, etc.) that have been designated, and constructed
<br />expressly for use by the general public and accepted by the city.
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<br />Construction related materials
<br />. Potential water quality pollutants that are
<br />used or created during construction activities including, but not limited to, off-
<br />site deposits of sediments by vehicles (e.g., tracking, spilling), building
<br />material wastes (e.g., scrap metals, rubber, plastic, glass, masonry, wood;
<br />paints and thinners; packaging materials; insulation, plaster grout);
<br />hazardous substances (e.g., petroleum products, cleaning solvents, chemical
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