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Public Services — Watershed Protection District Maximum extent feasible means that no feasible and prudent alternative exists and all possible efforts to comply with a regulation, or minimize potential harm or adverse impacts, have been undertaken. Person means any individual, partnership, corporation, trust, association, company or other public, governmental or corporate entity, or instrumentality thereof. Pollute or pollution means the contamina- tion or befouling of the natural biological, chemical, physical or radiological composi- tion or integrity of water or soil through human or human -induced conduct or activi- ties. Sewage means a combination of liquid wastes that may include chemicals, house wastes, human or animal excreta, or animal or vegetable matter in suspension or solution, and/or other solids in suspension or solution, and that is discharged from, without limita- tion, a building, vehicle, tank or other struc- ture or facility. Sewage disposal system means a septic tank, leach field or other facility regardless of size or flow designed and constructed for the purpose of receiving, treating or disposing of sewage. Sewage treatment works means any sys- tem or facility for treating, neutralizing, sta- bilizing or disposing of sewage and which has a designed or operational capacity to receive more than two thousand (2,000) gallons of sewage per day. Significant degradation means to lessen in grade, quality or desirability so as to create or cause unsafe or harmful impacts. Stream (primary) means a visible water- way expected to run flowing water for more than one (1) month per year. 13-21 13.50.040 Stream (secondary intermittent) means a visible waterway, normally dry and not expected to run flowing water for more than one (1) month per year. Substantial means material and/or consid- erable in importance, value, degree, amount or extent. Surfacing means the compaction, harden- ing or covering of the natural land surface with asphalt, concrete, gravel or similar mate- rials in an area greater than three hundred (300) square feet. Watershed means the area encompassed by the Georgetown Watershed Protection District. Watershed permit or permit means the written approval issued by the Town under this Chapter for a land use activity or devel- opment within the Georgetown Watershed Protection District. Waterwork means any and all man-made or designed component of a domestic water collection and treatment system, including, but not limited to, transmission, storage and filtration facilities, and all reservoirs, streams, intermittent streams, trenches, gullies, pipes and drains used in and necessary for the col- lection and transport of water and the mainte- nance and operation of the Town's water supply system. Wetland means land that has a predomi- nance of hydric soils and that is inundated or saturated by surface or groundwater at a fre- quency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal conditions does support, a prevalence of hydroponic vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions. (Ord. 517 §1, 2000)