2015-07-09_PERMIT FILE - P2015016 (2)

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Public Services — Watershed Protection District 13.50.050 Prohibited activity. Unless exempted as provided for in this Chapter, it shall be prohibited and unlawful for any person to engage in or cause any of the fol- lowing activities or conduct within the George- town Watershed Protection District unless such person has first obtained a watershed permit: (1) The construction, installation, expansion or removal of any ISDS or sewage disposal system, excepting a system con- nected to a municipal sewage treatment works. (2) Excavating, grading, filling, blasting or surfacing, including road building. (3) Timber harvesting, excluding the removal of dead or diseased trees for fire- wood or for noncommercial domestic pur- poses. (4) Drilling operations of any kind. (5) Altering or obstructing natural or historic water drainage courses. (6) Surface and subsurface mining operations. (7) The out-of-doors spraying or using of fertilizers, herbicides or pesticides, excepting noncommercial applications for domestic household or gardening purposes. (8) Using, handling, storing or transport- ing toxic or hazardous substances, including, but not limited to, radioactive materials, except for noncommercial domestic house- hold purposes as permitted by law. (9) Using, handling, storing or transport- ing flammable or explosive materials, except for noncommercial domestic household pur- poses as permitted by law, or within vehicular fuel storage tanks. 13.50.050 (10) Moving, tampering, adjusting, impairing, obstructing or trespassing upon any Town waterwork. (11) Increasing or decreasing any rate of stream flow or natural or existing drainage pattern or course, except as permitted pursu- ant to an adjudicated water right; increasing sediment deposition in any stream; causing or increasing erosion on any slope or stream bank; or disturbing any wetland within the watershed. (12) Any activity reasonably giving rise to a foreseeable risk of injury or pollution to the Town's sources of water supply or water supply system or waterworks. (Ord. 517 §l, 2000) 13.50.060 Permit required. No person shall engage in or cause any development, development activity or prohibited activity or conduct identified in this Chapter without first applying for and obtaining a duly authorized watershed permit from the Town. Permits may be limited and/or subjected to expi- ration and renewal requirements. (Ord. 517 §1, 2000) 13.50.070 Permit application and review procedures; fee. (a) All applications for a watershed permit shall be initiated in writing and shall include, at a minimum, the information set forth in this Sec- tion. No application shall be accepted, processed or approved unless and until it is complete and all fees associated therewith have been paid. The application shall be accompanied by not less than three (3) copies. The Town Administrator may waive certain application information require- ments if he or she deems the same to be unneces- sary or overly burdensome with respect to a specific proposed activity. All costs incurred by the Town in processing an application, inclusive of the costs for outside professional services or 13-22