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Article 6: Development Stand:♦(2 <br /> Section 6.15:Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Contro1268F <br /> and Sedimentation Control Plan shall include measures to prevent accelerated <br /> erosion within the project boundary and at the point of discharge.301 <br /> (8) Open Burning <br /> The Erosion and Sedimentation Control <br /> Plan shallGWW302 specify the method of disposal of trees, limbs, stumps and <br /> construction debris associated with the aGtkAt Land-Disturbing Activity; which <br /> shall be by some method other than open burning. <br /> (B) Mandatory Design and Performance Standards for Land-Disturbing Activity <br /> No IRAd-dish Irhinn @G ,Atyl-and-Disturbing Activity subject to the provisions of this Section <br /> shall be undertaken except in accordance with the following mandatory standards: <br /> (1) Buffer Zone <br /> (a) No 'and-dist-Obinn a„ti,41-and-Disturbing Activity <br /> 303shall be permitted in proximity to <br /> a lake or natural watercourse unless a buffer zone is provided along the <br /> margin of the watercourse of sufficient width to confine visible siltation <br /> within the 25% of the buffer zone nearest the <br /> i yLand-Disturbing Activity. <br /> (b) Unless otherwise provided, the width of a buffer zone is measured from <br /> the edge of the water to the nearest edge of the disturbed area, with the <br /> 25% of the strip nearer the land—disturbing -activity containing the natural <br /> or artificial means of confining visible siltation. <br /> CommossiOP304 <br /> (2) I-A-laters that have hean classified as trout waters by the Environmental <br /> Management C ornmis-s-io n shall have an undisturbed huffor zone 25 fen <br /> 0 of the <br /> ( ) Thha 25 font mini - i dth for an unrli bad buffer zone acentto <br /> hank <br /> (4) The flra noe 30.1 <br /> aGtivity along trout wate rs Whe n tha d­r2twan of said disturbance land <br /> dffist-,rhffincj activity would he temporary and the extant of said disturbance <br /> �v,r-pv+-m7-c r-o�--o�rrwz..oR.,�rrroQ <br /> and-disfi-rhin activity WGI-ld he minimal This subsection sha 11 not apply <br /> to he lo-cated e ndar ;i l2ke Or • <br /> (5) Where a temporary and minimal disturbance lend-disturhin activifii i <br /> itted as an exception by Section 6.15.7(B)(1)(c)(iii) of thil; lordonance <br /> perm <br /> waters shall ha limitad to a may. - of 10% of the total le nnth of tha b,We <br /> Zone uuiithin tha tract to he disturbed, such that there is not mora than Ion <br /> arear,may be dffis-turbe d u.xith the �Alritten approval of the Director of the <br /> Division of I and Rasonrces of the department of Environmant and Nafilral <br /> 301 Revised to reflect the most current version of NCDEQ's model ordinancefor E&SC. <br /> 301 Text correction—grammar fix. <br /> 303 Deleted "during periods of construction or improvement to land"—this was extraneous text. <br /> 304 There are no EMC recognized Trout Waters located in Orange County. This section is irrelevantand has been <br /> deleted; revised per NCDEQ peer review comment. <br /> -:,"C e n r.r te.,t r efe r@A C e to "Q_Fa Ago 0061 Rt„" <br /> Orange County, North Carolina— Unified Development Ordinance Page 6-123 <br />