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Kittitas County, WA § 17A.02.620 KITTITAS COUNTY CODE § 17A.02.680 Downloaded from https://ecode360.com/KI6857 on 2025-05-15 professional engineer or engineering geologist, licensed in the State of Washington. 4. A qualified professional for critical aquifer recharge areas must be a professional hydrogeologist licensed in the State of Washington, who is trained and qualified to analyze geologic, hydrologic, and groundwater flow systems. (Ord. 2021-016, 2021) § 17A.02.630. Rehabilitation. "Rehabilitation" means a type of restoration action intended to repair natural or historic functions and processes. Rehabilitation activities could involve breaching a dike to reconnect wetlands to a floodplain or other activities that restore the natural water regime. (Ord. 2021-016, 2021) § 17A.02.640. Repair or maintenance. "Repair or maintenance" means an activity that restores the character, scope, size, and design of a serviceable area, structure, or land use to its previously authorized and undamaged condition. Activities that change the character, size, or scope of a project beyond the original design and/or which drain, dredge, fill, flood, or otherwise alter critical areas are not included in this definition. (Ord. 2021-016, 2021) § 17A.02.650. Restore or restoration. "Restore," "restoration" or "ecological restoration" means repairing environmental damage to a condition equivalent to the pre-impact condition, or upgrading of impaired critical area processes or functions. This may be accomplished through measures including, but not limited to, re-vegetation, removal of intrusive stream bank structures, or removal or treatment of toxic materials. Restoration does not imply a requirement for returning the critical area to aboriginal or pre-European settlement conditions. (Ord. 2021-016, 2021) § 17A.02.660. Riparian. "Riparian" areas are transitional between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and are distinguished by gradients in biophysical conditions, ecological processes, and biota. They are areas through which surface and subsurface hydrology connect waterbodies with their adjacent uplands. They include those portions of terrestrial ecosystems that significantly influence exchanges of energy and matter with aquatic ecosystems (i.e., a zone of influence) and the portion of the ecosystem characterized by moist soils and plants adapted to periodically saturated soils. (Ord. 2021-016, 2021) § 17A.02.665. Riparian management zone(s). "Riparian management zone(s)" or "RMZ(s)" is a scientifically based description of the area adjacent to rivers and streams (see "riparian") based on the site potential tree height conceptual framework. It is the area that has the potential to provide full ecological function for bank stability, shade, pollution removal, contributions of detrital nutrients, and recruitment of large woody debris The extent of the riparian ecosystem is the area that provides full ecological function for bank stability, shade, pollution removal, contributions of detrital nutrients, and recruitment of large woody debris. For the purposes of management or regulatory protection, the RMZ encompasses the riparian ecosystem, and – when present- the channel migration zone to account for lateral movement of the riparian ecosystem over time. (Ord. 2021-016, 2021) § 17A.02.670. Seismic hazard areas.