§ 8.2.5. Wetland definition.

Two definitions are used in concert to identify mapped and unmapped wetlands under this code:

A.

Wetlands are those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or ground water at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions. Wetlands generally include swamps, marshes, bogs and similar areas; and

B.

Wetlands are land transitions between terrestrial and aquatic systems where the water table is usually at or near the surface or the land is covered by shallow water. Wetlands must have one or more of the following attributes:

1.

At least periodically the land supports predominately hydrophytes;

2.

The substrate is predominately undrained hydric soil; and

3.

The substrate is non-soil and is saturated with water or covered by shallow water at some time during the growing season of each year. This applies only to salt flats too saline to support hydrophytes, and the margins of lakes, reservoirs and streams where there is too much erosion to support either hydrophytes or hydric soils.