SB1374: Water control; agricultural exemptions, definition for "terrace."

Legislative Summary

Water control; agricultural exemptions; terracing. Establishes a definition for "terrace" as used in the agricultural exemptions to the prohibition on land-disturbing activities in the Stormwater Management Act and the Erosion and Sediment Control Law. The bill provides that such exemptions do not apply to any activity that involves bringing onto the property more than 5,000 cubic yards of fill material in any 12-month period or raising the ground surface more than three feet above the existing ground surface.