Section

Indicate the major elements of your project. Check all elements that apply and list any additional major elements under “Other.”

Definition(s):

• Aquaculture: The cultivation of aquatic organisms (such as fish or shellfish) especially for food.
• Bank Stabilization: The placement of materials (such as native plants) to protect a streambank from erosion.
• Boat House: A building to house and protect boats, typically over water.
• Boat Launch: An established location along a waterbody where watercrafts can be placed in the water.
• Boat Lift: A device fixed in place or floating, used to hoist and moor a watercraft elevating it above water.
• Bridge: A structure carrying a pathway or roadway over a depression or obstacle (often over water).
• Bulkhead: A retaining wall along a waterfront; a structure or partition built to prevent land sliding behind it. It is normally vertical and built parallel, or nearly parallel, to the shoreline.
• Buoy: A floating object anchored to the bottom of a waterbody that provides a watercraft a place to tie up and stay away from the shore.  Buoys are also used as navigational markers.
• Channel Modification: A change to the location and/or configuration of an existing channel.  A channel may be natural or artificial, periodically or continuously contain moving water or form a connecting link between two bodies of water.
• Culvert : A man-made structure, generally a pipe, placed to convey water from one location to another.
• Dam / Weir: A barrier preventing the flow of water or loose, solid materials.
• Dike / Levee / Jetty: Dike; a wall or mound built around a low-lying area to control flooding. Levee; an embankment build to control flooding. Jetty; a structure extending into a body of water designed to prevent reduction of a waterway through a sediment buildup and to direct or confine stream and tidal flow.
• Ditch: A trench or a long, narrow excavation of earth.
• Dock / Pier: A platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles. It provides access to ships and boats from the shoreline.
• Dredging: The removal of material from a waterbody.
• Fence: A barrier used to enclose an area.
• Ferry Terminal: Facility built to receive, house and dock ferry boats.
• Fishway: A structure allowing fish to pass around a waterfall or dam in a stream. Also, a device designed to enable fish to effectively pass around or through an obstruction.
• Float: An anchored offshore platform used for water-related recreation.
• Geotechnical Survey: A professional assessment of the land and soils in an area. A geotechnical survey investigates the soils, rock, fault distributions, and bedrock properties on and below a site.
• Floating Home: A floating structure that is: designed and built to be used as a residential dwelling, relatively stationary and without ability to power itself. May include utility lines tying the structure to shore.
  
• Land Clearing: The removal of vegetation and/or structures from an area.
• Marina / Moorage: A facility, area or structure used to receive, dock, and store watercraft.
• Mining: The removal of minerals from the earth.
• Outfall Structure: A structure extending into a body of water for the purpose of discharging an effluent such as sewage, storm runoff or cooling water.
• Piling: Long heavy timbers or sections of concrete or metal driven into the ground or seabed for support or protection.
• Piling/Dolphin: A functionally single structure comprised of multiple single piles tied together.
• Raft: A flat structure, typically made of planks, logs, or barrels, that floats on water and is used for transport or as a platform.
  
• Retaining Wall (upland): A wall built to keep earth from sliding from its location. Also to keep water from flooding an area (such as a home).
• Road: A structure for driving vehicles on. A narrow strip of land made suitable for travel between places.
• Scientific Measurement Device: Equipment or instrument used to collect data.
• Stairs: A set of steps connecting two locations.
• Stormwater Facility: A facility that retains water for a period of time to control and/or improve the quality of stormwater runoff.
• Swimming Pool: A man-made basin, chamber, or tank containing water for swimming, diving, or recreational bathing.
• Upland: The dry land area above and landward of the ordinary high water mark.
• Utility Line: Cables and pipes used to transfer resources such as electric, oil, natural gas, water, and sewage