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Definitions � MCWD: Minnehaha Creek Watershed District Page 3 of 3 <br /> • Watercourse means any channel having definable beds and banks capable of conducting generally confined runoff from adjacent lands,or any <br /> channel included in the District's inventory of first order streams. During floods water may leave the confining beds and banks but under low and normal <br /> flows water is confined within the channel.A watercourse may be perenniai or intermittent.Watercourse does not inctude roadside ditches created by <br /> excavation or other human construction activity. <br /> • Wetland buffer zone means an area of vegetated groundcover abutting or surrounding a wetland. <br /> • Wetlands means ail wetlands identified as wetlands under Minnesota Stat. 103G.005,Subd 19.The term does not include"public waters wetlands"as <br /> defined under Minnesota Statutes 103G.005,subdivision 15a. <br /> Share This �� � <br /> http://www.minnehahacreek.org/permits/full-mcwd-rules/definitions 3/5/2013 <br />