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Chapter 19.04 EMC, Definitions Page 48 of 55 <br />The Everett Municipal Code is current through Ordinance 4031-24, passed May 22, 2024. <br />likelihood of success over permittee-responsible mitigation projects, since the banks are up and <br />running before unavoidable damage occurs to a wetland(s) at another site. <br />“Wetlands” means those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or ground water at a <br />frequency and duration sufficient to support, and under normal circumstances do support, a <br />prevalence of vegetation adapted for life in saturated soil conditions. Regulated wetlands <br />generally include swamps, marshes, ponds, bogs and similar areas. Regulated wetlands do not <br />include those artificial wetlands intentionally created from nonwetland sites, including, but not <br />limited to, irrigation and drainage ditches, grass-lined swales, canals, detention facilities, <br />wastewater treatment facilities, farm ponds, and landscape amenities, or those wetlands <br />created after July 1, 1990, that were unintentionally created as a result of the construction of a <br />road, street, or highway. Wetlands created as mitigation and wetlands modified for approved <br />land use activities shall be considered as regulated wetlands. For identifying and delineating <br />regulated wetlands, the city shall use the Washington State Wetland Identification and <br />Delineation Manual. <br />“Wetlands,” for the purpose of inventory mapping, means lands transitional between terrestrial <br />and aquatic systems where the water table is usually at or near the surface or the land is <br />covered by shallow water. Wetlands must have one or more of the following three attributes: <br />1. At least periodically, the soil supports predominantly hydrophytes; <br />2. The substrate is predominantly undrained hydric soil; <br />3. The substrate is nonsoil and saturated with water at some time during the growing <br />season of each year. <br />Wetlands include all areas waterward from the wetland edge. Where the vegetation has been <br />removed, or substantially altered, a wetland shall be determined by the presence or evidence <br />of hydric or organic soils. <br />“Wetlands, emergent” means a regulated wetland that does not qualify as a forested wetland or <br />a scrub-shrub wetland with at least thirty percent of the surface area covered by erect, rooted, <br />herbaceous vegetation as the uppermost vegetative strata. <br />“Wetlands, forested” means a regulated wetland with at least thirty percent of the surface area <br />covered by woody vegetation greater than twenty feet in height.