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and upland ecosystems and does not necessarily include the entire floodplain of a stream. <br /> "Salmonid" means a member of the fish family Salmonidae. In the city these include chinook, coho, <br /> __ . • ._ <br /> Varden, kokanee and char. <br /> "Seismic hazard areas" means those areas of the city subject to severe risk of earthquake damage as a <br /> result of seismically induced ground shaking, settlement, or soil liquefaction.These conditions occur in <br /> areas underlain by cohesionless soils of low density sometimes in association with a shallow <br /> "Shoreline management master program" means the city of Everett adopted shoreline management <br /> "Significant biological areas" means the following areas of the city: <br /> 1. Plant associations of infrequent occurrence; <br /> 2. Commercial and recreational shellfish ar as; <br /> 3. Kelp and eelgrass beds; <br /> 1. Herring, sand lance, and smelt spawning areas; <br /> 5. State natural area preserves and natural resource conservation areas; and <br /> 6. Those areas listed in the 1981 SEPA Resource Inventory as significant biological areas,which are: <br /> a. Maulsby Swamp, <br /> b. Kasch Park(Bomarc) Bog, <br /> c. Simpson Lee site Category I wetlands, <br /> d. Narbeck Swamp, <br /> c. Jetty Island. <br /> "Significant surface water connection" means a surface water flow that is continu <br /> more during years of normal rainfall. <br /> "Steep slopes" means any ground that rises ten or more for every twenty five feet of horizontal <br /> distance,thus having a grade of forty percent or steeper.A slope is delineated by establishing its toe and <br /> 1. "Toe" of a steep slope is the lower most limit of the arca where the ground surface rises ten feet or <br /> more vertically within a horizontal distance of twenty five feet. <br /> EMC Title 19.37 (Critical Areas) Page 68 <br />