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Mobile Home - A structure, transportable in one or more sections, which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities. It does not include recreational vehicles or travel trailers. National Geodetic Vertical Datum (NGVD) - As corrected in 1929 is a vertical control used as a reference for establishing varying elevations within the floodplain. Person - Any individual, corporation, partnership, limited partnership, trust, or other organization or business entity. Regulatory Flood - The one hundred year flood, i.e., the flood that has a one percent probability of being equalled or exceeded in any given year, as indicated on the official County flood hazard map. Retention or To Retain - The prevention of, or to prevent the discharge of a given volume of stormwater runoff into surface waters of the state by complete on-site storage where the capacity to store the given volume of stormwater is again provided within 96 hours following the storm event. The required storage volume must be provided by a decrease of stored water caused by percolation through soil, evaporation, evapotranspiration, or spray irrigation. Retention shall be "off line" (i.e. outside of the primary drainage path), unless it is demonstrated by the applicant that water quality in the receiving waters will not be adversely impacted by "on line" retention. Wet retention refers to an area the lowest elevation of which penetrates the dry season groundwater table. Dry retention refers to an area the lowest elevation of which lies at least two ,(2') feet above the wet season groundwater table. Sediment - Fine particulate material which is capable of gravity settlement, whether mineral or organic, and which is in suspension or has settled in a waterbody. Site - Any tract, lot or parcel of land or combination thereof where development is to be performed as part of a unit, subdivision, or project.