Athens City Code

The following control measures shall be used as a minimum for erosion control:

1. (1) The smallest practical area of land should be exposed at any one time during development. Mulching or other protective measures shall be used to protect exposed areas.
2. (2) Areas that will be exposed for more than three months shall be seeded and mulched or landscaped.
3. (3) Temporary furrows, terraces, sediment or debris basins shall be installed to prevent washing and erosion during construction.
4. (4) In areas where soil may wash onto the roadway or into a drainage basin, the developer will be required to install and maintain a silt fence, hay bales, or both.
5. (5) Final vegetation shall be installed as soon as practical in the development after the land is exposed.
6. (6) A gravel construction entrance shall be constructed prior to any site work. The owner or his/her contractor throughout the construction process will maintain this construction entrance.
7. (7) Sediment washed onto roadways or into drainage ditches or basins, and soil tracked onto roadways by construction equipment/vehicles or daily ingress and egress onto the site, shall be removed at the end of each working day by the contractor, developer, or property owner.