In addition to meeting the applicable design requirements established in Env-Wt 300, a residential, commercial, or industrial development project in non-tidal wetlands shall be designed to meet the following criteria:

1. (a) The project complies with all applicable requirements of Env-Wt 400, Env-Wt 700, Env-Wt 800, Env-Wt 900, and other applicable project-specific criteria in this chapter;
2. (b) The project does not use wetlands or surface waters to serve as stormwater or water quality treatment;
3. (c) The project provides setbacks and water quality protection measures sufficient to protect private and public drinking water supplies, source water protection areas, and fisheries;
4. (d) The project maintains or restores hydrologic connections to maintain flows necessary to preserve adjacent wetland and riparian functions;
5. (e) The project maintains existing fishery spawning, feeding, or cover habitat and fish passage necessary to maintain fishery or habitat or populations; and
6. (f) The project maintains existing wetland-dependent wildlife habitat and its associated migratory pathways, reproductive sites, and associated wetland complex or wetland community system.

Source. #12805, eff 12-15-19; ss by #12954, eff 12-24-19; amd by #13124, eff 10-23-20