No Permits Will Be Required for the Following Activities:
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Plowing and tiling of land in an agricultural land use
Landscaping, gardening or other minor activity which does not change the drainage or result in or contribute to soil erosion (unless its within a regulated woodland)
Soil test borings to determine soil type and/or stability
Percolation test efforts
Normal maintenance procedures such as earth or gravel road leveling and minor repairs or alterations to rights-of-way NOT affecting a wetland or watercourse
Pole installation, service lines and other earth changes of a minor nature and emergency repairs
Movement or placement of soil that involves less than seven hundred and fifty (750) square feet of soil AND is further than five hundred (500) feet from a water body, provided such movement or placement does not impede drainage, alter topography in comparision to adjacent proporties, being done on a parcel with an approved site plan, does not cause soil erosion or sedimentation to occur, and is not in violation of other provisions of the West Bloomfield Code of Ordinances
Stockpiling of soil and similar materials for a retail or wholesale dealer of landscaping materials on-site where erosion and sedimentation does not result
Stockpiling topsoil or other landscaping materials on a parcel which is to be wholly used on that parcel for the purpose of landscaping, and which does not cause erosion and sedimentation
Logging and mining activities determined in advance by the Planning and Environmental Department
