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PCSO Watershed Districts are the areas of land that drain all the streams and rainfall to a common outlet along a stream channel. PCSO Watershed Districts layer is based on the USGS River Basin for Mecklenburg County, with the addition of Six Mile Creek. Six Mile Creek has distinct requirements according to the Sec 18-142 Watershed Districts of the Post Construction Stormwater Ordinance of the City of Charlotte.Sec. 18-142. Watershed districts. Standards for development and redevelopment vary depending on the watershed district in which a project is located as described in the "Post-Construction Ordinance Map of the City," which is adopted simultaneously herewith as described in subsection 18-105(d). The city is divided into the following watershed districts for purposes of this article: (1) Central Catawba. That area of land that drains to Sugar, Little Sugar and McAlpine Creeks in the city, including all tributaries, except Six Mile Creek. (2) Western Catawba. That area of land that drains to Lake Norman, Mountain Island Lake and Lake Wylie in Mecklenburg County including all creeks and tributaries. (3) Yadkin-Southeast Catawba. That area of land that drains to the Yadkin River basin in Mecklenburg County, including all creeks and tributaries and in addition including Six Mile Creek.Six Mile Creek watershed only. In addition to the above information for streams in the Yadkin-Southeast Basin Watershed, all perennial streams in the Six Mile Creek Watershed shall have undisturbed buffers, plus entire floodplain and all intermittent streams in the Six Mile Creek Watershed shall have undisturbed buffers all measured on each side of the stream from top of bank.For these reasons the Six Mile Creek basin is defined separately from the Yadkin-Southeast Catawba. |