Definitions

  1. "Commercial Nurseries" and "Market Gardens" include any land primarily used to propagate, grow or display plants of any description for the purpose of the sale or other distribution for profit of those plants or the produce of them. "Turf growing" means the propagation, growth and harvesting of lawn turf for sale.
  2. "Dripper system" means a system that releases water in drips through use of low-pressure drip devices placed on or below the ground in close proximity to the root zones of plants.
  3. "High-pressure low-volume cleaner" means a machine which has a pump to increase the pressure and reduce the flow of water delivered from a trigger nozzle.
  4. "Pooling or runoff" means water that either puddles on, or runs off, the surface of the soil when it is saturated.
  5. "Paved Area" means an outside area with a concrete, asphalt, brick, tile, bitumen, timber or similar impervious surface (whether or not it is covered by a roof, pergola or other structure), such as a courtyard, decking, footpath, driveway or street.
  6. "Sprinkler" and "Irrigation System" means a device or system designed to distribute water, whether by sprinkling, spraying, dripping, weeping or otherwise.
  7. "Trigger nozzle" means a nozzle, attached to a hand-held hose, which is controlled by (a) a trigger which must be depressed continuously or locked open by hand for water to flow; or (b) a discrete switch or button which can be turned on or off by hand with a single or limited movement.