Hover box definitions

This page lists standard definitions used in hover boxes throughout this manual. Hover boxes allow the user to hover over bolded text and see a definition for that text.

A

• alum

B

• best management practice
• bioinfiltration
• bioretention practice
• buffer zones.

C

• clay
• coagulation
• coarse sediment
• concentrated flow
• conventional roof

D

• detention times
• dewatering device
• Disturbed soils
• Drainage Area
• Drinking Water Source Management Area (DWSMA),
• dry storage

E

• earthen berm
• embankment
• energy dissipation
• engineered media
• Emergency Response Area.
• evapotranspiration
• extensive roofs

F

• filter fabric
• flocculant
• flocculation
• flow paths
• footprint
• fractured flow

G

• grade
• green roof

H

• highly urban and ultra-urban environments
• hydraulic conductivity of the aquifer material (k),
• hydraulic gradient (i),
• hydrogeology

I

• infiltration basin
• intensive roof

K

• Karst

L

• live storage
• low permeability soils

M

• media
• moderate to steep slopes

P

• perimeter control
• permanent cover
• permanent stormwater management
• point of discharge
• polymer
• porosity (f)
• Prairie du Chien formation,
• pretreatment

R

• riprap
• rock armored

S

• settling ponds
• settling time
• short-circuiting
• shallow depth to bedrock
• Shallow soils
• sheet flows
• side slope
• silt
• silt fences
• Site Location / Minimum Setbacks
• skimmer
• spill response plan
• spillway
• steep slopes
• SWPPP

T

• travel time
• turbid

U

• highly urban and ultra-urban environments
• underdrain

V

• vegetated swale

W

• A water table aquifer
• Wellhead Protection Areas
• well logs
• wet storage