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*<span title="the initial surface runoff of a rainstorm. During this phase, water pollution entering storm drains in areas with high proportions of impervious surfaces is typically more concentrated compared to the remainder of the storm"> '''first flush'''</span> | *<span title="the initial surface runoff of a rainstorm. During this phase, water pollution entering storm drains in areas with high proportions of impervious surfaces is typically more concentrated compared to the remainder of the storm"> '''first flush'''</span> | ||
*<span title="Stream that rapidly collects flows from the steep slopes of its catchment (watershed, basin) and produces flood peaks soon after the rain."> '''flash'''</span> | *<span title="Stream that rapidly collects flows from the steep slopes of its catchment (watershed, basin) and produces flood peaks soon after the rain."> '''flash'''</span> | ||
| + | *<span title="Floatables are defined as litter that floats on the surface of the water. Floatables include many plastics such as milk bottles, soda bottles, motor oil containers, and plastic grocery and shopping bags, as well as aluminum products such as empty cans."> '''floatables'''</span> | ||
*<span title="A substance which promotes the clumping of particles such as sediments in stormwater so they settle to the bottom."> '''flocculant'''</span> | *<span title="A substance which promotes the clumping of particles such as sediments in stormwater so they settle to the bottom."> '''flocculant'''</span> | ||
*<span title="Flocculation involves the addition of polymers to clump small particles into larger aggregates so they can be easily separated from water. Flocculation is a physical process and does not involve neutralization of charge."> '''flocculation'''</span> | *<span title="Flocculation involves the addition of polymers to clump small particles into larger aggregates so they can be easily separated from water. Flocculation is a physical process and does not involve neutralization of charge."> '''flocculation'''</span> | ||
Revision as of 18:28, 30 May 2019
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.
Contents
A
- arterial roads
- alum
B
- baffle
- bank stabilization
- best management practice
- biofiltration
- bioinfiltration
- bioretention practice
- Bioswale
- brownfield
- Brushing
- buffer zones
- bypass flow
C
- catch basin
- cistern
- clay
- coagulation
- coarse sediment
- collector roadway
- concentrated flow
- concentrated stormwater runoff
- conventional roof
- curb-cut
- curb bump-out
D
- dead storage
- detention times
- dewatering
- dewatering device
- directly connected impervious
- disconnected roof runoff
- Disturbed soils
- ditch checks
- Drainage Area
- Drinking Water Source Management Area (DWSMA),
- “drop waterfalls”
- dry storage
- dry swale
E
- earthen berm
- Earthen check dams
- embankment
- energy dissipation
- energy dissipation
- engineered media
- Emergency Response Area.
- Erosion control blankets
- erosion control mix
- erosion protection
- evapotranspiration
- extensive roofs
F
- filter fabric
- filter strip
- first flush
- flash
- floatables
- flocculant
- flocculation
- flow paths
- flow-through device
- fluvial systems
- footprint
- forebay
- fractured flow
G
- grade
- grade control structures
- green roof
- green space
- geotextile
- gross solids
H
- herbaceous perennial
- highly urban and ultra-urban environments
- hydraulic conductivity of the aquifer material (k),
- hydraulic grade line
- hydraulic gradient (i),
- hydraulic model
- hydrodynamic separator
- hydrogeology
I
- infiltration basin
- infiltration rate
- inlet structure
- integral curb
- intensive roof
- intermittent flow channel
- invert
- iron-enhanced sand filter
J
K
L
- large lot residential
- level spreader
- live storage
- longitudinal slope
- low permeability soils
M
- manhole
- media
- mesic
- moderate to steep slopes
- MS4 (Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System)
- mulching
N
O
- outfall
P
- particle size distribution
- perimeter control
- permanent cover
- permanent stormwater management
- plugs
- point of discharge
- polymer
- porosity (f)
- Portland cement concrete
- Prairie du Chien formation,
- Prescribed burning
- pretreatment
- proprietary structures
Q
R
- riprap
- riprap
- rock armored
- rock riffle
S
- scour hole
- screen (for pretreatment)
- sediment control
- settling ponds
- settling device (for pretreatment)
- settling time
- short-circuiting
- shallow depth to bedrock
- Shallow soils
- sheet flows
- side slope
- silt
- silt fence
- sinkhole
- Site Location / Minimum Setbacks
- skimmer
- soil stabilization
- specific gravity
- spill response plan
- spillway
- steep slopes
- sump
- sump manhole
- SWPPP
T
- temporary seeding
- travel time
- treatment train
- turbid
- two-stage channel
U
- highly urban and ultra-urban environments
- underdrain
V
- vane weir structures
- Vegetated filter strip
- vegetated swale
W
- Water Quality Volume
- A water table aquifer
- weir
- Wellhead Protection Areas
- well logs
- wet pond
- wet storage
- wet swale