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* <span title="A type of materials that collects sediments while permeable to water."> '''filter fabric''' </span> | * <span title="A type of materials that collects sediments while permeable to water."> '''filter fabric''' </span> | ||
| + | *<span title="Filtration Best Management Practices (BMPs) treat urban stormwater runoff as it flows through a filtering medium, such as sand or an organic material. They are generally used on small drainage areas (5 acres or less) and are primarily designed for pollutant removal. They are effective at removing total suspended solids (TSS), particulate phosphorus, metals, and most organics. They are less effective for soluble pollutants such as dissolved phosphorus, chloride, and nitrate."> '''filtration'''</span> | ||
*<span title="an area of permanent vegetation or other material used to reduce sediment, organics, nutrients, pesticides, and other contaminants from runoff and to maintain or improve water quality.> '''filter strip'''</span> | *<span title="an area of permanent vegetation or other material used to reduce sediment, organics, nutrients, pesticides, and other contaminants from runoff and to maintain or improve water quality.> '''filter strip'''</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="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> | ||
Revision as of 18:33, 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
- filtration
- 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