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*<span title="A catch basin is an engineered drainage structure with the sole function of collecting rainwater and snowmelt from streets and parking lots and transporting it to local waterways through a system of underground piping, culverts, and / or drainage ditches"> '''catch basin'''</span> | *<span title="A catch basin is an engineered drainage structure with the sole function of collecting rainwater and snowmelt from streets and parking lots and transporting it to local waterways through a system of underground piping, culverts, and / or drainage ditches"> '''catch basin'''</span> | ||
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*<span title="a waterproof receptacle for holding liquids, usually water. Cisterns are often built to catch and store rainwater."> '''cistern'''</span> | *<span title="a waterproof receptacle for holding liquids, usually water. Cisterns are often built to catch and store rainwater."> '''cistern'''</span> | ||
*<span title="fine-grained soil particles with a particle diameter less than 0.002 mm"> '''clay'''</span> | *<span title="fine-grained soil particles with a particle diameter less than 0.002 mm"> '''clay'''</span> | ||
Revision as of 18:36, 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
- catchment
- 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