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*<span title="there is no specific definition of coarse sediment, but in stormwater management it typically refers to coarse sand, which includes particles greater than 1/2-mm in diameter, using the Wentworth scale."> '''coarse sediment'''</span> | *<span title="there is no specific definition of coarse sediment, but in stormwater management it typically refers to coarse sand, which includes particles greater than 1/2-mm in diameter, using the Wentworth scale."> '''coarse sediment'''</span> | ||
*<span title="a low-to-moderate-capacity road which serves to move traffic from local streets to arterial roads. Unlike arterials, collector roads are designed to provide access to residential properties."> '''collector roadway''' </span> | *<span title="a low-to-moderate-capacity road which serves to move traffic from local streets to arterial roads. Unlike arterials, collector roads are designed to provide access to residential properties."> '''collector roadway''' </span> | ||
| + | *<span title="the process in which a stress applied to a soil causes densification as air is displaced from the pores between the soil grains. Compaction is desired in construction practices and undesirable when promoting infiltration into soil."> [https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php/Alleviating_compaction_from_construction_activities '''compacted soil''']</span> | ||
*<span title="the product resulting from the controlled biological decomposition of organic materials that has been sanitized through the generation of heat and stabilized to the point that it is beneficial to plant growth"> [https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Compost_and_stormwater_management '''compost''']</span> | *<span title="the product resulting from the controlled biological decomposition of organic materials that has been sanitized through the generation of heat and stabilized to the point that it is beneficial to plant growth"> [https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Compost_and_stormwater_management '''compost''']</span> | ||
*<span title="Storm runoff, flowing in a confined feature such as a channel, ditch, swale, river, etc. Concentrated flow often occurs after a maximum of 300 feet of sheet flow. concentrated flow can lead to severe down- or side-cutting in the resulting channel."> '''concentrated flow'''</span> | *<span title="Storm runoff, flowing in a confined feature such as a channel, ditch, swale, river, etc. Concentrated flow often occurs after a maximum of 300 feet of sheet flow. concentrated flow can lead to severe down- or side-cutting in the resulting channel."> '''concentrated flow'''</span> | ||
Revision as of 18:08, 31 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
- aquatic habitat
- arterial roads
- alum
B
- baffle
- bank stabilization
- best management practice
- biodegradation
- biofiltration
- bioinfiltration
- bioretention practice
- Bioswale
- brownfield
- Brushing
- buffer zones
- bypass flow
C
- catch basin
- catchment
- cistern
- clay
- coagulation
- coarse sediment
- collector roadway
- compacted soil
- compost
- concentrated flow
- concentrated stormwater runoff
- conventional roof
- curb-cut
- curb bump-out
D
- dead storage
- design flow
- design flow
- 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
- ordinary high water level
- outfall
P
- particle size distribution
- perennial
- 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
- public ditch
- public water
Q
R
- Rationale Method
- receiving water
- redundant
- removal efficiency
- resuspension
- riparian zone
- riprap
- riprap
- rock armored
- rock riffle
S
- scour hole
- scouring
- screen (for pretreatment)
- sediment basin
- sediment control
- settling ponds
- settling device (for pretreatment)
- settling time
- short-circuiting
- shallow depth to bedrock
- Shallow soils
- sheet flow
- sheet pile
- side slope
- silt
- silt fence
- sinkhole
- Site Location / Minimum Setbacks
- sizing
- skimmer
- soil stabilization
- sorption
- specific gravity
- spill response plan
- spillway
- steep slopes
- stockpile
- stormwater conveyance channel
- sump
- sump manhole
- SWPPP
T
- temporary seeding
- travel time
- treatment train
- turbid
- two-stage channel
U
- highly urban and ultra-urban environments
- underdrain
- under-draining
V
- vane weir structures
- Vegetated filter strip
- vegetated swale
W
- washout
- Water Quality Volume
- A water table aquifer
- weir
- Wellhead Protection Areas
- well logs
- wet pond
- wet storage
- wet swale