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*<span title="a device to retain or remove floatables (e.g. oil) from water"> '''skimmer'''</span> | *<span title="a device to retain or remove floatables (e.g. oil) from water"> '''skimmer'''</span> | ||
*<span title="Soil aggregates are groups of soil particles that bind to each other more strongly than to adjacent particles. The space between the aggregates provide pore space for retention and exchange of air and water."> '''soil aggregation'''</span> | *<span title="Soil aggregates are groups of soil particles that bind to each other more strongly than to adjacent particles. The space between the aggregates provide pore space for retention and exchange of air and water."> '''soil aggregation'''</span> | ||
| + | *<span title="the compression of soil particles into a smaller volume, which reduces the size of pore space available for air and water."> '''soil compaction'''</span> | ||
*<span title="the total amount of water a soil can hold at field capacity."> '''soil moisture holding capacity (gravity drained water)'''</span> | *<span title="the total amount of water a soil can hold at field capacity."> '''soil moisture holding capacity (gravity drained water)'''</span> | ||
*<span title="soil quality is the capacity of a specific kind of soil to function, within natural or managed ecosystem boundaries, to sustain plant and animal productivity, maintain or enhance water and air quality, and support human health and habitation."> '''soil quality'''</span> | *<span title="soil quality is the capacity of a specific kind of soil to function, within natural or managed ecosystem boundaries, to sustain plant and animal productivity, maintain or enhance water and air quality, and support human health and habitation."> '''soil quality'''</span> | ||
Revision as of 20:57, 1 July 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
- aggregate
- aquatic habitat
- armoring
- arterial roads
- alum
B
- baffle
- bank stabilization
- baseflow
- berm
- best management practice
- biodegradation
- biofiltration
- bioinfiltration
- bioretention practice
- Bioswale
- biotic impairment
- brownfield
- Brushing
- buffer zones
- bypass flow
C
- catch basin
- catchment
- cation exchange capacity
- check dam
- cistern
- clay
- coagulation
- coarse sediment
- cofferdam
- collector roadway
- compacted soil
- compost
- concentrated flow
- concentrated stormwater runoff
- contributing area
- 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
- ephemeral stream
- erosion control blankets
- erosion control mix
- erosion protection
- evapotranspiration
- extensive roofs
F
- fiber roll
- fill
- filter fabric
- filtration
- filter strip
- final stabilization
- first flush
- flash
- floatables
- flocculant
- flocculation
- flow paths
- flow-through device
- fluvial systems
- footprint
- forebay
- fractured flow
G
- geotextile
- grade
- grade control structures
- green roof
- green space
- geotextile
- gross solids
- grubbing
H
- herbaceous perennial
- High-density polyethylene
- 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
- impaired water
- incised stream
- 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
N
O
- ordinary high water level
- outfall
- overland flow
P
- particle size distribution
- perennial
- perennial stream
- perimeter control
- permanent cover
- permanent stormwater management
- pilings
- 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 trap
- 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 curtain
- silt fence
- sinkhole
- Site Location / Minimum Setbacks
- sizing
- skimmer
- soil aggregation
- soil compaction
- soil moisture holding capacity (gravity drained water)
- soil quality
- soil stabilization
- sorption
- special water
- specific gravity
- spill response plan
- spillway
- steep slopes
- stockpile
- stormwater conveyance channel
- sump
- sump manhole
- surface roughness
- swale
- SWPPP
T
- temporary seeding
- trapezoid
- travel time
- treatment train
- turbid
- turf reinforcement mat
- 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 standard
- Water Quality Volume
- A water table aquifer
- wave energy
- weir
- Wellhead Protection Areas
- well logs
- wet pond
- wet storage
- wet swale