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*earthen berm | *earthen berm | ||
*embankment | *embankment | ||
| − | *<span title="Interception of incoming flow to deflect, scatter, or otherwise neutralize the erosive force of concentrated, moving stormwater."> ''' | + | *<span title="Interception of incoming flow to deflect, scatter, or otherwise neutralize the erosive force of concentrated, moving stormwater."> '''energy dissipation'''</span> |
*<span title="Engineered media is a mixture of sand, fines (silt, clay), and organic matter utilized in stormwater practices, most frequently in bioretention practices. The media is typically designed to have a rapid infiltration rate, attenuate pollutants, and allow for plant growth."> [https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Design_criteria_for_bioretention#Materials_specifications_-_filter_media '''engineered media''']</span> | *<span title="Engineered media is a mixture of sand, fines (silt, clay), and organic matter utilized in stormwater practices, most frequently in bioretention practices. The media is typically designed to have a rapid infiltration rate, attenuate pollutants, and allow for plant growth."> [https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Design_criteria_for_bioretention#Materials_specifications_-_filter_media '''engineered media''']</span> | ||
*<span title="The part of the wellhead protection area that is defined by a one-year time of travel within the aquifer that is used by the public water supply well (Minnesota Rules, part 4720.5250, subpart 3). It is used to set priorities for managing potential contamination sources within the DWSMA. This area is particularly relevant for assessing impacts from potential sources of pathogen contamination because this time of travel is believed to closely correspond with the survival period of many pathogens."> [https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Stormwater_and_wellhead_protection '''Emergency Response Area.''']</span> | *<span title="The part of the wellhead protection area that is defined by a one-year time of travel within the aquifer that is used by the public water supply well (Minnesota Rules, part 4720.5250, subpart 3). It is used to set priorities for managing potential contamination sources within the DWSMA. This area is particularly relevant for assessing impacts from potential sources of pathogen contamination because this time of travel is believed to closely correspond with the survival period of many pathogens."> [https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Stormwater_and_wellhead_protection '''Emergency Response Area.''']</span> | ||
*<span title="Loss of water to the atmosphere as a result of the joint processes of evaporation and transpiration through vegetation"> '''evapotranspiration'''</span> | *<span title="Loss of water to the atmosphere as a result of the joint processes of evaporation and transpiration through vegetation"> '''evapotranspiration'''</span> | ||
| − | *<span title="an extensive green roof has growing medium that is 6 inches or less deep"> ''' | + | *<span title="an extensive green roof has growing medium that is 6 inches or less deep"> '''extensive roofs'''</span> |
==F== | ==F== | ||
Revision as of 15:12, 7 March 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
B
- best management practice
- bioinfiltration
- bioretention practice
- buffer zones.
C
- coarse sediment
- conventional roof
D
- detention times
- dewatering device
- Disturbed soils
- Drainage Area
- Drinking Water Source Management Area (DWSMA),
- dry storage
E
- earthen berm
- embankment
- energy dissipation
- engineered media
- Emergency Response Area.
- evapotranspiration
- extensive roofs
F
- filter fabric
- flocculant
- flow paths
- footprint
- fractured flow.
G
- grade
- green roof
H
- highly urban and ultra-urban environments
- hydraulic conductivity of the aquifer material (k),
- hydraulic gradient (i),
- hydrogeology
I
- infiltration basin
- intensive roof
J
K
L
- live storage
- low permeability soils
M
- media
- moderate to steep slopes
N
O
P
- perimeter control
- permanent cover
- permanent stormwater management
- point of discharge
- porosity (f)
- Prairie du Chien formation,
- pretreatment
Q
R
- riprap
- rock armored
S
- settling ponds
- settling time
- short-circuiting
- shallow depth to bedrock
- Shallow soils
- sheet flows
- side slope
- silt fences
- Site Location / Minimum Setbacks
- skimmer
- spill response plan
- spillway
- steep slopes
- SWPPP
T
- travel time
U
- highly urban and ultra-urban environments
- underdrain
V
- vegetated swale
W
- A water table aquifer
- Wellhead Protection Areas
- well logs
- wet storage