B
- BASINS - Better Assessment Science Integrating Point and Nonpoint Sources
- BMP - best management practice
- BSD - better site design
- BOD - biological oxygen demand
- BWCA - Boundary Waters Canoe Area
- BWSR - Board of Water and Soil Resources
C
- cfs - cubic feet per second
- C.F.R. - Code of Federal Regulations
- CGP - construction general permit
- CMP - corrugated metal pipe
- CN - curve number
- CN - cyanide
- COD - chemical oxygen demand
- C/O - commercial/office
- CWA - Federal Clean Water Act
- CWP - Center for Watershed Protection
- CZMA - Coastal Zone Management Act
D
- DA - drainage area
- DDT - dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane
- DHS - Department of Homeland Security
- DNR - Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
- DO - dissolved oxygen
- DRC - distributed runoff control
- du - dwelling units
- DWSMA - Drinking Water Source Management Area
E
- ED - extended detention
- EGR - extensive green roof
- EOR - Emmons and Olivier Resources, Inc.
- EPA - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- EPTM - Ethylene propylene diene monomer
- ETV - Program U.S. EPA’s Environmental Technology Verification Program
F
- FEMA - Federal Emergency Management Agency
- fps - feet per second
G
- GLI - Great Lakes Initiative
- GP - Minnesota Construction General Permit (2003)
- GW - ground water
H
- HDR - high density residential
- HEC 1 - Hydrologic Engineering Center 1 model
- HEC 2 - Hydrologic Engineering Center 2 model
- HSG - hydrologic soil group
- HS - hotspot
I
- I&M - inspection and maintenance
- IDF - intensity duration frequency curves
- IGR - intensive green roof
- IP - Issue Paper
- IPM - integrated pest management
L
- LDR - low density residential
- LGU - local governmental unit
- LID - low impact development
M
- MCWD - Minnehaha Creek Watershed District
- MDH - Minnesota Department of Health
- MDR - medium density residential
- MGS - Minnesota Geological Survey
- MMCD - Metropolitan Mosquito Control District
- Mn/DOT - the Minnesota (state) Department of Transportation.
- MNRRA - Mississippi National River and Recreation Area
- MPCA - Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
- M.S. - Minnesota Statutes
- MS4 - Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System under the Phase II NPDES program
- MSC - the Minnesota Stormwater Steering Committee’s Manual Sub Committee
N
- NaCl - sodium chloride or common table salt used for roadway deicing.
- NEMO - Non point Education for Municipal Officials
- NFIP - National Flood Insurance Program
- NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- NPDES - National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
- NRCS - U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resource and Conservation Service (formerly the SCS Soil Conservation Service)
- NSMPP - Nonpoint Source Management Program Plan
- NWI - National Wetlands Inventory
- NWL - normal water level
- NWS - National Weather Service
- NURP - Nationwide Urban Runoff Program
O
- O&M - operation and maintenance
- OHWL - Ordinary High Water Level
- OMEE - Ontario Ministry of Environment and Energy
P
- P - Phosphorus
- P8 - Program for Predicting Polluting Particle Passage through Pits, Puddles and Ponds
- PAH - polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon
- PCB - polychlorinated biphenyl
- PICP – permeable interlocking concrete pavement
- PSH - Potential stormwater hotspot
- PWI - Public Waters Inventory
R
- RCP - reinforced concrete pipe
- RFS - rainfall frequency spectrum
- ROW - right of way
S
- SD - separation distance
- SCS - Soil Conservation Service (now the Natural Resource and Conservation Service)
- SDS - State Discharge System
- SDWA - Safe Drinking Water Act
- Sol P - soluable phosphorus
- SFR - single family residential (land use)
- SIC - Standard Industrial Classification
- SLAMM - Source Loading Assessment and Management Model
- SNA - Scientific and Natural Area
- SPT - standard penetration test
- SSC - the Minnesota Stormwater Steering Committee
- SW - surface water
- SWAMP - Stormwater Assessment Monitoring and Performance Program of the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority
- SWCD - Soil and Water Conservation District
- SWMM - Storm Water Management Model
- SWPPP - storm water pollution prevention plan/program
T
- TDS - total dissolved solids
- THMs - trihalomethanes
- TMDL - total maximum daily load
- TN - total nitrogen
- TP - total phosphorus
- TP 40 - Technical Publication 40
- TR 20 - Technical Release Number 20: Computer Program for Project Formulation Hydrology
- TR 55 - Technical Release Number 55: Urban Unit Hydrology for Small Watersheds
- TSS - total suspended solids
- TURM - Thermal Urban Runoff Model
U
- USACE - United States Army Corps of Engineers
- U.S.C. - United States Code
- USC - unified sizing criteria
- USDA – United States Department of Agriculture
- U.S. EPA – United States Environmental Protection Agency
W
- WCA - Minnesota Wetland Conservation Act
- WD - Watershed District
- WLF - water level fluctuation
- WMO - Water Management Organization
- WNV - West Nile Virus
- WQ - water quality
- WSEL - water surface elevation