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A
- aquatic habitat
- 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
- 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
- erosion control blankets
- erosion control mix
- erosion protection
- evapotranspiration
- extensive roofs
F
- fiber roll
- filter fabric
- filtration
- filter strip
- 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
- 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
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 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 fence
- sinkhole
- Site Location / Minimum Setbacks
- sizing
- skimmer
- soil stabilization
- sorption
- special water
- specific gravity
- spill response plan
- spillway
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- stockpile
- stormwater conveyance channel
- sump
- sump manhole
- surface roughness
- 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