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*<span title="a bioretention practice in which no underdrain is used. All water entering the bioinfiltration practice infiltrates or evapotranspires."> '''bioinfiltration'''</span> | *<span title="a bioretention practice in which no underdrain is used. All water entering the bioinfiltration practice infiltrates or evapotranspires."> '''bioinfiltration'''</span> | ||
*<span title="Bioretention is a terrestrial-based (up-land as opposed to wetland) water quality and water quantity control process. Bioretention employs a simplistic, site-integrated design that provides opportunity for runoff infiltration, filtration, storage, and water uptake by vegetation. Bioretention areas are suitable stormwater treatment practices for all land uses, as long as the contributing drainage area is appropriate for the size of the facility. Common bioretention opportunities include landscaping islands, cul-de-sacs, parking lot margins, commercial setbacks, open space, rooftop drainage and street-scapes (i.e., between the curb and sidewalk). Bioretention, when designed with an underdrain and liner, is also a good design option for treating Potential stormwater hotspots. Bioretention is extremely versatile because of its ability to be incorporated into landscaped areas. The versatility of the practice also allows for bioretention areas to be frequently employed as stormwater retrofits."> '''bioretention practice'''</span> | *<span title="Bioretention is a terrestrial-based (up-land as opposed to wetland) water quality and water quantity control process. Bioretention employs a simplistic, site-integrated design that provides opportunity for runoff infiltration, filtration, storage, and water uptake by vegetation. Bioretention areas are suitable stormwater treatment practices for all land uses, as long as the contributing drainage area is appropriate for the size of the facility. Common bioretention opportunities include landscaping islands, cul-de-sacs, parking lot margins, commercial setbacks, open space, rooftop drainage and street-scapes (i.e., between the curb and sidewalk). Bioretention, when designed with an underdrain and liner, is also a good design option for treating Potential stormwater hotspots. Bioretention is extremely versatile because of its ability to be incorporated into landscaped areas. The versatility of the practice also allows for bioretention areas to be frequently employed as stormwater retrofits."> '''bioretention practice'''</span> | ||
| − | *<span title="a vegetative setback between development and streams, lakes, and wetlands whose aim is to physically protect and separate the resource from future disturbance or encroachment"> '''buffer | + | *<span title="a vegetative setback between development and streams, lakes, and wetlands whose aim is to physically protect and separate the resource from future disturbance or encroachment"> [https://stormwater.pca.state.mn.us/index.php?title=Construction_stormwater_best_management_practice_%E2%80%93_buffer_zones '''buffer zones'''].</span> |
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Revision as of 15:54, 7 February 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