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Stormwater Management Glossary of Essential Terms
Acre-Foot
Adhesion
Adsorption
Aggradation
Agricultural Runoff
Algae
Algal Blooms
Allowable Headwater Depth
Anoxia
Antecedent Moisture Condition
Applied Shear Stress
Apron
Atmospheric Deposition
Backfill
Bacteria
Bank - Stream or River
Baseflow Contributions
Bed Load
Benthic Habitat
Berm
Best Management Practices
Better Site Design
Bioaccumulation
Bioavailable
Biochemical Oxygen Demand
Biodiversity
Biological Uptake
Biomass
Bioretention
Bioswale
Blue-Green Algae
Capacity
Capillary Forces
Catch Basin
Channel
Channel Erosion
Channel Lining
Channelized Flow
Check Dam
Chlorides
Coefficient of Runoff
Cohesion
Conservative Pollutant
Constructed Wetlands
Conveyance Capacity
Conveyance Systems
Cross Culvert
Culvert
Cutoff Wall
Cyanobacteria
Denitrification
Design Discharge
Design Storm Event
Detention Basin
Dissolved Oxygen
Dissolved Pollutants
Drainage System
Dry Well
Dye Testing
End Section
Entrance Losses
Erosion
Erosion and Sediment Control Plan
Erosion Control
Erosion Potential
Estuary
Eutrophication
Evaporation
Evapotranspiration
Exfiltration
Fate and Transformation Processes
Filtration
First Flush
Fish Kill
Flocculation
Flooding
Floodplain
Flow Velocity
Fluvial Geomorphology
Geotextiles
Green Infrastructure
Groundwater
Groundwater Recharge
Gully Erosion
Harmful Algal Blooms
Headwall
Headwater Depth
Heavy Metals
Hooded Outlet
Hortonian Flow
Hydraulic Gradient
Hydraulic Loading Rate
Hydrocarbons
Hydrograph
Hydrologic Analysis
Hydrologic Cycle
Hydroseeding
Hypoxia
Illicit Connection
Illicit Discharge
Illicit Discharge Detection and Elimination
Impervious Surfaces
Infiltration
Infiltration Basin
Infiltration Capacity
Infiltration Rate
Infiltration-Excess Runoff
Inlet Protection Device
Intensity-Duration-Frequency (IDF) Curves
Level of Service
Low Impact Development
Maximum Flow Rate
Microbial Degradation
Microbial Transformation
MS4 General Permit
Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System
Nitrification
Nitrogen
Nonpoint Source Pollution
Nutrient Cycling
Nutrient Loading
Nutrient Uptake
Open Channel Conveyance System
Organic Pollutants
Outfall
Overland Flow
Peak Discharge
Peak Discharge Magnitude
Peak Flow
Peak Runoff Rate
Percolation
Permeability
Permeable Pavement System
Permissible Shear Stress
Phosphorus
Plant Uptake
Pollutant Load
Pollutant Transport
Precipitation
Rain Garden
Rational Method
Receiving Waters
Recession Limb
Resuspension
Retention Basin
Rill Erosion
Riparian Buffers
Riparian Vegetation
Riprap
Rising Limb
Road Salt
Runoff
Runoff Potential
Saltation
Saturation
Saturation-Excess Runoff
Sediment Basin
Sediment Control
Sediment Deposition
Sediment Forebay
Sediment Load
Sediment Transport Capacity
Sedimentation
Settling Velocity
Shear Stress
Sheet Erosion
Sheet Flow
Silt Fence
Smoke Testing
Soil and Water Conservation District
Soil Conservation Service Curve Number
Soil Profile
Soil Texture
Splash Erosion
Stormwater
Stormwater Management
Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan
Stormwater System
Sump
Surface Flow
Surfactants
Suspended Load
Suspended Solids
Swale
Temporal Distribution
Thermal Pollution
Time of Concentration
Time to Peak
Total Maximum Daily Load
Total Suspended Solids
Transpiration
Trench Drain
Turbidity
Turbulence
Underdrain
USDA Soil Texture Triangle
Vegetated Swales
Washoff
Water Holding Capacity
Watershed
Wetlands
Wingwalls
