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Stormwater Management Glossary of Essential Terms

Acre-Foot
Agricultural Runoff
Algae
Algal Blooms
Allowable Headwater Depth
Antecedent Moisture Condition
Apron
Backfill
Bacteria
Bank - Stream or River
Baseflow Contributions
Berm
Best Management Practices
Better Site Design
Bioaccumulation
Biochemical Oxygen Demand
Bioretention
Bioswale
Capacity
Catch Basin
Channel
Channel Erosion
Channel Lining
Check Dam
Chlorides
Coefficient of Runoff
Conservative Pollutant
Constructed Wetlands
Culvert
Cutoff Wall
Design Discharge
Design Storm Event
Detention Basin
Dissolved Oxygen
End Section
Erosion
Erosion and Sediment Control Plan
Erosion Control
Erosion Potential
Eutrophication
Evaporation
Evapotranspiration
Fluvial Geomorphology
Green Infrastructure
Groundwater
Groundwater Recharge
Gully Erosion
Hooded Outlet
Hortonian Flow
Hydraulic Loading Rate
Hydrograph
Hydrologic Analysis
Hydrologic Cycle
Illicit Discharge
Illicit Discharge Detection and Elimination
Impervious Surfaces
Infiltration Capacity
Infiltration-Excess Runoff
Intensity-Duration-Frequency (IDF) Curves
Level of Service
Low Impact Development
Maximum Flow Rate
MS4 General Permit
Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System
Open Channel Conveyance System
Overland Flow
Peak Discharge
Peak Discharge Magnitude
Peak Flow
Permissible Shear Stress
Rational Method
Receiving Waters
Recession Limb
Rill Erosion
Rising Limb
Runoff
Runoff Potential
Saturation-Excess Runoff
Sediment Control
Sedimentation
Sheet Erosion
Soil Conservation Service Curve Number
Splash Erosion
Stormwater Management
Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan
Sump
Swale
Temporal Distribution
Time of Concentration
Time to Peak
Total Maximum Daily Load
Transpiration
Turbidity
Watershed
Wetlands

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