Stormwater, the Glossary
Stormwater, also written storm water, is water that originates from precipitation (storm), including heavy rain and meltwater from hail and snow.[1]
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Agricultural pollution
Agricultural pollution refers to biotic and abiotic byproducts of farming practices that result in contamination or degradation of the environment and surrounding ecosystems, and/or cause injury to humans and their economic interests.
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Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.
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Archaeology
Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.
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Architect
An architect is a person who plans, designs, and oversees the construction of buildings.
Attenuation
In physics, attenuation (in some contexts, extinction) is the gradual loss of flux intensity through a medium.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
Baseflow
Baseflow (also called drought flow, groundwater recession flow, low flow, low-water flow, low-water discharge and sustained or fair-weather runoff) is the portion of the streamflow that is sustained between precipitation events, fed to streams by delayed pathways.
Basement
A basement or cellar is one or more floors of a building that are completely or partly below the ground floor.
Best management practice for water pollution
Best management practices (BMPs) is a term used in the United States and Canada to describe a type of water pollution control.
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Biofilter
Biofiltration is a pollution control technique using a bioreactor containing living material to capture and biologically degrade pollutants. Stormwater and Biofilter are environmental soil science.
Bioretention
Bioretention is the process in which contaminants and sedimentation are removed from stormwater runoff. Stormwater and Bioretention are environmental soil science and stormwater management.
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Bioswale
Bioswales are channels designed to concentrate and convey stormwater runoff while removing debris and pollution. Stormwater and Bioswale are environmental soil science and stormwater management.
Body of water
A body of water or waterbody is any significant accumulation of water on the surface of Earth or another planet.
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Bowling Green, Kentucky
Bowling Green is a home rule-class city and the county seat of Warren County, Kentucky, United States.
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Bronze Age
The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.
Building
A building or edifice is an enclosed structure with a roof and walls, usually standing permanently in one place, such as a house or factory.
City
A city is a human settlement of a notable size.
Clean Water Act
The Clean Water Act (CWA) is the primary federal law in the United States governing water pollution.
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Clean Water Rule
The Clean Water Rule is a 2015 regulation published by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to clarify water resource management in the United States under a provision of the Clean Water Act of 1972.
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Colloid
A colloid is a mixture in which one substance consisting of microscopically dispersed insoluble particles is suspended throughout another substance.
Competence (geology)
In geology competence refers to the degree of resistance of rocks to deformation or flow.
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Concentrated animal feeding operation
In animal husbandry, a concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO), as defined by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), is an intensive animal feeding operation (AFO) in which over 1,000 animal units are confined for over 45 days a year.
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Concentration
In chemistry, concentration is the abundance of a constituent divided by the total volume of a mixture.
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Constructed wetland
A constructed wetland is an artificial wetland to treat sewage, greywater, stormwater runoff or industrial wastewater. Stormwater and constructed wetland are stormwater management.
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Crete
Crete (translit, Modern:, Ancient) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica.
Cyanobacteria
Cyanobacteria, also called Cyanobacteriota or Cyanophyta, are a phylum of autotrophic gram-negative bacteria that can obtain biological energy via oxygenic photosynthesis.
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Cyanotoxin
Cyanotoxins are toxins produced by cyanobacteria (also known as blue-green algae).
Discharge (hydrology)
In hydrology, discharge is the volumetric flow rate (volume per time, in units of m3/h or ft3/h) of a stream.
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Drainage basin
A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean.
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DuPage County, Illinois
DuPage County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois, and one of the collar counties of the Chicago metropolitan area.
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Effluent
Effluent is wastewater from sewers or industrial outfalls that flows directly into surface waters, either untreated or after being treated at a facility.
Engineer
Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, regulation, safety and cost.
Environmental Quality Incentives Program
The Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) is a United States government program designed to assist farmers in improving environmental quality, particularly water quality and soil conservation.
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Erosion
Erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust and then transports it to another location where it is deposited.
Evapotranspiration
Evapotranspiration (ET) refers to the combined processes which move water from the Earth's surface (open water and ice surfaces, bare soil and vegetation) into the atmosphere.
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Farm
A farm (also called an agricultural holding) is an area of land that is devoted primarily to agricultural processes with the primary objective of producing food and other crops; it is the basic facility in food production.
First flush
First flush is the initial surface runoff of a rainstorm.
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Flash flood
A flash flood is a rapid flooding of low-lying areas: washes, rivers, dry lakes and depressions.
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Flood
A flood is an overflow of water (or rarely other fluids) that submerges land that is usually dry.
Forebay (reservoir)
A forebay is an artificial pool of water in front of a larger body of water.
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Grand Rapids, Michigan
Grand Rapids is a city in and county seat of Kent County, Michigan, United States.
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Grand River (Michigan)
The Grand River (Ottawa: owashtanong, "Far-Flowing Water") is a river in the Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Green infrastructure
Green infrastructure or blue-green infrastructure refers to a network that provides the “ingredients” for solving urban and climatic challenges by building with nature.
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Groundwater
Groundwater is the water present beneath Earth's surface in rock and soil pore spaces and in the fractures of rock formations.
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Hail
Hail is a form of solid precipitation.
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Highway
A highway is any public or private road or other public way on land.
Human settlement
In geography, statistics and archaeology, a settlement, locality or populated place is a community of people living in a particular place.
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HydroCAD
HydroCAD is a computer-aided design (CAD) program used by civil engineers for modeling the hydrology and hydraulics (H&H) of stormwater runoff.
Hydrodynamic separator
In civil engineering (specifically hydraulic engineering), a hydrodynamic separator (HDS) is a stormwater management device that uses cyclonic separation to control water pollution. Stormwater and hydrodynamic separator are stormwater management.
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Impervious surface
Impervious surfaces are mainly artificial structures—such as pavements (roads, sidewalks, driveways and parking lots, as well as industrial areas such as airports, ports and logistics and distribution centres, all of which use considerable paved areas) that are covered by water-resistant materials such as asphalt, concrete, brick, stone—and rooftops. Stormwater and Impervious surface are environmental soil science.
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Industrial stormwater
Industrial stormwater is runoff from precipitation (rain, snow, sleet, freezing rain, or hail) that lands on industrial sites (e.g. manufacturing facilities, mines, airports). Stormwater and industrial stormwater are stormwater management.
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Infiltration (hydrology)
Infiltration is the process by which water on the ground surface enters the soil.
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Infiltration basin
An infiltration basin (or recharge basin) is a form of engineered sump or percolation pond that is used to manage stormwater runoff, prevent flooding and downstream erosion, and improve water quality in an adjacent river, stream, lake or bay. Stormwater and infiltration basin are drainage and stormwater management.
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Infiltration/Inflow
Infiltration/Inflow (I/I or I&I) is the process of groundwater, or water from sources other than domestic wastewater, entering sanitary sewers.
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Interior design
Interior design is the art and science of enhancing the interior of a building to achieve a healthier and more aesthetically pleasing environment for the people using the space.
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Irrigation
Irrigation (also referred to as watering of plants) is the practice of applying controlled amounts of water to land to help grow crops, landscape plants, and lawns.
Karst
Karst is a topography formed from the dissolution of soluble carbonate rocks such as limestone, dolomite, and gypsum.
Lake
A lake is an often naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface.
Landscape architect
A landscape architect is a person who is educated in the field of landscape architecture.
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Lawn
A lawn is an area of soil-covered land planted with grasses and other durable plants such as clover which are maintained at a short height with a lawn mower (or sometimes grazing animals) and used for aesthetic and recreational purposes—it is also commonly referred to as part of a garden.
Low-impact development (U.S. and Canada)
Low-impact development (LID) is a term used in Canada and the United States to describe a land planning and engineering design approach to manage stormwater runoff as part of green infrastructure.
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Maryland
Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.
MDPI
MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute) is a publisher of open-access scientific journals.
A media filter is a type of filter that uses a bed of sand, peat, shredded tires, foam, crushed glass, geo-textile fabric, anthracite, crushed granite or other material to filter water for drinking, swimming pools, aquaculture, irrigation, stormwater management, oil and gas operations, and other applications. Stormwater and media filter are stormwater management.
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Meltwater
Meltwater (or melt water) is water released by the melting of snow or ice, including glacial ice, tabular icebergs and ice shelves over oceans.
Minoan civilization
The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age culture which was centered on the island of Crete.
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Nationwide Urban Runoff Program
The Nationwide Urban Runoff Program (NURP) was a research project conducted by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) between 1979 and 1983. Stormwater and Nationwide Urban Runoff Program are stormwater management.
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Natural Resources Conservation Service
Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), formerly known as the Soil Conservation Service (SCS), is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) that provides technical assistance to farmers and other private landowners and managers.
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Nature-based solutions
Nature-based solutions (or nature-based systems, and abbreviated as NBS or NbS) describe the development and use of nature (biodiversity) and natural processes to address diverse socio-environmental issues.
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Nonpoint source pollution
Nonpoint source (NPS) pollution refers to diffuse contamination (or pollution) of water or air that does not originate from a single discrete source. Stormwater and Nonpoint source pollution are environmental soil science.
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Ocean
The ocean is the body of salt water that covers approx.
Parking lot
A parking lot (American English) or car park (British English), also known as a car lot, is a cleared area intended for parking vehicles.
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Permeable paving
Permeable paving surfaces are made of either a porous material that enables stormwater to flow through it or nonporous blocks spaced so that water can flow between the gaps.
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Phaistos
Phaistos (Φαιστός,; Ancient Greek: Φαιστός,, Linear B: 𐀞𐀂𐀵 Pa-i-to; Linear A: 𐘂𐘚𐘄 Pa-i-to), also transliterated as Phaestos, Festos and Latin Phaestus, is a Bronze Age archaeological site at modern Faistos, a municipality in south central Crete.
Phosphorus
Phosphorus is a chemical element; it has symbol P and atomic number 15.
Pond
A pond is a small, still, land-based body of water formed by pooling inside a depression, either naturally or artificially.
Precipitation
In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls from clouds due to gravitational pull.
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Public utility
A public utility company (usually just utility) is an organization that maintains the infrastructure for a public service (often also providing a service using that infrastructure).
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Puddle
A puddle is a small accumulation of liquid, usually water, on a surface.
Puget Sound
Puget Sound is a sound on the northwestern coast of the U.S. state of Washington.
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Rain
Rain is water droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then fall under gravity.
Rain garden
Rain gardens, also called bioretention facilities, are one of a variety of practices designed to increase rain runoff reabsorption by the soil. Stormwater and rain garden are stormwater management.
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Rainwater tank
A rainwater tank (sometimes called a rain barrel in North America in reference to smaller tanks, or a water butt in the UK) is a water tank used to collect and store rain water runoff, typically from rooftops via pipes.
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Regulation
Regulation is the management of complex systems according to a set of rules and trends.
Retention basin
A retention basin, sometimes called a retention pond, wet detention basin, or storm water management pond (SWMP), is an artificial pond with vegetation around the perimeter and a permanent pool of water in its design. Stormwater and retention basin are stormwater management.
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River
A river is a natural flowing freshwater stream, flowing on land or inside caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river.
Road
A road is a thoroughfare for the conveyance of traffic that mostly has an improved surface for use by vehicles (motorized and non-motorized) and pedestrians.
Roof
A roof (roofs or rooves) is the top covering of a building, including all materials and constructions necessary to support it on the walls of the building or on uprights, providing protection against rain, snow, sunlight, extremes of temperature, and wind.
Sanitary sewer overflow
Sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) is a condition in which untreated sewage is discharged from a sanitary sewer into the environment prior to reaching sewage treatment facilities.
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Seattle
Seattle is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States.
Sewage
Sewage (or domestic sewage, domestic wastewater, municipal wastewater) is a type of wastewater that is produced by a community of people.
Snow
Snow comprises individual ice crystals that grow while suspended in the atmosphere—usually within clouds—and then fall, accumulating on the ground where they undergo further changes.
Snowmelt
In hydrology, snowmelt is surface runoff produced from melting snow.
Soil compaction
In geotechnical engineering, soil compaction is the process in which stress applied to a soil causes densification as air is displaced from the pores between the soil grains.
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Stochastic empirical loading and dilution model
The stochastic empirical loading and dilution model (SELDM)Granato, G.E., 2013, Stochastic empirical loading and dilution model (SELDM) version 1.0.0: U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods, book 4, chap. Stormwater and stochastic empirical loading and dilution model are stormwater management.
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Stokes' law
In fluid dynamics, Stokes' law is an empirical law for the frictional force – also called drag force – exerted on spherical objects with very small Reynolds numbers in a viscous fluid.
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Storm
A storm is any disturbed state of the natural environment or the atmosphere of an astronomical body.
Storm drain
A storm drain, storm sewer (United Kingdom, U.S. and Canada), surface water drain/sewer (United Kingdom), or stormwater drain (Australia and New Zealand) is infrastructure designed to drain excess rain and ground water from impervious surfaces such as paved streets, car parks, parking lots, footpaths, sidewalks, and roofs. Stormwater and storm drain are drainage and stormwater management.
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Storm Water Management Model
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Storm Water Management Model (SWMM) is a dynamic rainfall–runoff–subsurface runoff simulation model used for single-event to long-term (continuous) simulation of the surface/subsurface hydrology quantity and quality from primarily urban/suburban areas. Stormwater and Storm Water Management Model are stormwater management.
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Stormwater detention vault
A stormwater detention vault is an underground structure designed to manage excess stormwater runoff on a developed site, often in an urban setting. Stormwater and stormwater detention vault are stormwater management.
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Stormwater fee
A stormwater fee is a charge imposed on real estate owners for pollution in stormwater drainage from impervious surface runoff. Stormwater and stormwater fee are stormwater management.
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Stormwater harvesting
Stormwater harvesting or stormwater reuse is the collection, accumulation, treatment or purification, and storage of stormwater for its eventual reuse. Stormwater and stormwater harvesting are stormwater management.
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Stream
A stream is a continuous body of surface water flowing within the bed and banks of a channel.
Surface runoff
Surface runoff (also known as overland flow or terrestrial runoff) is the unconfined flow of water over the ground surface, in contrast to channel runoff (or stream flow).
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Surface water
Surface water is water located on top of land, forming terrestrial (surrounding by land on all sides) waterbodies, and may also be referred to as blue water, opposed to the seawater and waterbodies like the ocean.
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Total suspended solids
Total suspended solids (TSS) is the dry-weight of suspended particles, that are not dissolved, in a sample of water that can be trapped by a filter that is analyzed using a filtration apparatus known as sintered glass crucible.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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United States Congress
The United States Congress, or simply Congress, is the legislature of the federal government of the United States.
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United States Department of Agriculture
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is an executive department of the United States federal government that aims to meet the needs of commercial farming and livestock food production, promotes agricultural trade and production, works to assure food safety, protects natural resources, fosters rural communities and works to end hunger in the United States and internationally.
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United States Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with environmental protection matters.
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Urban flooding
Urban flooding is the inundation of land or property in cities or other built environment, caused by rainfall or coastal storm surges overwhelming the capacity of drainage systems, such as storm sewers. Stormwater and Urban flooding are drainage and stormwater management.
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Urban planner
An urban planner (also known as town planner) is a professional who practices in the field of town planning, urban planning or city planning.
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Urban runoff
Urban runoff is surface runoff of rainwater, landscape irrigation, and car washing created by urbanization. Stormwater and urban runoff are stormwater management.
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Wastewater
Wastewater (or waste water) is water generated after the use of freshwater, raw water, drinking water or saline water in a variety of deliberate applications or processes.
Water
Water is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula.
Water (journal)
Water is a scientific journal that covers water science and technology research.
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Water pollution
Water pollution (or aquatic pollution) is the contamination of water bodies, with a negative impact on their uses.
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Water purification
Water purification is the process of removing undesirable chemicals, biological contaminants, suspended solids, and gases from water.
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Water quality
Water quality refers to the chemical, physical, and biological characteristics of water based on the standards of its usage.
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Water-sensitive urban design
Water-sensitive urban design (WSUD) is a land planning and engineering design approach which integrates the urban water cycle, including stormwater, groundwater, and wastewater management and water supply, into urban design to minimise environmental degradation and improve aesthetic and recreational appeal. Stormwater and water-sensitive urban design are stormwater management.
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Wetland
A wetland is a distinct semi-aquatic ecosystem whose groundcovers are flooded or saturated in water, either permanently, for years or decades, or only seasonally for a shorter periods.
See also
Drainage
- Association départementale Isère Drac Romanche
- Bar ditch
- Ditch
- Drain (plumbing)
- Drainage equation
- Drainage law
- Drainage research
- Drainage system (agriculture)
- Dry well
- EnDrain
- French drain
- Gargoyle
- Grating
- Infiltration basin
- Infiltration gallery
- Invert level
- Lago di Bientina
- Land drainage in the United Kingdom
- Leaching model (soil)
- Operating authority
- Pranala
- Prestressed concrete cylinder pipe
- Runoff model (reservoir)
- SahysMod
- SaltMod
- Sand-based athletic fields
- Scoop wheel
- Sewer dosing unit
- Slot drain
- Storm drain
- Stormwater
- Stormwater management
- Sustainable drainage system
- Tile drainage
- Tree box filter
- Trench drain
- Two-stage drainage ditch
- Urban flooding
- Water table (architecture)
- Wateringue (drainage)
- Watertable control
- Well drainage
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormwater
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