Glossary or Acronyms

Advanced Wastewater Treatment
Aquifer
Aquitard
Artificial Wetlands
Basin
Best Management Practices (BMPs)
Clean Water Act
Conveyance
Discharge
Erosion
Eutrophication
Excavation
General Permit
Grading
Illicit Connection
Industrial Activity
Large Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4)
Maximum Extent Practicable (MEP)
Medium Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4)
Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4)
Non-point Source (NPS) Pollutants
Notice of Intent (NOI)
NPDES
O&M Expenditures
Outfall
Permitting Authority (PA)
Physically interconnected MS4
Point Source Pollutant
Pollutant Loading
Qualifying local program
Regulated MS4
Retrofit
Runoff
Sanitary Sewer
Sediment
Sheet flow
Site Plan
Site Runoff
Small Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4)
Stakeholder
Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Code
Storm Drain
Storm Water
Storm Water Management
Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP or SWP3)
Surface Water
Tool Box
Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL)
Urban Runoff
Urbanized Area (UA)
Watershed
Wet Weather Flows