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Freshwater Website: Informational Resources and Services (Glossary)
Simple rootless plants that grow in sunlit waters in relative proportion to the amounts of nutrients available. They can affect water quality adversely ... Water falling to earth in drops that have been condensed from moisture in the atmosphere. receiving waters - A river, ocean, stream, or other watercourse into which wastewater or treated effluent is ...
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WELL - Resource Centre Network for Water, Sanitation and Environmental Health
Pollution from On-site Sanitation The type and amount of water pollution depends on the sanitation option. There are three main problems that arise: the transmission of disease-causing organisms (pathogens); oxygen depletion of receiving waters (rivers and lakes); and eutrophication through excess nutrients in receiving waters. Pit latrines The main risk posed by pit latrines is microbiological ...
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Monitor Selection
Receiving waters can be protected from discharges of untreated wastes from plants which have experienced process upsets and resulting toxic material pass through. For more information, please writenconsys@n-con.com ...
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Terms Beginning With "O"
O Ocean Discharge Waiver: A variance from Clean Water Act requirements for discharges into marine waters. Odor Threshold: The minimum odor of a water or air sample that can just be detected ... : Air brought into a building from outside. Outfall: The place where effluent is discharged into receiving waters. Overburden: Rock and soil cleared away before mining. Overdraft: The pumping of water from a ...
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Terms Beginning With "U" | Terms of Environment | US EPA
Urban Runoff: Storm water from city streets and adjacent domestic or commercial properties that carries pollutants of various kinds into the sewer systems and receiving waters. Urea-Formaldehyde Foam Insulation: A material once used to conserve energy by sealing crawl spaces, attics, etc.; no longer used because emissions were found to be a health hazard. ...
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Wisconsin's Water Management Units - WDNR
In the WDNR, these hydrologic areas are used for 2 purposes. First and foremost, the delineation of these areas identifies where surface waters drain across the land surface of the state. Based on the drainage areas, the WDNR then develops ...
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Hydroxyl ActiveCell™ IFAS®  |  Total Nitrogen Removal
North America's receiving waters. ActiveCell™ IFAS® technology is uniquely positioned with many configurations that enable Total Nitrogen Removal within conventional activated sludge processes. ActiveCell IFAS processes are staged to function ...
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Hydroxyl Systems Inc. - Resources / Contaminant Glossary
If removal of the nitrogen is required (for example, receiving waters potentially suffer eutrophication from excess nutrient), biological denitrification can be used to convert the nitrate to nitrogen gas that is released to the atmosphere. Hydroxyl ActiveCell™ ...
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Household Dangers for Sewage Systems
Chlorine products - bleaches - are another problematic waste stream. It has been said: 'Every time you use the Toilet Block you are putting bleach into the environment. It all adds to the chlorine load.' Most people ...
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Introduction to Orange County California's 13 Watersheds
John Wesley Powell A watershed is the geographic area draining into a river system, ocean or other body of water through a single outlet and includes the receiving waters. Watersheds are usually bordered, and separated from other watersheds, by mountain ridges or other naturally elevated areas. In Orange ...
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