Impoundment

Impoundment
A body of water or sludge confined by a dam, dike, floodgate, or other barrier.
Source: Terms of the Environment ...

Impoundment: A body of water or sludge confined by a dam, dike, floodgate, or other barrier.
In Situ: In its original place; unmoved unexcavated; remaining at the site or in the subsurface.

Surface Impoundment: Treatment, storage, or disposal of liquid hazardous wastes in ponds.

Impoundment made by excavation or earth fill for biological treatment of wastewater.
Waste Treatment Plant
A facility containing a series of tanks, screens, filters and other processes by which pollutants are removed from water.

Disposal may be accomplished through use of approved secure landfills, surface impoundments, land farming, deep-well injection, ocean dumping or incineration.

Dammed pools are formed by the impoundment of water behind natural or man-made debris dams. Like all pools, dammed pools have a gradient of 0.0 percent.
DBH diameter at breast height.

waste treatment lagoon A lined impoundment made by the excavation, or earth fill, to provide a long detention for biological treatment of wastewater.

Waste Treatment Lagoon- Impoundment made by excavation or earth fill for biological treatment of wastewater.

All water naturally open to the atmosphere, concerning rivers, lakes, reservoirs, ponds, streams, impoundments, seas, estuaries and wetlands.
Suspended solids
Solid organic or inorganic particles that are held in suspension in a solution.

As defined by CERCLA, any building, structure, installation, pipe or pipeline, well, pit, pond, lagoon, impoundment, ditch, landfill, storage container, motor vehicle, rolling stock, or aircraft; ...

(rivers, lakes. reservoirs, streams, impoundments, seas,
estuaries, etc.) and all springs. wells, or other collectors
which are directly influenced by surface water.

wastes; surplus or banned pesticides or other chemicals; polluted soils; and drums containing hazardous materials from removal actions or accidental releases. Disposal may be accomplished through use of approved secure landfills, surface impoundments, ...

surface water. All water naturally open to the atmosphere (rivers, lakes. reservoirs, streams, impoundments, seas, estuaries, etc.) and all springs. wells, or other collectors which are directly influenced by surface water.

See also: Water, Waste, Environment, Liquid, Treatment