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Median streamflow: The rate of discharge of a stream for which there are equal numbers of greater and lesser flow occurrences during a specified period.
Medium-size water system: A water system that serves 3,300 to 50,000 customers.
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stones, pebbles or plastic that provides a substrate for the growth of a film of microorganisms in wastewater treatment; plastic, ceramic or metal shapes or surfaces that improve gas-liquid contact in gas scrubbing ...
median effective concentration (EC50)
Statistically derived median concentration of a substance in an environmental medium expected to produce a certain effect in 50% of test organisms in a given population under a defined set of conditions.
median A measure of central tendency in statistics. The value (or point in a series) in a set of data that divides the ranked values into two equal-sized groups" one consisting of values equal to or smaller than the median, ...
Media - Specific environments--air, water, soil--which are the subject of regulatory concern and activities.
Mercury (Hg) - Heavy metal that can accumulate in the environment and is highly toxic if breathed or swallowed.
Median: The middle value in a population distribution, above and below which lie an equal number of individual values; midpoint.
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Materials that form a barrier to the passage of certain suspended solids or dissolved liquids in filters.
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Multi-Media Approach: Joint approach to several environmental media, such as air, water, and land.
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Media - Elements of a surrounding environment that can be sampled for contamination; usually soil, water, or air.
Median: Statistical term that relates to or constitutes the middle value in a distribution. 50% of the values are above and 50% below the median.
Melanocyte: Pigment-producing cell in the skin, hair and eye that determines their color.
Median level concentration, a standard measure of toxicity. It tells how much of a substance is needed to kill half of a group of experimental organisms in a given time.
LD 50/ Lethal Dose ...
A media-specific contaminant concentration derived from the risk assessment process; used as the goal for cleanup.
Health Effects Assessment Summary Tables (HEAST) ...
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Oil spill
IncidentNews.gov - an NOAA site cataloguing major spills, April 14, 2005
A Google Maps Image of a minor oil spill in Libya
Oil Spill on Mississippi River after Hurricane Katrina ...
all media, of the magnitude of exposure to a toxic chemical.
integrator. A device or meter that continuously measures and
calculates (adds) total flows in gallons, or million cubic ...
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FILTER MEDIA
The sand, soil, or other organic material in a filtration device used to provide a permeable surface for pollutant and sediment removal.
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Environmental media and transport mechanism
Environmental media include water, air, soil, and biota (plants and animals). Transport mechanisms move contaminants from the source to points where human exposure can occur.
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Ecological Anthropology An area of study that concentrates on how culture mediates the dynamic interactions between human populations and the ecosystems in their habitats. Ecological Debt The sum of annual ecological deficits.
(1) A law describing the rate of flow of water through porous media. (Named for Henry Darcy of Dijon, who formulated it in 1856 from extensive work on the flow of water through sand filter beds.) As formulated by Darcy the law is: Q = k*S*(H+e)/e ...
Analytical Sample: Any solution or media introduced into an instrument on which an analysis is performed excluding instrument calibration, initial calibration verification, initial calibration blank, ...
HPLC - High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) is used to determine the amount of a compound in various media such as the air, water or blood.
diatomaceous earth filtration (DE filtration). A filtration method resulting in substantial particulate removal, that uses a process in which: 1) a "precoat" cake of diatomaceous earth filter media is deposited on a support membrane (septum), ...
Heat produced as part of this process is used as heating and/or cooling media. A cogeneration plant is often referred to as a combined heat and power plant.
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The concentration of a substance in an environmental media (air, water, or soil) that occurs naturally or is not the result of human activities. 2.
Although the popular media concluded that acidic precipitation was wrecking havoc on the forests of the U.S., scientists were much less certain. Few studies were able to document a negative impact, with many finding positive responses from the rain.
LC50/Lethal Concentration - Median level concentration, a standard measure of toxicity. It tells how much of a substance is needed to kill half of a group of experimental organisms in a given time. (See: LD50.) ...
There are many radiation units, so many in fact that we will explain only the few units most likely to be used in the media or at a local town meeting on radiation-related issues.
Advances in identification of an effective therapeutic target after spinal cord injury have been newsworthy, and considerable media attention is often drawn towards new developments in this area.
executive session - a congressional meeting closed to the public (and the media).
exurbia - (1) the area of suburbs; (2) the region outside a city and its suburbs where wealthier families live.
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Although they are often interlinked in the mass media, the connection between global warming and ozone depletion is not strong. There are four areas of linkage: ...
Biomarkers of Susceptibility evaluate an individual’s susceptibility to drugs, chemicals, and environmentally mediated disease that may arise from genetic causes or from nongenetic factors such as age, disease state, diet, ...
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Implementation Planning Program. Integrated Plotting Package; Inter-media Priority Pollutant (document); Independent Power Producer
IPCC
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ...
The manufacture by plants of carbohydrates and oxygen from carbon dioxide mediated by chlorophyll in the presence of sunlight.
Phytoplankton ...
Existing or hypothetical routes by which chemicals in soil, water or other media can come in contact with humans, animals or plants.
Extraction wells ...
Trickling filter An attached growth biological process in which the microbial film is attached to non-moving rock or plastic media.
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Monitoring
Periodic or continuous surveillance or testing to determine the level of compliance with statutory requirements and/or pollutant levels in various media or in humans, plants, and animals.(1) ...
Risk Communication: Exchange of information about health or environmental risks between risk assessors, risk managers, the general public, and other interest groups such as the news media.
nature when rain water soaks into the ground and it passes through hundreds of feet of sand and gravel. This same natural process of filtration is duplicated in water and wastewater treatment plants, generally using sand and coal as the filter media.
undesirable environmental and health effects. Under the Clean Water Act, for example, the term has been defined as the man-made or man-induced alteration of the physical, biological, chemical and radiological integrity of water and other media.
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