Water Quality and Waste Management Glossary
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Water Quality-Based Limitations
Effluent limitations applied to dischargers when mere technology-based limitations would cause violations of water quality standards. Usually applied to discharges into small streams.
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Water Quality Criteria: Levels of water quality expected to render a body of water suitable for its designated use.
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Water Quality Improvement Fund (WQIF): In 1997, the Virginia General Assembly passed the Water Quality Improvement Act which established the Water Quality Improvement Fund.
Water quality standards: Laws or regulations, promulgated under Section 303 of the Clean Water Act, ...
water quality - the level of purity of water; the safety or purity of drinking water.
water quality testing - monitoring water for various contaminants to make sure it is safe for fish protection, drinking, and swimming.
Water Quality: A term used to describe the chemical, physical, and biological characteristics of water with respect to its suitability for a particular use.
Water quality standards: Recommended or enforceable maximum contaminant levels of chemicals or materials (such as chlorobenzene, nitrate, iron, arsenic) in water.
Water quality The condition of water with respect to the amount of impurities in it.
Water recycling Using water again for the same or another process step, after a small form of purification is applied.
Water Quality Standards are purity standards of water for domestic use which are internationally acceptable. The World Health Organisation (WHO) publishes "Guidelines for Drinking Water Quality".
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absorbed dose. The amount of a chemical that enters the body of an exposed organism.
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Water Quality Standard (WQS)
The combination of a designated use and the maximum concentration of a pollutant which will protect that use for any given body of water.
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WATER QUALITY VOLUME (WQV)
The storage needed to capture and treat 90% of the average annual stormwater runoff volume equal to the 1" (or 0.9" in western zone ) times the volumetric runoff coefficient (Rv) times the site area.
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Groundwater Quality Assessment: The process of analyzing the chemical characteristics of groundwater to determine whether any hazardous materials exist.
Receiving water quality standards Standards which require a discharger to maintain a certain quality level in the receiving water.
Recycling The recovery and reuse of a product which would otherwise be thrown away.
Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB)
Agencies that maintain water quality standards for areas within their jurisdictions and enforce state water quality laws.
PORTER-COLOGNE WATER QUALITY ACT: A California law that gives the State Water Resources Control Board ultimate authority over water rights and water control policy.
Contaminants added to the water under circumstances controlled by the user are excluded from this definition, except those contaminants resulting from the corrosion of piping and plumbing caused by water quality.
Biofiltration Biofiltration can be any method that uses natural processes to control pollution or maintain water quality.
ACP- Agriculture Control Program (Water Quality Management); ACP- Air Carcinogen Policy
ACQUIRE- Aquatic Information Retrieval
ACQR- Air Quality Control Region
ACS- American Chemical Society
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Wastewater treatment - A facility designed to receive the wastewater from domestic sources and to remove materials that damage water quality and threaten public health and safety when discharged into receiving streams or bodies of water.
In the 1970's, Europe decided that bathing water quality should be monitored and tested in order to protect bathers from health risks and to preserve the environment from pollution.
They also protect water quality, offer opportunities for recreation, and provide people with wood.
reclaimed water Wastewater that has been treated and brought to a level of water quality that makes it suitable for further beneficial use. remedial action plan A formal plan of action for cleanup of a contaminated site.
Typical environmental health concerns would be the health-related aspects of water and air pollution, drinking water quality, sanitation, waste disposal, food quality and the presence of harmful chemicals.
The Clean Water Act (CWA) is the cornerstone of surface water quality protection in the United States. (The Act does not deal directly with ground water nor with water quantity issues).
aesthetic standards Water quality standards which involve those physical, biological, and chemical properties of water that adversely affect the palatability and consumer acceptability of water through taste, odor, appearance or chemical reaction.
Agglomeration - (Water Quality) The grouping of small suspended particles into larger particles that are more easily removed through filtration, skimming, or settling. Also see Coagulation.
The United States Forest Service was originally formed specifically for the protection of watershed and water quality because forests have historically provided humans with clean water.
Part of federal air and water quality requirements prohibiting deterioration where pollution levels are above the legal limit.
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Algal Blooms: Sudden spurts of algal growth, which can affect water quality adversely and indicate poten- tially hazardous changes in local water chemistry.
Algicide: Substance or chemical used specifically to kill or control algae.
dissolved oxygen (DO). Measure of water quality indicating free oxygen dissolved in water.
distillate (DIS-tuh-late). In the distillation of a sample, a portion is evaporated; the part that is condensed afterwards is the distillate.
A sample is "fixed" in the field by adding chemicals that prevent water quality indicators of interest in the sample from changing before laboratory measurements are made.
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departments, and offices under the organization of Cal/EPA including the California Air Resources Board (ARB), California Integrated Waste Management Board (IWMB), State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) and its nine Regional Water Quality ...
sewage treatment plants (STPs) = protects water quality
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It has set wastewater standards for businesses and boats, as well as water quality standards for any potential water contaminants, and funded the construction of sewage treatment plants to reuse wastewater.
Technology-Based Limitations: Industry-specific effluent limitations based on best available preventive technology applied to a discharge when it will not cause a violation of water quality standards at low stream flows.
The environment in which the fish live, including everything that surrounds and affects its life, e.g. water quality, bottom, vegetation, associated species (including food supplies); 2.
Wetlands: Habitats flooded with shallow water all or part of the year. Can be identified by unique plants which have adapted to oxygen-deficient (anaerobic) soils. Wetlands influence stream flows and water quality.
We're thankful for the overall improvements in water quality for many of our lakes, streams and rivers since the 1970s.
It registers and regulates pesticides, enforces laws covering outdoor air and drinking water quality and regulates the disposal of hazardous and solid wastes.
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