INTRO TO STORM WATER MANAGEMENT VIDEO

Use this 10 min video to first introduce the concept of storm water management to your students:

*students can stop the video at 10 minutes to avoid advertisements at the end. 

LAYER ONE: SD1 Storm Water Challenge BMP Fact Sheets

LAYER TWO: SD1 Public Service Park Best Management Practices (BMP) Fact Sheets

Found @ https://www.sd1.org/DocumentCenter/View/219/Best-Management-Practices-BMPs-Fact-Sheets-PDF

LAYER THREE: SD1 Storm Water Best Management Practices (BMP) Manual

Found @ www.sd1.org/213/Permitting-Other-Requirements 

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Storm Water Terminology 

Aggregate: A material formed of loosely compacted fragments or particles. 

Concentrated Flow: The accumulation of flowing water in a channel, gully or swale. 

Dissolved Pollutant: Pollutant that has dissolved making it more mobile than particle pollution.  An example would be dissolved salt. 

Drawdown: A change in water level due to intensive water taking from an area.

Energy Dissipation: Way in which energy is stored or wasted.

Engineered Soil Mix: Manufactured soil mix consisting of specific ratios of sand, silt, clay and organic matter designed for a specific application. 

Evapotranspiration: The process by which water is transferred from land to the atmosphere, through evaporation of soil and surface moisture and by transpiration from plants. 

Filtration: The process of passing through a filter. 

Floatables: Particles that are capable of floating. 

Geotechnical Investigation: Investigations performed by geotechnical engineers to obtain information on soil properties for a proposed structure. 

Geotextile: A strong synthetic fabric used to stabilize soils and prevent erosion. 

Gravel Curtain: Gravel-filled trench acting like a gutter system to help channel water. 

Impervious Cover: Surfaces in a landscape that cannot absorb or infiltrate rainfall. Examples include conventional roofs, roads, parking lots, driveways, and sidewalks.

Imperviousness: Not allowing water to enter. 

Infiltration: Permeation of a liquid into something through filtration. 

Inflow: A large of amount of water that is transferred into a place. 

Lateral Sheet Flow: Downslope movement of water under gravitational forces, taking the form of a thin film flowing over smooth soil and rock surfaces.

Particulate-bound Pollutant: Pollution made up of a mixture of small particles and liquid droplets. Examples include sediment and oil. 

Peak Flow: The maximum flow of water during a storm event. 

Percolate: To diffuse through.

Planting Matrix: A planting that replicates natural vegetation, with a variety of self-sustaining species growing harmoniously, each supporting the other. 

Splash Block: A device, usually manufactured of concrete or plastic, that works to channel downspout runoff away from the foundation of a building. 

Storm Water Runoff Conveyance Systems: A network of drainage features that move storm water from surfaces to containment systems and/or a receiving body of water. 

Suspended Solids: Small solid particles which remain suspended in water due to the motion of water.

Treatment Train: A sequence of multiple storm water treatments designed to maximize results.

Underdrain System: A drainage feature installed underground to collect subsurface water and transport it to a surface outlet. 

Upgradient: A position up along a gradient from a starting position. An example could be, upstream. 

Vegetated Swale: Shallow storm water channel that is densely planted with vegetation, designed to slow and filter storm water runoff. Examples include a drainage swale or bioswale. 

Vertical Relief: Quantitative measurement of vertical elevation change in a landscape. 

ADDITIONAL SD1 DOCUMENT RESOURCES

SD1 When It Rains It Drains Brochure

SD1 Macroinvertebrate Monitoring Resources