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;Biofilter
;Biofilter
;Stormwater planter
;Stormwater planter
:A bioretention stormwater best management practice featuring an impermeable liner and underdrain that prevents infiltration of runoff into the underlying native soil; provides sedimentation and filtration of urban runoff as it passes through the mulch layer, engineered filter media and vegetation root zone.
:A bioretention BMP featuring an impermeable liner and underdrain that prevents infiltration of runoff into the underlying native soil; provides sedimentation and filtration of urban runoff as it passes through the mulch layer, engineered filter media and vegetation root zone.


;Bioretention
;Bioretention
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;Check dam  
;Check dam  
:Structure constructed of a non-erosive material, such as suitably sized aggregate, wood, gabions, riprap, or concrete, used to slow runoff water to allow sedimentation, filtration, evapotranspiration, and infiltration into the underlying native soil. Can be employed in practices such as bioswales and enhanced grass swales.
:Structure constructed of a non-erosive material, such as suitably sized aggregate, wood, gabions, riprap, or concrete; used to slow runoff water. Can be employed in practices such as bioswales and enhanced grass swales.


;Cistern
;Cistern
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;Depression Storage
;Depression Storage
:A technique for incorporating shallow depressed areas into urban landscaped areas for storing and infiltrating runoff. Typically, depression storage areas are small and have limited capacity and limited duration of retention in order to address property owner concerns relating to insects, damage to structures and inconvenience of ponded water on their property.
:A technique for incorporating shallow depressed areas into urban landscaped areas for storing and infiltrating runoff. Depression storage areas are small and have limited capacity and limited duration of retention in order to address property owner concerns relating to insects, damage to structures and inconvenience of ponded water on their property.


;Detention
;Detention
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;Drawdown time
;Drawdown time
:The period between the maximum water level and the minimum level (dry weather or antecedent level).
:The period between the maximum water level and the minimum level (dry weather or antecedent level).
;Dry pond
;Infiltration basin
:Depressed storage area, designed to capture flood events.


;Evapotranspiration
;Evapotranspiration

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