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Unit 1 Flashcards

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Bioretentiom cells aka rain gardens

A

Capture filter and store stormwater runoff. stormwater filtered throughout soil. Reduce water pollutants

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Types of Low Impact Development

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Green roofs
Bioretention cells (rain gardens)
Permeable Pavers
Water Harvesting

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Water Harvesting

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Cisterns and rain barrels capture and store runoff. Need something to do with the water

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Extensive vs. Intensive roof systems

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Extensive is lighter while intensive is much heavier with wider variety of plants

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Endocrine Disrupters

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Interrupt the way bodies deal with reproduction and body tissue, causes mutations

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Estuary

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Direct link to the ocean

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Watershed boundary

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Where water flows the opposite ways

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Infiltration

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When water soaks through a surface

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8
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Runoff

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Water the surface cannot absorb

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9
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Ecosystem services

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Services provided by the environment

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Watershed

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Area where all water goes to some body of water

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Impervious surface

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Anything water cannot go through, does not allow infiltration

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12
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Pervious surfaces

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Surfaces that allow infiltratoon

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13
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Combined sewer system

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Storm drain and sewer system connected to the same pipe

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14
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Riparian zone

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Ecosystems located along banks of rivers

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15
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Point source

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Specific point that pollution is coming from

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Non point source

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Pollution coming from multiple cumulative inputs

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Eutrophication

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Lots of algae and plants grow because there are so many nutrients. When algae dies it sucks all the oxygen out

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18
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Hypoxia

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Not enough oxygen to support life

19
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Dead zone c

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Constantly hypoxic areas , long term

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Salinization

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Groundwater turning salty from ocean water seeping in

21
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Algae

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Forms because or large amounts of nitrogen and phosphorous in water

22
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Particle sizes of soil

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Biggest: sand
Medium: silt
Smallest: Clay

23
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Infiltration capacity

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Rate of water and oxygen pass through soil

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Compacted soil

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Weighed down, clogged pores

25
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Biggest problems in chesepeak

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Nitrogen, phosphate, and sediment

26
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Soil horizons

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Different layers

O,A,E, B,C,R

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A

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Topsoil

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E

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Drained out soil

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B

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Sticky, mostly clay soil

30
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C

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Less clay in soil

31
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R

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Rock

32
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What makes soil red?

A

Iron

33
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Darker soil

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More organic matter

34
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Steps for water treatment

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1- primary treatment
2- Secondary Biological
3- Advanced Treatment
4- Final Treatment

35
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Primary Treatment

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Removes trash, changes turbidity

36
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Secondary Biological

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Add microorganisms that eat smaller particles and browns spots decay, ammonia decreases, turbidity goes down a little, COD goes down

37
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COD

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Chemical oxygen demand

38
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advanced treatment

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Chemical flockulation suck water away from chemicals and microbes settle at the bottom, ammonia drops, huge drop of tribitiby, lowers COD

39
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Flocculation

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Colonies of microbes

40
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Final treatment

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Sand and carbon filter, drop of tribitiby and COD

41
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Disinfection

A

Uv tunnel
Chlorine
Get rid of microorganisms that get through the original treatment

42
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Common pollutants in communities

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Surfactants (soap) from carwash
Nitrogen(excess fertilizer) from lawns
E coli from dog parks

43
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2 types of water monitoring

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Biological

Chemical

44
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Biological testing

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BMI looking for creatures , shows health and quality of water

45
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Chemical testing

A 
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Tribitiby
Temperature
Ammonia ( nitrogen) 
Phosphate
46
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Biosolids

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Pollutant made from the treatment that can be disposed in a land fill, put on farmers fields, or a use as fuel source for generator

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