Glossary
When reading and learning about the watershed, you may come across unfamiliar terms. This glossary is meant to clarify some of those words and define the terminology we use.
- Basin
- Bathymetric
- CFS
- Confluence
- Dewatered
- Diversion
- Ecosystem
- Ecosystem Services
- Exempt Well
- Fish Barrier
- Fish Passage
- Fish Screen
- Flow
- Habitat
- Headwaters Storage
- Invasive Species
- Legacy Contamination
- Non-point-source Pollution
- Nutrient Pollution
- Point-source Pollution
- Potentially Responsible Party
- Reach
- Remediation
- Resilience
- Restoration
- Riparian
- Tributary
- Watershed
- Wetland