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Glossary

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  • 100-Year Flood
  • Abandoned Well
  • Accelerated Erosion
  • Acidic Water
  • Acre-Foot
  • Activated Carbon
  • Aeration
  • Air Stripping
  • Alignment
  • Alkaline Water
  • Alkalinity
  • Alluvium
  • Anaerobic
  • Analytical Model
  • Anisotropic Aquifer
  • Annulus
  • Antecedent
  • Appropriation Doctrine
  • Aquaculture
  • Aquatic
  • Aqueduct
  • Aquiclude
  • Aquifer
  • Aquifer Recharge
  • Aquifer Storage Recovery
  • Aquifer Test
  • Aquitard
  • Area of Influence
  • Artesian Aquifer
  • Artesian Water
  • Artesian Well
  • Artificial Recharge
  • Artificial Recharge
  • Bailer
  • Bank Filtration
  • Bankfull Discharge
  • Bank Seepage
  • Bank Storage
  • Base
  • Baseflow
  • Bedrock
  • Bentonite
  • Best Management Practices
  • Bicarbonate
  • Bit
  • Brackish Water
  • Brine
  • Cable Tool Drilling
  • Calcite
  • Caliche
  • Capillary Rise
  • Carbonates
  • Casing
  • Center-Pivot Irrigation
  • Channel Flow
  • Chlorine
  • Clastic Rock
  • Clay
  • Coefficient of Storage
  • Coliform
  • Commercial Water Use
  • Community Water Supply
  • Condensation
  • Cone of Depression
  • Confined Aquifer
  • Conglomerate
  • Conjunctive Use
  • Consumptive Use
  • Contamination
  • Conveyance Loss
  • Creek
  • Cryptosporidium
  • Cubic Feet per Second
  • Darcy’s Law
  • Desalinization
  • Developed Water
  • Discharge
  • Disinfection By-Products
  • Diversion
  • Domestic Water Use
  • Drainage Basin
  • Drawdown
  • Drip Irrigation
  • Dual Purpose Well
  • Ecosystem
  • Effluent
  • Emergent Plant
  • Erosion
  • Esker
  • Estuary
  • Evaporation
  • Evapotranspiration
  • Extrusive Rock
  • Fault
  • First Flush
  • Flood
  • Floodplain
  • Flood Stage
  • Flowing Well
  • Fracture Zone
  • Freshwater
  • Frost Table
  • Gage Height
  • Gaging Station
  • Gaining Stream
  • Geophysical Well Logs
  • Geyser
  • Giardia
  • Glacial Drift
  • Glacial Outwash
  • Glacial Till
  • Glacier
  • Gneiss
  • Grain Size
  • Grains per Gallon
  • Gravel Packed Well
  • Graywater
  • Groundwater
  • Groundwater Banking
  • Groundwater Champion - Titanium
  • Groundwater (Confined)
  • Groundwater Discharge
  • Groundwater Flow Rates
  • Groundwater Mining
  • Groundwater Recharge
  • Groundwater (Unconfined)
  • Grout
  • Habitat
  • Hardness
  • Headwater
  • Heavy Metals
  • Hydraulic Conductivity
  • Hydraulic Conductivity
  • Hydraulic Gradient
  • Hydric Soil
  • Hydrobabble
  • Hydrofracture
  • Hydrogeology
  • Hydrograph
  • Hydrologic Budget
  • Hydrologic Cycle
  • Hydrologic System
  • Hydrology
  • Hydroperiod
  • Hydrophytes
  • Igneous Rock
  • Impermeable Layer
  • Impervious Area
  • Induced Infiltration (Induced Recharge)
  • Infiltration
  • Injection Well
  • Inorganic
  • Interception
  • Interflow
  • Intermittent Stream
  • Intrusive Rock
  • Irrigation
  • Irrigation Water Use
  • Kame Terrace
  • Karst
  • Kettle Hole
  • Kilogram
  • Laminar Flow
  • Landfill
  • Leachate
  • Leaching
  • Lentic Waters
  • Levee
  • Limestone
  • Lithology
  • Losing Stream
  • Lotic Waters
  • Macropores
  • Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL)
  • Metamorphic Rock
  • MGD
  • Microdrip Irrigation
  • Milligram
  • Milligrams per Liter
  • Million Gallons per Day
  • Monitoring Well
  • Municipal Water System
  • Natural Recharge
  • Nephelometric Turbidity Unit
  • Non-Community Transient Water Supply
  • Non-Point Source Pollution
  • Nutrient
  • Observation Well
  • Ombotrophic
  • Organic Matter
  • Osmosis
  • Outfall
  • Outwash Sediment
  • Overburden
  • Overdraft
  • Overland Flow
  • Ox-Bows
  • Oxygen Demand
  • Paludification
  • Palustrine
  • Particle Size
  • Parts per Billion
  • Parts per Million
  • Pathogen
  • Peak Flow
  • Peat
  • Per Capita Use
  • Perched Groundwater
  • Percolation
  • Perennial Stream
  • Permafrost
  • Permeability
  • Pesticide
  • pH
  • Phreatic
  • Phreatophytes
  • Pitless Adaptor
  • Plume
  • Point Source Pollution
  • Pollutant
  • Polychlorinated Biphenyls
  • Porosity
  • Potable Water
  • Potentiometric Surface
  • Precipitation
  • Pressure Tank
  • Primary Wastewater Treatment
  • Prior Appropriation Doctrine
  • Public Water Supply
  • Public Water Use
  • Pumping Level
  • Pumping Test
  • Radius of Influence
  • Raw Water
  • Recharge
  • Reclaimed Wastewater
  • Recycled Water
  • Regolith
  • Reservoir
  • Return Flow
  • Reverse Osmosis
  • Riparian Habitat
  • Riparian Water Rights
  • Rotary Drilling
  • Runoff
  • Saline Water
  • Sand and Gravel Aquifers
  • Saturated Zone
  • Seawater Intrusion
  • Secondary Standard
  • Sediment
  • Sedimentary Rock
  • Sedimentation Tanks
  • Seepage
  • Self-Supplied Water
  • Septic Tank
  • Sewage Treatment Plant
  • Sewer
  • Sinkhole
  • Soil Moisture
  • Solute
  • Solvent
  • Specific Capacity
  • Specific Conductance
  • Specific Yield
  • Spray Irrigation
  • Spreading Basins
  • Spring
  • Storm Sewer
  • Stratified Drift
  • Stream
  • Streamflow
  • Sublimation
  • Subsidence
  • Subsurface Water
  • Surface Water
  • Surfactant
  • Suspended Sediment
  • Suspended Sediment Concentration
  • Swale
  • Test Hole
  • Test Well
  • Total Dissolved Solids
  • Transmissivity
  • Transpiration
  • Tremie Pipe
  • Tributary
  • Turbidity
  • Unconfined Aquifer
  • Unconsolidated Rock
  • Unsaturated Zone
  • Vadose Water
  • Wastewater
  • Wastewater Treatment Return Flow
  • Water Balance
  • Water Cycle
  • Water Quality
  • Watershed
  • Water Table
  • Water Well
  • Well
  • Well Development
  • Well Point
  • Well Rehabilitation
  • Well Screen
  • Well Sealing
  • Wetfall
  • Wetland
  • Withdrawal
  • Xeriscaping
  • Zone of Aeration

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