Dictionary of Water Well-Related Terms
Stands for | Description | Level of government | web link | |
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af | Acre feet | 1 acre-foot equals 43,560 cubic feet or 325,851 gallons | ||
afy | Acre-feet per year | |||
ALLTCS | “Ag lands of long term commercial significance” (refers to GMA definition) | |||
APC | Agricultural Preservation Committee | |||
APWA | American Public Works Association | |||
ARC | Appeals Resolution Committee | Consists of •the Director of the Whatcom County Health Department or his/her designee •The Director of Whatcom County Planning and Development Services or his/her designee •The Director of Whatcom County Public Works or his/her designee •A representative from one of the approved SMAs identified in Section 6. | ||
AWWA | American Water Works Association | |||
BB | Birch Bay, also sometimes BBWARM; also Gill’s recently adopted “Birch Bay Watershed Action Plan” with “mitigation” and BMP’s | |||
BGMA | Blaine Groundwater Management Area | |||
BMPs | Best Management Practices | Documents published by the Whatcom Conservation District. These refer to various methods for preventing or reducing potential pollution that could result from an agricultural activity. The term originated from rules and regulation in Section 208 of the federal Clean Water Act. | http://www.whatcomcd.org/small-farm | |
BRB | Whatcom County Boundary Review Board | |||
CAO | Critical areas ordinance | Areas with a legal designation for ‘critical areas’. Six categories: 1) Geologically hazardous areas, 2) Frequently flooded areas, 3) Critical aquifer recharge areas, 4) Wetlands, 5) Wildlife habitat conservation areas, 6) Fish habitat conservation areas. | County | Maps at: https://www.whatcomcounty.us/811/County-Wide-Critical-Area-Ordinance-Maps (It’s interesting that NONE of these maps include the eastern 2/3rds of Whatcom County.) |
CAS | credit accounting system | (protocols, [sic] “metrics”) | ||
ccf | 100 cubic feet | 100 cubic feet is equal to approximately 748 gallons | ||
CIDMP | Comprehensive Irrigation District Management Plan (Conservation District), | Apparently for (or on behalf of) the drainage/diking districts? | ||
CIP | Capital Improvement Program | |||
Coordination Act | Public Water System Coordination Act (Chapter 70.116 RCW). | |||
CPAL | Conservation Program on Agriculture Lands | WCC 16.16.290 (WAC?) | http://www.whatcomcd.org/small-farm | |
CPF | COASTAL PROTECTION FUND | see Documents | ||
CT | Consultant Team | NRM contract scope of work “to include ecologists and ecosystem modelers” | ||
CWMP | Cooperative Watershed Management Act | “Water Smart” grant program, US Dept Interior, Bureau of Reclamation | Cooperative Watershed Management Act (Public Law 111-11, Sections 6001-03) | |
CWPP | County-wide Planning Policies | |||
CWRIP | WRIA (2005) Comprehensive Water Resource Integration Project | |||
CWRIP | County Water Resources Integration Project | [Whatcom]~ | ||
CWSP | Coordinated Water System Plan | Prepared pursuant to Chapter 70.116 Revised Code of Washington (RCW) A plan for public water systems within a critical water supply service area which identifies the present and future needs of the systems and sets forth means for meeting those needs in the most efficient manner possible. Such a plan shall include provisions for subsequently updating the plan. In areas where more than one water system exists, a coordinated plan may consist of either: (a) A new plan developed for the area following its designation as a critical water supply service area; or (b) a compilation of compatible water system plans existing at the time of such designation and containing such supplementary provisions as are necessary to satisfy the requirements of this chapter. Any such coordinated plan must include provisions regarding: Future service area designations; assessment of the feasibility of shared source, transmission, and storage facilities; emergency inter-ties; design standards; and other concerns related to the construction and operation of the water system facilities. | ||
CWSSA | Critical Water Supply Service Area | Chapter 70.116 RCW and Chapter 246-293 W AC | ||
DGWPE | domestic groundwater permit-exempt (wells) | |||
DIP | detailed implementation plan | (sub-part of WMP) | ||
DOE | Department of Ecology | More often shown as ECY, so as not to confuse it with the (national) Departnment of Energy. | ||
DOH | Washington State Department of Health | |||
DOT/APWA | Combined standards for public works construction practices of the Washington State Department of Transportation and the American Public Works Association, 2014 Edition. | Copper login? http://sts.copperhub.com/index.php?module=projects&action=view&projectid=3 | ||
ECO Net | reference, Hutchins CD 4/14/11, PSP wants to fund it, | |||
Ecology | Washington State Department of Ecology | |||
ECY | Acronym for Department of Ecology, WA State | official abbreviation of WA Dept of Ecology, whereas DOE could be confused with the federal Department of Energy | ||
EPA | United States Environmental Protection Agency ERU Equivalent Residential Unit | |||
EQIP | Environmental Quality Incentives Program | see 5/6/12 email Disk4 | ||
ESRP | Ecosystem Restoration Project | Puget Sound Nearshore Ecosystem Restoration Project (PSNERP) $ collaborative Gov partners | ||
FEATS | Financial and Ecosystem Accounting Tracking System | EPA Puget Sound (JT email 10/28/11) | ||
FSA | Farm Service Agency | (federal) (to wit, see BP->JH email 6/25/12 saying | “Staff Team's recommended request for CREP polygons and year planted has been denied by FSA.” | |
GIS | Geographic Information System | |||
GMA | Growth Management Act | |||
gpcd | Gallons per capita per day | |||
gpd | Gallons per day | |||
gpm | Gallons per minute | |||
GWI | Groundwater sources under the direct influence of surface water | |||
HETA | Habitat Engineering Technical Assistance, grant program (reference, Hutchins CD 3/16/11) | |||
IBC | International Building Code | |||
ICA | incentives for commercial agriculture | |||
IFAP | Instream Flow Action Plan | The adopted Whatcom watershed management plan “recognized that the Nooksack Rule needed to be modified and specific the IFAP - a critical element of the adopted plan - as the process for changing that rule.” (from Road to Hirst) Under IFAP, the Planning Unit was to approve in stream flow recommendations, in response to which DOE would undertake rule making. | County | |
IFC | International Fire Code | |||
Indian Water Rights | “Indian water rights are vested property rights for which the US has a trust responsibility, with the US holding legal title to such water in trust for the benefit of the Indians…It is the policy of this Administration…that disputes regarding Indian water rights should be resolved through negotiated settlements rather than litigation.” Criteria and Procedures Preamble. 55 FR 9223 March 12, 1990 | |||
ISF | instream flow | (a measurement as in “cfs,” but also a category of beneficial use) | ||
ISF | Innovation Support Fund, grant fund | |||
IWA | International Water Association | |||
LW | Lake Whatcom | [Joint Policy Group, COB, WC, Lake Whatcom Water & Sewer, under PSP] | ||
LWMC | Lake Whatcom Management Committee | |||
LWWSD | Lake Whatcom Water & Sewer District | |||
MAMP | Monitoring and Adaptive Management Plan | WRIA 1 Salmon Recovery | ||
MCL | Maximum Contaminant Level | |||
MGD | Million gallons per day (1 MGD = 3.0689 acre-feet of water per day) | |||
MPA | Microscopic Particulate Analysis | |||
MRC | marine resources committee | a county advisory | ||
MT | Management Team (WRIA 1) | |||
MWL | municipal water law | http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/wr/rights/muni_wr_archive.html | ||
NEP | National Estuary Program | (EPA) | http://water.epa.gov/type/oceb/nep/index.cfm | |
NFWF | National Fish & Wildlife Federation | (501 c3), grants-grants (conservation, salmon) Boggs... | National Fish & Wildlife Federation | |
NRMWG | (also WG) - Natural Resources Marketplace Working Group | |||
NTA’s | near term actions | PSP Leadership Council acronym, for “near term actions” Disk 4, email Peterson 6/6/12 | ||
NTNC/TNC NRW | Non-transient Non-community/Transient Non-community Non-revenue water | |||
OC | Strategic Outreach & Research Consultant | |||
OFM | Washington State Office of Financial Management | |||
OOS | out of stream | (“use”) | ||
OSR | Out of Stream Reserve | |||
PDS | Whatcom County Planning and Development Services | |||
PIC | Pollution Identification & Correction | Whatcom County | ||
ppb | Parts per billion – a measurement of contaminant levels in water | |||
PRISM | PRoject Information SysteM | online grant application system, searchable | https://www.rco.wa.gov/prism_app/about_prism.shtml | |
PSAR | Puget Sound Acquisition and Restoration (PSAR) Capacity Funds, grant program | |||
psi | Pounds per square inch | |||
PSP | Puget Sound Partnership | programestablished by the legislature to set and achieve “goals”-has become a powerful agency that has acquired the authority to distribute EPA funds) | ||
PT | Project Team (see NRM contract, scope of work) | |||
PW | Whatcom County Public Works Department | |||
RC | Review Committee (NRM RC) | |||
RCO | recreation conservation open space funds: (various) | http://www.rco.wa.gov/doc_pages/app_materials.shtml | ||
RCW | Revised Code of Washington | |||
RITT | (Puget Sound Chinook) Recovery Implementation Tech Team | |||
SDWA | Safe Drinking Water Act | |||
SEPA | State Environmental Policy Act | |||
SMA | Satellite Management Agency | |||
SMCL | Secondary Maximum Contaminant Level | |||
SMP | shoreline management plan | |||
SP | shoreline protection | (various) | ||
SR | salmonid recovery | |||
STAT | short term action team | |||
SW AP | Source Water Assessment Program | |||
SWIF | system wide improvement framework | being used for river/flood projects/project plans | ||
SWSMP | Small Water System Management Plan | |||
SWTR | Surface Water Treatment Rule | |||
THA | Terry Husseman Account | ECY grant program: “THA grants support locally sponsored on-the-ground projects to restore or enhance the natural environment. | State - ECY | https://www.ecy.wa.gov/About-us/How-we-operate/Grants-loans/Find-a-grant-or-loan/Coastal-protection-fund/THA-additional-information |
TT | Technical Team | |||
UGA | Urban Growth Area | |||
ULID | Utility Local Improvement District | |||
USGS | United States Geological Survey | |||
USRP | Utility Service Review Procedure | |||
WAC | Washington Administrative Code | |||
WAF | Water Availability Form | |||
WASWD | Washington Association of Sewer and Water Districts | “Representing the state’s clean water specialists.” | https://www.waswd.org | |
WC | Whatcom County (entity, staff) | |||
WCC | Whatcom County Code | |||
WCD | Whatcom Conservation District | |||
WCHD | Whatcom County Health Department | |||
WCTAT | Watershed Characterization Technical Assistance Team | |||
WG | (also NRMWG) - Natural Resources Marketplace Working Group | |||
WID | watershed improvement district, | formed under RCW 87.03 “Irrigation” | ||
WMP | watershed management plan | adopted by council, under 90.82 Watershed Planning Act | ||
WPA | Watershed Planning Act | |||
WRA | Water Resources Act | |||
WRIA | Water Resource Inventory Area | |||
WRIA 1 | Water Resource Inventory Area 1 | |||
WSCC | Washington State Conservation Commission | (governor appointed) | ||
WSP | Water System Plan | |||
WUCC | Water Utility Coordinating Committee | |||
WUE | Water Use Efficiency |