Appendix 1

Abbreviations

 

BFE Base Flood Elevation
BMP  Best Management Practice
CFS Cubic Feet Per Second
CLOMR Conditional Letter of Map Revision (from FEMA)
CLOMR-F Conditional Letter of Map Revision Based on Fill (from FEMA)
CN Curve Number
COE United States Army Corps of Engineers
CSMP   Comprehensive Stormwater Management Program 
CSO  Combined Sewer Overflow
CWA Clean Water Act
E&SC Erosion and Sediment Control
EPA Environmental Protection Agency
ERM Elevation Reference Mark
ETJ Extraterritorial Jurisdiction
FBFM Flood Boundary and Floodway Map
FEMA  Federal Emergency Management Agency
FHBM Flood Hazard Boundary Map
FIRM Flood Insurance Rate Map
FIS Flood Insurance Study
FPG Flood Protection Grade
FPS Feet Per Second
GIS  Geographical Information System
GPS Global Positioning System
HGL Hydraulic Grade Line
HHW Household Hazardous Waste
HUC  Hydrologic Unit Code
IDEM Indiana Department of Environmental Management
IDNR Indiana Department of Natural Resources
INDOT Indiana Department of Transportation.
LAG Lowest Adjacent Grade
LID Low Impact Development
LOMA Letter of Map Amendment (from FEMA)
LOMR Letter of Map Revision (from FEMA)
LOMR-F Letter of Map Revision Based on Fill (from FEMA)
MCM Minimum Control Measure
MS4   Municipal Separate Storm Sewers
NAVD North American Vertical Datum of 1988
NFIP National Flood Insurance Program
NGVD 1929 National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929
NPDES   National Pollution Discharge Elimination System
NPS  Non-point source
NRCS USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service
POTW   Publicly Owned Treatment Works
PTI Pollution Tolerance Index
QHEI Qualitative Habitat Evaluation Index
SFHA  Special Flood Hazard Area
SWCD Soil and Water Conservation District
SWPPP Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan
SWQMP Stormwater Quality Management Plan
Tc Time of Concentration
TMDL  Total Maximum Daily Load
USCS Unified Soil Classification System
USDA United States Department of Agriculture
USFWS United States Fish and Wildlife Service