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A calculation of the maximum amount of a pollutant that a water body can receive and still meet water quality standards, and an allocation of that load among the various sources of that pollutant.

The sum of the concentrations of all nitrogen forms in water, including ammonia (NH3), ammonium ion (NH4+), nitrite (NO2), and nitrate (NO3), and dissolved and particulate organic nitrogen expressed as elemental nitrogen.

Measure of the concentration or mass of petroleum hydrocarbon constituents present in a given amount of soil or water.

A total return swap is a derivative contract where one counterparty pays sums based on a floating interest rate, for example Libor plus a given spread, and receives payments based on the return of a reference asset such as a bond, stock or equity index. The returns include any gains or losses in the reference […]

For a firm, total outputs times prices of outputs, before subtracting any costs; same as gross revenue.

Volume of storage below the maximum designed water surface level, including dead storage.

A measure of the suspended solids in wastewater, effluent, or water bodies, determined by tests for total suspended non-filterable solids.

Water measuring device that registers or accumulates total volume resulting from a flow.

Territorial subdivision six miles long by six miles wide; contains 36 sections.

In the U.S. Public Land Survey system, the grid lines running east and west.