Glossary

Of, or relating to, growing in a lake.

A shallow body of water, as a pond or lake, usually with a limited connection to the sea.

An open-water wetland deeper than eight (8) feet and larger than 20 acres situated in a topographic depression or dammed river channel (as an oxbow or impoundment) without trees, shrubs, or emergent plants.

Any large piece of woody material that intrudes or is embedded in the stream channel or lakeshore.

Horizontal pressure exerted by soil against a retaining structure.

An outlet designed to convert concentrated runoff to sheet flow and disperse it uniformly across a slope without causing erosion.

An estimated time period over which a structure will function if limited only by deterioration of materials.

The benthic zone between high tides; living in or taking place in the shallow waters of lakes or the sea.

The sedimentary material moved in the littoral zone under the influence of waves and currents.

A bench in the shallow water zone with a gentle ground slope formed by processes of wave erosion.

The movement of littoral drift in the littoral zone by waves and currents. Includes movement parallel (longshore transport) and perpendicular (on/offshore transport) to the shore.

In beach terminology, an indefinite zone extending seaward from the shoreline to just beyond the breaker zone.

Living, freshly cut branches of woody shrub and tree species that propagate from cuttings embedded in the soil.

A hollow, structural wall formed out of mutually perpendicular and interlocking members, usually timber, in which live cuttings are inserted through the front face of the wall into the crib fill and or natural soil behind the wall.

Bound, elongated sausage like bundles of live cut branches that are placed in shallow trenches, partly covered with soil, and staked in place to arrest erosion and shallow mass wasting.

Cuttings from living branches that are inserted and tamped into the earth. The stakes eventually root and leaf out.

Live stake planting is the planting of live, rootable, vegetative cuttings into the ground.

Currents flowing parallel to the shore within the inshore and nearshore zones. Longshore currents are typically caused by waves approaching the beach at an angle. The "feeder" currents to rip cells are another example of longshore currents.

The minimum elevation reached by each falling tide.

That portion of the streambank below the elevation of the average water level of the stream.

Essentially the same type of construction as the check dam, built from rocks, logs, or other material, but intended for use in lower order perennial streams for water quality improvement and habitat enhancement.