var runoff = 'Runoff is the part of precipitation, snow melt, or other water source that appears in surface streams, rivers, drains or sewers.',
surface_water = 'Surface water is on the Earth\'s surface, such as in a stream, river, lake, or reservoir.',
infiltration = 'Infiltration is the penetration of water from the land surface into the soil.<br><br>&#8226; See <a href="runoff/index.htm">Increase in Runoff with Urbanization</a> page',
groundwater = 'Ground water flows or seeps downward and saturates soil or rock, supplying springs and wells. The upper surface of the saturated zone is called the water table.',
recharge = 'Groundwater recharge refers to an inflow of water to a ground-water reservoir from the surface. Infiltration of precipitation and its movement to the water table is one form of natural recharge.',
aquifer = 'An aquifer is a geological formation or structure that stores and/or transmits water, such as to wells and springs.',
floodplain = 'A floodplain is a strip of relatively flat and normally dry land alongside a stream, river, or lake that is covered by water during a flood.',
pollutant = 'There are two type types of pollutants:<br>&#8226; <i>Non-point source (NPS) pollution</i> is contamination that occurs when rainwater, snowmelt, or other water sources washes off rural fields, city streets, or suburban backyards. As this runoff moves across the land surface, it picks up soil particles and pollutants, such as nutrients and pesticides.<br>&#8226; <i>Point-source pollution</i> is water contamination coming from a single point, such as a sewage-outflow pipe.',
raingard = '<p style=\'text-align: justify; margin: 0 .5em 1em;\'>A rain garden is a planted depression that is designed to take all, or as much as possible, of the excess rainwater run-off from a house or other building and its associated landscape.</p><div style=\'text-align: center; margin: .5em; font-size: 7pt;\'>Click thumbnail for larger image<br /><a href=\'/city/pworks/watrshed/bond/2005/projects/bmpproj/bmpdp/polreduc/images/raingard.gif\'><img src=\'/city/pworks/watrshed/bond/2005/projects/bmpproj/bmpdp/polreduc/images/raingdsm.gif\'></a></div>',
pervious = '<p style=\'text-align: justify; margin: 0 .5em 1em;\'>Pervious Pavement is a term used to describe paving methods for roads, parking lots and walkways that allow the movement of water and air through the paving material.</p><p style=\'text-align: justify; margin: 0 .5em 1em;\'><a href="/city/pworks/watrshed/educate/pervious/index.htm">More Information...</a><br /></p><div style=\'text-align: center; margin: .5em;\'><img src=\'/city/pworks/watrshed/bond/2005/projects/bmpproj/bmpdp/polreduc/images/pervsm.jpg\'></div>',
bioswale = 'Bioswales are landscape elements designed to remove silt and pollution from surface runoff water. They consist of a swaled drainage course with gently sloped sides (less than six percent) and filled with vegetation, compost and/or riprap.',
bioretention = 'Bioretention is a soil and plant-based stormwater management best management practice (BMP) employed to filter runoff from developed communities.',
recharge = 'Recharge is the process where water moves downward from surface water to groundwater',
fill = "<b>Fill</b> - for the purposes of this brochure, fill is dirt fill or structures that will eliminate flood storage volume in a Flood Storage Area.",
fema = "<b>Federal Emergency Management Agency (<abbr>FEMA</abbr>)</b> - regulatory agency of the federal government that issues floodplain maps for communities nationwide.",
storage = "<b>Flood Storage Area</b> - a portion of the Salt Creek Floodplain that stores floodwaters behind the levee.",
levee = "<b>Levee</b> - an earthen berm built adjacent to Salt Creek from Calvert St. to Superior St. to help keep flood waters contained and to minimize flooding to neighborhoods and businesses.",
fringe = "<b>Flood Fringe</b> - the portion of the Floodplain that is outside of the Floodway.",
floodway = "<b>Floodway</b> - the portion of a floodplain that must be reserved in order to convey the 100-year flood without increasing the 100-year flood elevation more than one foot.",
elevation = "<b>100-year flood elevation</b> - the height of the flood water that would occur during a 100-year flood.",
flood = "<b>100-year flood</b> - the flood having a one percent chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year.",
floodplain2 = "<b>Floodplain</b> - those lands which are subject to flooding due to a severe rainstorm, commonly referred to as the '100-year flood.'",
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