List of Acronyms

AMP               Ambient Monitoring Program

ACJ                   Amended Consent Judgment

ASLF                Atlantic States Legal Foundation

AWQS             Ambient Water Quality Standards

BAF                  Biological Aerated Filter

BAP                  Biological Assessment Profiles

BMP                Best Management Practices

BOD                 Biochemical Oxygen Demand

CBUD              Continuous Backflow Upwelling Dual Filters (Phosphorus Filtration Stage III)

CERCLA           Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

CFU                  Colony Forming Units

CPUE               Catch Per Unit Effort

CSO                  Combined Sewer Overflows

DAIP                Data Analysis and Interpretation Plan

DO                    Dissolved Oxygen

DVT                  Data Visualization Tool

EPA                  Environmental Protection Agency

FDA                 Food and Drug Administration

GIS                   Geographic Information System

HBI                   Hilsenhoff Biotic Index

HRFS                High Rate Flocculated Settling

ISD                   Impact Source Determination

METRO           Metropolitan Syracuse Wastewater Treatment Plant

MRL                 Minimum Reporting Level

N                       Nitrogen

NYCRR            Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of New York

NOAA             National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NPL                  National Priority List

NYSDEC          New York State Department of Environmental Conservation

OCDWEP        Onondaga County Department of Water Environment Protection

OLP                  Onondaga Lake Partnership

OLTAC             Onondaga Lake Technical Advisory Committee

OLWQM         Onondaga Lake Water Quality Model

PWL                 Priority Waterbodies List

RCRA               Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

RI/FS               Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study

RSE                   Relative Standard Error

SPDES             State Pollution Discharge Elimination System

SRP                  Soluble Reactive Phosphorus

SSO                  Sanitary Sewer Overflow

TKN                  Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen

TMDL              Total Maximum Daily Load

TP                     Total Phosphorus

TRWQM         Three Rivers Water Quality Model

TSS                   Total Suspended Solids

UFI                   Upstate Freshwater Institute

USGS               United States Geological Survey

WFI                  Wetland Fish Index

YOY                  Young-of-year