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Glossary
Some terms you may not be familiar with:

ACAP


ARG


BOFEP


CABIN


CARP

CEC



CEMP


PH

SPM


SWIM


Aerobic

Alkanes




Anaerobic

Aquifer



Carbon Sequestration




Estuarine


Evapotranspiration





Fecal Coliform Bacteria


Ground level Ozone

Invasive Alien Species


Membrane Filtration


Non-Point Source


Point Source


Watershed


Riparian Zone

Salmonid

Tributary
 		Atlantic Coastal Action Program - Created as a means of mobilizing local communities to address their own environmental and development challenges.

Annapolis River Guardians - A group of volunteers that work with the Clean Annapolis River Project that sample and test various regions of the watershed.

Bay of Fundy Ecosystem Project - Dedicated to promoting the integrity and biodiversity of the Bay of Fundy ecosystem by cooperating will all citizens interested in its conservation.

Canadian Aquatic Bio-Monitoring Network - A program that measures organisms in waterways and uses their numbers as an indication for the health of the waterway.

Clean Annapolis River Project - See our Mission Page.

Commission for Environmental Cooperation - Created by Mexico, Canada and the US to address regional environmental conflicts, help prevent trade and environmental conflicts and promote environmental law.

Comprehensive Environmental Management Plan - A document that identifies environmental issues and develops actions, which may be taken to resolve these issues.

A measure of alkalinity

Suspended Particulate Matter - This is a measure of water turbidity caused by particulate material suspended in water.

Sub-Watershed Investigative Monitoring - This is a volunteer driven program that aims to identify the sources of fecal coliform bacteria in the Annapolis River and its tributaries.

Using oxygen from the air

Any of a group of aliphatic hydrocarbons whose molecules contain only single bonds. An alkane is said to have a continuous chain if each carbon atom in its molecule is joined to at most two other carbon atoms; it is said to have a branched chain if any of its carbon atoms is joined to more than two other carbon atoms.

Where there is little or no oxygen used.

Any stratum or combination of strata that stores or transmits groundwater. More commonly: A permeable geological stratum or formation that can both store and transmit water in significant quantities.

Carbon sequestration in terrestrial ecosystems can be defined as the net removal of CO2 from the atmosphere into long-lived pools of carbon. The pools can be living, Trees, Lumber, living objects in soils or recalcitrant organic and inorganic carbon in soils and deeper subsurface environments.

The part of the wide lower course of a river where it's current is met by the tides. An arm of the sea that extends inland to meet the mouth of a river.

The water lost to the atmosphere by two processes - evaporation and transpiration. Evaporation is the loss from open areas like lakes and reservoirs; transpiration is water lost from living plant surfaces. Other factors that effect the evapotranspiration process are solar radiation, surface area of open bodies of water, wind speed, vegetative cover, soil moisture, root depth, reflective land surface and season.

A strain of bacteria (normally found in the intestines of warm blooded animals) whose presence is an indicator of polluted water by human or animal wastes.

A chemical that is formed when the sun cooks other pollutants in the air.

An invasive alien is a species that is not native to an area (alien) and that aggressively proliferates in this new area.

The process used to test for Fecal Coliform Bacteria. It consists of filter, Petri dishes, absorbent pads and liquid growth medium.

Contaminated runoff and seepage from many diffuse and/or small-scale sources, mainly from human activity. It is generally initiated by storm water runoff.

Pollution discharged directly from a specific site such as a municipal sewage treatment plant or industrial outfall pipe.

A watershed is the area of land where all of the water that drains from it goes into the same place.

Any section of a damaged river that has been altered by man to restore the natural flow.

Fish of the Salmonidae family, such as salmon, trout and whitefish.

A stream or river that flows into a main (or parent) river, and which do not flow directly into a sea.
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