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

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