AWCAC Anacostia Watershed Citizens Advisory Committee

AWS Anacostia Watershed Society

BARC Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (under the United States Department of Agriculture)

BOD₅ five-day biochemical oxygen demand

CBP Chesapeake Bay Program

COE United States Army Corps of Engineers

COG Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

CSO Combined Sewer Overflow

DC DPW District of Columbia Department of Public Works

DCRA ERA District of Columbia Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs Environmental Resources Administration

DC WASA District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority

DDT common name for the insecticide: 2, 2 - bis (p-chlorophenyl) - 1, 1, 1 - trichloroethane

DO dissolved oxygen

EPA United States Environmental Protection Agency

ICPRB Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin

MC DEP Montgomery County Department of Environmental Protection

MD DNR Maryland Department of Natural Resources

M-NCPPC Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission

NPS National Park Service

NRCS Natural Resources Conservation Service

PCB polychlorinated biphenyl

PG DER Prince George's County Department of Environmental Resources

SAV submerged aquatic vegetation

SHA Maryland State Highway Administration

SHIP Small Habitat Improvement Program

SOD sediment oxygen demand

USDA United States Department of Agriculture