Sedimentation

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-025098",
  "term": "Sedimentation",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. Process of deposition of waterborne or windborne sediment or other material; also refers to the infilling of bottom substrate in a waterbody by sediment (siltation).\n\n2. Letting solids settle out of wastewater by gravity during treatment.\n\n3. A water treatment process in which solid particles settle out of the water being treated in a large clarifier or sedimentation basin.\n\n4. The accumulation of sediment in an area, filling shipping channels and covering oysters and other bottom-dwelling organisms. Sedimentation is also called siltation.\n\n5. When soil particles (sediment) settles to the bottom of a waterway.\n\n6. Accumulation of sediment in an area, filling shipping channels and covering oysters and other bottom-dwelling organisms. Sedimentation is also called siltation.\n\n7. Process for removal of solids before filtration by gravity or separation.\n\n8. The process of sediment deposition.",
  "subject": "Water",
  "references": [
    "Sediment Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) Glossary",
    "Aquatic Biodiversity Glossary; Terms of Environment",
    "Drinking Water Technical & Legal Terms",
    "Chesapeake Bay Glossary",
    "OWOW Glossary",
    "40 CFR 141.2 (CFR 2018)",
    "Nonpoint Pollution Source from Agriculture Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/sedimentation/"
}