Table A1. List of all acronyms referenced throughout this document referring to entities, committes, agencies, etc., relative to the indicators updated in the 2022 TREB.
Acronym
Definition
ADZ Aquaculture Development Zone
ANSDU Academy of Natural Sciences at Drexel University
AMNET Ambient Macroinvertebrate Network
ARM Adaptic Resource Management
ASMFC Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission
BEST Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature
BBP Barnegat Bay Partnership
BMP Best Management Practice
BOD Biochemical Oxygen Demand
C-CAP Coastal Change Analysis Program
CCMP Comprehensive Conservation Management Plan
CDF Confined Disposal Facility
CM Conservation Measure
CMSA Catch Multiple Survey Analysis
COOP Cooperative Observer Program
CPMI Coastal Plain Macroinvertebrate Index
CPUE Catch Per Unit Effort
CSO Combined Sewer Outflow
DDFW Delaware Division of Fish and Wildlife
DDT Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane
DEB Delaware Estuary and Basin
DEBI Delaware Estuary Benthic Inventory
DELEP Delaware Estuary Program
DELSI Delaware Living Shoreline Initiative
DLUR Division of Land Use Regulation
DNREC Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control
DO Dissolved Oxygen
DRBC Delaware River Basin Commission
DRWI Delaware River Watershed Initiative
EC Emerging Contaminant
EDC Endocrine Disrupting Compound
EIC Estuary Implementation Committee
EJ Environmental Justice
EPA Environmental Protection Agency
ESA Endangered Species Act
ETM Estuarine Turbidity Maximum
EWQ Existing Water Quality
Technical Report for the Delaware Estuary and Basin
Partnership for the Delaware Estuary—Host of the Delaware Estuary Program
December 2022 | Report No.22-05
FIA Forest Inventory and Analysis
FMRP Freshwater Mussel Recovery Program
GAP Gap Analysis Program
GCM Global Climate Model
GHCN
Global Historical Climatology Network
GHG Greenhouse Gases
GIS Geographic Information Systems
HGMI High Gradient Macroinvertebrate Index
HOA Homeowner Association
HOLC Home Owners’ Loan Corporation
HUC Hydrologic Unit Code
ICP Interstate Control Points
IDW Inverse Distance Weighting
IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
JEDI Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
LAL Limulus Amebocyte Lysate
MACC Monitoring Advisory and Coordination Committee
MACWA Mid Atlantic Coastal Wetland Assessment
MGD Million Gallons per Day
MidTRAM Mid Atlantic Tidal Rapid Assessment Method
MS4 Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System
MuCWI Mussels for Clean Water Initiative
NAIP
National Agriculture Imagery Program
NEP National Estuary Program
NEPORT
National Estuary Program Online Reporting Tool
NGO Non-governmental Organization
NJBWM New Jersey Bureau of Water Monitoring
NJDA New Jersey Department of Agriculture
NJDEP New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
NJGWS New Jersey Geologic and Water Survey
NLCD National Land Classification Database
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NPDES National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
NWI National Wetlands Inventory
NYSDEC New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
OTC Over the Counter
PADEP
PAD-US
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
Protected Area Database of the United States
PAH Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
PBO Programmatic Biological Opinion
Technical Report for the Delaware Estuary and Basin
Partnership for the Delaware Estuary—Host of the Delaware Estuary Program
December 2022 | Report No.22-05
PCB Polychlorinated Biphenyls
PDE Partnership for the Delaware Estuary
PEL Probable Effect Levels
PFAS Polyfluoroalkyl Substances
PFNA Perfluorononanoate
PFOS
Perfluorooctanesufonate
PFuNA Perfluoroundecanoate
PMI Pinelands Macroinvertebrate Index
PPCP Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products
PWD Philadelphia Water Department
PWS Public Water Supply
SARC Stock Assessment Review Committee
SAV Submerged Aquatic Vegetation
SAW Stock Assessment Workshop
SC Steering Committee
SEPA-GWPA Southeastern Pennsylvania Groundwater Protected Area
SLAMM Sea Level Affecting Marsh Model
SLR Sea Level Rise
SOE State of the Estuary
SPW Special Protection Waters
SQG Sediment Quality Guidelines
SRWC Stroud Water Research Center
SSIM Site Specific Intensive Monitoring
SSP Shared Socioeconomic Pathway
STAC Science and Technical Advisory Committee
TAC Toxics Advisory Committee
TMDL Total Maximum Daily Load
TREB Technical Report for the Estuary and Basin
TSS Total Suspended Solids
USACOE United States Army Corps of Engineers
USFWS United States Fish and Wildlife Service
USGS United States Geological Survey
UTM Universal Transverse Mercator
WET Whole Effluent Toxicity
YOY Young-of-the-year
Technical Report for the Delaware Estuary and Basin
Partnership for the Delaware Estuary—Host of the Delaware Estuary Program December 2022 | Report No.22-05