Which acronym corresponds to Environmental Site Design?

Which acronym corresponds to Environmental Site Design?

• A. ESC
• B. PCB
• C. ESD
• D. TMDL

Answer: (C)

Environmental Site Design focuses on designing development to manage stormwater at the source—preserving natural drainage, reducing impervious cover, and using on-site features to treat, infiltrate, or evapotranspire runoff so the site behaves more like its natural state. The acronym for this approach is ESD. Other terms refer to different concepts: erosion and sediment control (ESC) deals with preventing sediment from leaving a site during construction; polychlorinated biphenyls are chemicals abbreviated as PCB; and total maximum daily load is the pollutant cap for a water body, abbreviated TMDL.

Environmental Site Design focuses on designing development to manage stormwater at the source—preserving natural drainage, reducing impervious cover, and using on-site features to treat, infiltrate, or evapotranspire runoff so the site behaves more like its natural state. The acronym for this approach is ESD.

Other terms refer to different concepts: erosion and sediment control (ESC) deals with preventing sediment from leaving a site during construction; polychlorinated biphenyls are chemicals abbreviated as PCB; and total maximum daily load is the pollutant cap for a water body, abbreviated TMDL.