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Term	Vocabulary	Vocabulary Type	Definitions
Impoundment	Region 5 Cleanup Site: Environmental Glossary	Glossary and Key Word List	Definition: A body of water or sludge confined by a dam, dike, floodgate, or other barrier.
Impoundment	Pesticides Glossary	Glossary and Key Word List	Definition: A body of water or sludge confined by a dam, dike, floodgate, or other barrier.
Impoundment	Terms of Environment	Glossary and Key Word List	Definition: A body of water or sludge confined by a dam, dike, floodgate, or other barrier.
Impoundment	RCRA Glossary of Terms	Glossary and Key Word List	Definition: A body of water or sludge confined by a dam, dike, floodgate, or other barrier.
Impoundment	Aquatic Biodiversity Glossary	Glossary and Key Word List	Definition: A body of water, such as a pond, confined by a dam, dike, floodgate or other barrier.
Impoundment	EPA EV-Built Environments-Waste Systems	Taxonomy	Definition 1: Facility or part of a facility which is a natural topographic depression, man-made excavation, or diked area formed primarily of earthen materials (although it may be lined with man-made materials), which is designed to hold an accumulation of liquid wastes or wastes containing free liquids, and which is not an injection well. Examples of surface impoundments are holding, storage, settling, and aeration pits, ponds, and lagoons. [40 CFR 260.10 (CFR 2013)] Definition 2: Body of water, such as a pond, confined by a dam, dike, floodgate or other barrier. [Aquatic Biodiversity Glossary]

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