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  • bedload
    Stream-transported material, such as sediment and rocks.

  • benthic
    Living in or on the bottom sediment of a body of water.

  • berm
    Material, usually soil, which has been built up or shaped into a mound.

  • BIEAP
    "Burrard Inlet Environmental Action Program".

  • biodiversity
    The variability among living organisms and the ecological complexes of which they are a part. This includes diversity within species, between species and of ecosystems.

  • BMP
    "Best Management Practices".