CCWP

Cedar Creek Wildlife Project

CES

Cooperative Extension Service

CFS

Cubic feet per second

Channelization

The practice of straightening a waterway to remove meanders in order to increase the column and/or rate of discharge. Sometimes concrete is used to line the sides and bottom of the channel.

Confluence

The flowing together of two or more streams. A point of juncture.

Cryptosporidium

A protozoan of the genus cryptosporidium that is an intestinal parasite in humans and other vertebrates and some times causes diarrhea that is especially severe in immuno-compromised (weakened immune system) individuals.

CSO

Combined Sewer Overflow