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Civil Engineering Vocab
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1. A branch of biology dealing with the relationship between living things and their environment.
City Beautiful Movement
ecology
Forest Service
Soil Displacement
2. Subsurface water in the saturation zone from which wells and springs are fed. In a strict sense the term applies only to water below the water table. Also called 'phreatic water' and 'plerotic water.'
Imported Backfill
Curb inlet
Groundwater
Sanitary Sewer
3. In zoning - a housing or commercial development composed of individual units that are regulated as a whole.
Aquifer
planned unit development (PUD)
Vault
Stratification
4. The movement of water through very small spaces due to molecular forces.
Capillary Action
Cistern
Datum Line
Roof Leader
5. A legal form of land-use control and building regulations usually exercised by a municipal authority; usually involves setting aside of distinct land areas for specific purposes - such as commercial - educational or residential development.
zoning
Combined System
Wasteline Cleanout
Lateral Break
6. Material used to fill in a trench or excavation
Storm Collection System
CADD
Service Pipe
Backfill
7. Masonry composed of irregularly shaped stones laid without regularity of coursing - but well bonded.
B T U
Rubble - Ordinary
Aeration
Select Backfill
8. A groundwater table that is changed by artificial means. Examples of activities that artificially raise the level of a groundwater table include agricultural irrigation - dams and excessive sewer line exfiltration. A groundwater table can be artifici
Select Backfill
Artificial Groundwater Table
Pump Station
Stratification
9. A reservoir for the storage of filtered water of sufficient capacity to prevent the need to vary the filtration rate with variations in demand. Also used to provide chlorine contact time for disinfection.
Estimated Flow
Clear Well
Lateral Cleanout
Handhole Trap
10. That part of rain or other precipitation that runs off the surface of a drainage area and does not enter the soil or the sewer system as inflow.
Bedding
easement
Runoff
Retention
11. The elements of supply inherent to an area that can be used to satisfy human needs - including air - soil - water - native vegetation - minerals and wildlife.
Sedimentation
natural resources
historic preservation
Collection System
12. Any method of determining the weight a compacted material is able to support without damage or displacement. Usually stated in pounds per square foot.
Forest Service
Groundwater
Compaction Test
Manhole
13. A natural underground layer of porous - waterbearing materials (sand - gravel) usually capable of yielding a large amount or supply of water.
Bedding
International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA)
grade
Aquifer
14. Broken stones - boulders - or other materials placed compactly or irregularly on levees or dikes for the protection of earth surfaces against the erosive action of waves.
Riprap
Datum Line
Artesian
air rights
15. A U.S. government agency responsible for developing and enforcing regulations that guide the use of land and natural resources.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Bedding
Pump Station
Service Pipe
16. A railing composed of balusters capped by a handrail.
base plan
Mail Line
Balustrade
view
17. A multinational organization of landscape architects whose purpose is the promotion of landscape design and planning.
B T U
International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA)
Admixture
Main Sewer
18. In landscape architecture - a study of the potential cost of site purchase - demolition and improvement in comparison to the income or other benefit to be derived from site development.
Combined Sewer
cost-benefit analysis
Main Sewer
Adsorption
19. Rain and snow water accumulated in the earth's porous rock.
Subsidence
Storm Water Inlet
Stratification
ground water
20. A water treatment process in which solid particles settle out of the water being treated in a large clarifier or sedimentation basin.
Walers
Deadend Manhole
Estimated Flow
Sedimentation
21. A wall that resist horizontal forces applied in the plane of the wall.
greenbelt
Shear Wall
Infiltrated Debris
planned unit development (PUD)
22. A wastewater pumping station that lifts the wastewater to a higher elevation when continuing the sewer at reasonable slopes would involve excessive depths of trench. Also - an installation of pumps that raise wastewater from areas too low to drain in
Bearing
Lift Station
zoning
multiple use
23. An unstable condition of a solution (water) in which the solution contains a substance at a concentration greater than the saturation concentration for the substance.
Seasonal Water Table
Cross Braces
Potable Water
Supersaturated
24. A strip of unspoiled - often treed - agricultural or other outlying land used to separate or ring urban areas.
Outlet
greenbelt
manipulation of space
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
25. A record of each person involved in the handling and possession of a sample from the person who collected the sample to the person who analyzed the sample in the laboratory and to the person who witnessed disposal of the sample.
Earth Shift
Chain of Custody
Elevation
planning
26. The taking in or soaking up of one substance into the body of another by molecular or chemical action (as tree roots absorb dissolved nutrients in the soil).
Absorption
Invert
Wastewater Treatment Plant
Wasteline Vent
27. A water service shutoff valve located in a water service pipe near the curb and between the water main and the building. This valve is usually operated by a wrench or valve key and is used to start or stop flows in the water service line to a buildin
Curb Stop
environmental inventory
Retention
Lift Station
28. The property of a material or soil that permits considerable movement of water through it when it is saturated.
Datum Line
Runoff
Bearing
Permeability
29. The angle between a horizontal line andthe slope or surface of unsupported material such as gravel - sand -or loose soil. Also called the 'natural slope.'
Storm Sewer
Weir
design
Angle of Repose
30. The amount of runoff that reaches the point of measurement within a relatively short period of time after the occurrence of a storm or other form of precipitation. Also called 'direct runoff.'
Easement
Storm Runoff
Sewer Main
Surcharge
31. A biological wastewater treatment process which speeds up the decomposition of wastes in the wastewater being treated. Activated sludge is added to wastewater and the mixture (mixed liquor) is aerated and agitated. After some time in the aeration tan
environmental design professions
manipulation of space
Stratification
Activated Sludge Process
32. A wall that supports any vertical load in addition to its own weight.
Manhole
Storm Water
Sanitary Sewer
Bearing Wall
33. A chamber or well built at the curbline of a street to admit gutter flow to the storm water drainage system. Also see STORM WATER INLET and CATCH BASIN.
Baluster
Curb inlet
Aquifer
softscape
34. The used household water and watercarried solids that flow in sewers to a wastewater treatment plant. The preferred term is WASTEWATER.
Sedimentation
Sewage
Surcharge
International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA)
35. The slope of a plot of land. Grading is the mechanical process of moving earth changing the degree of rise or descent of the land in order to establish good drainage and otherwise suit the intent of a landscape design.
grade
Check Valve
reclamation
Wasteline Vent
36. The form of the land. Contour lines are map lines connecting points of the same ground elevation and are used to depict and measure slope and drainage. Spot elevations are points of a specific elevation.
Soil Displacement
Surcharge
contour
Catch Basin
37. Elements added to a natural landscape - such as paving stones - gravel - walkways - irrigation systems - roads - retaining walls - sculpture - street amenities - fountains - and other mechanical features.
hardscape
Secondary Treatment
Sewer Main
Angle Post
38. The condition of water or soil which contains a sufficient amount of acid substances to lower the pH below 7.0.
Equalizing Basin
landscape architecture registration
agronomy
Acidic
39. A plan for conserving or protecting various natural or manufactured resources. Such a plan is used as a management tool in making decisions regarding soil - water - vegetation - manufactured objects and other resources at a particular site.
Sewer Main
Baffle
conservation plan
Liquefaction
40. A device made of pipe fittings used to prevent sewer gases escaping from the branch or lateral sewer from entering a building sewer.
Wastewater Treatment Plant
Handhole Trap
Pump Station
Roof Leader
41. A dimensioned drawing indicating the form of an existing area and the physical objects existing in it and those to be built or installed upon it.
Manhole Vents
greenbelt
Interceptor
site plan
42. The amount of liquid which a solid material can absorb. Sand - as an example - can hold approximately onethird of its volume in water - or three cubic feet of dry sand can contain one cubic foot of water. A denser soil - such as clay - can hold much
Supersaturated
B T U
Absorption Capacity
landscape
43. The precipitation that cannot be absorbed by the soil and flows across the surface by gravity. The water that reaches a stream by traveling over the soil surface or falls directly into the stream channels - including not only the large permanent stre
open space
Shear Wall
Surface Runoff
building codes
44. The man-made creation of or alterations to a specific area - including its natural resources. This is in contrast to the 'natural environment.'
Artesian
Surcharge
built environment
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
45. A manhole located at the upstream end of a sewer and having no inlet pipe. Also called a DEADEND MANHOLE.
Terminal Manhole
Catch Basin
environmental design professions
Interceptor
46. A line from which heights and depths are calculated or measured. Also called a datum plane or a datum level.
Lateral Sewer
Datum Line
Surface Runoff
Day Tank
47. A chamber or well used with storm or combined sewers as a means of removing grit which might otherwise enter and be deposited in sewers. Also see STORM WATER INLET and CURB INLET.
Nonpotable
Septic Tank
Combined System
Catch Basin
48. The force that resists the separation of two bodies in contact.
topography
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
Compaction Test
Adhesion
49. A small box-like structure that contains valves used to regulate flows.
Overflow Manhole
Outlet
Vault
Compaction
50. The elevation of the invert (or bottom) of a pipeline - canal - culvert - or similar conduit. _ The inclination or slope of a pipeline - conduit - stream channel - or natural ground surface; usually expressed in terms of the ratio or percentage of nu
Combined Sewer
Adhesion
Grade
Cistern
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