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Civil Engineering Vocab
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1. A type of wastewater or service connection pipe made of a low grade of cast iron. _ In plumbing - a pipe that carries the discharge of toilets or similar fixtures - with or without the discharges from other fixtures.
Soil Pipe
Grade
Storm Runoff
Permeability
2. Shoring members placed across a trench to hold other horizontal and vertical shoring members in place.
Lift Station
Curb inlet
Storm Collection System
Cross Braces
3. A coordinating agency formed in 1961 for state boards that administer licensing exams and maintain records for landscape architects to practice.
Interceptor
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
Aquifer
Hydrostatic Pressure
4. An opening or point of access in a building wastewater pipe system for rodding or snake operation.
contour
Wasteline Cleanout
Sewer Main
Activated Sludge Process
5. A sewer designed to carry both sanitary wastewaters and storm or surface water runoff.
open space
Day Tank
Wasteline Cleanout
Combined Sewer
6. A wall that supports any vertical load in addition to its own weight.
Bearing Wall
Lateral Break
Collection System
Weir
7. Not easily penetrated. The property of a material or soil that does not allow - or allows only with great difficulty - the movement or passage of water.
Sewer
multiple use
cost-benefit analysis
Impermeable
8. Rain and snow water accumulated in the earth's porous rock.
Sedimentation
ground water
contour
site plan
9. A line from which heights and depths are calculated or measured. Also called a datum plane or a datum level.
Datum Line
Storm Sewer
Service Pipe
Main Sewer
10. The gathering of a gas - liquid - or dissolved substance on the surface or interface zone of another material. Advanced Waste Treatment (water) n Any process of water renovation that upgrades treated wastewater to meet specific reuse requirements. Ma
Estimated Flow
Adsorption
City Beautiful Movement
Easement
11. The movement or dislocation of underground soil or structure. Earth shift is usually caused by external forces such as surface loads - slides - stresses or nearby construction - water movements or seismic forces.
Baluster
Earth Shift
Admixture
topography
12. A legal means of protecting beautiful views and associated aesthetic quality along a site by restricting change in existing features without government approval.
Storm Runoff
Infiltrated Debris
ground water
scenic easement
13. Masonry composed of roughly shaped stones fitting approximately on level beds - well bonded and brought at vertical intervals to continuous level beds of courses.
Manhole Bedding
Admixture
Imported Backfill
Rubble - Coursed
14. 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.
planning
Catch Basin
Select Bedding
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
15. Federal agency responsible for producing and managing many federally-funded public service programs - especially those affecting housing and public spaces.
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
Axial Load
Sewer Main
Laundering Weir
16. Masonry composed of roughly shaped stones - well bonded and brought at irregular intervals vertically to discontinuous but approximately level beds or courses.
agronomy
Surcharge Manhole
scenic easement
Rubble - Random
17. Any attempt to restore to beneficial use land that has lost its fertility and stability; most often applies to mining reclamation - such as the restoration of strip mines and quarries.
Storm Collection System
City Beautiful Movement
reclamation
Saturated Soil
18. Any designated use or activity on a piece of land.
land use
Adsorption
City Beautiful Movement
Surcharge
19. A mixture of storm or surface runoff and other wastewater such as domestic or industrial wastewater.
Capillary Action
Combined Wastewater
Terminal Manhole
Cistern
20. 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.
Clear Well
designed landscape
building (construction) permit
Sewage
21. Narrowly defined - an extended view or prospect from a site which - many times - is as important as or more important than the site itself.
Handhole Trap
Combined Sewer
landscape architect
view
22. A road laid through a garden or park-like landscape - usually with median and roadside plantings.
parkway
Bearing
Day Tank
Chain of Custody
23. A wall or plate placed in an open channel and used to measure the flow of water. The depth of the flow over the weir can be used to calculate the flow rate - or a chart or conversion table may be used to convert depth to flow. A wall or obstruction u
Outlet
Compaction Test
Weir
master plan
24. 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.
site plan
Wastewater Collection System
Permeability
landscape architecture registration
25. The protection - improvement and use of natural resources according to principles that will assure the highest economic or social benefits for people and the environment now and in the future.
Baffle
conservation
Easement
Wastewater Facilities
26. Vertical member supporting the railing.
new town
Angle Post
air rights
Baluster
27. Water that may contain objectionable pollution - contamination - minerals - or infective agents and is considered unsafe and/or unpalatable for drinking.
Nonpotable
Stratification
base plan
land trust
28. A small tank (usually covered) or a storage facility used to store water for a home or farm. Often used to store rainwater.
Nonpotable
Wastewater Collection System
Cistern
environmental inventory
29. The upper surface of the zone of saturation of groundwater in an unconfined aquifer.
Water Table
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Subsidence
Combined System
30. The lowest point of the channel inside a pipe - conduit - or canal.
parkway
Surcharge Manhole
Invert
Manhole
31. The illustration and description of problem-statements and large-scale design solutions that affect extensive areas of land; the anticipation of problems that will be encountered as human use and development of land continues.
Sewer Main
planning
landscape contractor
Deadend Manhole
32. A natural underground layer of porous - waterbearing materials (sand - gravel) usually capable of yielding a large amount or supply of water.
Lift Station
landscape architecture
Aquifer
City Beautiful Movement
33. A site that might appear to be natural but has elements and features that were planned and specified by a landscape architect. Designed landscapes include Central Park in New York to the siting of buildings.
City Beautiful Movement
designed landscape
Combined System
Acidic
34. A collection pipe to which building laterals are connected.
Collection Main
Soil Pipe
Settlement
drainage
35. In the United States - a certification of individuals entitled to use the term 'landscape architect' or to practice landscape architecture or both - by means of examination and required degree and experience criteria.
agronomy
Stratification
grade
landscape architecture registration
36. Downstream opening or discharge end of a pipe - culvert - or canal.
Outlet
Invert
Acidic
reclamation
37. The conversion of large solid particles of sludge into very fine particles which either dissolve or remain suspended in wastewater.
topography
Liquefaction
CADD
Septic Tank
38. 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.'
Groundwater
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
natural resources
Bearing
39. Clarifier - Settling Tank. A tank or basin in which wastewater is held for a period of time during which the heavier solids settle to the bottom and the lighter materials float to the water surface.
Lateral Cleanout
Compaction
Equalizing Basin
Sedimentation Basin
40. Sedimentation basin overflow weir. A plate with Vnotches along the top to ensure a uniform flow rate and avoid shortcircuiting.
Newel Post
Adsorption
scenic easement
Laundering Weir
41. The science and management of land - especially rural - agricultural land.
Sedimentation
agronomy
land trust
Collection System
42. A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water. The term 'collection line' is often used also.
Rubble - Coursed
Easement
Equalizing Basin
Sewer
43. The legal grant of right-of-use to an area of designated private property.
grade
easement
Axial Load
Acid Rain
44. A device that admits surface waters to the storm water drainage system. Also see CURB INLET and CATCH BASIN.
Storm Water Inlet
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
landscape architecture registration
Estimated Flow
45. Any method of determining the weight a compacted material is able to support without damage or displacement. Usually stated in pounds per square foot.
topography
Compaction Test
air rights
Sediment
46. 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.
environmental inventory
Invert
Curb Stop
zoning
47. Harmonious use of the land for more than one purpose; not necessarily the combination of uses that will yield the highest economic return - e.g. - a mix of residential and commercial developments in the same area.
greenbelt
Walers
multiple use
view
48. In landscape architecture - an essential sheet showing site boundaries and significant site features - used as a basis for subsequent plan development.
City Beautiful Movement
base plan
Lateral Sewer
open space
49. Solid material settled from suspension in a liquid.
Datum Line
landscape contractor
Sediment
base plan
50. 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
Cross Braces
Artificial Groundwater Table
Rubble - Ordinary
Sewer
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