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Civil Engineering Vocab

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1. A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water. The term 'collection line' is often used also.






2. An opening in pipes or sewers designed for rodding or working a snake into the pipe in either direction. Twoway cleanouts are most often found in building lateral pipes at or near a property line.






3. A layer - usually of concrete or mortar - for providing continuous support to such items as bricks - slabs - pipes.






4. 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






5. An authorization issued by a government agency allowing construction of a project according to approved plans and specifications.






6. 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.






7. Rain and snow water accumulated in the earth's porous rock.






8. The legal grant of right-of-use to an area of designated private property.






9. A pipe or conduit (sewer) intended to carry wastewater or waterborne wastes from homes - businesses - and industries to the POTW (Publicly Owned Treatment Works). Storm water runoff or unpolluted water should be collected and transported in a separat






10. A coordinating agency formed in 1961 for state boards that administer licensing exams and maintain records for landscape architects to practice.






11. 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.






12. 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.'






13. 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






14. Horizontal shoring members - usually square - rough cut timber - that are used to hold solid sheeting - braces or vertical shoring members in place. Also called STRINGERS.






15. The change to an area's natural resources - including animal and plant life - resulting from use by man. Some projects may require conducting of an 'environmental impact study' before development can proceed.






16. A system of major sewers serving as transporting lines and not as local or lateral sewers.






17. A wastewater treatment process used to convert dissolved or suspended materials into a form more readily separated from the water being treated. Usually the process follows primary treatment by sedimentation. The process commonly is a type of biologi






18. A professional society that represents landscape architects in the United States and Canada and seeks to better the practice and understanding of landscape architecture through education - research - state registration and other programs.






19. Sand - silt - gravel and rocks carried or washed into a collection system by infiltration water flows.






20. The science and art of design - planning - management and stewardship of the land. Landscape architecture involves natural and built elements - cultural and scientific knowledge - and concern for resource conservation to the end that the resulting en






21. A trained builder or installer of landscapes - retained to implement the plans of landscape architects.






22. Tamping or rolling of a material to achieve a surface or density that is able to support predicted loads.






23. The excess water running off from the surface of a drainage area during and immediately after a period of rain. See STORM RUNOFF.






24. OE The pressure at a specific elevation exerted by a body of water at rest - or _ In the case of groundwater - the pressure at a specific elevation due to the weight of water at higher levels in the same zone of saturation.






25. A downspout or pipe installed to drain a roof gutter to a storm drain or other means of disposal.






26. The running off of water from a land surface or subsurface - such as through sewers or natural means.






27. Material used to fill in a trench or excavation






28. 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






29. 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






30. Regulations specifying the type of construction methods and materials that are allowable on a project.






31. A road laid through a garden or park-like landscape - usually with median and roadside plantings.






32. The lowest point of the channel inside a pipe - conduit - or canal.






33. 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.






34. The linear or a real dimension over which a higher component transmits load to a lower component






35. The movement of water through very small spaces due to molecular forces.






36. Soil that cannot absorb any more liquid. The interstices or void spaces in the soil are filled with water to the point at which runoff occurs.






37. The upper surface of the zone of saturation of groundwater in an unconfined aquifer.






38. Pertaining to groundwater - a well - or underground basin where the water is under a pressure greater than atmospheric and will rise above the level of its upper confining surface if given an opportunity to do so.






39. A strip of unspoiled - often treed - agricultural or other outlying land used to separate or ring urban areas.






40. A tank used to store a chemical solution of known concentration for feed to a chemical feeder. A day tank usually stores sufficient chemical solution to properly treat the water being treated for at least one day. Also called an AGE TANK.






41. A manhole in which the rate of the water entering is greater than the capacity of the outlet under gravity flow conditions. When the water in the manhole rises above the top of the outlet pipe - the manhole is said to be 'surcharged.'






42. 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.






43. 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.






44. Material used to provide a bedding or foundation for pipes or other underground structures. This material is of specified quality for desirable bedding or other characteristics and is often imported from a different location.






45. A professional who designs - plans - and manages outdoor spaces ranging from entire ecosystems to residential sites and whose media include natural and built elements; also referred to as a designer - planner - consultant. Not to be confused with lan






46. A preliminary plan showing proposed ultimate site development. Master plans often comprise site work that must be executed in phases over a long time and are thus subject to drastic modification.






47. The prepared and compacted base on which a manhole is constructed.






48. A multinational organization of landscape architects whose purpose is the promotion of landscape design and planning.






49. A device made of pipe fittings used to prevent sewer gases escaping from the branch or lateral sewer from entering a building sewer.






50. The force that resists the separation of two bodies in contact.